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by wheybags 4y ago
Part of me wonders if binary floating point was a mistake. If we had invested the same effort into hardware optimising some kind of BCD based floating point format, where would we be now? The amount of confusion caused for new programmers b
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by wheybags 4y ago
Only one comment: you need to mod your bios to have it play the Indy startup sound :D
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by wheybags 4y ago
It's pretty easy[1] if you're running as the same user, or higher privilege 1: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/memoryap...
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by wheybags 4y ago
I've had a "we own everything you make" clause in contracts before, it's just copy pasted boilerplate, and they were fine with removing it when I asked. Noncompetes I've been fine with, because they were always quit
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by wheybags 4y ago
To quote Raymond Chen: this exploit "rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway" If they didn't modify the config, they could presumably use one of a plethora of tactics to extract data directly from ke
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by wheybags 4y ago
"and out of the strong came forth sweetness"
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by wheybags 4y ago
I wish Microsoft had more Raymond Chens, and less... whoever it is that makes decisions like "let's preinstall candy crush", and "let's break the start menu AGAIN". There's a real elegant core to windows,
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by wheybags 4y ago
More like hidden drugs or weapons
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by wheybags 4y ago
Feedback on your website: you could make it more clear that you are not targeting food allergies. The info is there, but it's hard to find. Related: if you can ever figure out a way to eliminate food allergies, I, and many others, woul
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by wheybags 4y ago
Makes sense to me, I'm Irish
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by wheybags 4y ago
A commercial Nas (qnap, this time), vs just a simple Linux box with hard drives. Simple Linux box was the better option. We even wrote a blog post about it: https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-330 (scroll down,
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by wheybags 4y ago
And she's also a headcrab. A true polymath.
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by wheybags 4y ago
As a total amateur when it comes to electronics, let alone radio, what do you think would be the consequences if one were to hack their openwrt router to ignore dfs and just use the reserved channels without checking for radar? Not on a hug
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by wheybags 4y ago
Out of curiosity, do the UK content blocks apply to people roaming with a foreign sim? I'm also on three ie, just haven't been to the UK in ages.
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by wheybags 4y ago
I sometimes hit down vote semi-automatically, but then force myself to really look at what I just voted on, and normally I end up removing the vote. I try to only downvote trash comments, not just things I disagree with. When I see somethin
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by wheybags 4y ago
So, I've been thinking of registering a limited company for some projects of mine, so that I can have a "portable legal identity", and I was mainly considering either an Irish or Estonian company (I am Irish, but i don't
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by wheybags 4y ago
"Please urinate with precision and elegance" is pretty good though, if I ran a bar I'd be tempted to hang that over the urinals. Gets a laugh, and gets the point across.
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by wheybags 4y ago
There's a difference between selling knives to the general public, vs seeking out violent criminals and specifically marketing your knives to them.
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by wheybags 4y ago
This is such a miserable philosophy
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by wheybags 4y ago
I noticed this happening and just stopped replying :p
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by wheybags 4y ago
Firmware and drivers have a massive impact on the performance of GPUs. It's not just hardware.
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by wheybags 4y ago
Most users know about copy paste, but have no idea what "the clipboard" is.
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by wheybags 4y ago
No, it inserts a jump instruction at the start of the function, and just overrides whatever is there already. To allow you to call the "original" function, it does some analysis to figure out what it's stomping on, and create
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by wheybags 4y ago
No need for fancy sensors and ai - I used an electric scooter rental in Germany recently, and it made me do a reaction speed test on my phone before starting. Super easy.
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by wheybags 4y ago
Me too, but I don't have a local bank account. You can't sign up for a Navigo Liberté (pay as you go card) without a local IBAN (which is illegal, there is an EU law that anyone accepting bank transfers needs to treat accounts fro
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by wheybags 4y ago
Welcome to 2022, this is the new normal
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by wheybags 4y ago
> The English novelist’s tale Nope. Irish.
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by wheybags 4y ago
It's a team achievement, this way the shooter doesn't hog the limelight.
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by wheybags 4y ago
This kind of stupid thing is my problem with Unicode. We have all this baggage for stuff that nobody uses , and we need to deal with it forever. The worst for me is the way there is no possible way to encode a grapheme cluster as a constan
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by wheybags 4y ago
Don't you ever feel bad for not contributing to society? Living like that seems morally reprehensible to me.

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