ldarby

6 ms·

1.
by ldarby 3y ago
> It seems like the real solution is a law which requires the stations to accept a more universal payment system like credit cards. No shit, Sherlock? In the UK a lot of fuel pumps have credit/debit card readers built in, and if no
2.
by ldarby 3y ago
Just in case you weren't joking, and at the risk of making a fool of myself if you were and still are joking (and/or trolling us now), where you initially said "non-rewritable optical storage media", some people people i
3.
by ldarby 3y ago
I found it confusing - if a URL is "offline", I'd expect some kind of error message like connection refused or no such domain. The URL here is not "offline", it's the BL that's offline, and the BL isn&#x2
4.
by ldarby 3y ago
> It would not make sense to train a model for every advertiser and then upload that to the phone. I was assuming that's what they were doing. Maybe you could combine both ways, with really imprecise models, so the phone captures a
5.
by ldarby 3y ago
I'm sure it's existed for many years. Ultrasonic tracking apps are from 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-device_tracking#Applicat... Let's try to imagine a world where that exists, keyword dete
6.
by ldarby 3y ago
I'd assume that this listening functionality only comes with certain apps, that's certainly the case for ultrasonic tracking apps [0]. Probably you have just managed to avoid installing such apps. [0] https://en.wikipe
7.
by ldarby 3y ago
>. Nothing stops you from using another phone, Do you realise phones cost money and not everyone can afford an iPhone?
8.
by ldarby 3y ago
It's viewable via Nitter: https://nitter.net/SenWarren/status/1733956234200445130 But I agree with the earlier point, that it is a closed platform. If you want to respond, I thought it requires a phone numb
9.
by ldarby 3y ago
No, it's the other way round. You setup this DNS server to serve e.g. evil.com on the global internet. Then if you can control the client, you can just do regular DNS lookups for <longstring>.evil.com, that goes to the victim&#x
10.
by ldarby 3y ago
I'm not suggesting anywhere is actually using brainfuck. Why would you think I was? I was attempting to use rhetoric to point out that you do in fact care about choice of language.
11.
by ldarby 3y ago
There's something extremely satisfying to me about finding the source of a noise and I love how this one was recorded and analysed. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unexplained_sounds , https:/&
12.
by ldarby 3y ago
So you'd be happy working at a place that required all code to be in brainfuck? That choice of computer language is "just an implementation detail" and you can still solve your interesting abstract problems in it so you shoul
13.
by ldarby 3y ago
You're not getting that most employers treat the requirement to use windows like the requirement to wear pants, i.e. they're not going to state it.
14.
by ldarby 3y ago
I've used Linux as my primary OS for > 20 years. My current job supports Mac and Windows and I accepted it with the understanding that I'd have to use windows, but couldn't get used to it, so switched to a Mac. Maybe I c
15.
by ldarby 3y ago
That is the same thing as preferences. Different things are important to different people, these are preferences by definition.
16.
by ldarby 3y ago
> I'm annoyed when I have to move my hand back to the mouse. You can bind a keyboard shortcut to a script that copies the primary to clipboard, then can use ctrl-v. Most apps also bind shift-insert to paste the paste buffer, so I b
17.
by ldarby 3y ago
(3 days later, responding to myself). Maybe this was bad advice, this approach is like trying to learn a spoken language by listening to a recording and looking up each word at a time. Probably it'd be better to get a deep understandi
18.
by ldarby 3y ago
You just need to understand assembly. Maybe there are books that can help, I'm not aware of any, but to get started I'd recommend taking a binary of any open source software (preferably a non-optimised build, or just your own hel
19.
by ldarby 3y ago
Also the film Conspiracy Theory - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118883/plotsummary/ > Jerry tells her that NASA is trying to kill the President using a secret weapon on the Space Shuttle that can trigger e
20.
by ldarby 3y ago
> Yes, not every random app and feature you use on Xorg will have a Wayland equivalent. Deal with it. This is straight from the Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers model: https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html .
21.
by ldarby 3y ago
I don't develop or support anything on Windows. Sure that excludes 99.9% (I guess) of career options involving a computer, but I've still found employment that doesn't require Windows. But once either Microsoft finally succe
22.
by ldarby 3y ago
If Windows is required for work then you've already lost. Seriously I'm unable to be productive in Windows (or Mac, I tried). I don't know what the stats are on employers requiring Windows but my current one doesn't (m
23.
by ldarby 3y ago
I highly recommend the podcast It Could Happen Here, they are good for bursting such bubbles. Last update they had on Myanmar is here: https://omny.fm/shows/it-could-happen-here/the-junta-s-sham-... (or anywhere
24.
by ldarby 3y ago
Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them
25.
by ldarby 3y ago
You completely misunderstand. Windows and Mac are different enough from every linux distro that the argument isn't about them. And if you're going to start talking about copy-rightable works of entertainment, then yes if you writ
26.
by ldarby 3y ago
Debian and Arch are different enough that the argument isn't about them. The issue is the 100's of distros that could be replaced with just "install <major distro> and do apt install X" (or some other trivial thin
27.
by ldarby 3y ago
I wasn't even aware of the artificial limit (I'm in the UK), that's absurd... By "tea cup size" I meant the unrestricted 9 L tank.
28.
by ldarby 3y ago
They haven't published the fuel tank size or non-electric range (at least, I couldn't find this info easily), so I'd expect it to be similar to the BMW i3's tea cup sized fuel tank.
29.
by ldarby 4y ago
No it doesn't say that. > That morning, a software bug in an update to the DynamicSource tool caused ... This says when the bug happened, not when the update was made.
30.
by ldarby 4y ago
> If the automatically loaded data strikes either pilot as not right, they can make a manual request for takeoff data from the airline operations center. “But 99.8% of the time, the data is accurate,” he said. > Alaska’s Peyton said “

More ›