larrykwg

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by larrykwg 9y ago
I find this blind unwarranted defense of elon that happens constantly every time his name is mentioned in an even remotely critical context, just increasingly annoying. I guess the smug hipsters found their new steve jobs. Literally the wor
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by larrykwg 9y ago
> And Elon Musk is the worst thing to happen to tech. I would say the worst are the people who religiously believe everything he says, independent of any constraints or consideration of reality. I think he does undeniably accomplish some
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by larrykwg 9y ago
wait but wouldn't the states have to pay for those lawsuits if the video evidence showed the cop doing the thing? Ohh I guess the narrative is that the police is most often wrongfully accused of wrongdoing, costing the state millions,
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by larrykwg 9y ago
Maybe it would be a good idea if some western states have access to a kind of backdoor into Tor/I2P/Freenet/etc. How many pedo/drug/etc. illegal sites are still there and will be there in the future where the owners
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by larrykwg 9y ago
It is a SyFy show. They have a reputation of producing the worst garbage, while simultaneously blocking the option. Thats why they are generally disliked by various fanbases, that would rather see their worlds given proper justice to. Examp
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by larrykwg 9y ago
Yes, all phones with FM capability uses the headphone jack, usb connector or passive antenna adapters to get the FM signal in the first place. There would be some options for the latest iPhones aswell even without headphone jack. Using an S
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by larrykwg 9y ago
Thats almost certainly a lie or misinformation, the baseband and wifi chips of an iPhone do have that capability, they are basically software defined radios. Its just that the firmware of those chips might have deactivated that capability.
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by larrykwg 9y ago
The adpocalypse had an obvious chilling effect on youtube, lots of channels closed as a result of this. And while you can repeal the demonetization, this takes time and even if its successful will remove 90%+ of the income from a video anyw
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by larrykwg 9y ago
I don't understand why they even try, Debian stable seem to have an almost arbitrary selection of outdated ruby and python libraries, at this point that hardly seems worth the effort. Sure I get the idea, but it obviously doesn't
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by larrykwg 9y ago
Indeed do just use plain virtualenv by all means! Its by far the most mature and most widely adopted solution, I happily ignore all the esoterical "reasons" against it. All those religious arguments are just annoying, it works per
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by larrykwg 9y ago
So let me get this right, this company collects credit information and someone hacked into their web server and stole highly sensitive information about most of the adult american population. Then the executives sold their stock a day befor
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by larrykwg 9y ago
thanks I hope thats the end of that rabbithole, that MDL almost looks like XML neat: https://github.com/itafroma/zork-mdl/blob/master/rooms.mud#L...
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by larrykwg 9y ago
atleast this one worked: http://simh.trailing-edge.com/games/dungeon.zip (Bob's port to Fortran)
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by larrykwg 9y ago
reading old C like this, I always wonder how could people code like this back then but apparently it was transpiled from fortran. So I'd assume the original code looked better. I dug around and found it, for comparison here is the orig