djao

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by djao 4mo ago
I never said being old is an excuse to spoil. My comment was solely in response to OP's comment, which specifically mentioned the fact that this is a thread about Nethack 5.0.0. The fact that we are in a thread about Nethack 5.0.0 is n
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by djao 5mo ago
Nethack is what you get when you take a team of developers and have them focus on gameplay to the exclusion of all else. No graphics, music, marketing, apps, action sequences, or profit motive. Just pure gameplay, with a richness of interac
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by djao 5mo ago
OP is talking about a several decade old version of nethack, not nethack 5.0.0.
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by djao 5mo ago
Demand? Excuse me? There is no demand. He is free to disclose or not, his choice. I am then free to believe him or not, my choice.
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by djao 5mo ago
If privacy were such a big concern, then why did he release the messages (without metadata) in the first place? Wouldn't it be more appropriate to keep the messages completely private?
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by djao 5mo ago
You have it backwards. The fact that he doesn't release the metadata is interesting. If he had released the metadata, it would be wholly uninteresting. I don't think the emails exist. What was published in court records, lacking
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by djao 5mo ago
The refusal to provide email metadata is the most damning evidence. Adam Back clearly has the emails; he is the one who provided them in the first place during the previous court case. Everyone knows he has the emails. If Adam Back and Sato
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by djao 6mo ago
All they had to do was exempt free and open source software from the requirements, which are unworkable in the FOSS context anyway, and they would have gotten away scot-free with their tech company pillow fight. But no, they had to let coll
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by djao 10mo ago
Goalposts are the entire problem. I read the original article ... Holy wow, undefined goalposts!
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by djao 1y ago
That's what OP said. Netflix and its customers have opposing interests. The customers want to use VPNs, whereas Netflix doesn't want to allow VPNs. The customers don't care about following anti-piracy laws, whereas Netflix wa
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by djao 2y ago
Nothing is wrong with WebKit, but it's not really a separate rendering engine, and the discussion is about separate rendering engines. Chromium's heritage derives from WebKit.
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by djao 2y ago
Update, with correct paper: https://nattothoughts.substack.com/p/chinas-quantum-tunnelin...
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by djao 2y ago
These assumptions are not at all unreasonable. We are not talking about a tiny minority. More than half of Americans have a garage. Utilities aren't concerned about individual households; they're concerned about average behavior.
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by djao 2y ago
I'm in Ontario. 90% of my electricity usage consists of charging my electric car. The ultra-low overnight rate of 2.8 cents per kWh, introduced during the past year, is a big win for EV owners. This rate is seven times cheaper than the
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by djao 2y ago
In the case of the United States, it's not appropriate to equate the country with the current regime, since the party in power (Democrat / Republican) changes every few years, and although you may disagree, I do not view the two p
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by djao 2y ago
You're deeply misreading the English language. When I say "I need my phone" I am obviously not claiming that my phone is necessary for basic survival. There are different levels of need, and there exists a level where Russia
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by djao 2y ago
You are wrong. I am not defending Russia's actions. I am explaining Russia's actions. Big difference. Putin is a greedy son of a bitch. This is not a defense. It is an explanation.
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by djao 2y ago
Gas isn't easily shippable like oil. Most of Russia's gas is in Siberia, inaccessible for purposes of shipping to Europe. Ukraine holds the only other gas reserves in Europe other than Russia. Gas supply is inelastic, meaning that
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by djao 2y ago
To the contrary, Russia does need Crimea, although military naval ports is not the main reason why. Crimean waters contain huge natural gas and oil deposits. If Ukraine were left to develop Crimea unhindered, it would overturn Russia's
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by djao 2y ago
Study some geography. The US is blessed with wide open coastal access to, not one, but two oceans, with innumerable natural harbors on each coast (Chesapeake Bay, the San Francisco Bay Area, Puget Sound, Port of NY&NJ, Port of Los Angel
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by djao 2y ago
Taiwan is also not a large landmass. Neither is Crimea, or Kuwait. It doesn't take large land area for a location to be strategically important.
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by djao 2y ago
You seem to be confusing "OpenSSH" with "OpenSSH Portable Release". As explained here: https://www.openssh.com/portable.html > Normal OpenSSH development produces a very small, secure, and easy to mai
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by djao 2y ago
The employee #8 badge, which we know is real, is typed in a completely different font from the #10 badge, has different dimensions, different photo dimensions, and the photos were clearly taken with dramatically different cameras and lighti
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by djao 2y ago
SpaceX deliberately launches satellites into orbits which are too low to sustain on their own. Once the satellites run out of propellant, which happens after a few years of normal operation, they cannot remain in orbit indefinitely and even
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by djao 2y ago
If it's just a matter of 5% inefficiency, I have to think that there must exist some possible mechanism for capturing the economic benefits of satellite internet (with a tax, perhaps) and redirecting a portion to astronomy to increase
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by djao 2y ago
Space telescopes cost billions of dollars not because of launch costs but because of all the dedicated engineering required to fit the telescope into the size and weight restrictions required for launch. In the past we've always been w
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by djao 2y ago
Going up to n is surely excessive. You need a version of the Riemann hypothesis to get any sort of logarithmic bound, but a sqrt(n) bound can be achieved using unconditional Polya-Vinogradov type inequalities. (A successful Miller-Rabin tes
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by djao 2y ago
Neither gnome-terminal nor bash link against readline. I'm pretty sure they just copied the feature; it's not that they use readline in any way. There's lots of other programs that use C-q for quoting, for example emacs, and
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by djao 2y ago
You can do this without pasting. Ctrl-Q Ctrl-J at the bash prompt inserts a newline into the command line without executing it. This is useful for multiline scripting commands.
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by djao 2y ago
Recent gnome-terminal handles these much more safely. If you paste in a newline, whether from primary or clipboard, the terminal puts a newline into your command, but doesn't press enter for you.

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