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by mewse-hn 4y ago
> what mess? I just described it to you?
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by mewse-hn 4y ago
Since it's a database system it competes with Oracle's paid offerings and anyone aware of this conflict of interest has been waiting for them to hobble the product. Now there is Mysql "enterprise edition" and "commu
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by mewse-hn 4y ago
I've read similar comments about interactions with Wikipedia editors
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Saturn has several options for playing backups: Pseudo Saturn Kai: a firmware for the pro action replay cartridge that will boot non-official discs. Affordable and no modding required. Phantom mod chip: like a classic playstation mod chip,
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by mewse-hn 4y ago
Another Canadian here. Saw a video of an American pastor last week saying homosexuals should be lined up against the wall and shot. Great people they are protecting down there.
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by mewse-hn 4y ago
I'm going fishing soon for the first time this year, and was reminding myself of the one knot I learned while I was a fishing guide one summer. I found it on this page - apparently it's called the "palomar knot". I'
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by mewse-hn 4y ago
I also had a bad experience with Teksavvy renting the last mile from Shaw. Bought the service at 75mbit and quickly requested an upgrade to 150mbit, they said the work was completed when it clearly wasn't. Had to send them multiple ema
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by mewse-hn 4y ago
I went down a small rabbit hole after reading this, curious if it would have saved Aaron Swartz's life. It seems the lynchpin of the prosecution of Aaron Swartz was that the CFAA criminalizes the breaking of a Terms of Service agreemen
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by mewse-hn 4y ago
Training for IT professionals? Didn't they just kill mac server? What is there to learn, how to use a web browser?
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by mewse-hn 4y ago
I'm 40 and never "got" twitter either. I started to dip my toes in it very casually over the past year or two, but now the Elon Musk acquisition got me to bail. I don't have much regard for people who consider themselves
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by mewse-hn 4y ago
Probably a n00b question but where did the commented machine code come from? Did IBM publish their original PC BIOS code, comments and all? Was the original "PC clone" bios just a clean room reimplementation?
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by mewse-hn 4y ago
I recently ordered new deadbolts for my house and I chose ones (kwikset 980) that were defeated quickly by LockPickingLawyer. His video actually caused Consumer Reports to pull a recommendation of that lock. My reasoning was: - Lockpickingl
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by mewse-hn 5y ago
Today's equivalent would be if sony silently rooted your phone so their software could monitor and disable unauthorized music playing on your device, still very very wrong
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by mewse-hn 5y ago
No questions but I'm very impressed there is a 3D printed case in this repository and it's designed for home 3D printers (ie. split into smaller parts, printable without supports)
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by mewse-hn 5y ago
ABS would be fine, maybe printed in vase mode to be extra thin
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by mewse-hn 5y ago
id Software went independent after working for a company named Softdisk making a monthly floppy disk called "Gamer's Edge": Softdisk is most famous for being the former workplace of several of the founders of id Software,
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by mewse-hn 5y ago
Yes, all fasting is intermittent or else it becomes death by starvation which is something different. I think the term "fasting" has become more severe since the term breakfast became commonplace. It comes with baggage that implie
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by mewse-hn 5y ago
There seems to be a lively debate across the internet on this one. I've always preferred the "action" button to be on the right like this example: https://miro.medium.com/max/1838/1*RSGWrWvqA0ubbg7BW
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by mewse-hn 5y ago
This exchange would be non-notable if it weren't for Feynman's stature and that he was basically called out by a musician. His familiarity with academia shines through by agreeing the answer deserves no marks, and his candor by st
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by mewse-hn 5y ago
Editors do participate in revisions quite a lot and for them to suggest additions is probably common. To take a writer's work posthumously, change it so drastically that you've reversed the meaning of paragraphs ("I lost at t
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by mewse-hn 5y ago
The first sentence describes SNESticle as "much requested, much anticipated, much rumoured" but never released, and there's no mention of why.
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by mewse-hn 5y ago
Moore didn't write Rorschach as crazy, he wrote him as a fanatic ("Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise."). In the book the prison psychiatrist becomes deeply disturbed by Rorschach's world view because h
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by mewse-hn 5y ago
The author of this page doesn't seem aware that the nesticle author's PC was hacked way back then, and the source code released against his will which led him to never release SNESticle.
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by mewse-hn 5y ago
One of the really interesting paragraphs from the article: The UK’s Royal Air Force, flying their new Vulcan bombers, got orders for the exercise, but the plucky Brits ignored some of the details. Flying their own attack profiles (essen
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by mewse-hn 5y ago
You could click through the different platforms bubble bobble was released for on mobygames to see which one looks familiar. The DOS version seems to have had a CGA 4-color mode but it wasn't cyan/magenta. Amstrad CPC looks like a
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by mewse-hn 5y ago
I love that we can dig into rom images from 30 years ago and recreate sprite sheets that were originally hand drawn for something that was an important part of our culture. What more I love that Fabien actually does it and shows us how it
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Historically, the village church wasn't just about worshipping the sky father and shunning non-believers. It was the original social safety net and the congregation would support people who were experiencing hardship. The tribe would c
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by mewse-hn 5y ago
Linus got his start doing product review videos for NCIX which was an online computer hardware shop up here in Canada. He had a fairly severe disagreement about the future of the company (his idea was to compete against amazon with kiosk-st
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by mewse-hn 5y ago
I think there must be a counter-weight because they say the ascent is assisted but also that it uses no electricity. Counter-weight must be hidden or something.
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Yeah I saw the photo of the charging port where the gas cap would usually be and also wondered how much is in the kit with the crate motor

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