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by colonial 9mo ago
You underestimate the average American teenager’s shell-buying game (honed for decades by our asinine alcohol laws.) I’m sure kids elsewhere would pick it up pretty fast too. Plus, this would spawn massive online black markets for the codes
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by colonial 10mo ago
> Are there other good ways of doing it? I'm working on an ESP32 project right now, and Espressif provides shrink-wrapped toolchains for C/++ and Rust. The latter even comes with a little tool called 'espup' that clea
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by colonial 11mo ago
> Many people already use non-portable SIMD for the 1-3 targets they care about, instead. This is something a lot of people (myself included) have gotten tripped up by. Non-portable SIMD intrinsics have been stable under std::arch for
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by colonial 11mo ago
You don't need years to look around and see that (unlike much of the US) there are no homeless addicts, fare evaders, or vandals on the transit in Singapore. (Or, for that matter, murderous psychos with dozens of prior arrests.) Logica
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by colonial 11mo ago
After spending a summer working in Singapore, I fully support introducing corporal punishment to America (and accelerated capital punishment for drug trafficking offenses.) It turns out that - surprise! - actually punishing criminals wher
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by colonial 11mo ago
Deficient cortisol levels, I'd think. I've seen it bring out quite the attitude in otherwise relaxed people.
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by colonial 11mo ago
macOS kinda gets there. I've (grudgingly) come to admit that it has by far the best security story of any desktop operating system. Apps require explicit user consent to access the filesystem, peripherals, and other sensitive data (e.x
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by colonial 11mo ago
Meanwhile, (checks mattress tag) Pottery Barn has had 100.0% uptime for the past two years!
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by colonial 11mo ago
To be fair, Vim and Curl are almost certainly dynamically linked, so they get to "cheat" a little. 10 megs is entirely reasonable for a statically linked utility intended to "just work" when you dump it somewhere in your
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by colonial 11mo ago
Insufferable r/atheism-tier behavior. I'm glad I don't rely on F-Droid for anything critical.
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by colonial 11mo ago
Honestly, as someone who just purchased his first MacBook, Liquid Glass is... fine? The control center could use a little more opacity, but besides that, my opinion tends to range from "whatever" to "hey, that looks pretty ni
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by colonial 11mo ago
My dude, before HTTPS, anyone could go to a Starbucks and skim every customer's Facebook session with a free Firefox extension. That's not an "edge case."
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by colonial 1y ago
> Sedans, coupes, or anything with less mass will be ... more capable I beg to differ. They may be safer and more efficient, but they get those advantages by trading off cargo and passenger space. A crossover can carry a heck of a lot mo
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by colonial 1y ago
> Yet every car is converging on an unholy child of a minivan and a small crossover SUV Because it's a local maximum of utility. Most people don't care that their car "lacks personality" or "looks ugly to auto en
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by colonial 1y ago
Cool - now let's see how much it costs in compute to generate a single clip. (Also, notice how no individual scene is longer than a handful of seconds?)
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by colonial 1y ago
There's also an LSP (Tinymist.) My Typst workflow is all local in VSCode, with the source markup in the left pane and a live preview on the right.
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by colonial 1y ago
Another stamp of approval for Typst here. It's simple enough that I can easily typeset CS theory homework (with all the fancy notation that entails) without having to subject myself to the insanity of LaTeX or the friction of a stand
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by colonial 1y ago
If this means that I no longer have to wait around for five minutes to have a supermarket employee unlock the laundry detergent, then I approve. Yes, there are privacy concerns, but I care more about law and order at this point.
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by colonial 1y ago
> if you're popping in and out expansion cards all the time eventually the ports are going to fail which seems like a really weird design choice Anecdotally, I've developed a bad habit of fidgeting with my expansion cards by po
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by colonial 1y ago
Minority report: I will likely just switch to an iPhone, despite my typical gripes with Apple. I've always seen my smartphone as a tool that doesn't do "much" (compared to a "real" computer) but can be relied o
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by colonial 1y ago
Quoting myself from elsewhere, but I would like to make a legislation proposal: all natural gems must be marketed as "crude" due to impurities not present in their synthetic counterparts. This would end the De Beers cartel basical
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by colonial 1y ago
Epic has offered self-publishing tools for a while. They do involve a human review step, but one look at the piles of NFT shovelware available shows that the bar is in Hell. (Granted, Steam isn't too picky either, but at least they dra
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by colonial 1y ago
It's extremely telling that nobody (developer or consumer) takes the Epic Games store seriously, in spite of their effort to undercut Steam on this front (0% on the first mil, and 12% after that - to say nothing of the free game promos
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by colonial 1y ago
This isn't "hacking the system", though - this is an open-and-shut violation of a license with a strong legal pedigree.
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by colonial 1y ago
Yeah, I'm generally aware of that - but I needed them fast, and decided it was worth taking a gamble. (I did at least get a return/refund, so there's that.)
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by colonial 1y ago
Amazon is awful when it comes to striking down accusatory customer reviews. Last year I (like a fool) purchased some chunky thru-hole MOSFETs on Amazon. Lo and behold, despite the datasheets promising a few amps with 3.3V at the gate, I o
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by colonial 1y ago
> If only there was a ... global digital library of ebooks. There are several, if the various shadow libraries (Library Genesis, Z-Library, Anna's Archive...) count.
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by colonial 1y ago
> Modern GPUs have a rated lifespan in the 3-7 year range, depending on usage. I seriously doubt this is true. The venerable GTX 1060 came out 9 years ago, and still sees fairly widespread use based on the Steam hardware survey. Accordin
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by colonial 1y ago
Composing a hyperlink-heavy technical message in plain text sounds like hell for both me and the receiver. Rich text is good because it intuitively increases the signal to noise ratio of your message; attempting to substitute plain text cau
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by colonial 1y ago
GNOME Evolution supports Markdown natively (I believe either raw or rendered to HTML on send; I use the latter.)

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