tenebrisalietum

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by tenebrisalietum 3y ago
Betting it'll be something like Cinavia, but for images and where the embedded data is a key instead of just a simple 1,2,3,4 code. With high color depths, such as greater than 8 bit, there's probably enough "dataspace"
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by tenebrisalietum 3y ago
I always thought that was one reason the UNIX terminal login process (with `getty` and `exec` to shell, getty restarting when the shell exits) was the way it was.
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by tenebrisalietum 3y ago
SNES can go up to a whopping 3.58Mhz (NTSC clock, not sure if exactly the same for PAL) but I believe due to some bus/architecture weirdness slows down to 1.79Mhz (which is what the NTSC NES runs at) when reading the controllers. Now t
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by tenebrisalietum 3y ago
Is IP useless because the other end might not support UDP or TCP? More practically/less absurdly: is SSL useless because side A doesn't support the same ciphers as side B. Perhaps a Willow negotiation protocol would be needed to r
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by tenebrisalietum 3y ago
U.S. copyright also has a constitutionally defined purpose: `[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their resp
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by tenebrisalietum 3y ago
This is actually not necessarily only a rich thing. There are numerous artists that will accept commissions and create something for you, unique to you, and it's not thousands of dollars. But your statement brings up (or at least make
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by tenebrisalietum 3y ago
My neighbor works at a Walmart in the US and observes the following: They won't usually have more than 2 or 3 cashiers signed in at once. The cashiers are either elderly people who can't scan super fast or young people who don&#
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by tenebrisalietum 3y ago
An acquaintance of my second cousin has experimented with SingleFile CLI ( https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/single-file-cli ) and she reports it works great (it is rather heavyweight because it does invoke headless Chro
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by tenebrisalietum 3y ago
> What is the theory for how elections are won and lost? A friend of mine says this: "Over a number of decades, A) foment tribal conflict and affiliation, B) do not enable any social safety nets, and C) do not interfere with freedom
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by tenebrisalietum 3y ago
You trust the gov to run the military, which is literally essential to the nation's survival, so why not?
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by tenebrisalietum 3y ago
A friend of mine had gastric bypass revision surgery in Mexico because it was cheaper.
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by tenebrisalietum 3y ago
> The internet has been broken in a fundamental way. It is no longer a repository of people communicating with people; increasingly, it is just a series of machines communicating with machines. I mean, it always has been on its lowest la
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by tenebrisalietum 3y ago
Are farm subsidies capitalism? https://www.cato.org/briefing-paper/cutting-federal-farm-sub...
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by tenebrisalietum 3y ago
Cheap labor needs cheap food and cheap housing.
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by tenebrisalietum 3y ago
or, it's like a document reader with a far lower amount and chance of security issues.
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by tenebrisalietum 3y ago
What is Microsoft suppsed to represent? I'm not sure their brand has ever been anything more concrete over its total existence other than BASIC/MS-DOS in the beginning, a few long running products (Windows, Office, Xbox, Azure) a
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by tenebrisalietum 3y ago
A conclusion that could be drawn from your statements is this: it's more okay for teenagers to use heroin instead of social media because it's safer. I think people and especially teenagers, even "chronically-online" dep
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by tenebrisalietum 3y ago
Heroin physically alters brain chemistry. It's worse.
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by tenebrisalietum 3y ago
Panic is uncontrolled activity done in response to a threat. If any productive action happens in a panic, it is by chance. Chance, therefore, moral panic is a poor way to actually solve a problem or improve ones life. Opportunistic entit
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by tenebrisalietum 3y ago
Overdramatic. Social media may be bad but it is not like heroin or ecstasy. Engaging in moral panics, on the other hand, seems to provide a high to some individuals just like heroin or ecstasy. Let's regulate them instead.
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by tenebrisalietum 3y ago
It's an achieveable ending--one not planned by the coders, but one nonetheless. You cannot play past that point. A couple of old arcade games have "kill screens", such as Pacman and Donkey Kong.
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by tenebrisalietum 3y ago
Individual rights vs. societal responsibilities. Jobs are touted as necessary as being part of modern society. Judges, legislators, and commmunity leaders expect you to have a job and consider whether or not you have one as judgement of yo
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by tenebrisalietum 3y ago
Would you like employers to be able to pull medical history (using "background check" type firms) and able to deny employment based on your medical condition? Some employers may prefer not to hire anyone who has ever been on anti
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by tenebrisalietum 3y ago
Well, it is amazing you can write something in a decent set of Javascript these days and have it execute mostly the same across Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android, irrespective of CPU architecture.
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by tenebrisalietum 3y ago
Coverting GOSUB X:RETURN to GOTO X was my first tail-call optimization. > I don't know that I ever looked into what happened if you called GOSUB from a GOSUB routine I want to say all BASICs had a stack (not sure about Apple Integer
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by tenebrisalietum 3y ago
the claim probably does not include server processors, if that may make a difference.
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by tenebrisalietum 3y ago
line numbers don't exist in assembly?
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by tenebrisalietum 3y ago
> nat’s provide a ton of usefulness ... to companies like IPXO that are trying to acquire, rent, and treat IPv4 addresses like speculative real estate.
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by tenebrisalietum 3y ago
Yes. https://historyofcomputercommunications.info/section/3.2/Car...
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by tenebrisalietum 3y ago
Reminds me of this: Go all the way back to 2009. The Palm Pre spoofed USB ids (I guess) so it would work with iTunes. Apple updated iTunes a time or two to block it. Palm gave up. https://www.networkworld.com/article&#x2F

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