kingaillas

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by kingaillas 6mo ago
That post is 3 years old, so basically around 1 year into the Steam Deck's release.
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by kingaillas 8mo ago
If the author had googled better they might have discovered https://www.learnpdc.org/
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by kingaillas 1y ago
>later someone (Gibbs?) gave them the familiar vector calculus form. It was Oliver Heaviside ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Heaviside ) that rewrote Maxwell's original equations (20 of them in differentia
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by kingaillas 2y ago
How about some penalties for their creation? If NSA is discovering or buying, someone else is creating them (even if unintentionally). Otherwise corporations will be incentivized (even more than they are now) to pay minimal lip service to s
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by kingaillas 2y ago
>What Trump is mandating with his EOs are a move back to judging people strictly by their merit, by their character. Conservatives are OK with rolling everything back and hiding behind words, since right now, most people at the highest l
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by kingaillas 2y ago
>Valve still restricting the OS to their hardware. This is changing very soon - Lenovo announced the Legion Go S at CES 2025, and it will ship with SteamOS. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/vi
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by kingaillas 2y ago
>Firstly, Roe vs Wade was overturned in 2022 during the BIDEN term. That timing is all about how long it takes a lawsuit to work through the system to reach a stacked court.... not so much who was President when it finally was resolved.
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by kingaillas 2y ago
The sad truth is even if XYZ country "interfered" with a misinformation campaign... they didn't actually manipulate the votes. Enough US citizens voted for Trump.
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by kingaillas 2y ago
Common ground? They don't believe in climate change, want zero controls on guns, are generally anti-immigrant - even the legal immigrants are lied about e.g. Haitians in Springfield, don't believe women should have certain rights
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by kingaillas 2y ago
The evidence is likely simple deduction, as in asking "when was the last time this area was bombed" combined with the history of the airport (built for the military in 1943, later converted to civilian use) and also noting other u
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by kingaillas 3y ago
Some banking feature are only accessible via mobile phone - e.g. check deposit.
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by kingaillas 3y ago
>By introducing a profit maximisation goal you (supposedly) create a more efficient operation. Yes but one way that happens is by ignoring unprofitable customers. That's great if you are a car dealership and sell higher end cars to
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by kingaillas 3y ago
I'm old enough to remember anonymous ftp to grab the FAQ text file for various games, typically including a walkthroughs (e.g. the kind of thing now aggregated on sites like gamefaqs: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/msx&#
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by kingaillas 4y ago
This was my flow, except instead of PC I was using Mac. But then, that Mac died and I hadn't also happened to save the proper old version of Kindle for PC. And I migrated to a linux desktop instead of replacing the Mac. I'm a bit
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by kingaillas 4y ago
No it is not. Responsibility (issue advisories) for unclassified, commercial, non-defense internet is a confusing mess split between Commerce (NIST, https://csrc.nist.gov/about ), DHS (CISA, https://www.cisa.gov&#
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by kingaillas 4y ago
A commission would find that there was no problem whatsoever. Almost everybody misunderstands NSA's defensive mandate. They aren't corporate America's QA department, they don't have a "let's find and report exp
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by kingaillas 4y ago
I think I'd do what your landlord is doing if I were in that position. Having a long term reliable renter, which I'm sure you are, give them a rent that is a good deal (slightly below market), and they'll stay. Even if your r
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by kingaillas 4y ago
>However, there is value in learning some of the under the hood concepts such as >[...] >I don't think schools need to teach employable My University taught the intro CS class in Scheme; years after I graduated they switched t
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by kingaillas 4y ago
>I'm certain there's a good language in there, but it's so rarely used during my time in the industry (I'm in my mid-30s), that it's just never been worth the effort. I'm sorry, Perl. No apology needed, I&#x
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by kingaillas 4y ago
I think it is fair to interpret that as: Signal is not storing messages on their servers, also Signal is not storing them on someone else's servers. Whether or not a 3rd party, outside Signal's knowledge and/or control, is st
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by kingaillas 4y ago
I'm the same as far as Netflix, they have enough "good enough" shows for me to keep them around. I figure if I average ~2-3 hours a week it is still worth it. Yes some of their new shows are... not to my liking (hey, maybe so
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by kingaillas 4y ago
Everybody is suspicious of Microsoft's motives but I think in this, you gotta consider how many windows systems are out there used by security novices. Lots of people are computer savvy but want to use a computer to do something else n
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by kingaillas 4y ago
Microsoft shutdown stores, resulting in loss of purchases for customers. I lost a few ebooks when they shut down their ebook store, their Zune Marketplace and Play For Sure was a confusing fiasco with the final result of authorizing purchas
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by kingaillas 4y ago
Another vote for Endeavour. I already run Ubuntu on my NUC, and when I was looking around to install on my former gamebox (i.e. computer with a graphics card unlike NUC with onboard graphics only) I wanted something with good steam/nvi
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by kingaillas 4y ago
But what to do or how to fix it? All I see is the cognitive dissonance of worshipping the free market, except in this case where corporate America sold the future of US away in exchange for higher profit margins today. Plus the cognitive di
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by kingaillas 4y ago
>So what's Google to even do? If they were serious about Stadia, Google should have worked to provide experiences only Stadia could allow. That was one tagline of SG&E before it was canned a mere 18 months in - clear failure on
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by kingaillas 4y ago
>Those breakthroughs you mention, you think they wouldn't have been made if it wasn't for the military? I don't think we'd have GPS (for example) without the military, among other things like nuclear energy/weapo
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by kingaillas 4y ago
>My car for example has four tires each at a pressure of 32 PSI. The air pressure of your car/bike tires doesn't matter - all tires could be flat. Try comparing (vehicle weight + your weight) / (vehicle contact surface are
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by kingaillas 4y ago
>The trend over the last 50 years is clearly away from car dependence. Uh... no. The few streetcars and bike trails built are drowned out by the massive growth in suburbs and people living even further away from city centers (or these st
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by kingaillas 4y ago
>And which side “represents less than a plurality of voters?” Republicans won a majority of the Congressional popular vote in 2016. They got a million and a half more votes than Democrats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x

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