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by jrmg 3y ago
It’s the people saying things like “Full Self Driving obviously doesn’t mean that it can drive unsupervised!” that get me.
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by jrmg 3y ago
To assess analytical ability, candidates should be asked to provide an analysis sample: a written analysis from the candidate. As with the work and writing sample, the specifics of the prompt will vary by domain: for engineers, this should
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by jrmg 3y ago
It looks like the Symantec distrusting was done with the cooperation of Symantec, which agreed to wind things down and transfer clients to a new provider in an orderly fashion?
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by jrmg 3y ago
It amazes me how much advertising is literally fraud. Aren’t there authorities that are meant to police this kind of thing?
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by jrmg 3y ago
Though I think your TL;DR is too strong, I think you’re on to something. There are many times I’ll be searching for something probably esoteric and find myself wading through pages of useless semi-spam results when the actual answer is prob
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by jrmg 3y ago
I’d like to see a source for that too. If libc broke its ABI between OS releases there would be chaos.
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by jrmg 3y ago
Perhaps this is not true for the astrophysicist, but my general experience with the systems of people who experience frequent upgrade-induced-breakage is that they change the system rather than working within it. Switch out things. Switch B
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by jrmg 3y ago
Details of the original application: https://icannwiki.org/.ing
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by jrmg 3y ago
Would really like it if posts like this mentioned power consumption.
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by jrmg 3y ago
Only if you’re keeping the cash and not banking it. Banks charge businesses handling fees for cash. [not to mention fees on the other end - a huge percentage on most ATM withdrawals].
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by jrmg 3y ago
Being able to have it all in my head was something I loved about Objective-C (alas…)
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by jrmg 3y ago
You’re right! I misremembered this - it’s an SSL bug that’s really the first step in the chain in this case. When you try to connect to the Nintendo WFC using this DNS server, the DNS redirects your login request to Wiimmfi instead. Wiimmf
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by jrmg 3y ago
An exploit in DNS parsing (not sure if it’s related?) is used on Wii to patch games like Mario Kart Wii and Smash Brothers to use third party online servers. Since the Nintendo servers shut down, hacks have been the only way to play Wii gam
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by jrmg 3y ago
My opinion, only slightly tongue-in-cheek, is that Twitter changing its prompt, in 2009, from the ‘small’ “What are you doing?” to the ‘big’ “What’s happening?” sowed the seeds of its change from the authentic and personal thing it was, to
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by jrmg 3y ago
You need an Arc account to use Arc too, don’t you?
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by jrmg 3y ago
This is POP3/IMAP only? No web interface?
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by jrmg 3y ago
Criticism from a place of love (This is such a great, whimsical idea!): In the videos on the page, the Pac-Man starts completely on-screen, obliterating the content in one go, and proceeds to the right, and disappears as soon as it touches
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by jrmg 3y ago
Two comments on that: 1) I wonder if the exploit here works with passcode lock on? I suspect it does not, because there’s no mention of passcode entry in the steps. 2) My rebuttal was going to be ‘but most kiosk devices don’t allow access t
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by jrmg 3y ago
I believe Spotify still uses Vorbis in at least some circumstances?
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by jrmg 3y ago
I enjoyed this book about it: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18271029-the-darien-disa... . It was written in the late 60s, but it looks like it's been republished more than a few times since then: https:
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by jrmg 3y ago
I can’t square your comment with the fact that my experience of the other big name streaming services has been just as good as my experience with Netflix. They basically all just work almost all the time. If Netflix has more valuable techni
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by jrmg 3y ago
Recent Apple laptops switch on if _any_ of the keys are pressed.
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by jrmg 3y ago
That makes a lot of sense. You’d need to snapshot environ when the lock was taken (when another thread could be accessing it!), which I imagine would be complicated. Although surely possible.
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by jrmg 3y ago
I’ve been searching around, and you can find a bunch of discussions about this online. Your ’sarcastic’ argument is basically the one I’ve seen in most places. They could easily be made thread safe, but, paraphrasing, most arguments seem to
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by jrmg 3y ago
I think I must be missing something here, but I’ll ask anyway: Why don’t the OS libraries have some sort of lock around setenv/getenv, so that only one thread can be inside them at a time? I can’t see how it could deadlock. And surely
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by jrmg 3y ago
Looks like the ‘workaround’ of always using the ASCII hyphen/minus character is coming back: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/10/msg00106.html https://salsa.debian.org/debian&#x
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by jrmg 3y ago
I’d disagree that it’s information-discarding. At a technical level, yes, okay. At a human level? No. To a human reading the man page, these characters look basically identical on screen. Sure, one is sometimes, in some fonts, a bit bolder
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by jrmg 3y ago
FWIW, as a Briton-turned-American, it’s always struck me as very bizarre how they start announcing results on the east coast here, while people on the west coast (not to mention Hawaii and Alaska!) are still voting. Surely it affects result
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by jrmg 3y ago
Also: include the year. I’ve been bitten so many times by web forums not showing the date on comments (“5 Jul”), only to find the comment was written years ago that I no longer even trust dates without years. I find myself hunting around to
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by jrmg 3y ago
> Physical games are more expensive. I think that’s a feature, not a bug. Physical games are cheaper if you buy used.

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