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by zeta0134 7y ago
> You've set up a straw man. Hrm... I suppose I have. The parent appears to be using a quote (from Karl Popper) that I've not heard before, so clearly I misread the intended nuance. Now that I'm reading through the philoso
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by zeta0134 7y ago
This is an interesting, if contradictory stance to take. I should probably downvote it, but I see an opportunity for a philosophical discussion, so here we go anyway. I am a gay man. I grew up Christian, but ended up rejecting the Christian
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by zeta0134 7y ago
I'm still trying to work out what Sony's filter doesn't like about my username (zeta0134) which I've had for ages. The first bit is just the letter "z" in Spanish; there's no deeper meaning. To my knowledg
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by zeta0134 7y ago
I got into some super serious trouble as a kid in elementary school for turning on the computer while a substitute teacher was there, and messing around with the built in encyclopedia. Even before we had reliable internet, it was amazing to
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by zeta0134 7y ago
I started researching the NTSC standard to figure out how to make sense of this hack, and somehow I ended up here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrature_amplitude_modulatio... and ... amazingly I know some of these w
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by zeta0134 7y ago
I'll bet you a nickel something screwy is going on with the JMP Indirect logic. If it helps, Super Mario Bros. for the NES has been disassembled with wonderful comments and labels: https://gist.github.com/1wErt3r&#x2F
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by zeta0134 7y ago
I finally saw a gas station with a chip and pin reader at the Bucees in South Texas, and my spirits were uplifted considerably. Gas stations seem to be both the ideal place to install a skimmer and the companies most dragging their feet upg
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by zeta0134 7y ago
It really does depend on the locale. In larger cities in South Texas for example, your opinion mostly holds: McDonalds employees are the lowest rung, they know it, and they don't seem to particularly care. In small towns though? The lo
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by zeta0134 7y ago
This is covered in the Twitter thread. Individual consumers might not go through the hassle, but a recycling center totally will: they tend to have market connections to refurbish used equipment, and prefer that option because they know it&
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by zeta0134 7y ago
Heh, I've seen enough people do this that I assumed the angle bracket actually did something, formatting wise. Now my original post sounds a bit silly. It's very effective. :)
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by zeta0134 7y ago
Wait, you're supposed to commit those? Genuinely curious. I always set up an ignore rule for them and use package.json's dependency list instead. My projects are all on the small side though; is the idea to commit the .lock file a
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by zeta0134 7y ago
I'm not a doctor, so take this with a grain of salt, but generally something classified as an STI has difficulty surviving outside the human body. It's not impossible, and anything that allows that pathogen to get into the blood
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by zeta0134 7y ago
What else am I supposed to do when 30% of the content is ads? The second screen is for me to look at while the ads are muted and I'm waiting for them to go away. Once I caught myself doing this enough times, of course I just canceled t
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by zeta0134 7y ago
Block quote for mobile users. Please use block quotes (>) for quotes, rather than indenting which causes horizonal scrolling on mobile > Standard remote identification UAS would be required to broadcast identification and location inf
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by zeta0134 7y ago
I'm not sure about the general population, but this seems to be quite common in the homosexual population, especially among males. The big risk there continues to be HIV, but if you're going to get screened regularly anyway, might
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by zeta0134 7y ago
Ehh, I'm not convinced the vocabulary there fits. An error can be an exception, if it was unexpected. That's the real distinction: errors are expected and can (optionally) be handled explicitly. Anything unexpected, in your code
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by zeta0134 7y ago
Ha! This got a good chuckle out of me. Check again; this happens more often than you would think in the web hosting business, especially the small to medium business segment. "It's just a website how hard could it be?" If I h
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by zeta0134 7y ago
The switch is fantastic about this. If a game needs an OS update its generally included on the cartridge, and then it will just work. It politely reminds you about updates when launching software, but you always have the ability to just pla
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by zeta0134 7y ago
Armed with this information, you should try to understand voltage, resistance, relays, and transistors, in roughly that order. That may help to bridge the gap from the water gates here, to transistors which are solid state; you can't s
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by zeta0134 7y ago
Adding on to this, in the context of a typical emulator, it's important that the other hardware be emulated mostly in lockstep with the CPU. Each time the 6502 reads or writes memory, the hardware registers it is talking to should be &
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by zeta0134 7y ago
Given how complex a successful emulator project tends to be, I expect the answer will be highly personal. In my case, it's a combination of nostalgia for the games I grew up playing, curiosity and respect for the developers who were wo
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by zeta0134 7y ago
I would have bought this argument a decade ago, but at this stage the number of site users not doing some form of automatic updates on their browser should be in the minority. The problems user agents were designed to solve back in the Nets
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by zeta0134 7y ago
... it's a chair. Wow that took a minute. Some of these are devilishly tricky; clearly they're designed to hit all the difficult edge cases within the domain. What a fun dataset!
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by zeta0134 7y ago
Same. I'm a little annoyed with some parts of the UI (it seems somehow too encouraging) but the basic utility of the app is hard to beat. The streak system is just enough of a motivator to encourage users to keep at it every day, and
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by zeta0134 7y ago
I think this is the most sensible approach, but I'm not aware of any desktop operating systems trying it. It seems like you'd need permissions for the user to access their own files, the program to access its own files, and then a
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by zeta0134 7y ago
Decent t-shirts can be had at most department stores for around $10 where I live. Minimum wage here is around $7ish. It's not quite an hour after taxes, but it's comfortably two hours of labor per shirt. Sometimes a lot more if yo
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by zeta0134 7y ago
I hear this speculated a lot; is there any proof of this being done in the wild? Not trying to discredit, I think it's perfectly plausible, I'm just curious if any companies have been caught doing it
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by zeta0134 7y ago
Condolences on the failed landing. That it got as far as it did continues to be a fantastic achievement. Space is hard. Good to hear that enough data was recovered to establish the cause of failure; that means it wasn't a total loss.
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by zeta0134 7y ago
Your anecdotes may be relatively worthless to a company as large as Google, but they may yet be quite valuable to an individual reading your words. Don't be afraid to share your thoughts; sometimes these smaller, more human interaction
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by zeta0134 7y ago
It's counter-intuitive, no? Actually though, the trick isn't to add more noise. Or... specifically, I suppose we need to first establish that the noise isn't the problem; noise is easy to tune out. Your brain is doing it righ

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