tacticalmook

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by tacticalmook 3y ago
Historically, subreddits were run by community volunteers because people were tired of being censored on official forums. Now subreddits are the official channel more often than not, and we're back to square one.
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by tacticalmook 3y ago
Could give us the run-around with circular receipts, or millions of back-and-forth receipts.
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by tacticalmook 3y ago
Lego is a mole hill compared to the mountain of plastic that is _intended_ to be thrown away - consumer and industrial.
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by tacticalmook 4y ago
Improbable claims that their SpatialOS service can scale beyond what Planetside 2 achieves.
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by tacticalmook 5y ago
The downside of folders is trying to figure out where things belong in the hierarchy, or trying to update that hierarchy to a new standard. The downside of tagging is you still need to establish conventions to ensure things can be found aga
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by tacticalmook 5y ago
brainfuck isn't an obfuscator, but a language with a very small and simple instruction set. Technically it falls somewhere between c and assembly, since it doesn't have a 1:1 relationship with machine code, but in practice it is l
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by tacticalmook 5y ago
> when GFI held an invite-only video call on the future of cultivated meat ... San Martin kept pressing. In his view, the science is essentially settled: Cultivated meat won’t be economically viable until companies can make cells grow be
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by tacticalmook 5y ago
While overly wordy and negative, most of the premises of dissent seem to be well founded. The article's own summary: > *For cultured meat to move the needle on climate, a sequence of as-yet-unforeseen breakthroughs will still be nec
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by tacticalmook 5y ago
It would behoove you to read more than just the summary
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by tacticalmook 5y ago
Ultima Ratio Regum, which makes this list, is a game that is easy to overlook because it looks like "just a Dwarf Fortress clone." But Fortress-like is merely the foundation upon which the game is built. I would say the main innov
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by tacticalmook 5y ago
Anti-cheat software bundled with games is prevalent, it is in the company's interest to overreach with its data collection and fingerprinting, and users give them sufficient permissions to do so.
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by tacticalmook 5y ago
I concur. Tell me something about your service on the landing page. Why would I create an account for a mysterious service I know nothing about?
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by tacticalmook 5y ago
The interesting thing here is the second edition of this book was released yesterday, and includes two new chapters.
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by tacticalmook 5y ago
It should indeed sound distant and muffled with the composition and temperature of Mar's atmosphere. Saw a neat pseudo-documentary on this not too long ago: https://youtu.be/OeYnV9zp7Dk?t=551
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by tacticalmook 5y ago
Build a straw man to "represent" a group, then refute its argument to deter the target group from ever joining the discussion.
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by tacticalmook 5y ago
Down in US. Also Imgur, which is closely related
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by tacticalmook 5y ago
The article explains this.
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by tacticalmook 5y ago
Gravity does not travel at the speed of light. Some speculate that instant (ie: faster than light) communication could be possible by manipulating gravity.
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by tacticalmook 5y ago
history > recently closed > open n tabs This does not appear to be available in your full history, though
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by tacticalmook 5y ago
> It works by asking the browser to show a confirmation dialog in a popup window. Then the JavaScript code can detect if a popup has just been opened and detect the presence of an application based on that. > ... > Tor Browser has
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by tacticalmook 5y ago
Sadly that's not going to fly, since the damage a bad actor can do with your account will generally hurt the service's bottom line. Consider a game, as an example. A stolen account can be used to play with cheats or to commit cred
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by tacticalmook 5y ago
That's not surprising to me. Discord offers free hosting for a feature-rich IRC and group voice service. Nobody else did that. A gaming clan no longer needs to maintain their own Teamspeak/Ventrilo server + their own website and f
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by tacticalmook 5y ago
The large reddish regions in this stitch do not seem to correlate with the concentrations of hematite that researchers detected. > The maps show the hematite occurrences at latitudes greater than 75 degrees but in fact, almost all the he