jbarrs

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by jbarrs 4mo ago
>Where is... the vibecoded OS This perhaps isn't an issue at any meaningful industry as I think there is little room in the space for a new OS to take off, but within hobbyist circles it seems it's becoming a problem. On subred
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by jbarrs 6mo ago
I haven't tested this myself, but verifying with a driver's license should be supported [1]. Anecdotally, I've heard you have to fail the automatic Apple Wallet credit card verification, get to the screen where you're as
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by jbarrs 2y ago
This drove me insane a little while ago. Every single "personalised" Spotify playlist that got shovelled my way had a bunch of songs on it from Olivia Rodrigo's latest album, regardless of whether they fit the playlist theme
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by jbarrs 2y ago
What's a computer?
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by jbarrs 2y ago
This might be wrong, but based on my own experience of Ubuntu effectively uninstalling itself when I tried to remove a single package. I think most of the default software gets installed as one large package group , rather than as individu
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by jbarrs 3y ago
I've wondered whether this is connected to the olfactory system. Real books have a discernible smell about them, especially older books, and smell is said to be one of the best senses for memory recall. Do you remember less from an ebo
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by jbarrs 3y ago
>Posts of unknown authorship have a disclaimer at the top of the page. Problem is, the posts can contain <script> elements. So it's easy to just write a little JavaScript that removes the disclaimer at the top. See this hastil
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by jbarrs 3y ago
>The universe is infinite. Whether or not this is true, it's somewhat irrelevant, as the observable universe is finite, meaning there's a finite amount of "stuff" that can causally influence us. What happens far beyon
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by jbarrs 3y ago
>I have a mighty need for something that can quickly render frames of arbitrary pixels. Ideally a line at a time for smoothness. Dependent on the complexity of your application and how comfortable you are working in C++, you could give C
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by jbarrs 3y ago
Not sure if this is the same product, but in my job I've met one of the researchers working on this tech. The screens they were able to produce had refresh rates high enough to watch a movie.
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by jbarrs 3y ago
I find it amusing that the table published a conservative cutoff year and an optimistic cutoff year. Based on the trends I've seen, most non-critical software would probably have made the switch in time for the conservative year, where
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by jbarrs 3y ago
Not the original commenter, but Go programs are all statically-compiled, with everything needed at run time bundled into the executable. Go does use a runtime, but that's incorporated into the exe, so no external libraries required. As
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by jbarrs 3y ago
Because Microsoft almost have a monopoly on the OS market. Pretty much the only alternative for users who aren't tech savvy enough to comfortably use Linux is to buy a Mac, which will price out a lot of people. Even if you are able to
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by jbarrs 4y ago
Alas this has now been fixed
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by jbarrs 4y ago
I've used LibreOffice Calc for plenty number crunching, with a lot of conditional formatting, dropdown data entry, complex cross-sheet formulae, etc. and I've never run into any issues with unsupported formulae or anything like th
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by jbarrs 4y ago
iOS does not allow notifications by default. Apps must display a system pop-up to request permission to display notifications, and the option is there to deny permission. Whether users have already fallen into the same cycle as cookie conse
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by jbarrs 5y ago
I remember when I first heard about 5D storage back in 2013 [1][2]. The concept isn't at all new; in fact, there's a 5D storage device floating around in a Tesla in space, and Musk has another in his personal library. Nonetheless,
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by jbarrs 5y ago
>People have expectations going into a game, that it won't be a movie... As a counter-example, we have series like Metal Gear Solid, which are renowned for the huge use of cutscenes (MGS4 having an ending cutscene that's practi
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by jbarrs 5y ago
It's got to a point where in games like Skyrim I generally just sell the majority of potions and whatnot, because I know when I get down to it I'll always be thinking there's a better time to use it. For whatever reason, I st
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by jbarrs 5y ago
This is depressingly true. Whenever ITV were hosting the match, I generally just resigned myself to not being able to watch it. Besides that, when it did work, the commentary was absolutely atrocious and did nothing but state the obvious. T
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by jbarrs 5y ago
Reminds me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warnin... Far less than 10,000 years ago, humans likely would've written similar messages on things of importance to deter thieves, and we
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by jbarrs 5y ago
I for one am pretty excited about this. I took a module in medical imaging at university and went looking for real data that I could use in order to experiment with the reconstruction algorithms we were learning about, and I struggled to fi
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by jbarrs 5y ago
Perhaps not automatically, but many cars do save GPS data in their diagnostic data, which could easily be accessed if a case was brought against you.
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by jbarrs 5y ago
Don't most messaging apps these days automatically save all photos by default? I believe this is the default setting on WhatsApp and even Telegram. Even if the photo won't be saved until the recipient opens the message, all that&#
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by jbarrs 5y ago
Amazon in the pursuit of Alexa quality control has most recordings manually reviewed by real people to see whether the response was appropriate. This includes any accidental triggers. It probably does not surprise that these devices have re
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by jbarrs 5y ago
I've recently been using Habitica again after a long hiatus (as this article predicts) and I have to agree. For those who don't know about Habitica, it tries to address the reward component of the problem by gameifying the TODOs;
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by jbarrs 5y ago
They probably are, and this bug may already have been known. Many jailbreaks are often held back for as many versions as possible, since that can allow the jailbreak to target more iOS versions with a single exploit without Apple quickly bl
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by jbarrs 5y ago
I wonder whether 4chan is the way it is purely as a consequence of there being minimal moderation, or whether the lack of moderation combined with extreme moderation of such content on other platforms is driving it all towards 4chan. Would
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by jbarrs 5y ago
Generally I'd recommend using a filesystem designed for that. Something like btrfs or (I think) ZFS, which have checksums built into the filesystem (and if you set them up in a RAID configuration, these checksums can be used to correct
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by jbarrs 5y ago
>why were you even trying to break in Because you're offering money if a way in is found. I feel like that's most of their hesitance, really, they probably just don't want to pay the bounties.

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