kingcharles

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by kingcharles 5y ago
This happened to me. The police wanted my password and refused my right to silence, wouldn't let me call a lawyer. I wouldn't talk. Then they threatened my wife and I gave up my password to stop them from hurting her. The password
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by kingcharles 5y ago
In my experience, never. You are considered the bug, not their system.
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by kingcharles 5y ago
There's a growing number of mobile apps that don't expose all their features through their web apps, e.g. Cash, Venmo, TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat etc. It's a total pain for me to have to always open my phone and use the tiny
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by kingcharles 5y ago
I once ran a query on a live production web site thinking I was doing a SELECT but somehow ran an UPDATE which set all the millions of users' gender to 'M', regardless of their selection. Restoring from backups would have bee
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by kingcharles 5y ago
The notch is a transition technology. Suck it up now and in a couple of years the camera and other sensors should all be behind the screen like they are on the more out-there Android devices right now.
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by kingcharles 5y ago
American Express
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by kingcharles 5y ago
Always interesting to see the things hidden in games. When I was in the biz I was aware of many easter eggs, a lot of which are still unknown to the public. For instance, this sign in GTA:SA has the word "TFT" on the back which is
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by kingcharles 5y ago
15 years or more ago when I was writing Star Wars Galaxies bots I spent most of the time making them do all sorts of dumb shit, making silly errors, clicking on the wrong buttons etc so they seemed human. The fact the bots were grinding 24x
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by kingcharles 5y ago
Be careful of using biometrics if you are in the USA and don't want the government to force you to open up. I don't use biometrics for that reason as this is not a hypothetical for me, I've had these issues come up in a court
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by kingcharles 5y ago
This is the book I learned from in the 90s: https://www.amazon.com/Developing-32-Bit-Operating-System-Cd... It's basically "Writing an Operating System from Scratch for Dummies". I actually wrote my own graph
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by kingcharles 5y ago
Even into the late 90s 2D PC games were being written with large chunks of assembler. 3D APIs killed that. I'm sure there were huge slabs of machine code in console games until the early 2000s, especially systems that needed a lot of s