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by duskwuff 3mo ago
> I couldn't get my head around why this is the case, lol. Because TIOBE's methodology is terrible, and always has been. https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programminglanguages_defin... It's literally
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by duskwuff 3mo ago
They were also using NiMH batteries - a completely different chemistry from modern lithium batteries.
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by duskwuff 3mo ago
> I simply will not buy a car that won't easily accept a double DIN head unit. Are those even a thing anymore? The vast majority of new cars have some sort of custom all-in-one dashboard display.
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by duskwuff 3mo ago
You're correct on both points. Some early wireless cards used SDIO to communicate with the host computer. These are long gone. There were also some later SD cards which contained an embedded controller running Linux, which emulated an
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by duskwuff 3mo ago
> under normal conditions BSD is a wonderful license for game devs since you’re free to use the code and only have to add an acknowledgement somewhere. And it's not as though libopus is an outlier in using a BSD license. A lot of ot
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by duskwuff 3mo ago
Because one of the requirements the law sets out is that the content be removed "expeditiously" upon receipt of a takedown notice.
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by duskwuff 3mo ago
"First of its kind since the 1940s" still seems a little questionable given the Cecil Kelley incident (Los Alamos, 1958). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Kelley_criticality_accid... Interestingly, both th
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by duskwuff 3mo ago
> Chernobyl is the only accident in commercial nuclear history that has exposed people to large enough doses of radiation to poison and kill them. The Tokaimura incident (Japan, 1999) comes to mind as a counterexample. https:/&#x2F
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by duskwuff 3mo ago
Air travel has also become ~100x safer on a per-passenger basis: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/aviation-fatalities-per-m...
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by duskwuff 3mo ago
> 'Run by one individual in Denmark.' is an interesting statement of bus factor I find it more interesting as a statement about organizational oversight. If there are multiple people involved in operations, they can keep an eye
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
> Quake III Arena had no single player. It... sort of did, but it was extremely shallow. It was a preset sequence of matches against increasingly difficult bots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrmJgXT8WSY
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
> It was a wristwatch back then, right? Only if the application explicitly set the cursor. There was no default indication that an application had stopped processing events - your only clue was that everything stopped responding.
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
pngcrush is pretty old. A newer, more effective option is oxipng: https://github.com/oxipng/oxipng
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
> They've wanted Larry Gone for years Larry was essentially inactive* on Wikipedia from 2002 until he started stirring things up last year. Nobody "wanted him gone" - he simply wasn't relevant to the project. *: Aside
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
The dark patterns aren't just in online gambling. Nowdays, a lot of brick-and-mortar casinos encourage, or even require, clients to create an account (often framed as a "members club" or "rewards card"), which is us
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
Oh, I'm sure there's all sorts of illicit use as well. But scraping is what the network is being actively marketed for, and it probably amounts to most of their traffic by volume.
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
Yes. For instance, Bright Data describes itself, on its home page, as the "all in one platform for proxies and web scraping".
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
Apple's devices use an IR depth scanner, not the camera, and do not expose the data to software.
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
More to the point - if they expose their model's "thinking" inference, competitors can train on that to replicate the results. If they postprocess that content, e.g. by summarizing it, it's no longer as useful to competi
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
No, this one is just flu.
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
Buried lede: this is, in large part, a self-created problem. Many states set restrictions on where people who are registered sex offenders are allowed to live (e.g. disallowing them from living close to schools and day care centers), and th
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
Re. "dirtiest power" - coal is dirtiest at the site of consumption, but if you consider the entire supply chain, diesel generators at remote locations might be worse. (Coal is usually supplied directly by train; diesel has to be r
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
And, as far as I'm aware, they don't charge for relay bandwidth even if you do end up needing it (which most users won't).
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
> Also I was assuming it was picking from a huge set, but it seems everybody was shown the same words I don't think I got "breviary" when I tried. Maybe it's using a decision tree, but everyone's ending up on the
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
Yes. It is a word which seems to only be used as an example of a long and obscure word. I have never heard it used expressively, other than as a joke.
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
> It seems below about ~80F you lose consciousness. Interestingly, the case report notes that "classic cardiac electrical activity" started once the patient reached 82°F.
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
If only there had been some kind of geological steam turbine to go with it... :)
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
This is mentioned in the article "A Note on the Word 'Zork'", linked right above the 'pterodactyl chopper': https://web.archive.org/web/20100112110305/https://nickm.com...
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
> What's that? Just keep using an older version of Linux? Or move the AppleTalk stack into userspace. I don't see why it needs to be in the kernel - certainly not for performance.
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by duskwuff 4mo ago
On top of being much more complex to encode and decode, and being encumbered by patents, JPEG 2000 was only marginally better than JPEG in terms of quality vs. size. At the time it came out, it wasn't worth using; nowadays it's th

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