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by lloeki 2y ago
> I don't know why most Android phones don't seem to do it (pretty sure mine doesn't), and generally TVs/monitors also don't do it. The rageguy one would say either patents or "whoa the colors really pop I w
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by lloeki 2y ago
Ambient light will also affect the result. Not necessarily because the ambient light would affect the screen shows (it's emissive, not reflective) but because the brain also does "auto white/colour balance". For a fun
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by lloeki 2y ago
Sure, security comes in layers. A trusted platform boot chain can validate the hypervisor much easily than a whole hard disk, and existing x86 instructions can do the rest. The attack surface is also quite a lot smaller. It's already m
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by lloeki 2y ago
The one thing I hate about tmux is that it leaks env vars across instances: # terminal 1, start a fresh first tmux session, which magically spawns a daemon with the same env $ env FOO=bar tmux # terminal 2, start another
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by lloeki 2y ago
- Have a thin hypervisor kernel - Have the user-facing OS be a VM managed by that hypervisor - Have the game process run under a second sibling VM The hypervisor can then mediate hardware access and guarantee nothing from VM A can access VM
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by lloeki 2y ago
> I'm not sure if it benefits microsoft in the long term, because the "backwards compatibility" features of Wine need to be implemented in Windows already as a part of the system. Sometimes running old software atop Wine
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by lloeki 2y ago
> I work in IT, which is the reason our house has: - mechanical locks - mechanical windows - routers using OpenWRT - no smart home crap - no Alexa/Google Assistant/... - no internet connected thermostats >> Tech Enthus
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by lloeki 2y ago
Not just humans, apes at large. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War Cue the opening scene of 2001 A Space Odyssey.
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by lloeki 2y ago
man 3 malloc: The malloc(), calloc(), realloc(), and reallocarray() functions return a pointer to the allocated memory, which is suitably aligned for any type that fits into the requested size or less. On error
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by lloeki 2y ago
Public payphones? Going into a bakery or a post office or any shop and politely asking to place a call from their landline to mom&pop's, having their number memorised, possibly placing a reverse charged call? "you are here&quo
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by lloeki 2y ago
It's well beyond "technically correct", especially for the web. The "safe methods" section is quite explicit about that: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7231#section-4.2.1 https://
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by lloeki 2y ago
That's on Eric Koston though although Tony Hawk did participate. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ob0dI05Xz8s Koston did not invent the thing but has been a major popularity contributor to it. https://www.surfe
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by lloeki 2y ago
Ah that clarifies things, I was confused for a moment. Well, the goal of a bridged net adapter for VMs is to make the VM as if it were physically plugged in directly into the network, independently of the host, so it makes sense for it not
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by lloeki 2y ago
Ickx did it in protest though (against FIA's reluctance to increase safety rules in general and against the traditional Le Mans start in particular) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_24_Hours_of_Le_Mans
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by lloeki 2y ago
Bonus points for those that use alt or ctrl just to add to the confusion.
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by lloeki 2y ago
Read about how Intermittent Du Spectacle and Sacem/SACD work. Very broad strokes, IDS is basic income, you have to fulfil a number of gigs to renew a fixed guaranteed income for the following year. Sacem is more or less proportional to
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by lloeki 2y ago
Getting hooked on computers is easy—almost anybody can make a program work, just as almost anybody can nail two pieces of wood together in a few tries. The trouble is that the market for two pieces of wood nailed together—inexpertly—is fai
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by lloeki 2y ago
I've seen youtube embeds be overlaid and say things like "this embed carries tracking, click here to load inline at your own peril or here to watch on original site" or something to that effect. Can't recall where though
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by lloeki 2y ago
The venerable master Qc Na was walking with his student, Anton. Hoping to prompt the master into a discussion, Anton said "Master, I have heard that objects are a very good thing - is this true?" Qc Na looked pityingly at his
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by lloeki 2y ago
> but Ruby often shies away from doing that. My interpretation is that they prefer to return _something_ rather than blowing up, so the show can go on. There are two (intertwined) explanations: - In Ruby exceptions are costly to generate
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by lloeki 2y ago
> it’s not a drive in that it’s not providing atypical propulsion (ie, Star Trek warp drives, AIUI in Star Trek, Cochrane's "space warp generator" and descendants are essentially the Alcubierre design: I don't seem to
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by lloeki 2y ago
Goosebumps just with ours already: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA
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by lloeki 2y ago
This is about a U.S.A citizen on a domestic flight. I'm wondering, in similar situations what kind of rights - if any - do non-U.S.A citizen have on domestic flights? or international flights to/from the U.S.A?
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by lloeki 2y ago
> which flavour/version of Linux they use. > this isn't a distribution problem Exactly. This all shouldn't be distro dependent when the only things involved are ALSA (kernel) and pipewire/pulseaudio. Both unfortuna
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by lloeki 2y ago
Let's say you have an allergy to nuts, or shrimps, or some phobia. Life does throw a lot of this at you but it doesn't really help. What helps is following a protocol with controlled doses of exposure to make the body/mind un
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by lloeki 2y ago
> The game itself isn't engaging at all > It's also an incredibly frustrating game I'm curious, is that intentional ? As in, progressively learn to deal with those two aspects that are instant triggers for an ADHD mind
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by lloeki 2y ago
Dunno what Return of the Obra Dinn used as dithering but these videos of Doom running naive 1-bit clamping immediately makes me beg for it having the aesthetic of RotOD.
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by lloeki 2y ago
plumbum is nice, although the optional parens of Ruby makes things more shellish. Also Ruby's Shell was part of the stdlib, so if a system had Ruby you could use it without having to go through system ruby `gem install` conundrums. I t
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by lloeki 2y ago
> It's of course very silly, and I'm sure commenters here are going to talk about all the ways that it isn't practical or that it's a niche idea, but I love whimsical silly niche hardware ideas that make it into actua
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by lloeki 2y ago
> pocket watches Which, when you think of it, (smart or dumb) mobile phones kind of have been for a while already for people that don't wear (smart or dumb) watches. Tangentially I sort of lament the progressive disappearance of wal

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