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by db48x 1y ago
And the technology got better, and everyone got richer, and the population was higher, and…
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by db48x 1y ago
Ok, I see what you are saying, but I don’t think that there is a loophole here. The Executive Branch may only take actions that the Constitution allows (same as the Legislative). These are called the Enumerated Powers. Some of them are simp
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by db48x 1y ago
Sure, as long as you're willing to make your children memorize the names of thousands of “planets”.
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by db48x 1y ago
Except that a lot of what was banned were _not_ conspiracy theories. The truth is that the NIH _did_ fund gain of function research and that research _was_ conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Those are the facts that the governmen
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by db48x 1y ago
Yea, but we can see through their self-serving language. The fact is they decided on a policy of banning “misinformation” that the Biden administration turned into a censorship machine. One is misguided, the other is a crime.
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by db48x 1y ago
Do you think that they should omit those facts? That they should fail to mention that the Biden administration used them to censor Americans?
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by db48x 1y ago
I never said that it was created for nefarious purposes. That was you projecting or creating a straw man to attack.
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by db48x 1y ago
That was after they had changed the TOS to make it against the rules to talk about certain topics, such as gain of function research at Chinese labs that was funded by researchers that were themselves funded by the US government.
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by db48x 1y ago
Well of course they’re going to say that they resisted doing the bad thing, even though they still did the bad thing. All it took to get them to do the bad thing was for someone to ask them to do it, but they really resisted as hard as they
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by db48x 1y ago
Well, they didn’t come right out and say that they modified their policy on COVID-19 “misinformation” as a result of pressure from the White House, but we all know that they did. They started banning anyone who talked about how COVID-19 mig
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by db48x 1y ago
How do you know that they are false? Do you have information that the rest of us don’t have?
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by db48x 1y ago
Oh, yea, I completely agree. Someone from the White House called them up and told them to silence certain ideas, and they said “Ok!”. No push-back at all.
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by db48x 1y ago
People employ hyperbole all the time, so why can’t a company? But you’re right, a lifetime membership should really be for a lifetime. But since nobody is suing over it, then it’ll continue to be abused.
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by db48x 1y ago
I don’t think it odd that they are mealy-mouthed about it. They’ve clearly gone through with a thesaurus and picked the least offensive adjectives possible.
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by db48x 1y ago
8. Senion Biden Administration officials, including White House officials, conducted repeated and sustained outreach to Alphabet and pressed the Company regarding certain user-generated content related to the COVID-1
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by db48x 1y ago
More likely your updated Linux kernel checks for those specific bugs in those specific ACPI tables. If it finds them, it tells the kernel to ignore them and replace them with driver code. And then they actually bothered to test the driver c
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by db48x 1y ago
In all but the last example these are the programs themselves having multiple names. There are literally multiple names on the file system that point to the same executable. So `ping`, `ping4`, and `ping6` are all the same program but it ch
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by db48x 1y ago
Sure, but I can just record a video instead. It doesn’t disappear then!
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by db48x 1y ago
Yes, you’re correct. I left out all of those details to try to simplify the explanation as much as possible. The reality is that the pixels we were drawing got narrower as our display hardware got better. In this VGA text mode the width of
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by db48x 1y ago
They don’t make any with _that_ high a resolution. Not even the 8K demonstration models that various companies have made are dense enough for that.
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by db48x 1y ago
Sorry, I thought that part went without saying. A modern console leans into the actual resolution of your _current display_ and gives you nice integer ratios by default while letting you configure whatever character cell size you prefer if
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by db48x 1y ago
Yea, I was deliberately simplifying so that I didn’t have to spend pages and pages on the subject. Suffice it to say that the display on your desk could handle quite a large range of display resolutions with equal ease. The portable TV you
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by db48x 1y ago
One of my uncles worked at Hayes back in the day. Those were truly happy years!
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by db48x 1y ago
See my longer reply < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45275565 >, but the short version is that 720×400 has a 5:9 aspect ratio, but the CRT display was 4:3. The CRT compensated by scaling the vertical height of eac
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by db48x 1y ago
Perhaps you don’t know that on a CRT the number of lines that can be displayed is variable. Any CRT can display 400 lines or 399 lines or 1000 lines or however many lines you need or want. On an LCD there is always a fixed number of pixels,
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by db48x 1y ago
Have you worked out yet how ugly that’s going to be?
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by db48x 1y ago
They specifically want 8×16 characters in 9×16 character cells on a 720×400 display that has an overall 4:3 aspect ratio. There’s no way to achieve that on anything other than a real hardware CRT. No amount of fiddling with fonts in either
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by db48x 1y ago
He wants to use a display mode with rectangular pixels. No matter what he does in software, that’s going to require specialized hardware. It’ll take a real CRT. No LCD ever made can change the shape of its own pixels.
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by db48x 1y ago
It probably is impossible unless you actually have a VGA device and a CRT. There’s no way your LCD is going to distort its pixels so that they’re rectangular.
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by db48x 1y ago
Space Pirates of Andromeda was fun too.

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