boisterousness

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by boisterousness 4mo ago
60 days before shutdown, a game company just needs to transition their game to subscription-required. That gets them out from under this law. Then if enough players subscribe, the company could decide to keep the servers going longer than p
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by boisterousness 4mo ago
They call it a FLOP (Functional Loss Of Performance, or something like that), I was told on a tour of an FAA ATC computer facility.
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by boisterousness 4mo ago
These are good ... "Python for Data Analysis" by McKinney (2018) "The Go Programming Language" by Donovan and Kernighan (2016) "Hacker's Delight" by Warren (2013) "Algorithm Design Manual" by Ski
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by boisterousness 4mo ago
No draft in 1948.
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by boisterousness 5mo ago
In Thunderbird's message list, you can bring all the starred emails to the top by sorting on the star column. Just click on the column header. Also, in the Quick Filter, you can click the star button to "Show only starred messages
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by boisterousness 5mo ago
It appears to belong to another subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation: MZFO GERMANY GMBH, which would be subject to German, not US, law.
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by boisterousness 5mo ago
Stacked Git (StGit) [1] is a git CLI add-on for working with stacked commits in your local repo. Why are stacked commits useful? Multiple patches can be developed concurrently and efficiently, with each patch focused on a single concern, fo
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by boisterousness 6mo ago
Drilling down, one finds a link to a paper from Usenix Security 2018: "Efail: Breaking S/MIME and OpenPGP Email Encryption using Exfiltration Channels", by Damian Poddebniak et al. [0] [0] https://www.usenix.org&#x
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by boisterousness 6mo ago
2020 update: https://wateroperator.org/blog/featured-video-why-are-960000...
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by boisterousness 6mo ago
Another contender: Russ Cox's "fast unrounded scaling" [1]. Cox writes: "The main idea of this post is to implement fast unrounded scaling, which computes an approximation to x · 2^e · 10^p, often in a single 64-bit mult
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by boisterousness 6mo ago
Great minds think alike! For $99.95, you can own an exquisite 0.75m USB-C 2.0 "High-Definition Audio Cable" [1], featuring "high-purity 0.5% Silver conductors and a Metal-Layer Noise-Dissipation for the most efficient dissipa
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by boisterousness 6mo ago
> For things that are not visible, there are much fewer brands e.g. underwear. Personal care products - shampoos, soaps, lotions Nutritional supplements are counterexamples
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by boisterousness 7mo ago
Decentraleyes hasn't been updated since late 2024, so I switched to LocalCDN [1]. [1] https://www.localcdn.org/
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by boisterousness 7mo ago
There's a Cookie AutoDelete plugin [1] that cleans up cookies, cache, etc for a site after all of its tabs are closed. You can exclude sites that you want to stay logged in to. [1] https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete&#
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by boisterousness 7mo ago
> These [cameras] are mounted above the stoplights and aimed against traffic at stoplights to read faces. Those cameras are for traffic detection, so the signal can turn green when a car comes. They aren't reading faces.
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by boisterousness 7mo ago
Maybe at last we'll find out who wrote Shakespeare's plays.
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by boisterousness 7mo ago
They're different. Multiplication by i gives a quarter turn counterclockwise. -i gives a quarter turn clockwise. Opposite quarter turns cancel: (-i)(i) = (-1)(i^2) = +1 Quarter turn twice counterclockwise gives a half turn: (i)(i) = -1
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by boisterousness 7mo ago
Drivers could change lanes safely if everybody wasn't tailgating.
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by boisterousness 7mo ago
Not so. Keeping a constant distance from the car ahead means both cars are moving at the same speed. When a jerk cuts in, after a moment all 3 cars will be moving at the same speed.
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by boisterousness 7mo ago
That's fine when traffic is light. At rush hour, all lanes are full and nobody is overtaking.
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by boisterousness 9mo ago
Code golfing originated in APL.
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by boisterousness 10mo ago
One place to look is https://thedailywtf.com/
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by boisterousness 10mo ago
It's the "Lava Flow" antipattern [1][2] identified by the Gang of Five [3], "characterized by the lava-like 'flows' of previous developmental versions strewn about the code landscape, but now hardened into a ba
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by boisterousness 10mo ago
FAANG cargo cults are all around. Too many CEOs and VCs imagine they can succeed like Bezos by the bold strategy of hiring ex-Amazon executives and imitating Amazon's culture and HR practices.
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by boisterousness 10mo ago
Could a probe return data by semaphore? Wave a flag that blocks the light of Alpha Centauri as seen from a telescope off to the side of the sun, say at the distance of Neptune's orbit. It should be possible to hide Alpha Centauri behin
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by boisterousness 10mo ago
Sure, drop one repeater every light-day. 1500 of them. Each one will need fuel to decelerate enough to remain in place.
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by boisterousness 10mo ago
RealCalc (Android) is the one I use all the time. Emu48 (Android, Windows) emulates HP48GX hardware and runs an actual HP48GX ROM image. NumWorks (Android, Windows, web) emulates a NumWorks graphing calculator - has some nice features, but