scarygliders

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by scarygliders 7mo ago
It does appear to work. I received a message from Discord saying "We determined you're in the adult group. <learn more>" narrator> And that's when he discovers his account has now been hacked... ;)
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by scarygliders 1y ago
Ah, brings back memories of being a Silicon Graphics Customer Support Engineer based in London and the Home Counties, back in the late 90's and early 2000's. Indy, Indigo, then later the Octanes, and others I can't quite reme
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by scarygliders 1y ago
Bush Porn. Here in Scotland, way back when I was, oh, 7, 8, 9 years old, always stumbled across discarded porn magazines in the woods I used to play in. Moved area when I was 11, once again, always used to stumble across discarded porn. Bus
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by scarygliders 2y ago
Hmmm, no mention of Teknicad? sadface I seem to be the only person (along with 3 others who were my cow-orkers) who ever used or heard of Teknicad , running on Tektronix Unix workstations and terminals :)
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by scarygliders 2y ago
That could be a very good thing, depending on which part of the planet you live. For example, I'm in Scotland, and apart from one or two days, we've basically had a "year without a summer", with cooler than normal temps.
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by scarygliders 2y ago
Projects I haven't touched for a long, long time... XRDPConfigurator : https://github.com/scarygliders/XRDPConfigurator - This is a GUI application I wrote 10 years ago. It even has a full WYSIWYG emulation of the
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by scarygliders 2y ago
Congratulations. I already told you I test my programs. The discussion is about expending brain power and time writing hundreds of lines of code to test the intended user-facing code, which, in my opinion, is just dumber than a bag of hamme
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by scarygliders 2y ago
> Don’t get me wrong, the field is riddled with people who think testing is beside them and wash their hand with the quality of what they ship and what they put their users through. That’s an issue to fix not a situation we should tolera
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by scarygliders 2y ago
> But I would like to thank all the people here who think testing is useless for their attitude. You make my job easier while hiring. That's fine. I've never written a test in my life. Have my programs ever had bugs? Sure. But
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by scarygliders 2y ago
Easily distracted by giant balls of knitting wool ;) Their one Achilles Heel.
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by scarygliders 2y ago
My first home computer was Z80 based; a Sinclair ZX81 I think I still even have a book on Z80 assembly somewhere. Had a bright orange cover.
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by scarygliders 2y ago
Er, vaping is 100% NOT smoking. There is no fire/combustion involved when vaping. Vaping is when a liquid is heated up enough to turn it into a vapour. The same process as heating water enough turns it into steam. That's it. The l
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by scarygliders 2y ago
This is entirely incorrect. The small village I live in, in Scotland? The really crappy and unreliable public transport? Yep. I need a car if I want to get to the Reasonably Priced Supermarkets and transport the weekly shopping back home co
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by scarygliders 2y ago
I don't hate the idea of living in car-free cities. It's cities I hate the idea of living in. Which is why I choose not to live in cities. And is why I need a car. Fuck cities, I hate 'em.
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by scarygliders 2y ago
Yeesh! It needs a toggle for a dark theme. Was not expecting so much blinding white.
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by scarygliders 3y ago
Look at the BBC article... Headline: "Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images" @Trump_History45 does appear to be a Trump supporter. However, he is also a parody account and states as such on his account. The BBC
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by scarygliders 3y ago
Unfortunately you've been misled by the BBC. Please read this: https://order-order.com/2024/03/05/bbc-panoramas-disinformat... Those AI generated photos are from a Twitter/X parody account @Trump_Hi
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by scarygliders 3y ago
Whilst I realise that it would eat into the weight budget of such landers, I reckon adding a fuel cell with enough fuel to last through the lunar night, which keeps the lander and its batteries alive, should be a standard and integral part
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by scarygliders 3y ago
Hang on. You said you were living in a minivan - a vehicle which took a few technological leaps to be able to develop and build, so you could live in it. You also appear to have an internet connection and a means to use it. Again, technolog
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by scarygliders 3y ago
>> X is the tech we have used since the dawn of time. It was released in 1984 and so the architecture is not suited for the way modern desktops operate. X is a mature architecture which Just Works Fine. I don't know why it's
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by scarygliders 3y ago
That is nothing compared to the cringe I experience whenever I see people type "lead" when it really called for "led"; "He lead them into battle" instead of "He led them into battle." - I see that a l
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by scarygliders 3y ago
I agree with both your reactions.
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by scarygliders 3y ago
Self-service tills are good for when you've only got a very few items to purchase and rather than stand in a long line of a staffed checkout, you can just use that instead. Otherwise, yes, as the article mentions, they're quite fr
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by scarygliders 3y ago
I see. "Look, I see racism. Everywhere! Reeeeeeeeee!"
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by scarygliders 3y ago
Indeed! The white man tripped and fell, and everyone laughed at his misfortune, then the white man ordered dinner for his family. The end.
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by scarygliders 3y ago
> Designers and companies of the world, you are badly serving an ever-growing segment of your customer base, a segment that you too will one day inhabit. That last part - "a segment that you too will one day inhabit" - is one w
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by scarygliders 3y ago
I absolutely do not mean to be rude when I say "The description of what this is, is complete word salad." Having tried the thing, it seems best summarized - currently - as "This thing is a GUI, written in javascript, allowing
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by scarygliders 3y ago
Adblockers should get more devious then. I've not looked into exactly how adblockers work, but I presume they just don't allow advert content through to be rendered by the browser - they block the html/css/js from loadin
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by scarygliders 3y ago
Just know that the .ckpt format has more or less been replaced by .safetensors these days. tl;dr .ckpt files can contain Python pickles containing runnable Python code, which means a Bad Guy could create a .ckpt model containing malicious p
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by scarygliders 3y ago
Okay I can't try it out anyway. "Blocksparse is not available: the current GPU does not expose Tensor cores" My "best" GPU is an RTX 2070 Super, Turing architecture. I've seen similar messages when using stable

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