axiolite

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by axiolite 6mo ago
The details are quite real, and they make the image far more comprehensible. Get a picture of grass, save it as a JPEG at 15% quality... It still looks like grass. Then run it through jpeg2png... The output looks like a green smear. You
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by axiolite 6mo ago
You're talking utter nonsense. Get a picture of grass, save it as a JPEG at 15% quality... It still looks like grass. Then run it through jpeg2png... The output looks like a green smear. You might not even be able to tell that it&#x
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by axiolite 6mo ago
It just blurs out the details. I'd rather have a sharp image with artifacts.
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by axiolite 6mo ago
What does bigfoot have to do with conspiracy? Doesn't bigfoot qualify as folklore/urban legend/pseudoscience/hoax/mythology? Is there widespread belief the government is actively covering up its existence for some
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by axiolite 6mo ago
That happens, and worse. I've lived in multiple areas that have had their zip code changed. Area codes, too, sometime more than once.
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by axiolite 6mo ago
I've implemented it, too, and didn't run into any problems. User inputs the zip code, if there's multiple city matches, they select the correct one from the drop-down (or you auto-complete the city name after they type the f
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by axiolite 7mo ago
If you purchased $50 worth of items and got charged $75, wouldn't you dispute it?
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by axiolite 7mo ago
According to Dennis Ritchie, the name is an allusion to the DD statement found in IBM's Job Control Language (JCL), where DD is short for data definition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_%28Unix%29#History
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by axiolite 7mo ago
You forgot the "sudo" before "tee" > write stdin to a file that doesn't also write it to stdout You mean like "dd of=/path/file" ?
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by axiolite 9mo ago
> it didn't take long for ssh to take over the world That doesn't seem to be accurate. Wikipedia says, by the end of "2000 the number of users had grown to 2 million" > everybody was using ssh because there wasn&#
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by axiolite 9mo ago
Borg is available for download as a standalone binary, easily dropped onto any Linux system even with very limited privs. And in the repos of every distro easily installed and kept up-to-date. By avoiding that one step and using rsync inst
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by axiolite 9mo ago
You'll find something like BorgBackup will be far more efficient than rsync.
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by axiolite 9mo ago
Even back in 1996, OpenBSD emphasized security. By 2000 they claimed "Three years without a remote hole in the default install!" at the very top of their website. Qmail was released in Dec 1995 and its security withstood scrutin
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by axiolite 9mo ago
I believe your recollection is off by several years... What you're describing is PuttyGen. According to Wikipedia, the first Putty release was in 1999. Archive.org doesn't have any snapshots of the Putty website before 2000, so
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by axiolite 9mo ago
In 1996? OpenBSD and Apache had been around for a year. PGP had been around for several years. HTTPS was used where needed. SecurID tokens were common for organizations that cared about security. Admittedly SSH wasn't around, but k
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by axiolite 9mo ago
Work life is quite a lot different for a working-stiff than it is for a CEO. In large part, their company is an extension of themselves. Work whatever hours you want to. Private plane to take you wherever you want to go for free, if you
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by axiolite 9mo ago
> developers of free-ish as in freedom products OWE it, not only to themselves, but their community to be as profitable as possible Wikipedia seems to do just fine without. Commercializing a product is a whole other field, and it's
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by axiolite 9mo ago
Doesn't seem to like double-quoted search strings: SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data Single-quotes don't seem to work (doesn't change search results... doesn't exclu
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by axiolite 9mo ago
Why should a delivery driver pay the toll for the road to my house, and not me? Why should I be able to exploit flat-rate product pricing like that and skim some money from all customers of the delivery service? Why should I pay the toll t
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by axiolite 9mo ago
> This is just a general argument against constant prices for everything though. Maybe EVERYTHING shouldn't BE "constant prices". Maybe where there are practical alternatives to constant pricing, those should be preferred
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by axiolite 9mo ago
> As soon as enough people who are willing to pay the toll saturates capacity you end up with the same issue (“just one more lane bro”). Increase the toll prices to reduce congestion, increase the number of buses on that route, and use s
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by axiolite 9mo ago
> the whole modus operandi for desktop environments is not made with e-ink in mind It used-to be in the DOS and terminal days, and it wouldn't take much to get us back there. Shut off all the eye-candy transition effects. Make you
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by axiolite 9mo ago
I call BS. NOBODY ever LIKED to type on T9. Maybe you well-tolerated it. Maybe you got reasonably good at it. But not LIKED. There's a reason text messaging really took over when smartphones came in... because T9 was no longer nee
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by axiolite 9mo ago
> Bro who help up the tanks, for example, was trying to convince them to stay and oppress the student movement. Source? Wikipedia article says nobody has a clue who he is/was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank
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by axiolite 10mo ago
I've seen things going the opposite way. It's only recently that an average person could jump on eBay and get assembled low-level electronic module/boards for cheap, and assemble into their project. Yes, you'll probably
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by axiolite 10mo ago
Seems like they did it the by-the-book way for the commercial, rather than the panicked-escape real-world way... i.e. I'd do one vertical cut in the middle, then I'd be frantically pulling the glass shards out by hand (or claw ha
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by axiolite 10mo ago
> what happens if you have a work where e.g. the music and the script were written by different people? This happens ALL THE TIME. 2001 A Space Odyssey, Heavy Metal (1981-Blue Oyster Cult), Rocky (1976) airing on TV without Eye of the T
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by axiolite 10mo ago
> What's the point of buying something if the other person is allowed to steal it back. If you can't make a profit off of a licensed property after 35 years of exclusive control, you've done something horribly wrong. If y
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by axiolite 10mo ago
> Japan has neither and it's dubious whether the United States would step in. There is NO QUESTION the US would provide a full defense of Japan against any aggressive party. The US has multiple military bases in Japan, with 35,000+
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by axiolite 10mo ago
https://www.xda-developers.com/intel-leaving-5g-business-com... https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/302822-intel-blames-qualc...

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