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by wernsey 21d ago
My wife and I rewatched Congo recently and he was great in that too even through all the goofiness. My wife's also a big fan of the Three Musketeers (that might be the first movie from my childhood I remember him from, come to think of
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by wernsey 1mo ago
Just some random tidbit: When I was in high school I bought every computer gaming magazine I could get my hands on and could afford with my allowance. So when Deepmind first made headlines I recalled an article in the UK magazine, Edge, whi
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by wernsey 5mo ago
What happens in practice that there are only so many grocery stores where consumers can choose to shop thanks to corporate mergers and lax antitrust enforcement. So if all of them raise their prices at the same time then those consumers are
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by wernsey 5mo ago
Surveillance pricing should be outright banned IMHO, but Cory Doctorow had an article earlier this week explaining all the ways this particular ban is broken [1]. It was probably broken by design, allowing the politicians to brag about how
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by wernsey 6mo ago
Can I just do a shout-out for UnxUtils [1]? I've had it on every Windows computer I used at work since forever now, and it is extremely useful to be able to use things like `sed` and `gawk` (and even `make`) from the command prompt [1]
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by wernsey 6mo ago
SimCity 2000 showed a message "Reticulating splines" when it generated the landscape that didn't mean anything in particular. It became a bit of a meme in the years since.
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by wernsey 7mo ago
I've also used GrafX2 for this kind of pixelart work. It takes cues from old Amiga paint programs http://grafx2.chez.com/
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by wernsey 7mo ago
Real programmers use a magnetized needle and a steady hand
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by wernsey 7mo ago
Google's concerns about security rings hollow to me. I believe it is strictly to exercise more control over the platform. The appeals to people in Southeast Asia being scammed reminds me of a blog by Cory Doctorow last year: Every comp
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by wernsey 8mo ago
It's the perception. "I couldn't be bothered to write a proper README, so I had the AI do it"
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by wernsey 8mo ago
I disagree. Code is the expression of knowledge and can be protected by copyright. A lot of the popular licenses on GitHub (like MIT) permits you to use a piece of code on the condition that you credit the original author. If an LLM outputs
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by wernsey 8mo ago
That average fortune 1000 developer is still expected to abide by the licensing terms of those libraries. And in practice, tools like NPM makes sure to output all of the libraries' licenses.
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by wernsey 8mo ago
But the license terms state under which conditions the code is released. For example: MIT license states has this clause "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of
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by wernsey 8mo ago
Maybe you should quote the full title of that post: "I got into an argument on Discord about how inefficient CBR/CBZ is, so I wrote a new file format. It's 100x faster than CBZ." It has some charts, notes and comments He
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by wernsey 8mo ago
The blog just leads to https://research.swtch.com/qr/draw/ , which is the demo page of the blogs [1] and [2] written by Russ Cox many years ago about putting pictures in QR codes by manipulating the error correctio
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by wernsey 8mo ago
Or "relevant" in the sense that it's something I bought recently: I searched for vacuum cleaners, found one I liked an bought it. Now I will be seeing ads for vacuum cleaners for the next few months.
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by wernsey 8mo ago
I've taken to using Markdeep [1] for this. You write your markdown file, but add the code snippet at the bottom of yor document and save it with a .md.html extension. Then when you double-click it it opens and renders in your browser.
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by wernsey 8mo ago
There is also a thread on Stack Exchange [1] for John Skeet facts, who has the most reputation there. [1]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-fact...
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by wernsey 9mo ago
I got such a kick out of the "Reverse Engineering the Neuralink V4 Bluetooth Protocol" comments: > My son tried something like this and now he speaks in JSON whenever he gets excited. Is there a factory reset? >> Hold a s
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by wernsey 11mo ago
I see a lot of mention of ProtonDB in this thread, so I thought I'd take a look at which of my favourite games are supported. Unfortunately, when I try to open it, it gives me a NS_ERROR_UNKNOWN_HOST when it tries to download the page&
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by wernsey 1y ago
Sadly true. There was a time I would've given them the benefit of the doubt. And don't call me Shirley
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by wernsey 1y ago
The cynic in me believes Google is doing this to exert more control over the Android ecosystem, and has very little to do with security. I'm also afraid it will make it easier for Google to bend to authoritarian regimes and ban develop
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by wernsey 1y ago
Another issue with AI not crediting such a post is that the license is CC-BY-NC (at the bottom of the page), so in theory AI would be able to launder the license. I wonder how many times this has happened already?
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by wernsey 2y ago
Neat. Somebody ported the old mobile Doom RPG to Amiga https://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=5049
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by wernsey 2y ago
There's a company called Tin Man Games that have adapted a couple of titles for modern devices. Here's a link to their adaptation of Warlock of Firetop Mountain: [0] [0]: https://tinmangames.com.au/games/the-w
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by wernsey 2y ago
Grafx2 [0] has support for some retro screen resolutions. Not sure if has everything you have in mind , though [0] http://grafx2.chez.com/
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by wernsey 2y ago
Oh, man, many years ago I used Tiddlywiki (and later Wiki-On-A-Stick) as a browser-based note taking app, but stopped using it because the API they used to save the file to disk got deprecated and removed. History not repeating but rhyming,
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by wernsey 2y ago
I had to do some digging on SuperUser [0] to get this working in Firefox, because it has the "Add Search Engine" button disabled by default. * Go to `about:config` * Change `browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh` to true * Now
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by wernsey 2y ago
Agreed, but now the doctor has to do her job and the AI's job. Cory Doctorow wrote about it a while back. I think it was this article "Humans are not perfectly vigilant" [0]. It explains how technology is supposed to help hum
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by wernsey 2y ago
This brings back memories. I worked my way through some of its source code many years ago during my post-graduate studies and it was very _strange_. I see it is now on GitHub [0]. They used C macros to implement object oriented programming,

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