smegcicle

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by smegcicle 6y ago
the idea is that telegram is controlled opposition, with russia making a big show of banning it (ip blocking hugh suafs of aws) just in time for countermeasures to be completed other background is that telegram was started by the same guy w
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by smegcicle 6y ago
> it uses examples in the README as an example of that: >> We also note that the source code prominently includes as sample uses as far as I can tell these videos are not referenced in the README, but instead in the youtube.py extr
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by smegcicle 6y ago
I remember reading something about a ban-evading technology that telegram used, that 'happened' to be ready just in time for russia to 'ban' it two years ago?
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by smegcicle 6y ago
platypodes, obviously
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by smegcicle 6y ago
"one of the only" implies more extreme scarcity than "one of the few", so unless there is some other grammatical consideration I'm missing, saying "one of the only mammals" seems to point more to there bei
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by smegcicle 6y ago
Bee waggle dance found to be analogous to a 2d projection from a 6D flag manifold, complete with explanation of how the dance changes between a figure 8 shape to a round shape at a certain indicated distance- not much of a problem solved th
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by smegcicle 6y ago
Looking up L a b* color could be a good start, if you're unfamiliar- color being naturally three dimensional (eg RxGxB), LAB is a projection of color where L attempts to account for every color of a perceived lightness, and A and B acc
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by smegcicle 6y ago
tl;dr starts with a little background before the "just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu" post and describes the progression for the next ~year, including a response to someone asking how to go about starting a
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by smegcicle 6y ago
The parent is pointing out is that what was once an oblique reference to human slavery is now being changed in explicit reference to human slavery
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by smegcicle 6y ago
where's the rom dump for betty's voice?
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by smegcicle 6y ago
right-wing authoritarianism is the threat; real left-wing authoritarianism has never been tried, but would surely approximate utopia
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by smegcicle 6y ago
is that still common in UK English? in contemporary US English 'call' seems almost exclusively used for 'telephone calls', i imagine a good proportion of the population being unfamiliar with the idea of 'call'
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by smegcicle 6y ago
>Medicare for All being a success in one state would change little at least it would prove to work here- it's not like the US is in the exact same position as the EU eg, I'm not sure how they're connected, but it's ob
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by smegcicle 6y ago
opposite extreme: "'progress'- whatever the cost"... for some reason referred to as 'woke'? (still need to work on understanding that angle) "replacing what works with what sounds good" --T.Sowell off
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by smegcicle 6y ago
Notice how the E in the Horizon font specimen also shows straight corners- perhaps they forgot to use their handcrafted version? Strange thing to not point out in the text...
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by smegcicle 6y ago
Wholesome, a simpler time- even from the intro where the term 'called' is used as 'popped in', is that a maritime term or are they just being old fashioned?
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by smegcicle 6y ago
theory: silkroad dpr, as sloppy as his opsec was, was parallel construction
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by smegcicle 6y ago
and freecell with one you couldn't play with the numpad
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by smegcicle 6y ago
but that means the audio stream is at least passing through the video card, no? is it only passing through post mix?
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by smegcicle 6y ago
we have hdmi audio, is that a start? I assume that means the videocard is registering as a sound card as well, no idea if any processing is on the gpu...
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by smegcicle 6y ago
capitalism is a system for allocation of resources in a large economy. is there an alternative?
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by smegcicle 6y ago
Japanese TECOREP brand demolition system generates power as it lowers material down from skyscrapers https://sipilpedia.com/tecorep-system-high-tech-demolition-s...
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by smegcicle 6y ago
"suckling upon the genitals of midgets" ? or maybe the genitals of giants, reflecting how sometimes there's a groundbreaking idea, but the following up on that idea looks an awful lot like jerking around in its shadow
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by smegcicle 6y ago
Or disc for optical, disk for magnetic