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by mewse-hn 7mo ago
> Glorious. This must be what is like when old people long for the hot car they lusted for in their youth. Absolutely. The blog post goes to great lengths about why it's stupid to run a cluster, and I run a NAS in my house that has
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by mewse-hn 7mo ago
> Doing hard things is tautologically good. Bahaha yeah overwork is virtue, sure
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by mewse-hn 8mo ago
Experimentation is a lot easier when you've already decided the outcome
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by mewse-hn 8mo ago
Applying for the bounty to deliver flowers and then simply not doing it seems like bad faith on the author's part in order to write that headline
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by mewse-hn 8mo ago
> Rest assured, those are all my own words. No super-computer, consuming megawatts of energy, was needed. Just my little brain. Lol, this is a chatgpt verbal tick. Not this, just a totally normal that.
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by mewse-hn 10mo ago
Loot box style underage gambling in their live service games - TF2 hats, counterstrike skins, "trading cards", etc etc
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by mewse-hn 10mo ago
I can't think of an instance of the web contracting like that. Maybe when Apple decided not to support Adobe Flash.
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by mewse-hn 10mo ago
I also got confused by the timeline of him getting deported from Russia. I think he's allowed to fly out as long as he returns and continues the journey on foot. You can see on the world map of the journey he makes steady progress from
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by mewse-hn 10mo ago
I see a lot of texture warp like you mentioned but I'm not seeing the geometry popping (wobble?) that was a hallmark of ps1 games, I'm guessing they're using soft floating point for the geometry and doing perspective-correct
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by mewse-hn 10mo ago
Ted T'so: "Here’s the thing: you’re not going to force all of us to learn Rust." https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/rust-in-linux-lead-r... https://youtu.be/WiPp9YEBV0Q?t=1
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by mewse-hn 11mo ago
> I am not familiar with chocolate doom what makes it better than any other doom source port? The earliest doom variants once the source code released started adding features that weren't faithful to the original dos version 1.9. E
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by mewse-hn 11mo ago
ZFS uses a large amount of ram, i think the old rule of thumb was 1GB ram per 1TB of storage
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by mewse-hn 11mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93FBI_encryption_d...
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by mewse-hn 1y ago
I don't think it's the specific phrasing. They could have said "I'll contact you by email to try and understand your concerns" and it's still dodging the explicit, concrete list of grievances. However, "le
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by mewse-hn 1y ago
I'm a mech keyboard enthusiast and an ansi 104 full size ride-or-die > (Because subcultures are subdivided recursively, the _gaming_ mechanical keyboard subcrowd also often like small keyboards, for reasons I don't really know
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by mewse-hn 1y ago
I forget what originally opened my eyes to the theatrics of a typical perp walk (probably Grisham) - the cops tip off the reporters, the reporters get their content for the nightly news, the cops use the front door of the station rather tha
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by mewse-hn 1y ago
> I recently bought a Pixel from a Google store and wasn't asked any personal information. A physical pop-up? The online google store requires a google account that has your personal info already..
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by mewse-hn 1y ago
It didn't feel like cheerleading to me, the very section you quoted is pointing out the part that is most troubling about China's rise, that they seem to be doing it without western freedoms. This is contrary to the ideology of th
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by mewse-hn 1y ago
The Omnivore's Dilemma points out that the food economy doesn't even behave like the normal economy - supply is variable due to weather (bumper crop vs famine year) but demand is inelastic, people generally eat the same amount yea
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by mewse-hn 1y ago
15 life hacks to monetize your suffering #lifehacks #grindset
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by mewse-hn 1y ago
Yeah I hit that bug a long time ago, my keyboard at the time only had "2 key rollover" - which I think was standard. Current gaming keyboards have NKRO - "n-key rollover" which would allow the four "buttons" to
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by mewse-hn 1y ago
I made a adb-to-usb adapter for my AEK2 using a teensy 2.0 and a cut up s-video cable. The TMK and QMK firmware have this functionality, but I used this firmware because it's much smaller and not a "kitchen sink" keyboard fir
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by mewse-hn 1y ago
so is this already patented by Regeneron?
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by mewse-hn 1y ago
The DoJ is arguing in court that Google should be barred from paying off Mozilla because of Google's search monopoly https://www.theverge.com/news/660548/firefox-google-search-r...
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by mewse-hn 2y ago
I love the complete tonal whiplash from the very next sentence: > Ujiharu lost Oda Castle so many times because he made bafflingly bad military decisions.
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by mewse-hn 2y ago
A lot of posts here saying this is irrelevant or whatever - unix was mostly developed out in the open and got into all sorts of trouble when big companies started cracking down on copyright ownership. This blog post isn't entreating yo
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by mewse-hn 2y ago
Damn, I didn't know that John Young passed.
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by mewse-hn 2y ago
Stephenson's "Fall; or, Dodge in Hell" deals with the hypothetical digitization of human minds. It has some interesting ideas like some of the synthetic minds deciding to wilfully become a hivemind
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by mewse-hn 2y ago
> Don't believe me? Route Ottawa to Vancouver in google maps. Default 44hr route goes through the states. If I click and drag the route up to go through winnipeg, it becomes a 47hr route that doesn't go through the states. I do
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by mewse-hn 2y ago
Yes! I don't know why outlines in pixel art are so often screwed up when up-scaled to high DPI - it's the reason I install posy's mouse cursors on my high dpi windows machines, they look as close to the old pixel cursors as p

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