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by indrora 2y ago
There are some advantages and disadvantages of the approach. However, there's just stuff that X assumes that isn't true anymore. A good example is how it handles input. How many cursors does a screen have? One machine? okay, One i
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by indrora 2y ago
X11 did a lot of things. None of them "wrong", just "badly conjoined at the spinal cord". An X server is a fantastic example of how building drivers for deep hardware components should never have been written in userspac
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by indrora 2y ago
The US is going to have to really come to grips with the fallout (heh) of its nuclear weapons programs. If you've never paid attention to how abysmally the US has handled its nuclear waste management for the weapons programs, check o
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by indrora 2y ago
Oh yeah, Code Search is good. it is not as good as the search built into Azure Devops [1] however. You don't know power search until you've used a search tool built on the backs of the devs of Windows. Being able to say "Uhhh
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by indrora 2y ago
I can’t speak to Rust but there have been plenty of C# repls in the past. https://fuqua.io/CSharpRepl/ For one
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by indrora 2y ago
For a long while, I've been helping people diagnose problems with 3D printers and one of the things that stands out to me is how often people throw away bad prints while they're troubleshooting. One of the first things I ask someo
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by indrora 2y ago
On the other hand, Plummer is an unreliable source.
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by indrora 2y ago
reread: The project was going in the other direction, From a pure audio source to a Youtube video.
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Modifying the OG Xbox to have 256M of RAM [video](youtube.com)
61 points by indrora 2y ago|35 comments
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Nix NCA member personally reinstates johnringer as nixpkgs maintainer after ban(old.reddit.com)
3 points by indrora 2y ago|2 comments
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by indrora 2y ago
related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40761536
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by indrora 2y ago
Very. In fact it’s becoming harder to write non-safe c++. Stuff like nullptr has been in the spec for a while, unique_pointer and other stuff has worked its way in too. And Rust has plenty of ways to turn memory into Swiss cheese. Anyone wh
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by indrora 2y ago
It's assassination at one fundamental level. Spite is one way to put it. She has no love for anything computers, technology, or otherwise.
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by indrora 2y ago
The issue is memory. Every library in an app image has a unique memory space and so you have a bunch of copies of sometimes very large libraries sitting in memory rather than one copy from disk mmapped into memory and page duplicated all ov
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by indrora 2y ago
Ascent building in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is doing a lot to challenge the attitudes against Timber: https://www.dezeen.com/2022/08/03/ascent-tower-milwaukee-wor... There's a fantastic article about the cha
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by indrora 2y ago
Part of the issue is that it wasn't required at launch, became one of the top 10 games by sales numbers and the first published by Sony to make it to that point on the leaderboards, then Sony stepped in and tried to juice their numbers
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by indrora 2y ago
Griefing and trolling is just as valid a concern as cheating. If I can join a random game and make three other people' lives spectacularly shit at the same time, that's a boon to me. But HD2 isn't like PvP games like Counter
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I joined landlord groups to persuade them to be better people to their tenants(thisisalot.com)
170 points by indrora 2y ago|294 comments
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by indrora 2y ago
The functional implications of this are a little different. Google, Bing, and others specifically have bitmap maps that are served out of Korea for this purpose. You can see it in Bing since the maps for Bing Maps use the classic Microsoft
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TV's TV: Surreal late-night Japanese TV from 1987 [video](youtube.com)
2 points by indrora 2y ago|0 comments
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Something like that. It's specifically for quotations that come from other sources and are presented verbatim; In the LWN UI settings: "These preferences affect how text that is quoted from other sources (press articles or whateve
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by indrora 2y ago
a zip archive is not executable unless something has gone very wrong.
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by indrora 2y ago
Because it was started by ex-FAANGers, Amazon specifically.
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And the worst part is that the "dumb" TVs are expensive. This is mostly because Roku/etc are subsidizing the cost of the device so far down the line that it becomes impossible to argue for the better ones, especially from com
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by indrora 2y ago
Applying hanlons razor to this (as another comment has) this is likely some process that either a) fails to store or b) doesn't bother storing the UUID and thus generates a fresh new one every time it runs, which must be pretty often,
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by indrora 3y ago
You may enjoy LXQT.
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by indrora 3y ago
One of the things that I have been pushing for a while is the idea that presentation and content should be separated from one another as best as possible. This has honestly soured me on any form of XML for human-readable document unless it
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by indrora 3y ago
Semi-Presorted post can be acquired pretty easily. Places like Shippo and PirateShip offer it. As long as you put enough money into the postage paid, the post office doesn't really give a shit if it comes out of somewhere weird. There
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by indrora 3y ago
The hardware it was running on was... Basic at best and the database that backed the whole thing was torched at some point. The sole guy behind it however did manage to get some of it back up and working and launched a patreon to fund it. T
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by indrora 3y ago
In the US, if you know someone's routing/bank number, name, and address, you can write cheques in their name. There's companies that make their money on selling (now, usually older folk) literal books of cheques. One of the w

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