digi_owl

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by digi_owl 8y ago
The age old joke about the computer encased in concrete at the bottom of the ocean does indeed come to mind.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
While equally obsessed with maintaining a stable API towards userspace. Sadly much of userspace is an unstable churn of API changes.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Dunno about Safari, but at least for me the Firefox one lacked two features: An official keyboard shortcut for going to reader mode. The option of having the browser send all articles to reader mode when detected as possible.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
My personal take on where coins came from is weights used with balance scales (and certain metals would be favored there as they would not change their weight much while stored). Also, i think i once read that at some point Japan used a sys
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by digi_owl 8y ago
One thing to consider is that technically a diesel engine can run not just on petroleum based fuels. Thus i think the engine itself is likely to be with us for a long time, but perhaps not used primarily in the ways we do today.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I seem to recall some similar results back when AMD first released their APUs with the shared FPU setup, and Windows barfed because of its scheduler. Everyone still blamed AMD for making a crap CPU design...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
The z80 is also still in use as a microcontroller of sorts.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
> He's now working on designing an animatronic baby doll and is cognizant about how to design it so that it discourages (or at least won't encourage) any type of sociopathic behavior. I suspect it will be a futile effort becaus
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by digi_owl 8y ago
And once more the supposed nation of the future shows itself to be massively stuck in the past...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I always find it interesting that domesticated foxes basically behave like large pups.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
And their status page shows all green... https://reddit.statuspage.io/
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by digi_owl 8y ago
That, and various incidents on twitter etc over the years makes me really question the professionalism of _sec...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Was gifted Fallout 4, and what was in the case was one DVD. Upon install, that required a Steam account, it would pull down 2x or more that of the content of the DVD to make the game playable. And then i had to go mod hunting basically on d
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by digi_owl 8y ago
The trick is to have a environment where you can take the complex apart and examine each part in isolation, and then bring them together until you replicate the error. With older _nix setups that was fully possible because daemons were pret
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by digi_owl 8y ago
While true, i think the notion here is to treat containers like VMs in the cloud. Thus a container is spun up or down depending on the load on the service. Then again, that notion brings to mind a certain comic about a self-ddos... http:&#
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by digi_owl 8y ago
could be using an extension that force https connections.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
https://community.remedygames.com/forum/games/death-rally/26... Following the second link lead to: https://www.gamewatcher.com/mods/death-rally-2009-mod/free-f... That said, "d
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Social media in general can turn into an echo chamber quite quickly. But so can traditional media, as there used to be a newspaper for every opinion out there...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Systemd as a project has developed a history of moving goalposts. Their initial talk was about boot speed by using dependency trees and parallel execution. But when containerization caught the zeitgeist, they were quick to trot out nspawn a
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Ah yes, debug parsing. Didn't that attract Torvalds' ire some time ago when it was found that it made systemd flood the kernels log buffer with "junk" data? Then again the other guy in the systemd team, Sievers, have a l
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Old man Zappa comes to mind... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZazEM8cgt0
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Point taken, not familiar any libraries that was large enough to have such items shelved.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
And that kind of following around was what certain secret police forces did back in the day. And it was inefficient unless they already had a reason to spend manhours on you. Now however the computer will do it, virtually for free, and then
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by digi_owl 8y ago
One big thing to keep in mind about Facebook et al, is that every page with a like/share/whatever button from a third party effectively allows said third party to build up a profile of who the person operating the computer is. Eve
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Similarly it took effort to look up random numbers in phone books. Few if any were ever printed in a way that made it easy to to from number to name, only name to number.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
On a different note, i recently read that adding charcoal to the feed may help as well...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
The dawn of the wintel, perhaps?
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by digi_owl 8y ago
The "nerd world" of today is nothing like what it was. Much of the "nerds" used to identify as geeks, to separate themselves from what is these days labeled as "neckbeards". the influx of media/design peop
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Was watching someone getting a Altair to run basic via a teletype and a paper tape. The amount of bit flipping just to get the initial bootloader ready made me appreciate the work Woz and like did to make later systems boot straight to a pr
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I suspect kinda the latter, even though all legal literature on the subject claims that shareholders are the least important entities. Somehow (neo-classical) economists have convinced the world that shareholder wealth are sacrosanct, and t

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