larschdk

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by larschdk 2y ago
They had bingo games running on Teletext in Denmark. There were also interactive pages where you could phone in and press numbers to access a much larger set of information. You'd get your own temporary page number (that anyone could t
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by larschdk 2y ago
I thought this would be about optimizing or tuning SQLite settings, but it's about query and schema optimization.
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by larschdk 2y ago
Arguably, it doesn't. New features can be necessary to stay competitive, such as the Vector API to utilize vector instructions.
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by larschdk 3y ago
You don't know that they do. They did redirect when you tested, but they may not for everyone. They could easily selectively download-snipe anyone they have identified by IP address or even regional. Big security threat.
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by larschdk 3y ago
Detecting a security issue is one thing. Detecting a malicious payload is something completely different. The latter has intent to exploit and must be addressed immediately. The former has at least some chance of noone knowing about it.
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by larschdk 3y ago
GIMP is my pet-peeve as well. I literally have to "read" each icon to find the one I'm looking for. Luckily you can change back to the color set, which is a lot better, although not perfect.
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by larschdk 3y ago
Such an effective design. I immediately recognize even subtle difference between icons at the lowest sizes. Meanwhile, today I get lost on my Android phone and in most desktop applications with low-contrast and monochrome icons.
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by larschdk 3y ago
France has a civil law system where precendent is not binding nor persuasive.
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by larschdk 3y ago
That's not even satire!
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by larschdk 3y ago
Scientific discoveries are not instant, but build upon earlier work. * 1824 - effect proposed (Joseph Fourier) * 1827/1838 - further evidence (Claude Pouillet) * 1856 - Speculation that a high vapor atmosphere would give a warm planet
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by larschdk 3y ago
You aren't looking carefully enough. I find so many inconsistencies in these examples. Perspectives that are completely wrong when the camera rotates. Windows that shift perspective, patios that are suddenly deep/shallow. Shadows
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by larschdk 3y ago
I don't find this music to be good in any way. It sounds interesting over a few notes, but then completely fails to find any kind of progression that goes anywhere interesting, never iterating on the theme, never teasing you with subtl
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by larschdk 3y ago
My first discovery was "Santauron"!? - by combining Santa Claus and Sauron.
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by larschdk 3y ago
They have already taken outside investments in previous rounds. This is the Raspberry Pi Ltd (formerly Raspberry Pi Trading Ltd). The Raspberry Pi Foundation is still a charity.
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by larschdk 3y ago
To clarify, this is Raspberry Pi Ltd (formerly Raspberry Pi Trading Ltd), a subsidiary of the Raspberry Pi Foundation (the charity). I'm curious how this will affect the foundation's mission, but I guess they are already affected
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by larschdk 3y ago
The code effectively flashes the monitor at 30 Hz on any 60 Hz monitor (the time delta will always be 16.66 ms or more). I have tried this before and noticed a lasting effect on the monitor that was visible after stopping the flashing. Just
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by larschdk 3y ago
The LGPL license doesn't work that way. The rights that it establishes follows every time you transfer the work between legal entities. If I transfer the work to you, I need to extend the rights granted in the license to you. I can&#x2
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by larschdk 3y ago
Very different. They can do that, because they are in control of the components and build process. That's much harder for someone else's deliverables.
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by larschdk 3y ago
My guess; Unity doesn't want LGPL code in component they re-distribute, because the responsibility to comply with the license requirements falls on them, since they are the ones redistributing. It's not that they can't, but t
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by larschdk 3y ago
It's not impossible to comply with LGPL under the app store model, but the responsibility falls on the distributor, which is Unity in this case. I can understand that that is something they are not able or willing to do. This doesn&#x2
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by larschdk 3y ago
Related: Grey Hack is a fake OS, Network, Internet in a multiplayer game where the objective is to hack (including each other). It simulates many basic functions quite well (you can steal files, place files on other computers, install softw
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by larschdk 3y ago
Revenue per employee is never a goal in itself. Only revenue, expenses, and strategic goals. If they can meet their strategic goals with less resources, they over-hired.
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by larschdk 3y ago
In my case, wireless SoC chips (BT, BLE, DECT). Current generation are ARM M0 cores, but 16-bit RISC/CR16 architectures are widespread still. Not expecting language to provide platform support, but SoC providers don't either. They
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by larschdk 3y ago
Not easily portable to most microcontroller targets: No SDK for our target SoCs and official SoC/µC support. Increased code size (which is also a performance issue in many SoCs). High cost of retraining engineers. High cost of reengine
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by larschdk 3y ago
You troll, but I'll feed you. There is no universally better language for portable high-performance system programming for resource constrained platforms. Every single alternative have unacceptable trade-offs.
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by larschdk 3y ago
I wish it had a less click-baity name than "transparent wood". It's wood with the lignin replaced with resin through a chemical process. Of course things can be be transparent if you replace them with something else, but then
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by larschdk 3y ago
I tried your code on prettier.io and got a result that was more visually consistent than what you pasted here.
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by larschdk 3y ago
I'm paranoid after enabling 2FA after failing once to save the recovery codes correctly. Not sure what actually happened exactly, but when I managed to get back in despite odds, the shown recovery codes were _different_ from the ones i
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by larschdk 3y ago
Same here. If you flick the sun light on and off, much of the surface shifts several pixels.
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by larschdk 3y ago
What is the use case for a mutable environment past initialization? It seems like a complicated and error prone thing to be using no matter if it is thread safe or not. You can set up your own environment before you launch threads, and you

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