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by pimlottc 11mo ago
It’s not real, lava has not flowed into the ocean for many years.
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“NetQuake” was primarily used to distinguish the original network code from the predictive model of Quakeworld, which came out a little while later.
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https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-... https://www.wired.com/story/doge-data-access-hhs/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/ar
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by pimlottc 11mo ago
> > DOGE wasn't an audit. It was an excuse to exfiltrate mountains of your sensitive data into their secret models and into places like Palantir > Do you have any actual evidence of this? I will not comment on motives, but DOG
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“Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?”
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by pimlottc 11mo ago
PDF is a terrible experience on mobile
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by pimlottc 11mo ago
Being a successful architect was enough to make you a god in ancient Egypt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imhotep
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by pimlottc 11mo ago
Why the scare quotes for 'entrepreneur'? From what I can tell, the purchaser was a legitimate and very successful software publisher, one of the richest men in South Korea. Furthermore, he ran the site for 6 years before selling
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by pimlottc 11mo ago
There used to be a mirror of the Wayback Machine [0][1] hosted at the new Library of Alexandria in Egypt [2]. Sometimes you could pull pages from them that otherwise errored out on the main archive.org site. Sadly, it seems the mirror has
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by pimlottc 11mo ago
It looks like the original URL for Anthony's profile on li.st was https://li.st/Bourdain/ https://web.archive.org/web/20181204232645/https://li.st/Bou...
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by pimlottc 11mo ago
For those unfamiliar and confused, Stellantis is the mega corporation formed from the merge of Chrysler and Fiat that owns Jeep, Dodge, Peugeot, Opel, and many other brands.
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by pimlottc 11mo ago
If they specifically target and test for wine compatibility the I’d call it fair
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by pimlottc 11mo ago
People go so overboard on this stuff, the amount of ghosting on the DOS example is insane. I don’t want to spoils anyone’s fun but that’s not really what most screens looked like back then.
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by pimlottc 11mo ago
I understand editing for space but some of the edited titles lately have been really confusingly worded.
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by pimlottc 11mo ago
This assumes that most exploits are discovered by pro-active third-party security vendors, instead of being noticed in deployed projects. Is this actually true?
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by pimlottc 11mo ago
XBMP is the main reason I got my Xbox, it was fantastic. And later I even played a few games on it!
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by pimlottc 11mo ago
That’s why you’d get the big foamy cushion you could stick on the back so you could rest it on your shoulder
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by pimlottc 11mo ago
What do you mean?
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by pimlottc 11mo ago
For diverging repos, ⤴ might be a better symbol
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by pimlottc 11mo ago
> Both Bill Gates and Linus understand backwards compatibility as a sacrosanct principle. I will always bang the drum for Java for doing this well. Making changes to a heavily used language is _hard_. Sure, the speed of progress can be s
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I suspect it’s 80% straightforward and 20% bug compatibility
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by pimlottc 11mo ago
Another thing to look at would be how games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero show lyrics
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by pimlottc 11mo ago
What obscure methods are they using?
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by pimlottc 11mo ago
I’m not sure what you’re referencing, but the principal goes back way back to the Romans: Cui bono? [0] 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_bono%3F
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by pimlottc 11mo ago
Twiddler is an older design from the first wave of wearable computers, there are newer revisions that are still being sold afaik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twiddler https://www.mytwiddler.com/
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by pimlottc 11mo ago
Someone started it running, they are responsible for the results.
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by pimlottc 11mo ago
The context of the date being chosen should guide you to the appropriate picker. For example, for a dinner reservation, a calendar can be useful to explore availability on weekends. But if I have to enter my birthdate, then it’s quicker to
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by pimlottc 11mo ago
Sure, but there are multiple characters nearly every sound in Mandarin, I’m sure it’s no accident they ended up with mostly flattering ones.
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by pimlottc 11mo ago
> It would be like coming up with a sequence of Chinese characters that sounds like an English sentence when pronounced by a Mandarin speaker. Nothing really to do with translation. Actually this does happen for some foreign terms/l
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This is mentioned: > I call it Avería – which is a Spanish word related to the root of the word ‘average’. It actually means mechanical breakdown or damage. This seemed curiously fitting, and I was assured by a Spanish friend-of-a-friend

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