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by guidedlight 2y ago
Leisure Suit Larry was ahead of its time with its age verification system.
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by guidedlight 2y ago
I remember this happened before, and someone smarter than me exploited the vulnerability to access every router and patch it remotely.
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by guidedlight 2y ago
I was curious if the Yeti would appear, I assume it is on the to do list. Great game. Keep going with it.
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by guidedlight 2y ago
I the two fake 5.25” drives are definitely a missed opportunity. Maybe a pair of slot loading Bluray drives would have been good.
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by guidedlight 2y ago
Great work. We definitely lost a prominent part of the Internet when Flash died. Thanks Steve /s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_Flash
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by guidedlight 2y ago
It’s surprising the things that have been caught offguard by this. In Melbourne, the ticketing terminal in 200 trams and 2500 buses is now broken. https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/free-ride-as-myk...
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by guidedlight 2y ago
They do. So I guess the observed timezone is UTC-61314.
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by guidedlight 2y ago
Nah, the weirdest time zone is Africa/Addis_Ababa, which nobody in Ethiopia follows. Instead the locals offset the time by 6 hours. So the AM cycle starts at dawn (i.e. 6am), and the PM cycle starts at dusk (i.e. 6pm). https:/&#
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by guidedlight 2y ago
QUIC reuses parts of the TLS specification (e.g. handshake, transport state, etc). So it can’t function without it.
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by guidedlight 2y ago
No need to read the article. It’s literally in the name. AM = Amplitude Modulation FM = Frequency Modulation Obviously environmental factors can affect the amplitude of a radio signal. But environmental factors are less likely to affect the
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by guidedlight 2y ago
In New Zealand after the Christchurch earthquake, the government condemned entire suburbs and made it illegal to build there. They then initiated an inspection of every multi-storey building, and allocated an NBS rating. Some buildings were
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by guidedlight 2y ago
I don’t know why everyone is so concerned. Microsoft has been sending telemetry data and your photos to Microsoft for years.
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by guidedlight 2y ago
I don’t understand how a food delivery order resulted in a personal injury to the customer.
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by guidedlight 2y ago
These cybersecurity tools are like posting a contracted armed security guard to an airport departure lounge.
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by guidedlight 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law
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by guidedlight 2y ago
These aren’t games designed for touch devices. They are console games ported to iOS. To play them you need to pair a controller, making the experience subpar.
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by guidedlight 2y ago
Wow. Most of these are really close together. The US clearly eats way too much fast food.
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by guidedlight 2y ago
This is probably very useful for use with LLM’s.
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by guidedlight 2y ago
Just like Microsoft told congress that Internet Explorer couldn’t be uninstalled from Windows 98, even though it didn’t come preinstalled with Windows 95.
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by guidedlight 2y ago
Atari (more accurately, what’s left of Atari), has just announced the Atari 7800+ console and a bunch of new and rerelease cartridges, releasing later this year. https://youtu.be/vsArjSWdNV8
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by guidedlight 2y ago
It will be most interesting how this applies to teachers, who often have to prepare lessons and mark work outside of hours.
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by guidedlight 2y ago
The JPEG-XL test page (linked in the article), works well. https://jpegxl.info/test-page/ At the bottom of the page it has animation demonstration, that doesn’t appear to work on my iPhone 13 Pro. Does JPEG-XL really i
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by guidedlight 2y ago
This is good to note. The New Scientist article is really talking about the rate of cooling, not the extent of cooling.
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by guidedlight 2y ago
There are quite a few apps for iPhone Pro devices that achieve this. I don’t know why they aren’t more popular.
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by guidedlight 2y ago
These look very similar to the ones used in New Zealand. I wonder what the regional differences are, particularly the barcode.
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by guidedlight 2y ago
I remember trying to explain to my grandparents how many individually addressable bits were in a 128MB SD card. To them the number was impossibly high. I wish they were stay alive today, to see a 8TB MicroSD card. ;-( I wonder what the limi
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by guidedlight 2y ago
Indirectly it does. Check out the economic multiplier effect. https://www.tutor2u.net/economics/reference/multiplier-effec...
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by guidedlight 2y ago
The federal government is adding $1T every 100 days to the national debt. That far outweighs any effect of student loans.
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by guidedlight 2y ago
In Australia, Milk Bars are the equivalent of corner shops. Interestingly, the etymology suggests the Australian term is directly derived from the English milk bar mentioned in this post. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M
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by guidedlight 2y ago
This of course, this comes on the heel of Musk’s free choice to move SpaceX’s HQ to Texas to avoid legislation on gender identity.

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