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by smnc 3mo ago
Alex Rivera's 2008 movie Sleep Dealer is not without flaws, but it left quite an impression on me. I watched it it after seeing it recommended here in a comments thread on an article about military drone operators, I should probably
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by smnc 4mo ago
> as long as I am confident it is correct Are you? Does it cost you extra (time or money) to be?
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by smnc 7mo ago
Do you mind me asking, what kind of problems did you run into with Neo4j? Did you encounter performance issues after the DB grew to a certain size, or did you realize that the data wasn't suited to a graph DB and weird query patterns s
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by smnc 8mo ago
I've wanted this for i3, but I guess I wasn't sufficiently motivated :) Given that sway's homepage describes it as a drop-in replacement for i3, I'll try it out tomorrow.
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by smnc 1y ago
> - Ports exposed by Docker punch through the firewall I've been using ufw-docker [1] to force ufw and docker to cooperate. Without it, Docker ports do actually get exposed to to the Internet. As far as I can tell, it does its job c
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by smnc 1y ago
Previous posts in the series: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-windows-r... https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-windows-r... https://googlepro
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by smnc 1y ago
> CAN uses bit arbitration and the lowest address wins. And in doing so it prioritizes important messages and enables deterministic timing.
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by smnc 2y ago
There are a bunch of modules, you can connect them in various modulation configurations. > Module is a basic element of the SunVox. There are several types of modules (...) https://www.warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/m
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by smnc 2y ago
> As an optimization, it is helpful to use a local variable for the reference to the first pointer. Doing so improves the perfomance substantially: C# is not happy when we repeatedly modify a reference. Thus, at the start of the function
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by smnc 2y ago
> while Denisovans left at the same time into Asia ending up concentrated in Serbia. You probably meant to write Siberia.
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by smnc 3y ago
Hashing is not compression, it should not be reversible/inflatable.
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by smnc 3y ago
> they go with the aesthetic de jure You probably meant to write "du jour" :)
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by smnc 4y ago
Furthermore, from the same article: > Lem, however, considered one science fiction author as exempt from his scathing criticisms – his denouncer, Philip K. Dick. The title of an essay Lem published about Dick is evidence enough of this h
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by smnc 4y ago
> Having said that, I personally detest the particular populist-with-lack-of-nuance approach Sabine (and others like her) take. Not arguing against the point you are making, just highlighting a silly turn of phrase. Who ever encountered
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by smnc 4y ago
For a webserver, scalability (as in ability to handle a large number of concurrent request) is a performance metric. Speed of handling each one of those requests is another performance metric.
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by smnc 4y ago
Is this a machine translation? > The old woman gave various interviews during the Ecce Homo boom era, where she revealed her skills as an artist. He painted for a long time, had exhibitions and even sold his art, which was very different
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by smnc 4y ago
Any recommendations?
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by smnc 4y ago
One of the top comments on the youtube video: > That was 1971. Now 43 years later, we still use the over 100 years old combustion engine. Something is seriously wrong in this world.
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by smnc 5y ago
This guy explains the process of creating a basic bass sound quite well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XbrTC0NndM
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by smnc 5y ago
Not sure how they compare feature-wise, but take a look at FoxDot: https://github.com/Qirky/FoxDot
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by smnc 5y ago
I wouldn't call that "what was once known in the scene as DivX"...
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by smnc 6y ago
One of the old Opera mobile browsers (Mini or Mobile) worked in a somewhat similar way.
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by smnc 6y ago
It is possible to disable kibitzing for a table (or a tournament, or a team match etc.), but kibitzing is a feature. It's often both educational and entertaining to kibitz high profile players and participate in the play commentary and
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by smnc 6y ago
A similar thing has been happening in online contract bridge. https://bridgewinners.com/article/view/the-2020-online-cheat... https://bridgewinners.com/article/view/confession-of-a-self-.
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by smnc 7y ago
This series in particular: http://redlettermedia.com/best-of-the-worst-archive/
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by smnc 7y ago
How about controlling a band consisting of robots playing real instruments? [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7nMZvueKNQ > Compressorhead are built out of metal scrap, most of the movings are made with electro pneumat
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by smnc 8y ago
> Sybase's T-SQL does not have equivalent for LIMIT.[0] Are you looking for SELECT TOP 3 ...?
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by smnc 9y ago
"Faster" is technically a comparative, not a superlative. Otherwise, sound advice.
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by smnc 9y ago
In a world where developer convenience wins over performance, operations and data safety a significant number of those same developers argue over whether they should be referred to as computer scientists, engineers, architects, or painters.
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by smnc 9y ago
Like dombili said, you can integrate Subliminal. One of the nice things about mpv is that it's lua-scriptable. Here's a rough version of my script: https://github.com/smnx/mpv-autosub (forked from https:&#x2

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