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by swiftcoder 9d ago
God, imagine having a big enough friend group as an adult to justify an 18-gaming-PC LAN. These folks are doing something right
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by swiftcoder 9d ago
Yep, I spent a hot minute puzzling over that sentence
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by swiftcoder 9d ago
From the article: "The result does not unite quantum mechanics and gravity, nor does it show that gravity itself is quantum". I must say, it's actually quite refreshing to read an article about a science topic that conveys th
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by swiftcoder 9d ago
> GP is talking about what indications they get a page is running arbitrary code as they load it I mean, you get the same indicators as when the page runs arbitrary Javascript on load? WASM assembly may be (slightly) harder to read than
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by swiftcoder 9d ago
Oh, for sure. It's definitely one of these things that's only surprising because our cultural context is very different
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by swiftcoder 9d ago
> The problem with "firebombs on anti-abortion pregnancy crisis centers" is obviously the firebombs I don't know, if we didn't have "anti-abortion pregnancy crisis centers", the firebombs would be kind of ir
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by swiftcoder 10d ago
> because I dislike things running in the background without my knowledge Point of order: WASM doesn't let things run in the background. To do that you need WebWorkers (a javascript feature, not WASM-specific).
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by swiftcoder 10d ago
It is mind blowing to me that the shoes-off-inside rule is so deeply entrenched that emergency responders remove their shoes at the front door
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by swiftcoder 10d ago
> The payment system has to be decoupled first, and then banks can have nothing to fear from US sanctions. I'm not sure the payment system is most banks primary concern. Being able to buy/sell US securities turns out to be a fa
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by swiftcoder 10d ago
> JavaScript asceticism is a weird trend that has just never died out, no one treats any other language this way I'm not aware of any other language that is layered on top of a perfectly serviceable user-facing content delivery synt
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by swiftcoder 10d ago
> It's during the partial/annular/penumbral phases when you use the protective eyewear Those are also by far the most interesting phases to watch. Totality itself is just kind of dark.
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by swiftcoder 10d ago
> https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/20 ... This designation offers some specific examples of violence being coordinated using their systems All that demonstrates is that they operated a p
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by swiftcoder 10d ago
I mean, this sort of pales in comparison to sanctioning the International Criminal Court, no? They got away with that...
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by swiftcoder 10d ago
> Eleven days? How long do you think you could resist a tier-1 nation state coming after you on terrorism charges?
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by swiftcoder 10d ago
Unfortunately decoupling payments within the EU is insufficient if the US can just threaten to sanction your bank, and in doing so force the bank to drop you as a customer. Even in the presence of an internal European payments network, thos
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by swiftcoder 10d ago
I'm glad to see this, auth in particular is a real sore spot in self-hosting. In terms of the available integrations, Home Assistant feels like a big missing item - it's the core of many folks home server deployments.
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by swiftcoder 10d ago
> Have there been other rocket launches from continental Europe? Continental Europe? yes. The Russian's Plesetsk Cosmodrome is well within the boundaries of the European continent. Continental Europe outside of Russian influence? no
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by swiftcoder 10d ago
This is an article title that needs a ton of caveats (the ESA launch site in French Guiana is indeed part of the European Union, and Russia's Plesetsk Cosmodrome is within continental Europe). Nonetheless the underlying achievement is
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by swiftcoder 11d ago
https://archive.is/LuIpj
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by swiftcoder 11d ago
> Are there any regular typing keyboards with velocity sensitive keys? I genuinely don't know Yes, a number of the mechanical keyboards that use Hall effect switches let you access the velocity data. Wooting has an official SDK, and
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by swiftcoder 11d ago
> I'm just going off what regular typing keyboards go for. It's not that long ago that a mechanical keyboard with Hall-effect switches and individually-addressable LEDs would have set you back a couple of grand. The mechanical
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by swiftcoder 11d ago
> I don't believe the claim that the typical security training includes specific instruction in how TLDs and domain registration work Mine just has an animated llama telling me not to click suspicious links in emails
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by swiftcoder 12d ago
At least it's not Clippy?
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by swiftcoder 12d ago
I'm not sure I've ever seen such a vicious case of NIH-syndrome. Regardless, congrats on the solve!
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by swiftcoder 13d ago
I mean, we could say much the same of any other non-country TLD, and probably half the country TLDs. That doesn’t mean one shouldn’t expect it to be administered responsibly
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by swiftcoder 13d ago
Luckily the average person has no idea what a TLD or a subdomain are
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by swiftcoder 13d ago
They ran the backend services, but didn't set the policies (until they acquired the operator in 2008-2009)
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by swiftcoder 13d ago
> nonstandard TLD What exactly is non-standard about an ICANN-approved TLD? Yes, the multi-level structure is a little odd, but given that ICANN approved it in the first place, one has a reasonable expectation that they would work as adv
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by swiftcoder 13d ago
it's probably a 10 year registration, plus a pre-paid renewal at the registrar
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by swiftcoder 13d ago
My first thought on seeing the images was "texture coordinates for a sphere are hard"

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