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by livueta 6y ago
I have a copy of this! I found it in a used bookstore years ago and had to grab it. I'm pretty sure it's not auto-translated: like the sibling said, the first half-ish of the book is a verbatim collection of Usenet posts of the au
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by livueta 6y ago
Interesting, thanks for clarifying. Those do seem like big challenges.
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I dunno about that. I readily acknowledge that cars are a different bucket of fish, but the benefits of open-sourced firmware have been well-established in areas like routers. It's also (hopefully) not a binary choice between OEM firmw
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Someone upthread said something similar about apologies also being easier (to deliver) in a second language: I bet that just as a non-native speaker's English cursing feels oddly empty or off to native speakers, apologies come off as i
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_Story is one of the better-known examples. > It was developed over five years by Japanese developer Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya in his free time.
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This reminds me of an old /g/ post: --- The thing people don't realize about the 'nothing to hide' mantra is that it only makes sense if someone looks at your whole life. If you really did have someone examining eve
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by livueta 6y ago
>It is not a viable option for secure communication Security from whom? This seems like a textbook threat model problem, and one that I'm not sure how to address as a proponent of federated/decentralized services. I used to (an
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by livueta 6y ago
You might like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcmy8FaaHHM The series as a whole is pretty nice but this one does talk about the hot food vending machines this site is about.
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I've got one - an older 1080, though. Got it for $50 when my roommate at the time had to return to China on short notice and had to get rid of most of his stuff. It's fine. Takes a while to turn on but otherwise just works. I&#x27
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Bittorrent. No, really. Lots of nice behaviors when transferring large amounts of data between arbitrary endpoints. Transferring the torrent metadata is pretty trivial and can be done via a wide range of methods, and having that flexibility
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At one of the large companies I worked for, IT took that "just pave it" approach for _everything_. Maybe because of the contrast between that and my day job of spending weeks to months root-causing really weird distributed systems
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It's not Tarantino, but occasional friendly reminder that Gankutsuou exists and is pretty dang good, occasional glimpses of awkward early-2000s CG aside. Jouji Nakata as the Count is easily one of his most memorable performances.
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by livueta 6y ago
Yeah, 音読み - literally sound-reading. There definitely is a phonetic element to it. Since most/many complex words (jukugo) you'll encounter are formed from the same ~2k kanji, you often end up quite literally sounding it out. As a
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by livueta 6y ago
In my experience the reason behind devs loving matchmaking is fairly straightforward: being able to solo queue raises engagement. It takes time and effort to make a team in the first place, more time and effort to coordinate games when you&
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by livueta 6y ago
It's better but not perfect. If you tried Linux on commodity laptops a decade ago, you'd frequently run into awful hardware issues. There's less of that now with the OEM laptops (with some exceptions; looking at you, Killer w
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by livueta 6y ago
Sounds a lot like one of the standalone-ish arcs of Transmetropolitan: https://comicsalliance.com/the-issue-transmetropolitan-anoth...
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I feel like there's a need for a privacy-protecting attestation service/protocol. Fully anonymous discussion boards/social networks are tricky because of obvious sockposting-related problems. Another poster mentioned a Voat m
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I don't think anyone's arguing that doxxing should be illegal or that doing news-worthy things doesn't make people interested in unmasking you, but that's kinda orthogonal to the main point that, generally, doxxing someo
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by livueta 6y ago
I've always thought of Dick Proenneke[1] as what McCandless could have/should have been. Despite attempting a similar thing (go detach from civilization as much as possible, though Proenneke didn't take it to the same extreme
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by livueta 6y ago
Really, anything involving Tsutomu Nihei, even the Sidonia 3dcg anime. Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou's also got some neat, pretty Nihei-inspired megastructure architecture. Finally, Texhnolyze does a lot of fun stuff with using architecture
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by livueta 6y ago
Since we're talking Oshii works, I feel obligated to bring up Patlabor 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patlabor_2:_The_Movie It's a good example of extraordinary detail in design and animation around mechs&#
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I think it comes down to what you're optimizing for, but disagree that stroke order is essential for learning to read. Like ddevault, I learned the jouyou kanji and some extras almost entirely without stroke order. I've never even
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by livueta 6y ago
I generally try to avoid bitching about Firefox design decisions in Chrome threads, but possibly because of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1409675 - the original WebExtensions breaking change removed the abili
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by livueta 6y ago
That effect is pretty visible even in the successful open projects like Wesnoth. Love it to death, like much of the art in isolation, but sometimes you get pretty jarring clashes in style.
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I used to do work kind of like this stuff on enterprise storage arrays that ran a modified BSD. We didn't lock the system down much, so customers could go and set whatever system guts stuff they wanted. We had a tool on-system that wou
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by livueta 6y ago
Ah, yes, standards set by society - you mean laws? I'm a big Facebook detractor generally but this illustrates why their problems are hard. In the case of the US, most of the calls to "respect society's standards" seem t
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Weirdly enough, some older MMOs (OSRS, to a lesser extent WoW Classic) fill that need for me. Sometimes, the repetitiveness of really simple grinding (think click tree, click inventory to drop log, click tree) lends itself to falling into a
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by livueta 6y ago
The Bork law ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act - specifically its genesis) is a fun example of that dynamic.
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If anything, that's one of the reasons brought up in _opposition_ to monopolistic copyright laws: piracy is going to happen, legal or not. If you don't release your stuff freely, people will google "___ full PDF" and end
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Natural Nuclear Fission Reactor(en.wikipedia.org)
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