kingcharles

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by kingcharles 4y ago
In lots of Muslim countries dating is frowned upon, and that is a significant percentage of the world's population.
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by kingcharles 4y ago
I've never heard this phrase and I spent half my life living in England where I could see France out of my window :)
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by kingcharles 4y ago
I'm unsure why Gmail didn't render the image. It sure as hell renders all of the ones I get if the email itself is not flagged as spam (as in this case). The image is embedded into the email, so there is no privacy or tracking iss
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by kingcharles 4y ago
LOL. That's the first time I've heard of that. I thought I had access to all Windows 10 versions, but that one's not on my access list. Includes its own special encryption algorithms. Oh boy!
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by kingcharles 4y ago
Not just incapacitated, but also unable to reasonably communicate. I was suddenly and unexpectedly thrown into jail. How do you communicate all of this information to people on the outside? Especially as your communications are monitored at
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by kingcharles 4y ago
I agree with this. A smart coder is going to write it all in a high-level language and then profile it to see which tiny bits might be better off in assembler and then profile it again to test their theory. Modern compilers know a lot of tr
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by kingcharles 4y ago
That's cool. It looks like they used the same idea for the engine as I coded for Abomination [1]: 2D isometric background with 3D characters. https://youtu.be/M58w8_fh2JQ?t=197
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by kingcharles 4y ago
Having spent eight years inside, I really don't think it's as good for networking as you imagine. For a start, everyone inside is a criminal that failed, that got caught. There are almost no tech guys locked up, it's 99% drug
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by kingcharles 4y ago
It's one of the best ways to keep a government honest. The people own the government, therefore they should know what the government is doing in their name. I hate governments keeping secrets from me, especially when they are doing it
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by kingcharles 4y ago
No problem. I wish what I didn't wasn't necessary. I'm helping others to try to make changes to the FOIA laws to fix the slew of problems. It's baby steps. It's like hacking - laws are written, the bugs are found, t
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by kingcharles 4y ago
I'm actually a developer for pretty much the last 40 years :) I ended up in a county jail due to some mental health issues, and my coding slowed down in there so I needed a new hobby. I put all my energy 24/7 into trying to get th
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by kingcharles 4y ago
The AG's legal team in Illinois can issue binding or non-binding rulings. So, even though they gave a detailed legal breakdown of their ruling and why it applied, and (bless them) having read through the entire 800 page manual, they st
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by kingcharles 4y ago
I'm currently a criminal defendant in an ongoing case involving digital forensics. The state's expert witness testified one time so far and I was very impressed with his knowledge and demeanor. He really knew his tech and could ex
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by kingcharles 4y ago
I'm a serial litigator of Freedom of Information requests. The reason I have to even litigate is because the public bodies believe every tiny thing they do is not disclosable. I'm about 6 years into one lawsuit to disclose the con
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by kingcharles 4y ago
I think perhaps they were trying to be cool, like their namesake [1] and failed. [1] https://www.thedesignersrepublic.com/pop-will-eat-itself
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by kingcharles 4y ago
Written moments before the worst war in history that involved the explosion of two nuclear weapons. Which itself turned into almost 70 years of relative global peace.
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by kingcharles 4y ago
I'm not saying there is a R* cabal, because of course there is no cabal, but if I told you what the *back* of this sign meant, I would have to kill you: https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/3ylmm4&#x2
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by kingcharles 4y ago
Sometimes testers aren't even working with the full data set. And testers might have some seriously shit-hot hardware that is max spec too. When I was developing everyone would go buy the absolute best PCs out there at the start of eve
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by kingcharles 4y ago
And kills reviews. Most reviewers won't freak about the load time, but the framerate they will.
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by kingcharles 4y ago
I used to be a video game developer. I guess it's down to priorities and passing the buck. Our priorities were always on profiling the running game to make sure we got every ounce of juice out of the hardware and the game ran smoothly
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by kingcharles 4y ago
At the time it must have represented a sizeable proportion of the world's gold. There was significantly less gold mined in the early 18th century when this vessel was sunk.
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by kingcharles 4y ago
I had similar problems. For one, the LloydsTSB banking app is not available outside the UK App Store, so I had to keep a second iPhone with a UK number while living in the USA just so I could have the app installed.
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by kingcharles 4y ago
DALL-E 2 and Imagen make me feel the Singularity and ensuing AI apocalypse is way closer than we thought :(
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by kingcharles 4y ago
I went to jail. When I got out, of the thousands of online accounts I had created over the previous 20 years I could only get back into about 3 of them. I'm probably about to return to jail, and now everything is MFA, so I have no idea
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by kingcharles 4y ago
DirectDraw and Direct3D run on Windows 95 and both use alpha, so it's possible they could do something with it, but they also might just emulate it. It's been 27 years since I was writing video games for Windows 95 :p
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by kingcharles 4y ago
Can you use this without biometrics? I don't use biometrics because they are not protected by the Fifth Amendment in the USA.
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by kingcharles 4y ago
All I keep hearing is that Apple is pouring a fortune into cracking this problem. They've certainly been snapping up every prominent person in the industry in the last decade.
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by kingcharles 4y ago
Looking back to when my father was alive with diabetes T2 in the late 80s/early 90s, nearly all the nutritional information turned out to be total bollocks. I would go as far as saying the information was seriously harmful. We still ha
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by kingcharles 4y ago
But different jurisdictions have different rules? For instance, are you OK with a country that outlaws homosexual acts firing hundreds of subpoenas at a company to be able to target its gay users? CSAM is also a wide spectrum offense, with
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by kingcharles 4y ago
I tear that shit right off. I hate anything between me and the screen. The manufacturer didn't deem it necessary, although they might have profit motives for that.

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