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by wang_li 4mo ago
I, too, miss the time when I was a kid and people would give me free cookies. Now as an adult I have to buy my own cookies.
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by wang_li 4mo ago
If you control the full stack then the functionality described here can be implemented with POST. The only way this comes into play is if some second party client of your service is trying to impose rules on how your backend works. My answe
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by wang_li 4mo ago
Self help is just education from a book rather than from an in person instructor.
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by wang_li 4mo ago
The way to criticize that comment is to point out that all the major and most important codecs that are most commonly used with ffmpeg, do not come from the ffmpeg project. H.264, H.265, libmp3lame, speex, libfdkaac, etc. all come from othe
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by wang_li 4mo ago
I am of an age with Carmack and wanted to be a game developer when i was young. I very much elevated him very high. In terms of computer graphics he is very informed and talented. But I have watched him do interviews that largely focused on
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by wang_li 4mo ago
You are silly. In the US, if you choose to do so, you can get the same ingredient or higher quality ingredient or food stuff that you can get anywhere else in the world, barring a few banned items like the various European maggot cheeses.
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by wang_li 4mo ago
Cancel your phone service and then no one can call you or interrupt you. Set it to Do Not Disturb. You got multiple choices.
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by wang_li 4mo ago
You can trivially accomplish this under the current system. There is no need for a change that imposes your preferences on everyone.
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by wang_li 4mo ago
As a person who drives on a daily basis, I want to know why we don't have AI controlled stop lights and overall traffic control.
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by wang_li 4mo ago
I'm 55 and likely have been using computers longer than that poster has been alive. Regardless of the fact that I started young, by the time I was in college the PC revolution was in full swing and everyone had and worked with computer
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by wang_li 4mo ago
Until 2025 Carmel-by-the-Sea in California had no street addresses. The houses have names or you just have to know who lives in which building. They also didn't have postal delivery, they all had to go to the town post office and pick
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by wang_li 4mo ago
If what a person does during the day is mainly interacting with text then they need a tool for working well with text. Possibly this is an editor window inside an IDE. Possibly this is a shell in a terminal emulator. However, dismissing GUI
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by wang_li 4mo ago
A license is not a contract. It's a grant of permissions from an owner to a recipient that details what they can and cannot do. A license can be part of a transaction, but it does not constitute a contract. Especially in the case of fr
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by wang_li 4mo ago
If you induce someone to expend resources you can have liability even if those resources are not a payment to you. You can’t license your way out liability if you advertised, formally or informally, certain features and functionality that c
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by wang_li 4mo ago
Unless you are in a vacuum, a laser that can reach a useful distance can be observed due to atmospheric scattering.
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by wang_li 4mo ago
They aren't a hard problem to solve. In the server market it's completely solved with a BMC. The problem being solved here is someone wants to make a product using some commodity product like a raspberry pi, perform video capture
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by wang_li 4mo ago
No. You are trying to change the rules to a different game and then use those rules to invalidate a completely unrelated point. Having bad information doesn't make the fact that partial information is better than no information. It jus
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by wang_li 4mo ago
Having partial knowledge is good, even in your YOU'RE RACCIIISSTTTT!!!! example. Let's explain. Consider you have to perform a task that in some way can interact with something in the environment. You have two choices of where to
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by wang_li 4mo ago
It’s deterministic. But as the user you don’t know enough to know what was determined.
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by wang_li 4mo ago
‘dc’ has been a thing on Unix forever. It uses RPN, provides arbitrary precision arithmetic, and is programmable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dc_%28computer_program%29
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by wang_li 4mo ago
It's not the package manager, it's the repo and the cryptographic signatures that are trusted by the package manager and the users who choose to point their pacakge managers at those repos. The fundamental problem here is that peo
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by wang_li 4mo ago
This is “the gun killed the victim, not the person who aimed it and pulled the trigger” argument and we shouldn’t even entertain it for one second. This was 100% done by a person.
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by wang_li 4mo ago
>The facts and the law here are quite simple. Man consigns LEGO collection to the store. He has a contract. The new store owner still has that liability. That would only be true if a new owner purchased the business. In bankruptcy consig
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by wang_li 4mo ago
He kind of is. The right thing to do here is go straight to court. All this drama, grandstanding, conspiracist thinking, and stunts are bullshit. Sue. Get the judgment. Collect.
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by wang_li 4mo ago
You're not my tech support person so I'm not going to get into it deeply, but I don't mean the phone option of "Calls on Other Devices" (which is off on my phone) or the Messages option of "Text Message Forward
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by wang_li 4mo ago
Speed limits, safety features, fuel efficiency for cars. Every government regulation is to moderate some human behavior and when that behavior is related to technology it is "taming" that technology. We also restrict making change
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by wang_li 4mo ago
You can't remove the Phone app from an iPad in iPadOS 26. Even when the iPad in question has no cellular functionality. The best you can do is remove the icon, but you get a dialog telling you it won't be removed. Which is stupid
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by wang_li 5mo ago
The US has three classes of immigrant visa. See the bottom of the state department visa resources page. https://www.state.gov/visas/
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by wang_li 5mo ago
They are called metasyntactic variables and there’s a handful of them for English, but also standard ones in other language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable
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by wang_li 5mo ago
Bill C-20 passed in 2000. It's not so much effort to type "canadian clarity act" into a search engine or wikipedia.

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