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by mystified5016 1y ago
Mullberry plants are weird. They're happy to exist as a small shrub or a 60ft tree, depending on how they're cultivated. One of the largest trees I've ever personally seen was a mullberry on some long-abandoned land adjoining
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by mystified5016 1y ago
As I understand, the really interesting parts of Commodore (the MOS designs) were lost forever when they shut down the first time. As far as anyone knows, the IP from MOS, the designs for all the chips, are just gone forever. Not that it ma
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by mystified5016 1y ago
All of the innocent civilians we've had to scrape off the pavement, for one
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by mystified5016 1y ago
This is the explicit and intentional promise of AI. There is no subtlety here.
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by mystified5016 1y ago
It might have something to do with the systematic dismantling of our education system and associated propaganda campaigns convincing the now-uneducated masses that education is evil brainwashing, everyone except white billionaires are actua
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by mystified5016 1y ago
Floppies are, in fact, volatile. They suffer from bit rot like CDs, and (AIUI) the magnetic flux is weaker and more prone to disappearing over time. Plus, all floppy drives are now multiple decades old. A new, modern removable magnetic disc
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by mystified5016 1y ago
I was extremely interested in tape when I started my homelab several years ago. The only options with more data capacity than a hard drive are all high end datacenter equipment. I would have had to buy fiber channel adapters and media, fi
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by mystified5016 1y ago
These are properly called "ganged switches" in the physical world. And yes, radio buttons got their name from the push-button ganged switches that were ubiquitous on pre-digital radios.
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by mystified5016 1y ago
Radio buttons were also often round. The age of radio (and phenolics) was full of over-inflated round shapes. But also, when you have a dozen monochromatic pixels to work with, 'square' and 'round' are pretty much the on
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by mystified5016 1y ago
DARE is one of the reasons I started smoking cigarettes. The only time the teacher was ever actually honest was when he described the effects of nicotine. Everything else was half-truths and scary lies. Funny what kids pick up on.
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by mystified5016 1y ago
Schizophrenia is pretty interesting this way. It's rare for it to show up outside of a certain age range, somewhere around 20 to 35 iirc. It's strongly correlated to genetics, and most people are totally asymptomatic, no idea they
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by mystified5016 1y ago
That's pretty much exactly how it works now. We instead analyze programs and guess that they're safe. Well, after we send a copy of the program to Microsoft, of course
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by mystified5016 1y ago
"Economically viable" is not a concept that even applies here. There is no profit to be extracted on Mars besides raw resources, and it will basically never be profitable to ship raw materials between planets with chemical rocke
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by mystified5016 1y ago
You know what? Please. Go right ahead. Maybe if broadcom buys up and then strangles to death some large company it might put some kind of damper on ai hype
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by mystified5016 1y ago
Usgov wants to spread FUD across her population and anyone who even thinks about the US That's basically it. This is just the standard fascist playbook.
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by mystified5016 1y ago
Technically being able to opt out of a Microsoft account by solving a puzzle wrapped in a riddle that Microsoft changes every few months is as close to forced as their legal team is willing to go.
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by mystified5016 1y ago
It's not a free upgrade if you have no choice
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by mystified5016 1y ago
That's paying for them with your time. You'd be better off spending that time earning money for yourself instead of Microsoft's ad network
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by mystified5016 1y ago
Null is not a unique pointer, it's a contant like -1 It returns multiple types of null pointer
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by mystified5016 1y ago
DDOSes are illegal attacks due to the speed and scale of the automation. If a website gets organically DOSed by Slashdot, that is not an illegal attack. LLMs 'reading' a book is not the same as a human reading a book in the exact
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by mystified5016 1y ago
Yes, exactly. A one-time purchase is great because ADHDers can impulse buy it and be done. A subscription is an extra mental burden I don't want or need.
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by mystified5016 1y ago
Why make it easy? When I was in middle school, we had WiFi at home before we got off dialup. I spent some days trying to figure out how to bridge the two before we got cable broadband. We also got our first cell phones as a family a year la
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by mystified5016 1y ago
I work on the other side of this industry. I make the software and hardware for doing AR/XR stuff for industry. We haven't been able to get a contract in nearly two years. Almost all of our competition in this sector have gone bus
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by mystified5016 1y ago
I don't think this is because Steam, Proton, or Linux are particularly good on their own (they are, extremely so) but more that windows is just so awful . My observation is that windows is slow at everything. I think because of Defend
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by mystified5016 1y ago
Missing anti-cheat is a feature, not a bug. Linux not allowing games to install kernel malware is a good thing.
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by mystified5016 1y ago
Game servers are complicated and have a lot to manage. It's infeasible for the server to keep track of each player and do frustum and raycasting to every other player to check who can see who every frame. Culling out of view entiti
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by mystified5016 1y ago
Honestly the only permanent solution to this is probably a big string of LeftPad events. Maintainers of projects like this that have been subsumed into corporate infrastructure should pull the plug and nuke the git repo. Disastrous, apocaly
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by mystified5016 1y ago
I'm going to be using "JIT edge hydration" from now on, thanks
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by mystified5016 1y ago
I'd wager that the foster system is a huge factor. Poverty is likely the rest. When you don't give a human resources, they will find a way to take it. When you force humans with no resources to have kids, well...
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by mystified5016 1y ago
> like a for loop, but with no dependency allowed between iterations "Break" is a dependency between iterations, and really only makes sense in a sequential iteration. In a parallel for loop, you can break from the current iter

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