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by jackjeff 2y ago
I don’t dream. When I was a child I remember dreams occurred but they did not contain any vivid representations of anything. Just abstract images. Nothing you could classify as vivid, let alone a representation of reality in any sense. The
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by jackjeff 2y ago
Not OP. I don’t recall any dreams since childhood. If I had not experienced a few myself, I would have a hard time understanding what a dream even is. And my 10 or so dreams only had abstract images. Defo not like a movie or reality where y
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by jackjeff 2y ago
Not the GP either I can’t do any of that. Sound is like images for me. An abstract concept you can reason about later but only experience in the moment.
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by jackjeff 2y ago
My answer would have been. Hang on a second you never asked me to imagine a triangle WITH a color? What else has this triangle got? A flavor? A smell? A name? It would have never occurred to me it had a color in the first place before you
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by jackjeff 2y ago
> For a true aphantasiac, this question is meaningless I confirm. I would have probably picked up a color at random to play along with the whole “mind’s eye metaphor” before I realized people can actually “see” for real and it’s not a me
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by jackjeff 2y ago
Do people without aphantasia actually visualize for loops, class hierarchies, design patterns, etc…? If not it would be easy to explain the result of the “visualize an apple” test. It’s just like visualizing a “for loop”. You’ve got a good
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by jackjeff 2y ago
Absolutely agree. On Windows the equivalent would be MSVCRT which is sometimes shipped with the OS and sometimes not (depending on the versions involved). Sometimes you even need to worry about the CRT dependency with higher level languages
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by jackjeff 2y ago
I guess C++ will be new COBOL.
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by jackjeff 2y ago
The ICJ is currently investigating a genocide case against Israel. So I guess we’ll find out… eventually. https://www.chathamhouse.org/2024/01/south-africas-genocide-...
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by jackjeff 2y ago
That’s essentially what this project does. It creates the C code that the ObjC compiler would generate to “implement methods” or “send messages”. It’s somewhat doable by hand because Objc is a thin lawyer. Over 15 years ago I did stuff simi
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by jackjeff 3y ago
It’s really Dracula vs Modernity. There’s nothing in the blog post that justifies the usage of the “Catholic” epithet. London is the seat of Anglican faith after all and using type writers and records are secular endeavors.
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by jackjeff 3y ago
I mean. They really want their Streisand moment. Imagine all the clickbait articles if they get sued
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by jackjeff 3y ago
Yes pretty much. Custom theme that you have to pay for eventually (free for 30 days) plus wine integration and some pre installed apps.
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by jackjeff 3y ago
What people always forget when they make statements about hashing being one way is that these algorithms are designed to be incredibly fast. So if what you’re hashing has low entropy/randomness (say a password) then you can totally bru
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by jackjeff 3y ago
Basically you can figure out the hash using the aforementioned timing attack. You can now perform an offline attack against the password that produced the hash. It’s like you hacked into the database and got the password hashes. Then, you f
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by jackjeff 3y ago
Nobody uses iMessage over here. WhatsApp dominates. It’s always amusing to hear Americans complain about the lock-in of blue bubbles.
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by jackjeff 3y ago
I never liked the design of Bitlocker - I always set a PIN. Wish it was a proper passphrase instead. The whole magic thing of decrypting things automatically seems like a total design flaw. - I often disable the hardware encryption support.
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by jackjeff 3y ago
I don’t know. Might have been worth it just for the exposure on Hacker News.
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by jackjeff 3y ago
That’s the thing. No tracking occurs. And no personal data is collected or sent anywhere. It stays in your browser. In a way it’s like your browser history. The browser knows your interests and runs auctions for advertisers. And as per GDPR
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by jackjeff 3y ago
In the long run Google probably does not care that much. They’ve been busy moving the tracking into the browser itself with the Protected Audience API. Technically they don’t track you personally and nobody has a database of your preference
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by jackjeff 3y ago
I see. What I really want is a converter from Spotify abomination to standard podcasts which I can read from any podcast client. Last I checked the podcasts are DRM encumbered. So you’d have to spin up a client pretending to be chrome and u
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by jackjeff 3y ago
Considered how expensive EVs are and since they can’t do simple things like airport return trips, I predict that gas guzzlers still have a long life ahead of them. I know EVs will get cheaper. But there’s no chance they’ll ever be as inexpe
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by jackjeff 3y ago
I’d be curious to know where she is from. I’m from Southern France but I have lived in Paris for a few years. I didn’t have a strong accent that would require subtitles on French TV like some people do, but I did have an accent. Nobody woul
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by jackjeff 3y ago
I agree French could do this as well as English. In fact, many Creole language derived from French have this kind of simplified French structure as a core feature
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by jackjeff 3y ago
Mistral is funded in part by Lightspeed Venture Partners a US VP. But there are a lot of local French and European VPs involved. The most famous one is Xavier Niel, who started Free/Iliad a French ISP/cloud provider and later cell
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by jackjeff 3y ago
Newpipe and Yattee are awesome. I don’t regret the couples of evening I spent setting up a local sever. I used to see ads occasionally on YouTube before they tried to crack down. The irony lol.
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by jackjeff 3y ago
But EU interoperability laws are cancelled out by DMCA (aka EUCD). That’s why reading a DVD with VLC has always been “technically” illegal. If Apple is able to update the protocol in such a way that it requires some kind of signed attestati
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by jackjeff 3y ago
I have a cron job running snapraid scrub. And smart demon with email alert. Once I had to quickly buy a HDD (next day Amazon) because it was dying. Big appeal of cloud storage is that the data won’t go up in smoke if there’s a fire. But eve
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by jackjeff 3y ago
My experience setting up a Linux NAS server on a HP Proliant N54L is that once you’re past the initial set up cost (doing Linux sysadmin things which is very time consuming and sometimes frustrating) it’s basically done. Sure you’ll have t
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by jackjeff 3y ago
I tried the zip upload once and it was really messy. The MIME types were not set properly (unlike wrangler) and they polluted the CF cache so even after I redeployed with wrangler it was still serving the assets with the wrong MIME types. I

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