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by pibaker 8mo ago
So what? This website is just some man's collection of blogs, not a government registry funded by tax money. It does not seem to even take public donations. Why shouldn't its maintainer be allowed to exercise personal judgement in
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by pibaker 8mo ago
This only works because this guy's tiles can be rotated without looking weird and he's on modern hardware that can freely rotate sprites with little cost. If your tiles are shaded or have patterns that look different when rotated
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by pibaker 8mo ago
This thread got only 6 upvotes as I am typing this comment and there are two replies from green accounts, both registered within the past few hours and show zero other activity on this website, both talking in the same positive tenor with e
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by pibaker 8mo ago
I suspect the prevalence of "flimsy" wood and drywall constructions to be part of the reason why Americans dislike apartment living. They provide little sound insulation, are prone to water damage, have a shorter lifespan than the
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by pibaker 8mo ago
There would be less backlash to the Ring ad if the ad was honest about how people actually use it. Show us porch pirates, burglars and stupid neighbor who backs into your car being caught on camera. But instead, they have to come up with so
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by pibaker 8mo ago
If you buy ICs from a Chinese source, there is a good chance you will get something desoldered from e-waste. People don't like it unless they have no choice because there is less guarantee it actually works plus there is the ick factor
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by pibaker 8mo ago
I don't think you can draw any conclusion about the economic health of the entire population from a small number of cherry-picked cases so egregious that a YouTuber deemed entertaining enough to turn them into monetized videos. I can t
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by pibaker 9mo ago
For the more rural states you need to take a zero off each of these numbers. A town of 1,000 in North Dakota would have shops, a town of 10,000, which would be the tenth most populous in the state, would have a cinema, and Fargo, with 250k
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by pibaker 9mo ago
This design does not feel apple to me at all. Most noticeably, the central console has physical switches all over, something neither apple nor carmakers are keen of in recent years. I would also expect an apple product to have a fully digit
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by pibaker 9mo ago
I don't disagree in general. I wouldn't call 4chan a social media, for example. What I find hilariously objectionable is pretending that bluesky is somehow better than all the social medias out there. It's not. It was founded
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by pibaker 9mo ago
One thing I noticed among dash cam videos is very often the person recording and publishing the video will keep on driving closely behind another car that is clearly driving erratically. Maybe he will honk, but he won't brake or leave
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by pibaker 9mo ago
Sorry but you sound exactly like that comic. "Our blessed homeland, their barbarous waters" https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/our-blessed-homeland-their-ba... More seriously, I have seen similar exchanges many t
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by pibaker 9mo ago
It is a great irony that the heavy handed push for "protect da kids" is all happening while we learn, day by day, that the richest and most powerful members of our society have no problem hanging out with a convicted child sex tra
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by pibaker 9mo ago
Or perhaps you moved to a professional environment where people are on average much better at math than the average person. It is not uncommon to hear objectively bright and hard working young people wonder if they have become dumber or if
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by pibaker 9mo ago
Most, if not all, musicians in any professional symphony orchestra was at one point an unusually talented 7yo. It just takes many years worth of practice to get from being good by 7 years old standards to being good enough that people buy t
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by pibaker 9mo ago
People will start talking about water when a water shortage starts impacting their day to day life. For the average western world resident, water is not a problem, yet. But I bet you people in Tehran cares a fuckton about their water runnin
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by pibaker 9mo ago
To be fair I doubt there are that many people scanning for internet facing XPs in 2026. On the other hand, any server running old, unpatched versions of apache or similar will get picked up by script kiddies scanning for publicly known vuln
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by pibaker 9mo ago
>logs into his seven year old five digit karma hackernews account >tells people to stop talking online
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by pibaker 9mo ago
In other words, total death of anonymity on the internet. Don't you love having your government name tied to every single word you say online, forever, potentially publicly accessible if someone configured mongodb wrong?
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by pibaker 9mo ago
This is such a weird comment. Not all advertisement follows the influencer model. Banner ads have been funding small internet operations since before hacker news existed. Do we really don't have long term memories at all?
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by pibaker 9mo ago
The regime will then just look through the transaction history of the faraday cage merchant and execute the five dollar wrench attack on every person who bought one. Realistically, if your adversaries are capable of communicating with your
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by pibaker 9mo ago
If your threat model includes airplane mode not working as intended, you probably shouldn't carry a phone at all.
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by pibaker 9mo ago
Does turning off your phone or putting it in airplane mode provide sufficient protection against whatever attacks you are worrying about? If your answer is yes, then you don't need a faraday cage. If your answer is no, you are facing a
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by pibaker 9mo ago
This will be an unpopular answer but one way that could have worked is just good ol' advertising, because it directly converts "virality" into income. Any solution that requires the user to bust out a credit card and put down
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by pibaker 9mo ago
The chatbot was released under the Eric Adams administration. The same Eric Adams, as soon as his term finished, went to Dubai and launched a cryptocurrency. https://apnews.com/article/eric-adams-crypto-meme-coin-942ba.
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by pibaker 9mo ago
"The computer is not beefy enough" is not an acceptable excuse for blowing a red. If your model cannot comply with the most basic law of traffic, it should not be sold to consumers as "full self driving."
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by pibaker 9mo ago
Look more carefully into the rural areas of DRC and you will see little huts and hamlets everywhere, even in the jungles there are clearings clearly inhabited by human. There are also larger towns scattered around that appears to be yellow,
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by pibaker 9mo ago
Some people find themselves awake at 3am with twenty Wikipedia tabs open. Just sayin'.
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by pibaker 9mo ago
It is an open secret among the ownership class that the labor market got too good for the workers around 2021-2022 especially for tech. What you are seeing now is a possibly colluded squeeze on tech employment to keep the workers on their t
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by pibaker 9mo ago
I don't know why it being potentially vibe coded or vibe written exonerates the author. "Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work [1]." It is your duty to ensure your work works, no matter what tools you used. You

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