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by distract8901 3y ago
I wonder at what point will Google start splicing ads directly into the video feed? Surely there's a way to do it without transcoding the entire file again.
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by distract8901 3y ago
There seems to be an arms race happening between YouTube and uBlock. Every few days the nag shows back up and I have to update my unlock lists again. But it does work usually
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by distract8901 3y ago
If you do something even slightly unusual you can quickly get into a situation where you spend more time debugging your toolchain than writing code. I really hate the state of modern software. We have so many layers of utterly unknowable ab
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by distract8901 3y ago
Streaming to twitch involves two parties. First, the service provider twitch, second the user uploading the video. Streaming to a second service introduces a third party.
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by distract8901 3y ago
Sorry, I don't respect people who murder innocent civilians without cause or due process. Or people that can arbitrarily seize any amount of your property, forever, with no possible recourse. Or really tacticool guys in general. They&#
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by distract8901 3y ago
Absolutely incredible
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by distract8901 3y ago
Jeez, that signal must have been absolutely infinitesimal. How do you even notice something like that? Guess I should read the article
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by distract8901 3y ago
That was the original reason. Back in my day we had interactive Flash ads that could run basically any code they wanted while flashing bright lights and scantily clad women at you. One of the major reasons we had ad blockers was because i
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by distract8901 3y ago
For any number of reasons, I'm not willing to put up with Google's advertising or business practices. I also don't want to give google any money because a) they really don't need it and b) google only gives a fraction of
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by distract8901 3y ago
Writing dumb little programs to automate some trivially annoying task is one of my favorite things to do. I get to play around with UI design, or build some hideous monstrosity out of reflection and polymorphic generic classes. I get to pla
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by distract8901 3y ago
I'd characterize it as employers being extremely adversarial to unions because their goal is exploitation of workers. Unions have to be aggressive in response. Sure, I'll agree that our union system is not great, but I place the
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by distract8901 3y ago
....why? This horse has been beaten to a fine pulp, cloud gaming just isn't going to happen.
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by distract8901 3y ago
Yes, they did. It wasn't every machine, but it did in fact happen.
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by distract8901 3y ago
I remember being excited for windows 7. I stayed up late on a school night to grab a beta iso because there was a limited number of downloads. It was an enormous improvement over XP. But I think that's where Microsoft really lost the
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by distract8901 3y ago
Lots of the southeast and probably elsewhere. In Kentucky and west Virginia, it's common to see black license plates on cars with a "coal keeps the lights on" slogan. People pay extra for them. People here seem to be fundamen
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by distract8901 3y ago
I think it's in the cable. The user manual shows a cable with a big chunky adapter that slots into a modular port on the back of the meter. It seems that port also supports a Bluetooth module, so I'd guess it does direct digital s
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by distract8901 3y ago
First, RF emissions from phones really don't affect airplane equipment. They haven't for a long time, if they ever have. Airplane mode is one of those things that sticks around because people think it's important and they exp
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by distract8901 3y ago
The worst is trying to repair one end of an existing cable and having to think really hard about whether to use A or B wiring.
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by distract8901 3y ago
I don't remember the details, but they explored some different field geometries which were more useful, but required an impossible amount of energy. Like, more energy than the entire universe.
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by distract8901 3y ago
It's pretty much what it says on the tin. A field which warps nearby space into a different shape. What that means is complicated to explain, but the gist of a warp drive is that you expand space behind you and compress space in fron
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by distract8901 3y ago
The static warp field doesn't allow you to go faster than light because it doesn't move relative to the generator. You can drag the field around at sublight speeds but that's about it. Though IIRC they played around with some
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by distract8901 3y ago
Yeah, I'd expect that almost any code would react badly to modifying a ctor argument in parallel. That seems like a very bad thing to do in general.
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by distract8901 3y ago
>Theoretical warp physics -- the real kind, like Alcubierre, not the Wesley Crusher kind -- proposes that a source of negative mass would be critical to the creation of a warp field. Well, yes, that's always been the crucial missing
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by distract8901 3y ago
It's been really weird seeing all these warp drive and antigravity people crawling out of the woodwork in response to this result. I have never heard of antimatter proposed for anything other than an energy source/storage. Not
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by distract8901 3y ago
>That said, I don't follow it closely, but didn't somebody recently worked out one that works without negative mass matter? Yes. There was recently a few papers published showing that a static warp field is mathematically possi
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by distract8901 3y ago
I'm sure that I could have fixed it, but I gave up after spending multiple evenings on it. Have you ever spent hours debugging a system exclusively in text mode? It isn't fun. Reinstalling the OS takes less than 30 minutes. It&#
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by distract8901 3y ago
I'd guess that juicing total review scores for a product results in more sales
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by distract8901 3y ago
I tried bumblebee again recently, and it works shockingly well now. I have a thinkpad T530 from 2013 with an NVS5400m. There is some strange issue with some games where they don't get full performance from the dGPU, but more than the i
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by distract8901 3y ago
My Arch system would occasionally boot to a black screen. When this happened, no amount of tinkering could get it back. I had to reinstall the whole OS. Turns out it was a conflict between nvidia drivers and my (10 year old) Intel integrate
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by distract8901 3y ago
If anything bad happens, I'm sure the Rigel will bail us out. This time for sure

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