worewood

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by worewood 3y ago
"make sure all windows updates are installed" "Update your drivers" "Have you tried a clean install?"
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by worewood 3y ago
Everything is one of those things that are so obvious that it hurts it's not offered by default on operating systems (even Linux and Mac). Why go the effort to index the files in a filesystem when the filesystem IS an index in itself?
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by worewood 3y ago
No, and he made a video about it. Basically he worked on the optimizations together with his modifications. He should've done a separate branch on the codebase with only optimizations on the original code
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by worewood 3y ago
"No one ever gets fired for buying Microsoft."
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by worewood 3y ago
So I'd say that the page must hijack the history to not pollute it with navigations that from the user perspective, aren't navigations.
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by worewood 3y ago
I agree. I used to watch youtube with ads, no problem. But then there was the infamous update that made ads really annoying, usually it was 5s before a video and then it became two unskippable ads in the star plus an ad every 10 minutes or
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by worewood 3y ago
> At the time, the "pass a string through SHA1" thing was meant to increase confidence in the curve seeds; the idea was that SHA1 would destroy any possible structure in the seed, so NSA couldn't have selected a deliberate
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by worewood 3y ago
If it were me I wouldn't think it was getting out of hand. Kernel contributions are the kind of thing that goes on your resumé and can land you a dream job. I would look into courts too.
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by worewood 3y ago
As a Teams user on the crappy PCs the company gives, this is an argument I can get behind. It looks circular but there are implicit meanings hidden there: "Teams is bad (not only) because it’s slow. It’s slow because it’s Teams. (as in
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by worewood 3y ago
I will one-up this one: the govt obviously enforces the payment and will send your home a ticket if you don'tpay the parking; why not instead, just send the parking fee? Coalesce them into a yearly licensing fee? Rhetorical questions.
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by worewood 3y ago
Looks like my job. The best way to change stupid procedures is following them to the letter and watch the world burn.
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by worewood 3y ago
Only if it is statically linked with everything it needs. Otherwise good luck resolving dependencies.
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by worewood 3y ago
If corporations are people, HP deserves the death penalty
134.
by worewood 3y ago
If you're okay with the moral implications (I am because the original manufacturer/publishers don't make the games available anymore so it's literally impossible to give my money to them) There are cheap flashcarts avai
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by worewood 3y ago
Before intel acquired Altera they had some free (as in beer) software for it, helped me lots in grad as I could design, verify and simulate at home.
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by worewood 3y ago
Reminds me of that post about things programmers always get wrong about dates [1]. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4128208
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by worewood 3y ago
Unless they make the ads part of the video itself by re-encoding it on the fly with the ads inserted, there will be a way around this. Instead of blocking the ads, the ad blocker just needs to download the content anyway and run it off-scre
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by worewood 3y ago
The amount of preteens I've seen that can't even feed themselves these days without help from their mom, I'd say microwaving a pizza is an achievement.
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by worewood 3y ago
You don't want to DoS the communication, you want for them to keep using it so you can intercept valuable information.
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by worewood 3y ago
Like evryone else I have no idea but I do know implosions tend to be pretty impressive events and can easily be supersonic generating a shockwave, so pretty loud!
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by worewood 3y ago
Can we feed it with gyro data from a phone? It seems straightforward to run a background app recording gyro data while we record a video.
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by worewood 3y ago
Automatic labor vs. Manual labor
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by worewood 3y ago
I don't see issue with big companies having to struggle against small ones.
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by worewood 3y ago
Probably gift cards like Play Store ones. In fact as it is all Google I think it already could be a thing
145.
by worewood 3y ago
Here, you dropped this: /s
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by worewood 3y ago
Media companies need to accept that the huge margins of profit are not sustainable. Accept that users will not pay exorbitant amounts of money for content and price your IP fairly.
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by worewood 4y ago
Wonderful, looks like my workplace is following all the tips!
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by worewood 4y ago
This is a very nice solution.
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by worewood 4y ago
There is a "zero" variety now that has no sugar and IMO is tastier than the original, just like Coke zero
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by worewood 4y ago
Because doing that on a phone with a physical SIM does not have a plausible justification. But with a software-based solution, they can argue that due to the lack of updates your device is now vulnerable and your SIM can be cloned, spoofed

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