sprayk

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by sprayk 4mo ago
10 base 2 is 2 base 10. i gave four unique hard problems. and now typing this out i see that I was off by 1 (or two)
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by sprayk 4mo ago
there are actually 10 problems: naming things, cache invalidation, base conversions, off by one errors, and cache invalidation
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by sprayk 8mo ago
gp is likely referring to a specific diet called The Mediterranean Diet, "inspired by the eating habits and traditional foods of Greece, Italy, and the Mediterranean coasts of France and Spain, as observed in the late 1950s to early 19
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by sprayk 9mo ago
all CRTs televisions were either 60Hz or 50Hz depending on where you are in the world
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by sprayk 1y ago
scoop, Choco, and winget are all very different. winget is closest to Choco in that it prefers to just run regular installers. It keeps its own state of installed packages, though, while winget uses the same sources of truth as "Add&#x
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by sprayk 2y ago
It would be interesting to put an Alexa (or another voice assistant device) in a space with only an audio playback device around to keep it company, with that audio playback device playing sounds associated with various crimes (but never sa
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by sprayk 2y ago
cat, pizza, dog, red car, Tokyo, dolphins, garden The usual context is "oh I saw some dolphins forever ago. let me see if I can find the photos..."
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by sprayk 2y ago
In my case, Comcast has a city government-granted monopoly to provide broadband, so they are my only choice (without going to a WISP/Starlink)
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by sprayk 2y ago
> I had no idea Linux just added anything found on a network before the user can even accept or be notified. The more you know! Windows does this too, I believe. At least it did it with a Xerox laser printer I bought and the Brother prin
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by sprayk 2y ago
the only Zenfone they make now is the Zenfone 11 Ultra, which is a big phone :(
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by sprayk 2y ago
Are there any scrolling WMs you can recommend? I have always been interested but never found one that I could get working (on Linux).
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by sprayk 2y ago
I never ged ads for "real" drugs, just the normal OTC/prescription stuff and occasionally some legal analogues (non-psilocybin mushroom gummies come to mind). Very curious what they look like as well and what their sites say
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by sprayk 2y ago
The most recent prolog news I've come across in recent years is some updates to SWIprolog (can't find a good link) and some talk of Scryer-prolog[0] which is a more recent implementation of Prolog in Rust. One interesting developm
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by sprayk 2y ago
Can anyone recommend some business that would make harnesses from such a specification?
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by sprayk 3y ago
in files/DCN1.TXT there is essentially a hosts file, and in it are a bunch of udel hostnames that still existed when I was in undergrad and working for the EE/CIS lab. The PDPs were all replaced by sun systems at that point, but s
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by sprayk 3y ago
Menlo Park, green blazers, I believe. I recall a 99% Invisible episode about them.
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by sprayk 3y ago
Hm, interesting. I guess they both could be true, like I could totally see myself sitting around trying to come up with a fun name for my software project and being influenced by a film I saw the previous weekend. But given that the documen
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by sprayk 3y ago
I unfortunately stopped daily driving gentoo right as core counts in consumer machines started to go above 1. I have played around w/ it a few times since, and was blown away by how much faster emerges go when you add ever increasing n
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by sprayk 3y ago
> Co-founder Brian Behlendorf states how the name 'Apache' was chosen: "I suggested the name Apache partly because the web technologies at the time that were launching were being called cyber this or spider that or somethi
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by sprayk 3y ago
I was under the impression that striking actors concerns with AI were over AI reproducing their likenesses, but this article is claiming that the fears would also consider non-specific (non-imitation, non-likeness, ?) generated voices a thr
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by sprayk 3y ago
I know there are other search engines out there, but I haven't really given any a shot. Do any of them feel like the Google Search of the past?
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by sprayk 3y ago
in system settings somewhere you should be able to disable smart quotes (or something like that).
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by sprayk 4y ago
neither video/audio decoders nor demuxers nor subtitle format parsing/rendering have OS APIs. hell, there's at least a few ways you can draw a rendered frame to the screen on any OS that will take different paths through eith
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by sprayk 4y ago
uninstalling should not work at all on at least some of those apps, as they will exist on the read-only system partition (that only gets touched when the phone updates).
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by sprayk 4y ago
“We are absolutely diverting essential resources away from people who need it toward a feature on a phone,” Dummer said.
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by sprayk 4y ago
Indeed. They are pretty big into cutting edge CPU design. I've seen some pretty cool system architecture coming from them as well. e.g. their cache setups on z mainframes[0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6u_oNIXF
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by sprayk 4y ago
We can all be so blind sometimes to the 8th layer of the OSI model.
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by sprayk 4y ago
Curious: what is the version control story like for stored procs? The two that naively come to mind would be 1. Organized in some regular repo with some tooling to deploy/sync 2. Some way of tracking versions _in a DB_ and some magic s
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by sprayk 4y ago
what is the difference between a processed food and an unprocessed food? what degree of processing makes a food ultra-processed? what ingredients should I be looking for and why? what is so nutritious about potatoes, and why does frying cha
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by sprayk 4y ago
Meta (the company) too, maybe. They have a pretty big datacenter footprint.

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