kingcharles

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by kingcharles 3y ago
Boss mode activated.
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by kingcharles 3y ago
As someone that just lost everything I own to fire I think this is a bad idea. The fire is a problem, certainly, but a secondary problem that killed all my paperwork was the fire service putting out the fire. That high pressure water is get
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by kingcharles 3y ago
I understand the technical part: they are unlocking the extra power electronically. What I don't understand is what is different between the headline saying that you can pay $60 for your car to go faster (true) and parent poster saying
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by kingcharles 3y ago
I'm confused as to how those two statements are different?
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by kingcharles 3y ago
You might never get a chance to wipe it. I had a cop whip out a loaded gun and point it at my head to take my phone out of my hand. I didn't even have a lock code as there was nothing to hide, but if I had been a criminal I would not h
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by kingcharles 3y ago
Ah, I too had to settle for Tomy after drooling over the Hero range as a child.
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by kingcharles 3y ago
In theory that is how it should work. I promise in practice that you will get absolutely nowhere. Most prosecutors seem local, either municipal or county, but in actuality are State workers, and the State is generally completely disinterest
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by kingcharles 3y ago
It will eventually become one of the most significant technologies in history, alongside AI, in my opinion. People are confusing bulky headsets with the general concept of VR. If I showed you a working holodeck today you would think it sign
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by kingcharles 3y ago
Just want to say thank you. Great article and really enjoyed your other about flexbox vs. grid.
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by kingcharles 3y ago
I've been a web designer since 1993. It was nice in 1993 because you didn't even have a background color. The color of your page was the default color of the window on your OS. Usually grey. Then we went through 25 years of dark a
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by kingcharles 3y ago
If you discover law enforcement or prosecutors committing crimes, who do you report it to? This is a serious question. You can only report it to their peers, and I promise you, from personal experience, that you will get absolutely nowhere
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by kingcharles 3y ago
Lol the water from the fire service did more damage. Fire proof, but not high pressure water proof.
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by kingcharles 3y ago
The examples on the README are extremely compelling; the state of the art has been raised yet again.
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by kingcharles 3y ago
My entire storage building just burned to the ground with my safe in it, all my paper codes, my laptop with all my auth on it. Luckily by sheer fluke my phone was saved which has my TOTP apps on it or I would never get into anything again.
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by kingcharles 3y ago
As someone who worked in transcription last year I would say the biggest reason for transcription job losses in the West is competition from India where English speakers are willing to do transcription for a fraction of the cost. Fully auto
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by kingcharles 3y ago
Now I have to compete against AI for my username: https://chirper.ai/kingcharles
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by kingcharles 3y ago
I heard the pirate shipbuilding unions are celebrating.
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by kingcharles 3y ago
This is far more important than it initially appears. Current AI image generators let you create pictures of your wildest dreams and desires. The logical conclusion of this is the ability to create perfect VR worlds of your fantasies and en
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by kingcharles 3y ago
If anyone wonders what it is like to be born British, this is the answer. We can't help ourselves. This is the burden we live with on a daily basis.
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by kingcharles 3y ago
I ran a web site and our e-commerce all ran through PayPal, about $2m a year. One competitor would email PayPal on a weekly basis to tell them we were selling CSAM which was a really great way to get PayPal to instantly block all payments w
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by kingcharles 3y ago
Last night I needed a really hard regex and I'm terrible at reflex so I would have spent literally hours browsing the web and testing expressions, wasting energy in the process. Instead I asked ChatGPT and it spat out the entire regex
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by kingcharles 3y ago
Thanks, that's a great resource.
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by kingcharles 3y ago
Lol. My friend and I did the same with a local DVD vending machine. If you brought the disc back within a few hours the price was ridiculously low, so we had the laptop in the car with a cigarette adapter and ripped 700+ ISOs. The irony is
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by kingcharles 3y ago
Microsoft broke the ground. Their DRM that opened the door for legal music sales came out in 1998 I think. Certainly by 1999 I was using it commercially and had the first labels already onboard. I remember the controversy - it was CD Baby f
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by kingcharles 3y ago
That was after. That was closing the barn door after the horse has bolted.
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by kingcharles 3y ago
LOL. I coded all of those. It was horrible. Not one of those companies gave a damn about the product, they just wanted a revenue share for putting a link in their stores or on their web sites. The startup that I was working for was OD2, hal
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by kingcharles 3y ago
This had never crossed my mind before but seems reasonable in retrospect. Essentially you are saying that bug zappers actually exasperate the problem they are trying to solve and it would be better to not use one?
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by kingcharles 3y ago
I had to buy a prepaid cell subscription the other day. I went with the one that stated "Truly Unlimited"* as the headline, clearly to differentiate it from all the other "Not Truly Unlimited" plans. * Truly Limited for
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by kingcharles 3y ago
As a serial FOIA litigator you have to sue. It's not too hard. Having battled jails and prisons on similarly vague local comparison pricing for their commissary items, my bet is that none of the comparison procedures are being followed
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by kingcharles 3y ago
I really like these "leaked" emails because a couple of times I've gotten to see behind the curtain of projects, like this one, that I was involved in. I remember one issue here was trying to demo Microsoft's DRM to musi

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