gcb0

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by gcb0 5y ago
That is the most distant definition from "necessity" i can think of.
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by gcb0 5y ago
demoscene reason d'etre is antithetical to museums. But i think this is very fitting for a time when, as you say, "we are losing more and more control over the hardware and software that we buy" This may be a huge ego trip o
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by gcb0 6y ago
> It might not be obvious, but the app will have access to all your other open windows. Fun fact, most docker hosts will allow access to all your files anyway! (specially true on docker for mac, which all the cool kids(tm) here are using
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by gcb0 6y ago
> addons can change things and break the browser. Good. That's a feature. I install addons. It's not a site i visit with no consideration. This is the same thinking of apple. People install random apps so let's restrict
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by gcb0 6y ago
I give it very low grades. It suggests installing many closed source, Advertising-ridden apps from the play store. And to one of those ad-ridden apps, it even suggest you use adb to give it supper powers of sorts.
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by gcb0 6y ago
You don't even have to go to open source. You can see this hostile behaviour from their top-paying clients! Microsoft own previous gen Xbox emulator on the next gen xbox (i think it was original xbox emulated in the 360, but i might be
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by gcb0 6y ago
> In compliance with the new ruling, GitHub is now relying on SCCs to establish necessary data protection for all That means: "our last industry hack, Privacy Shield Framework, was shot down for the second time, making it dangerous
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by gcb0 6y ago
i did not but i do not pay youtube premium. Mostly because all that money will go to RIAA and other DMCA backers, not content creators. Specially not the ones everyone here watches. Nobody uses youtube because they love it. Everyone uses yo
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by gcb0 6y ago
> 2. What's with /* */ ? Doesn't js allow keyword arguments? No.
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by gcb0 6y ago
This is the best economic answer to the question of why dollar doesn't had inflation like other currencies that increase supply. much better than the "the rich will only inflate art prices" that is currently on top of this on
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by gcb0 7y ago
I get a feeling everyone in this thread did not buy the G1 because they liked the G1, but solely because they are google fans that buy anything google throw at them. If you people really liked the keyboard, you would be praising the two las
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by gcb0 7y ago
I call those systems "auto-censorship". They are as dumb and undesirable as incomplete regex email filters in web forms. Every single one ever written will have this problem. And ironically, absolutely nobody reading a fart joke w
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by gcb0 7y ago
> patches are associative: pulling B and C together after A does the same as pulling just C after pulling A and B that makes no sense to me. DARCS also claim this, but if you have the patches all changing the first line to a different va
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by gcb0 7y ago
This is how most factories operate. Hire someone to design a plastic mold, pay for the work, never hear from that person again. It is insane to expect anything more than a tax code, that is only retained for some few years in some dusty fin
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by gcb0 7y ago
I was hopping for any detail. The ajax part was not that innovative. As with every product that succeed, the content was awesome. How did a startup with 2 people living "out of maxed out credit cards" in early 2000s even acquire
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by gcb0 7y ago
Is this the new hollywood black list/red scare? Tech behemoths, full of privileged people on top, use the false pretense of respecting pronouns or other minority demands, to actually oust people that care about such issues in the first
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by gcb0 7y ago
You are right. Reported this submission as spam. It is a closed invite-only product. They try to mislead saying that the only downside is learning a new language. Every good programmer loves to learn a new language. The actual, real downsid
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by gcb0 7y ago
> when I'm debugging Ironically, attackers would have access to more valuable data (and more freedom of movement) on your personal/dev box than on a monitored production host.
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by gcb0 7y ago
So it is just a way to pick a (random) number that will be shared and compared between three parties?
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by gcb0 7y ago
lol. anyone have to read past the headline to know it's bad?!?! everyone forgot the only purpose of amp? to give in to google so that you can get not-banished from their search results. why would anyone apply a pernicious SEO technique
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by gcb0 7y ago
> Tesla emphasizes that “in both of these scenarios until truly driverless cars are validated and approved by regulators, drivers are responsible for and must remain ready to take manual control of their car at all times.” So, tesla&#x2F
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by gcb0 7y ago
1. implement a real algo that depends on known behaviour of some players. 2. release public algo that implements that known behaviour your main algo expects 3. ??? 4. Profit!
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by gcb0 7y ago
Consensus is the path, not the destination. Implemented it in a project such as: Start using the tech. If it explodes it's on you; if other people pick it up it was good; If nobody picks up and you get tired of fixing it, abandon.
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by gcb0 7y ago
trying to make that catch since 2013 :D
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by gcb0 7y ago
That's a very forced comparison. If you took that seriously yourself, you had to weight having a driver's license against the thousands of people run over by cars each year, because by your logic consequences of a bad case are inh
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by gcb0 7y ago
> made the choice to subcontract w/o proper controls seems to have worked out very well for the army, and their contractors. So well in fact, that a senator is on a campaign to pass legislation to specifically address the military c
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by gcb0 7y ago
For people thinking like robots on this, and not seeing the social impacts, i suggest reading city of quartz. Or if you don't like to read books, watch Chinatown. Both will show you how the Water & Power's corrupt officials us
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by gcb0 7y ago
Practical use for the brutalist html experiment (art?).
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Extension Injection Detection(flak.tedunangst.com)
2 points by gcb0 7y ago|1 comments
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by gcb0 7y ago
Print is weird. For most print mediums, circulation is more important than sales. Because higher circulation generates more Advertising revenue, which is higher than sales. But they can't give a newspaper/magazine away, because th

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