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by samplatt 6mo ago
A UK trance artist called Deathboy left directory-traversal open on his website about 23 year ago. Since then I've had a lot of mp3's that he's never released or put on albums, which is sad because a lot of them are pretty gr
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by samplatt 6mo ago
All of mine. Music, photos, copies of important documents, archived sets of email (and gmail) across different eras. My facebook archive export, IRC & IM logs stretching back to ~2000. A lot of it even on SSD, let alone HDD's, let
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by samplatt 6mo ago
I didn't think I'd be the first person in this (or the reddit) thread to call this new site ZombieCom, but not gonna lie I'm pretty happy about it.
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by samplatt 6mo ago
You're essentially holding a large tablet upright, but all the weight is taken up up the base. Rather than finger-painting, try holding it on both sides like a tablet or gamepad and operating with thumbs. Scrolling/controlling che
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by samplatt 7mo ago
Dilbert was popular for a long time for a reason.
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by samplatt 7mo ago
The times haven't changed. It's still spyware, it's just been normalised.
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by samplatt 7mo ago
>If there were ever any backdoor in some phone, it would have been found. Not only have MANY been found, but the whole security industry is aware of them and works with/against those backdoors. This is kind of like a mechanic not kn
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by samplatt 7mo ago
Certainly not the prior century-and-a-half's worth of books and films.
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by samplatt 7mo ago
>Billions of dollars of stock market value disappeared because of the concern That's really the key, right there. The value disappeared because of concern, not of anything real. When ungodly amounts of money is governed entirely by
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by samplatt 8mo ago
Seven for my ~140kg arse. Not sure how healthily this scales.
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by samplatt 8mo ago
Western Australian here confirming all resource extraction does this. Woodside and Adani are the most egregious that come to mind but they all do it.
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by samplatt 8mo ago
In case anyone else has ever wondered: IDDQD stands for Id Delta Quit Delta, a fraternity created by DOOM programmer Dave Taylor who released that if you drop out or quit a course you get a statistically-better final grade than you would by
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by samplatt 8mo ago
It's only offensive if you're being carried around.
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by samplatt 8mo ago
Programming semantics is a large part of the equation, but it's a secondary part. Unity is just too damn EASY for spinning up a prototype and gluing other modules onto it. C# is a part of that but simple implementation is so much easie
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by samplatt 8mo ago
VS is actually one of the cheaper tools in our stack; Unity (the game engine) is probably the most expensive one at the moment, and it's going to get much more so with their recent changes to licensing structure for embedded hardware.
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by samplatt 8mo ago
>business clients, who would are more inclined to spare the expense of purchasing said licenses, since they're not personally buying it themselves, and would want to have support and liability (i.e: Someone to hold liable for probl
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by samplatt 8mo ago
I learned that lesson as a solo dev on a project that lasted a year, then learned it again as a team of 4 on a 2-year project. I've not had to learn the lesson again but I've certainly trod the same path... 20 people (including so
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by samplatt 9mo ago
Not just jokes and scenarios - it's full of many actors that for years (and decades) played very serious "leading man" type roles. Seeing all these all-american heroes just being utter idiots helped make it so impactful.
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by samplatt 9mo ago
Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Intelligence, a term coined in 1985, apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOFAI
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by samplatt 9mo ago
Cory Doctorow waxed lyrical for many years about the ability to 3d-print clothes and other Maslow-hierarchy needs. Even the most experimental of designs haven't approached that yet... and I think we'd now be scared of increased PF
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by samplatt 10mo ago
Oh, for sure. That and ADAT are great examples of tech that worked and worked well - and maybe even instrumental in HDMI's later adoption of optical tech in their cables.
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by samplatt 10mo ago
I replied to someone who claimed HDMI's only purpose was DRM, which is wrong. I haven't pivoted since the start of the thread. There simply was not a digital solution that could negotiate then stream video and AND 2+ channels of a
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by samplatt 10mo ago
Correct! Now put that USB cable _inside_ a DVI cable, magically solve all the buffering problems that plagued the industry for several decades, slap on some DRM over the top, and you'll have HDMI 1.0 :-D
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by samplatt 10mo ago
I... think you might be proving my point for me? The ability to have a single cable that can do video AND a bunch of audio channels at once is amazing for the average joe. Don't get me wrong, I use optical in my setup at home & I&#
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by samplatt 10mo ago
DVI-D doesn't carry audio; HDMI can do a bunch of uncompressed channels simultaneously.
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by samplatt 10mo ago
That's definitely a thing that happened, but it's minimising so much other important work that it's misrepresenting the whole thing. Do you know how much bandwidth six channels of uncompressed audio needs? Home theaters would
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by samplatt 10mo ago
Independently-owned farms aren't slave factories. Sometimes you'll be doing consecutive months of 13hrs/day labour, sometimes you'll have 75% of the day free, every day, for a few weeks. Guess what those with a low budge
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by samplatt 11mo ago
My anecdata for that is that they're all universally a bit rubbish. They're good for maintaining situational awareness but bad at musical quality or for communication in high ambient noise (like a loud room or restaurant).
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by samplatt 11mo ago
Summoner aka the game the "Attacking The Darkness!" video came from! :D
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by samplatt 11mo ago
Sad fact is that nobody outside tiny niche-cases in engineering really gives a shit about XR. The current round of meta-branded glasses don't have features worth the price. When it's light & small enough to be a pair of glasse

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