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by ndiddy 2mo ago
The BSODs were largely because Vista changed the driver API so everybody had to write new drivers. I remember seeing an article saying that Microsoft's telemetry showed that ~30% of all Vista BSODs were caused by the nVidia graphics dr
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by ndiddy 2mo ago
> I don’t necessarily agree with Jeff Johnson’s conclusion that major software upgrades are impossible on an annual schedule. Snow Leopard was a refinement of Leopard, and both releases had unusually long durations as the newest release
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by ndiddy 2mo ago
FreeBSD is not a GPL OS either.
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by ndiddy 2mo ago
> ChromeOS jumped down several points in the same time period. So maybe some update of ChromeOS got misconfigured? It's schools letting out for summer. Most Chrome OS users are schoolchildren using their school issued Chromebooks. W
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by ndiddy 2mo ago
> At what point did the German people find it morally acceptable to start killing Nazis? Functionally never, after the war the Allies handed "denazification" over to the West Germans to handle themselves in 1946. They then let
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by ndiddy 2mo ago
> Daylight savings time is bad for our bodies particularly in the winter. Here's a study that demonstrates this by comparing the sleep quality and health outcomes of people who live on the eastern edge vs. the western edge of a time
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by ndiddy 2mo ago
The stack is functionally very simple, but keeping a mental model of what exactly is on it at each point in your code and how to transform it to perform the calculations you need can be tricky.
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by ndiddy 2mo ago
From the court decision: "IA maintains that it delivers each Work “only to one already entitled to view [it]”―i.e., the one person who would be entitled to check out the physical copy of each Work. But this characterization confuses IA
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
For one example of this, around 10 years ago there was a company called Aereo that tried to act as a "cloud television provider". The idea was that they had thousands of tiny antennas hooked up to servers in a warehouse, and they
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
Yeah Forth doesn't seem very good as a teaching language. Maybe the "first lesson" part where you're just showing how you can build a toy program from simple words would go well, but any nontrivial project where you have
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
Bahrain hosts bases that the US uses to attack Iran, and Amazon is part of the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability program that provides the DoD with cloud services.
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
The article is about Iranian state media announcing the strikes, so here's the article from Iranian state media: https://www.tasnimnews.ir/en/news/2026/07/24/3655089/irgc-an... . Not sure
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
In 2005 the iPod with 30 GB of storage was $299 ($511 in today's dollars) so the entry level Walkman is actually fairly comparable to Apple's pricing from back then. You can use some of the $100 you're saving to buy a 256 GB
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
You can use iTunes on Windows to load music on the stock firmware. If you load Rockbox onto it, it works like a standard MP3 player where all the organization is done at the filesystem level. Note that I don't really see a point in buy
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
The first Walkman from the late 70s was just an existing Sony portable cassette recorder (the TCM-100B), but with the mono head replaced with a stereo head and the recording functionality removed. Once that first unit proved there was a mar
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
It looks like they recently discontinued that model, I don't see it new anywhere.
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
Right, part of his whole pitch was that he had a new cutting edge gene therapy that was more precise than CRISPR. I think the parents were definitely obsessed with "fixing their daughter", but it seems like Qiu didn't try at
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
He's pretty clearly a monster or at least monster adjacent. He and his team * Took hundreds of thousands of dollars under the table to develop the treatment * Neglected to take steps that would determine whether the treatment was safe
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
The percentage of quality content on the web has gone down but it still exists. I usually use Marginalia Search ( https://marginalia-search.com/ ) when I'm researching something and not finding any good results on Kagi o
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
You can get rid of most of those by enabling the "EasyList – Annoyances" filter in ublock.
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
The challenge that the Trump administration faces is that any regulatory action to prop up the domestic AI companies will put the rest of the tech sector at a disadvantage compared to its foreign competition because they'll have to pay
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
In the US tethered pins with cords aren't really a thing, instead most bowling alleys use mechanical pinsetter machines. These machines are large, complex, and expensive (see here for a video on how they work: https://www.yo
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
Another thing to keep in mind if you have an old netbook lying around is that a lot of the later models that came out after Windows 7 have PowerVR graphics (rebranded as "Intel GMA 3600") instead of the basic Intel chipset graphic
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
Thanks for the correction, I had a brain fart and wrote CVS instead of SVN.
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
Anyone who's worked with cell modems knows that AT commands are very much still a thing, see here for example: https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_ts/127000_127099/127007/17...
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
There's a reason why Microsoft didn't use SourceSafe internally, it was an awful version control system even compared to what else was available at the time (CVS and whatnot). For example, it didn't support the concept of &qu
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
It's been a while since I last used Windows 11, but as far as I'm aware using a Microsoft account will automatically sign you into Edge and Edge sync is enabled by default unless you go into the settings and disable it.
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
That could be how they initially associated the hacker with his GDID, but the criminal filing explicitly mentions that they were able to use Microsoft records to determine that his computer visited specific webpages: > According to Micro
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
Edge has a feature where it will periodically pull the bookmarks and browsing history from any other browsers you have installed, so they'll then get sent to Microsoft and associated with your Microsoft account. This was initially enab
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
Nobody's saying they'd actively round up and kill everyone, they would just have no reason to keep the "unnecessary" people alive. The elite class is generally in favor of doing things that worsen human suffering and cau

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