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by ricket 2y ago
I googled "us government anti trust wins" and found a few articles that point out some recent ones, e.g. Adobe and Figma in December 2023, and an Apple lawsuit in March 2024.
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by ricket 4y ago
btw there is a bash feature that you can use for this touch a_tset_file.txt mv a_t{se,es}t_file.txt it works for changing file extensions: touch foo.txt mv foo.{txt,json} or for adding or removing characters, just leave the other side of th
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by ricket 6y ago
It looks fairly clean but the lowercase "r" character stuck out at me as I read the webpage. Mainly in the smaller paragraph size, not so much the titles. Something about it just looks "off" to me, sticks out like a sore
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by ricket 6y ago
Also the search index has not been updated in 8 months so it doesn't include the several recent articles. Which can be confusing, since those articles are right next to the search box when you're at the homepage. I opened a github
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by ricket 10y ago
The Pix example looks like a cinemagraph. They can be really neat and beautiful. There is a popular subreddit, /r/cinemagraphs, and other various google results. Maybe those are examples of what you could accomplish with Pix - but
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by ricket 11y ago
> To my surprise it came not just unlocked but rooted. This rings alarm bells for me. What are the chances that it comes with a pre-installed Android rootkit? How would you know?
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by ricket 11y ago
I had the same thought. You could practice magic tricks if you could flip over the deck and then shuffle and fan it! "Pick a card, any card!"
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by ricket 11y ago
I don't know why a non-gamer would bother with an AMD/NVIDIA graphics card. Even a developer. If the most graphically intensive thing you do is watch YouTube videos or Netflix, use the Intel integrated video. It's plenty good
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by ricket 11y ago
Typo: the pricing section says "Workpress"
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by ricket 12y ago
I'm not a C++11 developer, I've done a little C++ in the past. What is the pride in putting all the code in the header file? Shouldn't the declarations be there, and the definitions be pulled out into a .cpp file? Is it someh
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by ricket 12y ago
So the server always sends the same plaintext (the private key of the bitcoin wallet), encrypted presumably by the same cipher but each time with a different symmetric key of course (negotiated by the handshake). It seems (naively, I'm
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by ricket 12y ago
A toll near me (NC) has cameras and an electronic sensor over the highway; it reads your pass if you have one, or takes a picture of your license plate if you don't so that they can mail you a bill later. (there are no humans, nothing
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by ricket 12y ago
Sorry. I googled to check before posting too, but didn't consider specifically the A123. It still looks like it is an uncommon choice for main battery pack but I can see how it's at least feasible (I probably wouldn't go for
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by ricket 12y ago
It's 100% believable, technology-wise. It's a 2600 mAh LiPo (or LiFePO4 or other similar lithium battery), and the charger charges it at about 4C == 10A. The tradeoff is that such high charge rate tends to damage the battery quick
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by ricket 12y ago
It's not as entertaining than say a dynamite explosion, but here's an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixIOEPnsgbI Gassing (or smoke, not sure which) starts around 15 sec. Plenty of results for 'LiPo
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by ricket 12y ago
5C is still like 10-15min for a full charge -- and definitely does have side effects, it causes damage to the battery and will result in sagging voltages and lower capacity in just tens of charges. 5C is too high of a charge rate. I feel li
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by ricket 12y ago
I think you have to really consciously process your email though, in order for your system to work. I have gotten really bad at email lately and it's because of this: I leave my emails in my inbox like you. Except I archive something t
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by ricket 12y ago
I re-evaluated my DNS provider choice a couple days ago (good timing, apparently, as I was using Google before then). Switched back to OpenDNS because their servers responded faster than Google's, and they no longer do the ad/sear
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by ricket 12y ago
Not sure if he meant P2P as peer-to-peer or point-to-point. The latter seems to make more sense. But P2P is most commonly used to mean "peer to peer". (also pay-to-play in the games space)
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by ricket 12y ago
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by ricket 12y ago
My mom has Alzheimer's disease. I either sympathize with your situation, or if you were using it as an expression, I find the misuse a bit offensive. Particularly in this context for me, it brings up a painful memory of one of the firs
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by ricket 12y ago
10 years. Interview is dated 1985, Windows 95 is obviously 1995.
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by ricket 12y ago
I have used this technique to help me memorize company goals and also to connect codenames with their version numbers. I hated when someone would mention "Julio" and I'd have to ask "uh that's version 4.2 right?&quo
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by ricket 12y ago
"And as a hypothetical story-telling construct I created in my mind, Jane agrees 100%!" That's a very strange way to end an article. Could have just stopped before adding that last line.
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by ricket 12y ago
Can you elaborate? "pretty sure" sounds like a hunch rather than actual data.
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by ricket 12y ago
Erm, look at the URL of the original page...
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by ricket 12y ago
pronunciation* (it's one of few weird words that change spelling when you add a suffix, such as fridge/refrigerator)
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by ricket 12y ago
How... does this even work? How does a blind person construct an electrical circuit? How can they see the colors to determine a resistor, or read the capacitance on the side of a capacitor, or feel the little tiny circle that indicates whic
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by ricket 13y ago
I see the same, pretty sure it's broken for everyone, see the JS console: http://i.imgur.com/eQZlNKO.png Gotta love that professional log message, "This shit ran". In addition to several errors. The onclick f
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by ricket 13y ago
Boy, these snippets are really cool! Some of them are a bit longer in vanilla JS, though, so I think I'll wrap them in a utility of helper functions. Oh wait -- that's what jQuery is!

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