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by rob74 6mo ago
...and also differs in just three characters from another Mozilla product. "I'm using Mozilla Thunderbolt." "Huh, do you mean Thunder bird ?" "No, Thunder bolt !"
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by rob74 6mo ago
Yes - the current conservative president organized a referendum which would have allowed him to change it, but it got rejected: https://constitutionnet.org/news/voices/peoples-verdict-why-... > in the months l
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by rob74 6mo ago
Ok, that just leaves us with another quandary: deciding whether to terminate the pregnancy (hoping that the parents will get a "normal" child on the next try), or let the child be born and use this (no doubt very expensive) therap
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by rob74 6mo ago
These types of content takes a long time to produce Unless they're AI slop, of course. Between shorts and AI slop, worthwhile content on YouTube will soon become almost impossible to find...
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by rob74 6mo ago
If TikTok does it that way (I have no idea if it does actually), YouTube obviously has to copy that! If a fishy channel name stops you from clicking on a short, that hurts your engagement, and that's the last thing social media compa
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by rob74 6mo ago
You see, you think you don't want all those things, but the algorithm knows better. Trust the algorithm!
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by rob74 6mo ago
Yeah, but that stuff is in a hermetically closed, impact-resistant container, and the flares are probably not...
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by rob74 6mo ago
I'm from Germany, and I have never once seen a road flare used on an actual road. Not sure if they're even legal in the EU (sounds like a bad idea to carry explosive or highly combustible stuff around in your car?), here in German
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by rob74 6mo ago
Still not finished unfortunately :( Guess Steve is currently busy writing the next big thing in programming languages ( https://steveklabnik.com/writing/thirteen-years-of-rust-and-... ) ?
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by rob74 6mo ago
> Shockingly, Franklin.com, with its 85 words of unstyled HTML, still links to the latest iterations of these devices. If you look at the source code of this page, you'll be even more shocked: looks like it's simply a MS Word
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by rob74 6mo ago
We've only hiked a little bit down the canyon when we were last there (which was back in 2009, sadly), but I also strongly disagree with the author. It may not be the longest, deepest or widest canyon in the world, but if you actually
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by rob74 6mo ago
Maybe describing him as a "literal Nazi" is a bit exaggerated (although there was that thing with the Nazi salute last year), but you only have to remember what he did at DOGE ( https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02&
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by rob74 6mo ago
Correct for the others, but Ethiopia was only added to this list after GERD ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Ethiopian_Renaissance_Da... ) came online, which is a fairly recent development.
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by rob74 6mo ago
It seems to go against developers of Windows drivers (which includes VPNs) - apparently there was a “mandatory account verification for all partners in the Windows Hardware Program who have not completed account verification since April 202
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by rob74 6mo ago
Also: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/08/wireguard-vpn-developer-ca... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47702161 )
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by rob74 6mo ago
No, but once Optimus is delivered in 2027, it will surely be able to drive your Tesla for you?
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by rob74 6mo ago
If they exist, they're probably currently placing bets whether we will manage to destroy ourselves (or at least set our civilization back by centuries) with our nuclear weapons, our climate change or our social media...
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by rob74 6mo ago
What is this "cheating" you speak of? I wasn't expressing any judgement, just saying that using MIDI helps save bytes. But now that you mention it, the bitmapped graphics that we take for granted nowadays also help (it gives
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by rob74 6mo ago
Also, MIDI - I'm not very familiar with demo programming, but I guess using MIDI saves a lot of bytes compared to trying to do something similar with only the PC speaker?
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by rob74 6mo ago
Yeah, but it's a slippery slope, because no program runs in complete isolation. Even on the simplest 8 bit machines where there is no OS to speak of, you are still benefitting from the capabilities of the hardware - generating sound an
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by rob74 6mo ago
Hate to be that guy, but I just can't help it: this is an impressive demo , but for me a "boss fight" is something interactive, which this program obviously isn't. That's probably the reason why the title of the ar
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by rob74 6mo ago
I didn't mean the laptop stand, I meant the concrete desk one of the parent comments suggested...
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by rob74 6mo ago
Except that was done to save disk space (according to https://jeffpar.github.io/kbarchive/kb/063/Q63777/ , "When EDIT.COM is executed in MS-DOS versions 5.0 and later, it invokes QBASIC.EXE with th
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by rob74 6mo ago
Never mind placing it, bringing it to the place where it should be, er, placed might also be a challenge. Unless you can drive a forklift into your office...
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I think there are lots of sci-fi stories on this topic, one I can think of is "Pump Six" by Paolo Bacigalupi ( https://books.google.de/books?id=HoSXDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT125&sourc... ), which is from this century...
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That's ironic seeing that nazis (or the far right in general) usually need stupid people to vote for them so they get into a position where they can undermine a democratic system...
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I guess using AI is just the logical continuation of what mainstream pop already did before that: reduce music to the lowest common denominator so it can appeal to as many listeners as possible. AI only speeds up that process.
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by rob74 7mo ago
> For example, we have known about human caused climate change for decades and carbon emissions are just hitting their peak now And for the first few decades, human caused climate change was not even contested - then, when something st
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Microcontrollers don't really make sense for hobbyists (unless their hobby is programming microcontrollers, of course). They only make sense when you think about deploying an application at scale, at which point the per-unit price beco
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by rob74 7mo ago
Single Board Computer. Yes, it might help to explain such acronyms in the article. And yes, if you think the name is slightly misleading, I agree: most PC mainboards today are also "single board computers" - you don't have to

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