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by indrora 2y ago
I'm reminded of the github issue opened by a machine, commented on by a machine, LGTM'd by a machine, and merged by a machine. With self-congratulatory post-merge success gif post by a machine.
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by indrora 2y ago
> Having worked in an all-glass tower and also a "normal" office building, my personal experience is that the natural light that giant windows let in and the external views that they afford are both phenomenal improvements to t
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by indrora 2y ago
As a child who was taught how to solder (Thanks Dad!) I can say this: making the practice of post-solder handwashing just A Thing does a lot to impart good practice. if you're super paranoid, D-Lead hand soap is a fantastic product: h
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by indrora 2y ago
I stopped playing a lot of games post-2010/2014 or so. Lots of games that are fine on Intel Integrated graphics out there.
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by indrora 2y ago
"ORACLE: (n, abbr, nonstd.) One Rich Asshole called Larry Ellison."
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by indrora 2y ago
It was burned years ago. Give it two years or so to fade. There’s just not enough low cost big spaces to hold shit in.
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by indrora 2y ago
The mobile version places an explicit "upgrades" button to indicate that they're clickable. perhaps it's another commentary...
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by indrora 2y ago
Sevens are a massive number in Chinese numerology: The 7 parts (yin/yang/metals), the 7 steps, 7 captures, etc. Eights are symbols of prosperity, wealth, generosity, good fortune in business, etc. Six is a kinda useless number for
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by indrora 2y ago
> When you go to gym class, you are expected to perform without aids - you cannot ride a e-bike around the track when teacher tells you to run. If you are expected to perform without assistance, then the instructor is failing to meet the
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by indrora 2y ago
Check out Neocities — lots of options when your domain is limited to 2..3 megabytes
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by indrora 2y ago
Less kink and more “if you’re on the internet why NOT pretend to be a walking talking dog?” See also, VTubers, manga artists (who often represent themselves as characters), and our tendency to anthropomorphize computers (“it’s gotta think”)
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by indrora 2y ago
> But literally every device in the real-world just wires the port to the 5V rail with 2 A overcurrent protection Not quite. To be USB Compliant, you have to do some work here and there. There's about six different options. The most
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by indrora 2y ago
Even Windows has %appdata% which is where you put stuff on disk that you need to stash away. There's also function calls iirc which will give you a handle to a temporary file if you need it.
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Mojibake(en.wikipedia.org)
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by indrora 2y ago
Yes, we did lose a generational cohort. There is a reason that the quilt is so large[1]. [1] https://www.npr.org/2012/06/27/155868611/pieces-of-aids-quil...
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by indrora 2y ago
> young LGBTQ+ people are against learning from their elders No, there's a missing generation. As (previously) one of those, my generation is now the "elders", and we had to learn in a strange, weirdly sheltered way. Our e
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by indrora 2y ago
This was... the US, Britain, etc for many years and much of the middle east and parts of them and Asia today. Women just aren't in control of their lives and personhood in so many ways under even modern marriage law. I believe it'
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by indrora 2y ago
Monsanto, at one level or another. While they pinky-promise to not sue, if their corn gets into your corn and you replant the seeds, they've fought about it in court to mixed results.
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by indrora 2y ago
Yes, actually. It's not a panacea, but it's a foothold. Nearly all my hardside cases have an airtag stuffed in one of the "Surface Mount" kits from ElevationLab. it looks like a pressure valve on the other side, and I
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by indrora 2y ago
Assembly is still relatively popular in the spaces of very low level Operating System work, exploit engineering, and embedded systems where you need cycle-accurate timing.
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by indrora 2y ago
Durability to cost ratio. I can get 90mm borosilicate petri dishes for $10 that I can be pretty certain won't melt into a glop, plus having a "contained" object allows me to have tamper seals that are much harder to violate (
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by indrora 2y ago
IRC is a Very Old Protocol, you're right. if you dig through the spec you will find a few historic relics: 7-bit ASCII only, 254 character max total line length (some reserved for the message itself), and many many more. NATS as an IRC
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by indrora 2y ago
I suspect the answer is instead to establish two tax rate calculations: One for in-person shopping (like VAT) -- you pay the tax according to local rates, but it's factored in already. one for online shopping, ("E-VAT") -- yo
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by indrora 2y ago
This is, ironically, why I ended up with 1password over bitwarden: Their recovery process is down to "You can recover with paper, or another member of your family with access can break you into jail to get your account back up." I
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by indrora 2y ago
I don't have many things against passkeys for corporate accounts, but I don't think we're going to fully destroy passwords in the personal space. To the hardline Passkey-for-everything advocates, I pose the following situat
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by indrora 2y ago
The way you push to migrate (even moving to a QEMU-hppa binary emulation environment) is the following equation: cost(maintain) is the cost of keeping the system running as it stands right now, with the risk of 100% "it's gone&quo
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by indrora 2y ago
You may enjoy Nonstandard Mcodonads: https://x.com/nonstandardmcd https://www.npr.org/2021/09/04/1028769806/one-mans-journey-t...
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by indrora 2y ago
In the early days of UEFI being on PCs, I had to coach a TON of IT admins on the changes that were happening. Lots of them assumed that if you just dunked a drive image onto a machine, it would Just Work:tm: without having to add anything i
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by indrora 2y ago
> Bottom line, you don't see too many assembly language developers anymore. And where you do, no LLM is going to replace them because they are working in the dark mines where no compiler has seen and the optimizations they are doing
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by indrora 2y ago
You act like that has stopped any artist. Ned time you hear about a new Pokemon game releasing or any expansion to a franchise. New characters will have content drawn of them before the announcement is over.

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