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by mystified5016 1y ago
I don't. If Windows suddenly dumps market share, game developers might actually be forced to find a way to solve this problem without installing actual malware into your kernel
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by mystified5016 1y ago
I've seen apps with a hambuger, gear, and ellipsis button all on the front page. Why? For what possible reason? I truly don't understand why we do this to ourselves.
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by mystified5016 1y ago
Insurance (at least some) do pay for oral HIV prophylaxis (in the US)
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by mystified5016 1y ago
It's very comparable to the difference between 10 and 7. Microsoft glued on an extra layer of fugly UI over the existing workable UI and just left it to rot. If you right click something to bring up the context menu, you get a gross li
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by mystified5016 1y ago
All games which are not explicitly marked with linux support will now by default launch with proton. You no longer need to manually set the compatability for each title, or go into settings to enable proton globally for all non-supported ti
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by mystified5016 1y ago
When you're accused of breaking the law, your accuser must prove you have broken the law. If they cannot, there are actions you can take to recoup your damages. Valve can ban you for any or no reason with no means of recourse or refu
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by mystified5016 1y ago
Yes, that's how it works when you only have a single IP. The standard way to deal with this is a reverse proxy for web requests. Other services require different workarounds. I have a port 22 SSH server for git activities, and another
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by mystified5016 1y ago
Yeah, you tell 'em! Anyone who doesn't conform to Corporate Culture and treat the dress code and code of conduct as their own personal Bible, upheld even on their time off, they're all terrible engineers and should go work on
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by mystified5016 1y ago
To be quite blunt, my assumption is that when/if AI can fully replace everyone like me, then society will have either collapsed or advanced to the point where unemployment is not a death sentence. At that point, the economy cannot be s
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by mystified5016 1y ago
Does anyone else remember maybe ten years ago when the meme was to mash the center prediction on your phone keyboard to see what comes out? Eventually once you predicted enough tokens, it would only output "you are a beautiful person&q
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by mystified5016 1y ago
The vast majority of people, especially groups of people- can be manipulated into doing pretty much anything, good or bad. Hopefully that is self-evident, but see also: every cult, religion, or authoritarian regime throughout all of histo
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by mystified5016 1y ago
See my other comment. You can do extremely trivial binary checks on ASCII, UTF-8 (and most? other) encoding schemes. All vowels including W and Y contain a 1 in the lowest bit. Then by comparing bits 1-4, you can do a trivial case-insensiti
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by mystified5016 1y ago
Things don't have to be complicated or pretty to be fast or good. For a UTF-8 or ASCII (English) string: for(char c in string) if(c & 1 == 0) continue; switch(c & 0x1F) case(a & 0x1F) retur
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by mystified5016 1y ago
Y and W are sometimes used as vowels. They are technically consonants, but in some cases produce a vowel sound . The rule in English is not "all true words contain a vowel" it's that all words contain a vowel sound . Exce
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by mystified5016 1y ago
That's giving these people far too much credit.
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by mystified5016 1y ago
This reads like pretty classic infighting between a dictator and one of his more powerful cronies. I am surprised at how fast it happened, though. Usually this comes towards the end of a dictatorship. Maybe our dear leader is just as incomp
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by mystified5016 1y ago
> Crash information, I believe, is public information anyway. > Why would autonomous vehicles be treated any differently then human operated vehicles? That's the entire argument. That's it. Crashes involving citizens or publ
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by mystified5016 1y ago
It did! I remember playing with 'Disc T@2' when I was a kid. I had a lightscribe then too, so I put pictures on both sides
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by mystified5016 1y ago
The point is that it's a ridiculous and impractical workaround that makes no sense
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by mystified5016 1y ago
Last year I switched to a local mom&pop pharmacy from CVS. It was a really strange experience when the owner greeted me by name after seeing me twice over a month apart. Almost startling and somewhat offputting. I just kind of forgot th
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by mystified5016 1y ago
I mean, someone from the 70s would definitely be surprised by the specific technologies we have (and don't have). I don't think they'd be surprised to learn that every person has a personal computer (of some type) or that t
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by mystified5016 1y ago
This is a story that all nerds should read. Heinlein was shockingly thorough and accurate with his depictions of the computer systems in play. I've always thought the build-up to the final battle was incredibly detailed and exactly h
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by mystified5016 1y ago
"The city" as an entity refers to local governance and city legislation
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by mystified5016 1y ago
Controversial opinion but we should be teaching new programmers how a CPU works and not hand-wave the physical machine away to the cloud. Not doing this is how you get Electron.
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by mystified5016 1y ago
If and only if someone has taken time to write specific optimizations for your specific CPU. In embedded land, if your microcontroller is unpopular, you don't get much in the way of optimization. The assembly GCC generates is frankly h
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by mystified5016 1y ago
Yeah, just like you can sideload on iPhone by desoldering the flash, decrypting it, and modifying the OS. Just because something is technically possible does not make it a solution
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by mystified5016 1y ago
If you have a less-popular CPU, compilers today can be utter trash . GCC doesn't understand the TinyAVR core and emits insane assembly. Like iterating an array, instead of putting the array pointer in the Z register and using the atom
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by mystified5016 1y ago
I can't believe that anyone still thinks a popup permission modal offers any type of security. Windows UAC has shown quite definitively that users will always click through any modal in their way without thought or comprehension. Bes
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by mystified5016 1y ago
I wouldn't say interop is a huge deal, the main time and cost sink is translating the recursive Gordian knots of tax law into a logically cohesive structure that can be evaluated programmatically. And then you (ideally) must prove it
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by mystified5016 1y ago
Yes and no. This is a common pattern, but implemented very lazily. Most of this can (and probably should) be refactored out to separate classes/functions. But no, I don't think this would faze most Java devs. It's ugly and ba

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