pretendgeneer

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by pretendgeneer 5y ago
I want to like C more, it's simpleness is great until you need to do anything at compiletime then the macro's blow any C++ complexity out of the water. It's why I like zig so much, It really is the language that understands w
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by pretendgeneer 5y ago
Why does a book reader app need yearly updates? I bought my ereader years ago still opens epubs fine without updates. If the epub worked when I bought it why does it need to keep updating? Why does an ebook only work on the certified™ app?
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by pretendgeneer 6y ago
The problem is not just a few hundred EUR if that standard is your core business, it's the 10's-100's that are roughly adjacent that if they were free you would just have on hand and use/adopt if it makes sense, but to h
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by pretendgeneer 6y ago
You have to wonder how much influence the large VC backers of reddit and discord had/will have in the treatment of WSB. Surely they're not taking too kindly to them making such an mockery of capital markets.
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by pretendgeneer 6y ago
I think it might be good. As I believe steam count as Linux sales even through proton. Kinda solving the chicken egg problem for linux games.
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by pretendgeneer 6y ago
I recently switched to no meat lunch's. I've been using beans as a meat replacement for a lot of things. What I've found so surprising is how many variety's of beans there are. There's well over a dozen at just my l
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by pretendgeneer 6y ago
Great read. I really like the bit about learn "the IT", there's no book or anything to be good at computers you just gotta fuck around and find out a bunch. > Like, when a toddler uses a spoon for the first time, they don’
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by pretendgeneer 6y ago
I was surprised by Leonora, Western Australia being there with it's population of 556 [1], I tried to find a bigger town in the area but couldn't. I wonder if that is the smallest town on that map? [1] https://en.wikipe
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by pretendgeneer 6y ago
Another one from Melbourne, Aus https://howmanydayssincemontaguestreetbridgehasbeenhit.com/
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by pretendgeneer 7y ago
That readme is 17months old. and the reference to 16.04 is atleast 3 years old. So it may just not have been properly updated.
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by pretendgeneer 7y ago
I believe those dots above the start area have something pulled out when you take the back of the sticker that stops it from rolling around until it gets applied to the correct thing
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by pretendgeneer 7y ago
(Not a criticism of purism but of how little is required to say "Open Hardware" in general). I have to say how disappointing it is what counts as open hardware. A simple schematic and some xrays? Why not the Kicad(I'm pretty
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by pretendgeneer 7y ago
No Hospitals use fax because it's too hard to change, most information traveling through fax is sent via automated fax servers so it is the worst of both worlds, hack-able server and unencrypted transmission protocol.
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by pretendgeneer 7y ago
Hi do you have an RSS feed you will post updates on?
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by pretendgeneer 7y ago
That is nothing like what these devices in the car's are doing. The defeat devices are if you can only design a printer that can print 1ppm of arbitrary pages, but you manage to tweak the printer so you can print 10ppm of the test page
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by pretendgeneer 8y ago
Not to be too anti-microsoft. But this seems like they're bringing the EUFI into windows, therefor allowing them in the future to make it harder than it already is(or eventually impossible) to actually get into the EUFI to install a co
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by pretendgeneer 8y ago
I accept that "transparent code" isn't sufficient in itself to provide a secure system, but saying that it is not necessary is just false. As governments are pushing more and more to have back doors(or side gates here in Aus)