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by wzdd 3y ago
It is great, but, having read it before I saw 2049, I found references to it in the film pretentious. The article says that '"Pale Fire", like BR2049, is a story about a man who comes to the false conclusion that he is the pr
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by wzdd 4y ago
The absolutely-not-hype-susceptible man who has been claiming for the past 20 years to have produced a fundamental theory of everything based on his research into finite-state automata?
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by wzdd 4y ago
The x86-to-vliw transformation was implemented in software. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta under "code morphing software". Similar to Rosetta.
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by wzdd 4y ago
You don't need an app to enter the store. You need an app to shop at the store. Presumably many classes of person enter the store for various non-shopping reasons without needing the app. It's not beyond the bounds of reason to im
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by wzdd 4y ago
This seems pretty sensical to me except that it achieves its small size by sacrificing error checking and handling, even in the (aiui) non-exceptional case of realloc() returning NULL. This is of course classic C program behaviour so perhap
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by wzdd 4y ago
The photo labelled "original" here is the Photoshopped version. The photo labelled "fixed" is the one suggested by the AI to be the pre-Photoshopped image. The explanation is in this paragraph: > In some cases, the FA
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by wzdd 4y ago
Windows Defender reports plenty of false positives, most recently for me with Pyinstaller ( https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pyinstaller+windows+defender&ia=we... ). They're all just bad.
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by wzdd 4y ago
It seems less crazy when you look at the code. It seems like someone has gone through each function in a disassembly of the original and written the directly-corresponding C. Pick any module, for example, ending.c's Module18_GanonEmerg
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by wzdd 4y ago
I don't see why this is any more likely to be true than "by giving ok but not perfect matches we lose two customers, but then they both come back after 6 months", or "by giving absolutely dreadful matches we convince two
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by wzdd 4y ago
I agree that Vim's a mess, but I don't think a good GUI is unconditionally better because you'd need to cut down Vim's gigantic command set in order to make the GUI comprehensible. Just in this thread we've seen opt
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by wzdd 4y ago
It's interesting to contrast this explanation and the parent's one with the explanation from https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/221:_Random_Numbe... , which is essentially that the function may w
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by wzdd 4y ago
A lot of cautious and/or negative predictions in this thread. 1. The UK rejoins the EU either literally or effectively (i.e. bound by basically the same agreements). 2. Russia withdraws from Ukraine and enters into good-faith talks abo
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by wzdd 4y ago
Naively it seems like you could optimise this at least for the second and subsequent switches: you could detect if the cable corresponding to the input you've previously switched to has been reconnected since last switch. If it hasn&#x
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by wzdd 4y ago
It's just really weird to me that people are all shocked-Pikachu about Carmack wanting to be the auteur in this scenario and to wield Meta's effectively-infinite resources in the exact ways that he wanted. It's apparent from
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by wzdd 4y ago
Side note, but someone linked a great talk by OS researcher Timothy Roscoe the other day about a) the increasing heterogeneity of our computing devices, b) Linux's inability to really support same, and consequently c) Linux being used
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by wzdd 4y ago
Though in this case I think it should be called "the gopherisation of Rust programs" as it is going to extraordinary lengths to impose a Go norm (single binary) onto Rust.
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by wzdd 4y ago
The article mentions that Microsoft is also promoting third-party "common websites", such as Etsy and Twitter. This seems a bit problematic -- if they're paid-for placements then they are unambiguously ads, but if they'r
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by wzdd 4y ago
"Remote follow" is very unintuitive, particularly for Twitter users. 1. View a user's profile page on another instance. 2. Click "Follow". 3. A "remote follow" window opens with the message "Enter you
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by wzdd 4y ago
I think it's a good idea to act in the same way that you would like other people to act. I think making an income through advertising is both immoral and inefficient, and I would like to see ad-supported sites shut down. So I think tha
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by wzdd 4y ago
a) For what it's worth, I did not immediately think of that meaning of the term, despite being familiar with it. I suspect that despite your claims most people would not. Using quotes just means that the author is not claiming that pro
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by wzdd 4y ago
I didn't mean to imply that the 787 ran critical infrastructure on Windows 95, just to give an example of a system which was affected by a timer overflow of about that duration.
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by wzdd 4y ago
49.7 days is equal to 2**32 milliseconds, after which Windows 95 crashes ( https://web.archive.org/web/20010331174127/http://support.mi... ). That's close-ish to 51 days. Maybe they start the counter
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by wzdd 4y ago
This talking point seems to come up often, but since it's basically saying that people are hypocrites I think it is a bad faith thing to say without reasonable proof that it's not a fringe opinion (or completely invented). For wha
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by wzdd 4y ago
What would be the most power-efficient way to get data or code into something like this without having to take the back off or add a port? Maybe a light sensor, like the old Timex watches? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by wzdd 4y ago
> works directly against their own goals (user growth, “engagement”. subscriptions). ... success stories, marriages per day due to the app (as per Match.com's advertising material in the article), word of mouth advertisement for the
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by wzdd 4y ago
It seems like there could be a sort of quirks mode for old JS libraries, in which browsers recognise either key functions or specific hashes and could then apply library-specific mitigations. It wouldn't solve every instance of this pr
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by wzdd 4y ago
The story leads with the fact that the author met her boyfriend on Bumble, despite attending the same university and living in the same city for five years. So that's a surprising takeaway.
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by wzdd 4y ago
Author affiliations are as follows: > Key Laboratory of Meat Processing and Quality Control, MOE, Key Laboratory of Meat Processing, MARA, Jiangsu Innovative Center of Meat Production, Processing and Quality Control, College of Food Scie
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by wzdd 4y ago
I can easily imagine the conversation after everyone has started using Hotels to book meeting rooms as well, so I think this is an argument for the other side. :)
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by wzdd 4y ago
This seems to be referring to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/defe... which would mean that they require the browser itself to be digitally signed, not the JS.

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