ectopod

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by ectopod 5y ago
This is true for things that are connected to the network anyway. It is not true for unconnected devices controlled by Bluetooth. The gratuitous app login is straightforwardly malign.
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by ectopod 5y ago
I don't, but isn't this what people buy fabric conditioner for?
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by ectopod 5y ago
Wikipedia records the history of every page. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Outhouse&action=h...
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by ectopod 5y ago
If you have a genuine choice of steal or starve, even then you won't necessarily steal food. You might steal whatever is easiest to and sell it to buy food.
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by ectopod 5y ago
The rolling back technique you describe is often used for network play to hide the network latency ("rollback netcode"). When I first read about it I thought about using it to fix high emulator input latency, but never got round t
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by ectopod 5y ago
Completely agree. Also, get a hob with physical knobs rather than touch controls. Not as pretty but much less frustrating.
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by ectopod 5y ago
In the unlikely event this succeeds you'll need to provide address or bank details to someone (most likely Facebook) in order to get paid. No thank you.
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by ectopod 5y ago
To get complete whois information you need to query the registrar. Whether the whois or DNS is the most up-to-date source for the authoritative DNS servers for a domain seems like an implementation detail at the registrar rather than someth
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by ectopod 5y ago
If the professor had a secretary it's possible he never saw the email. Some employees like to bask in the reflected glow of their boss's high status (as they see it) and are very sensitive to perceived slights.
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by ectopod 5y ago
16 bytes is 128 bits. Why would you use 32?
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by ectopod 5y ago
Are you confusing CLAs with CoCs?
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by ectopod 5y ago
You need bottle conditioned beer. Many wheat beers are.
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by ectopod 5y ago
The startup/shutdown code is for the C runtime. If you avoid the C runtime you don't need it.
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by ectopod 5y ago
I wonder how many millions of man hours could have been saved over the last twenty years if we could have added semantic="false" to our tables rather than redesigning everything.
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by ectopod 5y ago
I don't think parents will demand anything. They will continue to assume that somebody else is making it safe for their children.
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by ectopod 5y ago
Many European cities were also constrained by city walls. Land may have been available but it wasn't necessarily defensible.
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by ectopod 5y ago
Or make the phones themselves!
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by ectopod 5y ago
A large proportion of the spam that makes it into my gmail inbox is from American politicians and I'm not even American. They are indeed part of the problem.
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by ectopod 5y ago
Absolutely. The only way we can be sure that this will be fixed by 2036 is by introducing a new NTP version that doesn't have this problem. Anything running the current version (which could be seen on the wire) would be considered brok
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by ectopod 5y ago
No, JavaScript running in your browser can connect to it. No remote access required. Of course, if you do allow remote access it is even worse.
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by ectopod 5y ago
Nightclub bouncers do this all the time. They don't have weapons or legal immunity or a fat pension or even a good salary. It should not be beyond the capability of police officers.
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by ectopod 5y ago
Since you raise the subject, getting paid for it is one of the best things about taking a shit at work.
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by ectopod 5y ago
I'm sure you would make money, though the law might catch up with you eventually. A similar tale: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-29459896
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by ectopod 5y ago
After you create an app in Visual Studio you can build it by running msbuild. You don't need an additional build script.
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by ectopod 5y ago
There are a few actors where I still remember the first time I saw them in a film. I had no idea who they were but they were mesmerising. They all became stars. Being gorgeous helps (and is sometimes enough to succeed) but some people reall
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by ectopod 5y ago
We Brits still curb our enthusiasm. Kerbs are just the things on roads.
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by ectopod 5y ago
World Athletics is up there too.
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by ectopod 5y ago
This has been my impression for the last quarter of a century. Better communications ultimately give lower efficiency. Why plan when you can micromanage?
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by ectopod 5y ago
Medium won't let me read it. Alternative link: https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/25/strikesgiving/#cool-story...
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by ectopod 5y ago
I know elderly people who still speak this way. It's changed in the last hundred years.

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