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by duskwuff 2mo ago
Per personal communication, this is precisely why the developer did that.
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by duskwuff 2mo ago
> Theoretically Yes, as an ion-beam-mill and electron-microscope combination machine can slice up semiconductors layer-by-layer. You may not even need anything as fancy as that - many microchips can be delayered by a skilled operator usi
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by duskwuff 2mo ago
The original NMOS 6502 also used a lot of rather weird dynamic logic which can't easily be represented as standard digital logic elements. Some details here: http://www.aholme.co.uk/6502/Main.htm
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by duskwuff 2mo ago
No, that's misleading. "Immediately available" means parts you already have in stock and can start populating without waiting for another supplier - it doesn't mean things that you could order.
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by duskwuff 2mo ago
> But aside from the fact there was no Mars linkage probably my favorite Bradbury short. This story happens to describe events on Earth, but it's part of the same chronology as the rest of the Martian Chronicles stories. The story
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by duskwuff 2mo ago
The site is a personal blog. There's no expectation, explicit or implicit, that it be "professional".
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by duskwuff 2mo ago
It's still used in a couple of specific senses - it's used in the nearly fixed phrases "keen edge" or "keen mind" as a synonym for "sharp", and as "to be keen to -" to mean "eager"
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by duskwuff 2mo ago
And cryptosporidium (a type of bacteria which causes diarrhea) is also often abbreviated as "crypto". Not that there's much risk of confusion in CVs, but it does lead to some amusing lines like "preventing and controllin
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by duskwuff 2mo ago
Definitely not. DOS had disk compression utilities, but not RAM - there was no reasonable way to accomplish that at the time. You may be thinking of "memory manager" utilities like QEMM and EMM386 which tried to maximize the amo
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by duskwuff 2mo ago
Under "Display & Text Size": "on/off labels" and "increase contrast". "Reduce transparency" is a bit of a mixed bag but is worth trying out. Under "Audio & Visual", "backgr
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by duskwuff 2mo ago
There's certainly demand for more data centers. Whether there's demand for the services those data centers would provide remains in question.
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by duskwuff 2mo ago
Laos is a fairly small country with 7.5m people, nestled in between Vietnam and Thailand. Their economy is primarily agricultural; there isn't a significant manufacturing sector. Interestingly, neighboring Thailand is a major exporter
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by duskwuff 2mo ago
With regards to the last bit, Apple hasn't shipped Java as part of the OS in ages.
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by duskwuff 2mo ago
> Cloudflare, for example, removed the ability to change the nameservers for all domains registered with them. Cloudflare never offered that ability. From the time they started offering domain registrations, it was always with the caveat
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by duskwuff 2mo ago
One of the more recent changes is that anyone can now enable a version of this functionality, even if they aren't set up with a child account. (It's under Settings > Messages > Sensitive Content Warning.) In this mode, it
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by duskwuff 2mo ago
There's actually been some work to reverse the original PhotoDNA hash, with much more precise results than for Apple's NeuralHash: https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?archives/931-Pho... https:&
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by duskwuff 2mo ago
The OUP link is AI slop. Here's a better link; the law in question was actually passed over a year ago. https://www.safefoodadvocacy.eu/amici-obesi-groundbreaking-o...
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by duskwuff 2mo ago
Once the patents expire, I expect to see H.264 become the JPEG of video codecs - it may not be the most efficient format available, but it's widely supported, relatively easy to encode/decode, and good enough quality for many use
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by duskwuff 2mo ago
And photos of a furnished property give a better sense of the size of the space, and what can be done with it, than photos of empty rooms. (So long as the furnishings are sized realistically, of course.)
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by duskwuff 2mo ago
There are software tools made specifically for staging (and de-staging!) real estate photos. I don't know if they're using off-the-shelf image models or not, but they have capabilities like restricting changes to specific regions
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by duskwuff 2mo ago
> Same here (actually had a voyage 200, but same same I guess). Not the same, actually! Unlike the TI-83/84 series, the TI-89, -92, and Voyage-200 all used a 68000 CPU, with a completely different (and much better) operating system.
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by duskwuff 2mo ago
"Congratulations! You've reinvented compilers, except slower, unpredictable, hopelessly proprietary, and you have to pay to use it." (Oh, and the "compiler" will also refuse to generate certain types of programs.)
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by duskwuff 2mo ago
I believe this is what the tags call "cocksucking-noises". https://www.bonequest.com/tags/cocksucking-noises (To solve the CAPTCHA: "spigot" is the human face.)
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by duskwuff 2mo ago
> If telegram disappeared then others would immediately take its place. I'm not certain that's the case. Telegram has survived in large part because Durov is incredibly wealthy and can afford to shovel money into running the se
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by duskwuff 3mo ago
> I’m skeptical that the problem they are trying to solve is truly unreasonable bandwidth demands. Not necessarily bandwidth demands so much as processing demands. Scrapers have a tendency to hammer on parts of web sites that are computa
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by duskwuff 3mo ago
> Unfortunately whatever HN is using routinely blocks my login with "Sorry." I believe that's the HN application itself, not a WAF in front of it.
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by duskwuff 3mo ago
Unless you're an astronomer, you probably don't care about condition 2. Many countries still shift wall time around by an hour twice a year for DST - if people are okay with that, solar time being offset by a few seconds is insign
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by duskwuff 3mo ago
Someone who's having a medical emergency is certainly in no position to go comparison shopping for ambulance services.
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by duskwuff 3mo ago
And a bit of "if Farage really wants the seat, he can fight for it". There's something unsporting about letting him win unopposed.
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by duskwuff 3mo ago
It's sort of a programming language. But not a particularly general-purpose one.

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