danudey

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by danudey 2y ago
IOW the true solution to scamming is to raise prices so high that only the extremely wealthy can afford them, regardless of how accessible the actual concert/act/group/promoter wants the show to be. The "real" solut
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by danudey 2y ago
Well, it kind of does. Normally, the PXE network booting will use DHCP (or bootp or whatever) to fetch the boot image location, then it will fetch that boot image. Historically, that has worked this way: 1. bootp says boot image is at <i
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by danudey 2y ago
I hate writing code in golang, because I have to pepper every single function call with `if err != nil`, but then I think about how much C code I've seen that doesn't do that and I wonder how much of it should.
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by danudey 2y ago
This is a good question to ask, especially in the age of everything pulling in every possible dependency just to get one library function or an `isNumeric()` convenience function. The answer is that there is observability functionality whic
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by danudey 2y ago
Partly future-proofing, partly you want to have the best possible input data so that your output data, even when heavily compressed, can be the best it can be.
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by danudey 2y ago
It's still useful to know to what extent your air is unpleasant (especially if it degrades over a long period of time and you acclimatize) as well as seeing historical trends.
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by danudey 2y ago
I have an Eve Room and I quite like it. The little e-ink display is incredibly easy to read in most lighting conditions (i.e. any condition where there's some light), and the battery life is really fantastic. I also have an air monitor
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by danudey 2y ago
Both are motivated by money , but only one is motivated by profit . The drive to increase profits over and over, year over year, indefinitely is to the detriment of society as a whole. Meanwhile, not-for-profit entities like credit unions
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by danudey 2y ago
Oh, good catch. Thanks for the correction!
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Conversely, smartphones could have batteries 1/100th the size of their current batteries and still have the same battery life. Nothing says that if we want to use this tech in smartphones we have to have 100x the battery life (although
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by danudey 3y ago
It's offtopic, but this is very good advice. As near as I can tell, there aren't any real similarities between the book and the movie; they're two separate zombie stories with the same name, and honestly I would recommend the
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by danudey 3y ago
Sure, but that represents a lot of fast cuts balanced out by a selection of significantly longer cuts. Also, it's less likely that you'd want to upscale a modern movie, which is more likely to be higher resolution already, as oppo
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by danudey 3y ago
> perfect balance doesn’t always equal fun The Fireball spell in D&D is a third-level spell, which means a spellcaster can get access to it at level 5. Compared to other third-level spells, and the power curve as a whole, fireball is
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by danudey 3y ago
> Companies are firing customer service people. And they're starting to reap the rewards: https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisagarcia/2024/02/19/what-ai... AI customer service chatbots are jus
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by danudey 3y ago
This depends on the size of your file. If you have dozens or hundreds of small sprite/UI images for an app or game, image metadata can add up quite a bit overall.
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by danudey 3y ago
That was my first thought as well, though on further consideration I assumed that it was some kind of paid/for-profit criminal organization performing these attacks on behalf of a nation-state.
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by danudey 3y ago
In our programming class in high school we were using Borland C++; I had a classmate call me over to ask about an error they were getting from the compiler. > "Missing semicolon on line 32" I looked at it, looked at them, and s
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by danudey 3y ago
I could understand some kind of ancient system not having the detail or knowledge to explain what happened in particular, but this is something that still happens in a lot of Microsoft software in particular. Outlook has a consistent tenden
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by danudey 3y ago
> Recently I contacted Glassdoor for an account-related issue. This led to them sending me email that I had to respond to. Big mistake. So he put in a support request, likely via his account; they sent him an e-mail about it, likely to h
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by danudey 3y ago
Conversely, it can also be very annoying when you accidentally select some of the UI text and you have to manually deselect it (or maybe you can't deselect it).
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by danudey 3y ago
Using the zipfile/tarfile/etc. modules' functionality, it's easy to write a script that would take an input file of any format you want (such as the one in the example) and create an output file the same way it works in
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by danudey 3y ago
Our product undergoes CVE scans before every release, and we ensure that all relevant CVEs are handled before we release; if a CVE is low-severity and isn't relevant to our use of the component (e.g. an information disclosure vulnerabi
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by danudey 3y ago
Maybe they should call it stain-fewer, since you're gonna get fewer stains but not no stains.
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by danudey 3y ago
The real folks already know what they're doing, but the majority of "attacks" aren't real folks who are determined to hit specific targets; it's people who just throw everything at the wall to see what sticks, and t
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by danudey 3y ago
> Companies do pay for GitHub/GitLab/Perforce though Those products also provide a huge amount of other value and functionality (though at a high price). As someone who worked at a (mobile) game dev studio, this "what if D
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by danudey 3y ago
As someone who worked on the backend (workflow, infra) side of a game dev studio, there are a lot of massive benefits I see with this sort of "what if Dropbox but Git" product workflow. We couldn't actually use git for our as
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by danudey 3y ago
Making Tesla criminally liable (in a tangible, punitive sense, not just a $5000 fine per infraction) for every instance of an individual being directly harmed by a Tesla's self-driving mode would be a huge win for society as a whole, b
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by danudey 3y ago
Like my wife always says (whenever a cyclist is killed or maimed in an entirely preventable traffic "accident"), "if you want to kill someone, do it in a car".
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by danudey 3y ago
"Do you know ffmpeg supports OCR? I haven't found the command yet, but it does support it." This is probably 80% of my experience with ffmpeg, to be honest, but the other 20% is invaluable enough anyway.
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by danudey 3y ago
Kills Firefox? My entire laptop, including my cursor and typing into a terminal, dropped to something like 10 fps. The lofi version posted in reply to this is definitely better, but it's still crazy they managed to use up an entire lap

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