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by dspillett 3d ago
Yes, it did, or something did (maybe the individual commands rather than it being through the OS). I'd completely forgotten about that…
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by dspillett 3d ago
> Trying to jam in the extra characters for "efficiency" also doesn't really do much. Base84 is 6.4 bits per character, base64 is a flat 6 bits per character, base58 is 5.86 bits per character. Also on efficiency, you ar
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by dspillett 3d ago
A: and B: were not specific to the type of drive. It was common to have two drives before fixed storage became common, often you would have the application disk in one and your data disk in the other though there were other common use patte
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by dspillett 3d ago
What the instruction does is well documented, and the history of other invalid instructions being used for the same purpose in the past I'm guessing there is also well known, though a quick search doesn't turn up any official Inte
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by dspillett 4d ago
> My laptop has a display aspect similar to a folding phone when unfolded, so if splitting each half of the display into two panes is useful it should be useful regardless There is a key difference between your laptop and your phone, i
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by dspillett 5d ago
Even with certified real humans who actively clicked rather than being counted one if the many ways these counts are padded accidentally (or not so accidentally), you might be expecting far too much of their attention span when expecting a
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by dspillett 5d ago
The ones advertised on Meta platforms (and others like YouTube), at least the ones I've seen, claim to do so in a device that looks like it can't have more than a tiny battery and no cooling in there, or that they actualy show usi
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by dspillett 5d ago
Going back to its roots: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/v8xgq/watch...
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by dspillett 7d ago
> Yeah, you don't HAVE TO do anything your employer tells you to do. And they don't HAVE TO keep you employed. Depends where you are. In the UK at least they can't force a material change of role on you or sake you for r
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by dspillett 7d ago
My “coherent case” is that they'll take away the few bits of the job that I still like. Remote working has an undesirable effect on my mental health, and I have no choice about that, I'm not using tools I have principals against o
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by dspillett 7d ago
> Lotus Notes was underrated imo. For what it was , yes. For what a great many people used it for on the other hand… It was a great platform for making document and workflow control applications, and was ahead of its time in terms of
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by dspillett 7d ago
> but I feel like this is more or less like someone forgetting their ex is on their Spotify family account Yeah, if victims can't keep a cool head and properly do all their admin just because they are in a very stressful, perhaps
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by dspillett 7d ago
Yes. But in this case as there has been a recent announcement that could be significant, the trend continuing has some significance because it means the announcement likely⁰ had no detrimental effect¹. We don't know absolutely nothing
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by dspillett 8d ago
I don't recall off the top of my head. It was covered in one of Louis Rossmann's rants so you might find information on the consumer rights wiki he talks about.
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by dspillett 8d ago
A great many use their products grudgingly in my experience - posting minimally, staying because network effects make it difficult to completely move, and not wanting to give FB and friends more than they already do.
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by dspillett 8d ago
Some TVs will present a popover warning that they have not been able to check for updates for a while, after being disconnected for some time, and you can't close that without letting them connect (even if you are just using the screen
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by dspillett 8d ago
I know a fair few people who work in shops, hospitality, and similar. Being a dick to your server is still being a dick to your server, even if you dress it up as doing it to get at their employer. Occasionally your server deserves a bit o
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by dspillett 8d ago
Unless they're is a negative force, such as people being put off by the lack of AI features. While a lack of such a response might not justify the headline used here, I think it is certainly worth noting.
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by dspillett 8d ago
> Generally I've found a good portion of websites that block users with ad blockers tend to be the worst offenders with aggressive ads... It is a common cycle: as they get more aggressive with trying to make the ad based business
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by dspillett 8d ago
> Every time their live support chat is open […], I send them Goatse. Unfortunately there is little chance that a human is anywhere near the other end of that chat these days, so your evil is somewhat wasted. > (why would the anti-
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by dspillett 8d ago
In that case I'm surprised they still hold on to the rest. I would expect them to hold it for long enough that a quick resale doesn't tank what value they can get, keep the patent portfolio and flog the rest for someone else to st
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by dspillett 9d ago
> TiVo still exists? Not for long. They stopped making hardware a while ago, this feels like the last ditch attempt to find a new business model that works, before it doesn't and what is left of the company is bought and asset str
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by dspillett 10d ago
Ah I must have skipped by that bit. And presumably the memory-hard algorithm is CPU-easy enough that this won't be a problem. That leaves me wondering "why not just use a JS memory-hard routine in the first place, but maybe I&#x2
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by dspillett 10d ago
> It also means that the "hey Claude vibeslop me a CUDA Anubis solver" route is on its way to being fundamentally dead. I assume that the previous challenges will still be available for circumstances where WASM is not availab
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by dspillett 10d ago
> As is the typical "but it uses so much water!" as the person orders a hamburger. As is going on about the water thing being somewhat over-blown, while quietly ignoring the other environmental issues: • The use of energy mea
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by dspillett 10d ago
It will have booked up quicker than this year's event, at least in part, because totality touches a much smaller portion of European territory, so those for who travel to parts of Europe is easier (or just feels safer to them) than nor
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by dspillett 10d ago
For those in the UK or otherwise blocked by imgur: https://archive.is/OCHd2
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by dspillett 10d ago
Does it give a reason for the block? I know ISPs in a couple of countries⁰ (China for one) block it, as do many corporate networks that subscribe to certain blocklists¹, but I've not heard of the site itself blocking specific groups of
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by dspillett 11d ago
And like a cult to those of us preferring not to engage, for whatever reason, with everyone and their dog telling us that we should (and sometimes getting quite offended, like our refusal to play that game is a personal attack on them for c
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by dspillett 12d ago
It isn't as obvious as it used to be, no longer looking like a switch. Click the sunlight icon in the top right. Also, it doesn't work well on mobile.

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