kazinator

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by kazinator 6d ago
Before, you "cut the cable". What is the idiom now? Do you still cut something, or is there some other verb?
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by kazinator 6d ago
While that simplifies things for the customer, who knows exactly what they will pay, it's hiding the theft, making it look like it's part of the price charged by the merchant, even though the merchant has to remit that money.
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by kazinator 7d ago
Reads like someone having a schizo-paranoid meltdown.
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by kazinator 7d ago
There is a third alternative space here: functions that are compatible with C function pointers, dynamically created by libffi. With these you can implement upward and downward funargs. E.g. make Lisp dialect whose lambdas can be bound to C
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by kazinator 7d ago
You can totally tell, at lower bitrates. People used to share songs as MP3 files using 128 kbps rates, and you could easily hear whooshy/chirpy artifacts in those at times. Modern codec at a decent bitrate: inaudible. Ironically, it co
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by kazinator 7d ago
> If merchants across the world make a deal with me to charge exactly the listed/advertised number exactly, no more, no less, then I'll pay in cash again. Where are you not getting this? You mean taxes on top of the retail pric
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by kazinator 7d ago
I would only use cash in situations where I'm able to obtain a discount compared to using a credit card. Even then, you have to think twice. If you get scammed of cash, it's gone. If you get scammed in a credit card transaction, t
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by kazinator 7d ago
I had a dispute with Canada Revenue Agency and won. A good part of a decade ago now, I got into contracting for a couple of years. The accounting lackeys at S_____ W_____ in Richmond, BC, Canada paid me using cash method accounting. They ma
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by kazinator 7d ago
Dammit, can't I just post on the Internet without constantly being checked for facts and strawman arguments?
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by kazinator 7d ago
When I say returning, of course I mean not buying in the first place! "Does it have a standard bolt pattern compatible with my intended mount" is one of the first things you check for in the technical specs, long before you order
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by kazinator 8d ago
Since the mounting hardware you already have from your previous TV does follow VESA, you would be returning the new one for that reason. Unless, you know, it was amazing, like completely dumb with no registration step, and offering great pi
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by kazinator 8d ago
Your idea is sane. You're already facing the problem of degradation of magnetic media; compounding it with dubious hardware isn't helping. Why can't that disk be read? Is it the disk, or this drive of dodgy origin? Or some co
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by kazinator 8d ago
Count me among those who would care about that enough to be completely dissuaded from naming a new language C*.
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by kazinator 8d ago
Mounting on the wall is just four screws to the TV, with a standard bolt pattern that fits any modern TV. Whatever accomodations were made will work exactly the same with any TV of approximately the same size.
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by kazinator 8d ago
I would march it back to the store in that situation. They are getting away with this shit because the return rates are low. Bumping up the return rate isn't something you can count on others to do; if you don't return it, you&#x2
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by kazinator 9d ago
> Tesla is now asking businesses whether they’d like to buy and operate their own fleets of Cybercab robotaxis on its network. Would you like to pay for the privilege of using our network, with hardware you buy from us, in order to sub
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by kazinator 9d ago
AI told me that the same hex wrench used on bicycle pedal crank bolts would fit the freehub body fixing bolt in the rear wheel. (Spoiler: nope!) Guess it's too busy pushing math off to the conservatory to know the difference between 8m
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by kazinator 11d ago
If you've had to delete 10 posts by the same user, which you suspect is an AI agent, it's safe to say that deleting all posts ever made by that user is a good shortcut.
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by kazinator 11d ago
Maybe the Wiki needs better tooling, that lets you do the equivalent of "rm -rf" on a whole subgraph of pages.
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by kazinator 11d ago
You use tooling or workflows that blindly do "git add" of everything for you under the hood, so of course you advocate .gitignoring everything. The unifying theme is, operate on everything and sort it out somehow. I've worked
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by kazinator 12d ago
> That is about as bad as it gets and meant that any delay in patching was an existential risk of imminent compromise. Overdramatized. It means compromise if you delay patching and don't take the unpatched deployment offline. Oh
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by kazinator 12d ago
Microsoft Bob's non-compete finally expired.
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by kazinator 12d ago
A lot of ethical behavior is actually invented by the higher classes to imbue the lower classes with self-policing. It's a social pattern across pretty much all human civilizations that have been.
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by kazinator 12d ago
Had them in Europe in the 1970's on kids' tricycles. I remember leaving rubber marks on the pavement by locking these things up hard while turning the steering.
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by kazinator 13d ago
> Where is all this love for coaster brakes coming from?! Nowhere. They have pretty much disappeared from bikes for adults. Even the bicycle-shaped objects. The article mentions Shimano internal gear hubs with coaster brakes, but I thi
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by kazinator 13d ago
> “Pedal backwards. Really?” That's a good test for blowing the cover of extraterrestrial imposters posing as human beings. They don't know about pedaling backwards to stop a bike, because they were never a four-year-old huma
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by kazinator 13d ago
Proposal: "Chain-of-slop monitoring"
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by kazinator 13d ago
Yes, when you pay to use a copy of copyrighted work, you're not owning the work in the sense of obtaining the right to redistribute. That is completely separate from the question of whether you are buying your copy to permanently use,
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by kazinator 15d ago
In science, they are all fruit, but an apple is a "false fruit". In cuisine, they are vegetables.
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by kazinator 15d ago
And fitting; since by means of a vote we messed up the definition of planet, we omit from the acronym the claim that we are naming planets.

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