grawprog

69 ms·

601.
by grawprog 6y ago
>My only point in the comment above was that the character limit remains a fundamental characteristic of Twitter, and removing that constraint would qualitatively change Twitter I don't use twitter, so either way it doesn't mat
602.
Order of Succession Within the US International Development Finance Corporation(whitehouse.gov)
7 points by grawprog 6y ago|0 comments
603.
by grawprog 6y ago
So, suddenly things like police use of facial recognition, phone GPS data and other such privacy invading measures are good? Weren't these methods being decried only just a few months ago when they were being used on the protests and r
604.
by grawprog 6y ago
>surveillance by US intelligence agencies? There are many reasons to switch off whatsapp, but I don't believe it should be considered insecure Well, I consider getting targetted facebook ads based on the content of my whatsapp messa
605.
by grawprog 6y ago
>I'm slightly older than you, so we're both millenials, and I've noticed a lot of my friends sort of struggling with the fact that we're no longer the "young and cool" crowd. The Gen Y/Z TikTok crowd ar
606.
by grawprog 6y ago
I had an article I posted get a second chance. I got an email from dang saying it had been reposted then it was on the front page for a bit. It did better the second time. I didn't actually have to repost it myself.
607.
SARS-like WIV1-CoV poised for human emergence (2016)(pnas.org)
3 points by grawprog 6y ago|0 comments
608.
by grawprog 6y ago
>The game will also have 1,000 farm bots which can mine a token, like a Bitcoin miner. You can buy a loot box, assemble the parts to make a farm bot, and set them loose mining. Or you can just buy a farm bot preassembled at an expensive
609.
by grawprog 6y ago
I've personally played some text adventure games from the 90's with better input recognition than some customer service chatbots. They almost feel like trying to figure out the commands from those games sometimes. 'I need hel
610.
by grawprog 6y ago
Apparently acetone or any organic solvent work well to dissolve styrofoam also. https://sciencing.com/acetone-styrofoam-experiment-2768.html Though, that's probably not elementary school safe. It doesn't remove th
611.
by grawprog 6y ago
Faxanadu passwords were pretty terrible for sure..but hands down the the absolute worst has to be james pond 3 on the genesis. There was like 4 different colours and a bunch of symbols like pieces of cheese and rayguns and stuff. The passwo
612.
by grawprog 6y ago
Yeah. Messing around with silly things like that breaking the game is what I remember most about it. It didn't really stop me from playing the game normally, it was just something you played around with to make crazy stuff happen. I pr
613.
by grawprog 6y ago
I had a game genie, pretty sure it was responsible for giving my nes the blanking screen of death. Seems like nintendo should have been happy, the game genie probably led to a bunch of snes sales due to its console killing tendencies(possib
614.
by grawprog 6y ago
I'm four beers in and it's only 3pm here. It's been that kinda year. Had to stock up before they stop selling liquor at 8pm. Cheers!!!! Happy Near Year HN. Hopefully next year sucks less!!!
615.
by grawprog 6y ago
I'm probably going to be downvoted for this...pointing out any issues in any measures towards covid seems to have this effect. But how is astrazeneca's methodology reasonable? https://www.astrazeneca.com/media-cent
616.
by grawprog 6y ago
The nes had plenty of real examples where poor translations made the game harder or made secrets obscure and hard to find without a guide. Castlevania 2 and Adventure of link come to mind. Actually, i'd say most text heavy games transl
617.
by grawprog 6y ago
I had a similar experience at an Egyptian exhibit at the museum in Victoria. They had statues and stonework dating from the 2000's BC. At the time i was doing stonework, polishing and cutting granite and marble and stuff. The polish an
618.
by grawprog 6y ago
I know, there was a bunch of comments talking about that already, I just figured i'd throw in my own experience from the time rather than add to the echo chamber.
619.
by grawprog 6y ago
I used bit.ly to shorten the URL for urlroulette(wouldn't let me use it otherwise.) Bet it would be pretty easy to just make it redirect to itself indefinitely with some kind of script or something. Also, thankfully, I got homestar run
620.
by grawprog 6y ago
I grew up in that time, I can at least say why we never had one which was mostly just because we had an n64 at the time. The Dreamcast, at least from the commercials I remember, didn't really seem all that appealing by comparison and t
621.
by grawprog 6y ago
So why not teach people so they can empower themselves instead of making them rely on yet other people, who may or not be scrupulous themselves for protection? Because the government is always scrupulous and trustworthy...and nobody that&#x
622.
by grawprog 6y ago
Probably because the comment can be mostly summed up to: 'The majority of humans are idiots who need to be protected from themselves by the government.'
623.
by grawprog 6y ago
>It is almost as if e-mail isn’t a secure medium for communication... Have humans ever had a truly secure medium for communication? As long as we're communicating, there's always a chance our communications can be intercepted i
624.
by grawprog 6y ago
Society. Mostly because the alternative would be something like being a hermit in the forest.
625.
by grawprog 6y ago
Why is it we live in a world where someone creating something they release for free, for fun, for other people to freely enjoy, based on a character or idea that some corporation owns is against the law? A large fan project existing is argu
626.
by grawprog 6y ago
>It makes sense, BMW quit being a car company in the past few years. BMW has always first and foremost been a logo marketing company. They exist so moderately rich people can show off how moderately rich they are by driving a car with a
627.
by grawprog 6y ago
I remember. I killed my computer once with adware to the point where I needed to reformat my drive and reinstall everything. It sucked, but it taught me to always pay attention to installers and not to just randomly install anything and eve
628.
by grawprog 6y ago
>Except most criminals do not get caught. I never said most criminals get caught, I said not getting caught is harder than doing the shady thing. Just because something's hard, doesn't mean lots of people don't manage to d
629.
by grawprog 6y ago
How is it any more 'scary' installing an app from a website than the play store? There's plenty of malware on the play store. I'd actually be willing to bet you're more likely to install some malware from the play s
630.
by grawprog 6y ago
Just the way the functionality's in there now shows it's treated as a second class feature. It's buried down in the special access settings labelled as 'install unknown apps and granted or removed on a per app basis. Not

More ›