MyPasswordSucks

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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
I appreciate your taking the time to reply! And yeah, I was aware that H700 is the new kid on the block as it pertains to Rocknix. It's just a bit frustrating, especially because (imo) the Anbernic H700 devices are the ones most deeply
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
Spent today goofing around on it, and on the RGCubeXX, it's pretty busted. Waking up from sleep has about a 1/3 chance of success, the other 2/3rds of the time the whole thing just hard-freezes and needs a full reboot, which
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
> How about ascii art of a male penis every time you opened your IDE? Once again: So what? > The point isn’t what you (MyPasswordSucks) would find objectionable, the point is what the median would find objectionable in a professional
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
> WhatsApp was the first ever primary convenience brought by the advent of the internet - it fulfilled a legitimate need all over the world by providing essentially free, limitless, boundless communication if you had few megabytes of int
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
It's an ASCII art of a nude woman. So what? It just seems like such a busybody thing to get one's feathers ruffled over.
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
The Son of Sam claimed his neighbor's dog was telling him to kill - better demand dog breeders do something vague and unspecified that (if actually implementable in the first place) would invariably make dogs less valuable for the 99%
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
> Exact Audio Copy, the author seems to have moved on to other interests, which is a shame because I was looking for something compatible with an autoloader. Nah, it's mostly just reached the stage where there's nothing left to
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
The database idea is neat, but I'm not really sure what the web emulator part adds besides bloat. Either an animated .GIF or an HTML5 object with buttons to click to demonstrate, e.g., standing horizontal jump trajectory vs running hor
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
Webrings were usually a centralized and automated entity. You'd add your site to the index (either through a webform or by emailing the maintainer), then link to http:// web-ring.tld /cgi-bin/ring?site=currentsite
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
In the old days - back before smartphones, back before widescreen monitors, back before broadband - the "Links" section was always a key part of any site. After spending time on a site, a visitor could find links to other pages -
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
The tech community, correctly or incorrectly, is broadly seen as "anti-tax cuts", so - regardless of the actual merits of this particular tax cut - I'm not sure how well-received this campaign will be. I'd brace for some
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
> I still don't understand the issue with frames. I paid for 1024x768. Because of your frames, the content I'm actually interested in is now restricted to some disgusting and dismaying fraction of that. The borders of my bitchi
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
We also use it because it's super-easy to mold, and is incredibly suited to mass production. The ease with which it can be shaped might even be the single most compelling reason to go plastic. Plastic takes the best aspects of wood (li
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
> Imagine if a policeman came to your house every time you played the piano to fine you for nonexistent copyright infringement. That cop would be unemployed in very short order. You could take all sorts of against them, and there are pro
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
> Kagan says Cortical Labs has seen strong interest from . . . groups exploring applications in . . . Bitcoin mining. Einstein might see strong interest from people exploring perpetual motion machines. It doesn't mean Einstein doesn
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
Because it's a lengthy stream of barely-parsable copy-paste diarrhea when a simple "Dasher might be a great option! I don't have time to summarize why I think it would be great, but here are some links to previous HN threads
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
> I mean with the amount of stolen card details routinely traded and used successfully (at least for a while) and with how little crime like that is investigated or punished in some jurisdictions, I dunno... There's a huge differenc
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
And I ported DOOM to it. Well, it's actually just a hardcoded slideshow of E1M1 while something vaguely approximating the main riff of At Doom's Gate plays inconsistently in the background, but you'll have to watch all 15 exc
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
"Any" is a pretty mighty word to throw around. As has been stated multiple times in this thread and basically any thread involving conversation on the topic, a PoW with a negligible cost (either of time/money/pain-in-the
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
How do you propose the server distinguish between a bot and a human visitor?
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
Because URL shortening is relatively trivial to implement, and instead of just doing so on their own end, they decided to rely on a third-party service. Considering link permanence was a "founding principle", that's just unbe
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
Just send me out there and aim the pulse at the one spot in the middle of my back I just can't quite reach.
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
> Earth is a moon of Sol, is it not? No. The sun is a star, so it doesn't get to have moons. It has planets. If Jupiter started generating heat from nuclear fusion reactions, we'd call Io a planet right before we boiled to deat
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
> Any competent shipper facing a train issue will just put the load on semis instead for 3-10x the price. Did you not see how the markets recently reacted to certain components merely doubling in cost due to tariffs? In what world do you
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
John really needs to get his shit together.
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
Passenger travel is easy mode. The economic consequences of disrupted freight dwarf anything you could imagine from disrupted passenger travel of equal duration. That's why the US has always strived to do a really, really good job with
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
Oh, yeah, duh. Sorry about that. The file picker route is generally fine*, though I still think the edge cases where I want a program to be able to modify another program's files in-place are numerous enough that I don't think it
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
Yes, but now I have to contort my file organization around the preferences of the machine, which is completely backwards to how the user:device relationship should be. My files belong where I feel they belong, optimized for the idiosyncra
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
> Why useless? "This program is asking for extended permissions. It's asking: File permissions: Read, write, and modify" Now, is this because it allows me to select a custom avatar from the files on my device and save it a
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
Don't tell us, tell the PA you hired to do your HN comments for today! :)

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