digi_owl

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by digi_owl 8y ago
And are probably less of a mess to get installed and running...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
E-peen swinging lives strong in IT, sadly. Just observe the kind of kindergarten antics some in the _sec world will get up to...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Some casual reading of modern mobile phone signaling can make one's head spin. Best I could tell, every phone talk on top of each other and still the base is able to pick out individual data streams from the resulting soup.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
note that the heavy lifting there is done by libcaca...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
It is funny, this kind of "paranoia" was (is?) required for the shareware era of Windows software...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Or we could try using sixel... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Or if we go even deeper down the rabbit hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Modern day internet "activism" basically, and a legacy of the Anonymous circus.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Yes and no. The suburb to city center links are strong, but most of the nation basically demand a car. We sadly have a political party that more or less glorify USA, and by extension car culture, and stonewall anything that smells of public
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by digi_owl 8y ago
More people would move to the cities of there were more buildings built, full stop. The housing prices in Norway are absurd, in particular in the cities. And much of that comes from leaving the market up to the banks, resulting in few but e
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by digi_owl 8y ago
IMO Quake 1 was the pinnacle of moddable ID engines. This because it used its own language, quake-c, and a simple compiler. Beyond that there were few inherent limits to the engine, so people set of making wild weapon packs (some having up
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I think some article in PCGamer back in the day quoted Warren Spector regarding Deus Ex, and its complexities, as him regularly going into his office and sitting down to figuratively bang his head on the desk while asking why they make thin
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Given that outside of the Switch the consoles are x86 AMD made socs, even consoles have bowed to the PC. In hindsight i feel the Amiga's custom chips was actual an Achilles heel. Yes it allowed each model to sprint out of the gate, but
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Well they came across as a pipe dream from day one...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
And if you check page 7 of the PDF there is a small table that indicates that this has to be at around 120dB to have an effect. I do believe that is up around the point where you risk physical pain and instant hearing loss.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
In a sense he was, as my impression is that his uncle, the emperor of Austria-Hungary, and government had been looking for a reason to stomp Serbia into submission for some time. One that they hoped would not get the Russian Tsar riled up..
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by digi_owl 8y ago
The Great Game, anyone? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Game Honestly i can't shake the idea that said game has continued to the present day, only with various players tag teaming in and out over the years
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Frankly the idea of consumers making informed choice is hogwash from end to end. Either we do so on whims, or we pick whatever is in front of us because we can't go another day without. Neither allows for "informed" decisions
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by digi_owl 8y ago
IF that was true, then perhaps more effort should be directed towards making Gecko a drop in engine? The big "benefit" of webkit is that it is a engine without the whole "browser" thing tagging along. But the last time i
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by digi_owl 8y ago
While true on paper, i wonder if it will ever be implemented as such. And frankly it may well be yet another black mark on the mess that is USB "C" (or 3.1 or whatever).
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Best i understand, they kinda are. But then the electronics at either end is responsible for negotiating what side is "up".
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Ok, that's it. Murphy does not need to verified any more. And i need a really really stiff drink.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
The crazy part is that "reversible USB" was already a solved problem, by clever engineering of the A plug. Never mind that on its face, the C plug is a nice reversible plug. But then someone noticed all those contact points on on
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by digi_owl 8y ago
And the latter part have caught some people unaware, where a battery pack and a phone will ping pong who is charging who until both are dead.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Yes and no. There is no IC in there, but there are small segment in the cable spec that talks about resistors on one of the lines that signal the type of cable available. So you put one resistor in for a low rated C to C cable, another for
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Software, like books, only has a market as long as the distribution is a pain in the behind. Once the distribution is as easy as the press of a (virtual) button, the market basically evaporates.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I wonder if there are two reasons: 1. there is a generation coming to age now that never got to know these computers first hand. 2. More and more "computers" are getting locked down, supposedly for our own good. Even FOSS is bitte
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by digi_owl 8y ago
The Clinton campaign had to so many sins that i suspect being data driven was the least of its problems.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Made by an engineer turned economist from New Zealand no less. Sadly he is better know for a diagram he drew of an observation, the Phillips curve. I fear that much like this hydraulic model, Steve Keen's work is likely to be ignored o
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Honestly his attitude in general seems to be "once live, it stays", no matter if it is git commits, "broken" APIs, or anything really (just check out his recent opinion on the C standard).

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