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by whoopdedo 3y ago
Which is a big problem I have with these sort of tests. A problem that exists in most I.Q.-like assessments. Rather than evaluating how well the student is able to use their brain it's instead filtering those who were coached to think
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
The repeated callouts to PageSpeed imply that their concerned about search placement, which is understandable for the profession. If your site is bumped off the first page because Google doesn't like that you're still using JPEG t
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
There was another incident recently with garbled data[1]. The issue then was Voyager was trying to use a processor that was supposed to have been turned off. It either turned the malfunctioning unit or thought that the disabled unit was tur
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
The NASA press release is written: "In addition, commands from mission controllers on Earth take 22.5 hours to reach Voyager 1, ... That means the engineering team has to wait 45 hours to get a response" The CNN writing looks unca
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
Depends on the TZ environment variable.
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
It has to do that because upstream software won't have Alpine-specific build pipelines. (Though I expect a lot more do nowadays.) Meanwhile everyone tests on Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu so if it isn't in the distribution repository
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
Only most of the languages you use every day[1]. Pascal inherited nested functions from ALGOL so everything in that family does it. Lisp dialects with lexical scope will have it. You can even get it in C if you use GCC[2]. (And if you don&#
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
The article also uses football fields as a measurement. But that leaves me wondering if they mean American Football or Canadian Football. (I expect the latter.)
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
AOL became popular alongside the growth of Windows so most people think of them together. But they supported DOS-only customers with a GeoWorks client. The irony of GEOS is that it was known for having low hardware requirements to run, but
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
How ancient are we talking here? Was there a time when the size of the universe was large enough to form stars but still much denser than it is today? That meant there was "more" matter available to those stars for crunch into lar
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
The other amusing tale that came out of Nintendo licensing is that of Ultra Games. It was a pseudonym of Konami so they could exceed the five titles per year cap that Nintendo enforced. As far as I know Nintendo never tried to challenge thi
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
The "video game crash" was a drop in capital, not revenue. Sales of Atari games continued to grow up until the introduction of the NES in 1984. But investors lost faith in the industry because sales didn't meet the wildly ove
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
At that point why do we even need Google? Any search will lead you to the same circle of mega-sites. If only sites that are already popular get exposure that's not a search engine, that's a directory. May as well go back to "
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
A scraper won't be using search. Only crawling links. If they required login to browse a repository that would stop bots but also cause a 1000x greater riot.
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
> either interesting new astrophysics or new particle physics Or measurement error which historically has been the most frequent explanation of these rule-breaking observations. Someone else will look at the data and notice an anomaly wh
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
Oh, the screensaver. I confused myself and thought you were talking about the 3D hovercraft game. Oops.
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
Where is that? I remember that being an extra on the CD-ROM but I don't see it mounted and can't remember the name of the file to search for it. If the CD is there somewhere, does that mean the Weezer music video should be there t
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
Not listed was a clever encoding for MS-DOS files, XXBUG[1]. DOS had a rudimentary debugger and memory editor. (It even stuck around all the way to Windows XP but didn't survive the transition to 64-bit.) Because it had the ability to
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
It's not so much that they were replaced but that the logistics of delivering an entire house's BOM to a single location didn't make sense. What made it work at the time was the railroads. The lumber would be dropped off at a
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
Which is a followup to https://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
Is there a sunset timeline for SMS? No service lasts forever and if Apple knows carriers will want to turn it off sometime they'd have to get on board with the RCS sooner rather than too late.
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
WASM is the new DLL. Will we have to deal with WASM-Hell eventually? But that's not catchy enough. Maybe we should call circular dependency and incompatible versions "WASM-WTF"
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
My city tapped into a federal grant a few years ago to put a charger in one of the parking lots. The problem is they never budgeted maintenance so it's never worked since the day it was built.
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
That's entirely the point as flash or SSD are alternatives to spinning platters of rust. It's storage sans disk. The company was originally SunDisk but switched to avoid being confused with Sun Microsystems.
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
The worst part of such an experience is that once you've reported a case of fraud on your credit report, if you at a later date want to open a new bank/credit/whatever account somewhere then you have to jump through ridiculou
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
Science fiction authors paint with a future-colored brush but every sci-fi work I've read or watched has been a reflection of the present. Consider steampunk where they change the palette to writing about a fictional past, but the them
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
In their defense, Outlook and Exchange were created to compete with Lotus Notes. As much as Office interacted poorly with open standards, it was that it interacted with them at all that made it more successful than the other commercial offi
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
No, but I recently learned that Abuse[1], a multi-platform (including Linux) run-and-gun game from 1996 had its game logic in Lisp. [1] https://github.com/antrad/Abuse_1996/tree/master/data/lisp
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
No, they only have a Oauth bearer token that lets them impersonate you to the IMAP server. But it's not your password so that's cool, right?
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
IMAX is already (approximately) squared. The sphere multiplies it 4 times pi. I suppose if you add in the 3D effects you can say it's IMAX times 4 pi r/3

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