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by whoopdedo 2mo ago
> She'll be buying her tat on eBay in future. A third of the things I buy* from eBay come shipped by Amazon. I can't always tell if they were using the warehouse for logistics or the seller is doing arbitrage. Either way, it wo
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by whoopdedo 2mo ago
Do you have data from 2000 to 2004? Not only covering an earlier Republican administration it also captures the last tech bubble.
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by whoopdedo 8mo ago
Let us not forget that the predecessor to VeraCrypt, TrueCrypt, was suddenly discontinued and users were told they should migrate to BitLocker. There were questions about their motivation at the time. There still are questions.
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by whoopdedo 9mo ago
It does happen in America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
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by whoopdedo 11mo ago
An enemy will try to reach the same floor height as the player, and if it can't it will prefer climbing up over climbing down. It also looks left then right for another ladder or free-fall that might bring it closer to the player'
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by whoopdedo 11mo ago
Look at the subroutine `EnemyMoveGetMaxRowBot` starting at line #9353. On #9414 the data row pointer is set to the enemy's current row. On #9441 it checks if the column to the left is a pole. On #9516 it checks if the column to the rig
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by whoopdedo 1y ago
> a different set of rules for companies That is sort of the problem we find ourselves in.
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by whoopdedo 1y ago
I'd say no. We would have had the Itanium drama 10 years earlier. The i860 had some flashy features in it (integrated graphics, SIMD) but also the same Achilles' heel as Itanium of compiler-directed pipeline ordering. That made it
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by whoopdedo 1y ago
The real echo of history is that Return/Enter is still rename and open/launch is Cmd-O.
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by whoopdedo 1y ago
In case this thread gets picked up by a search engine and some future person is wondering the same thing, there is a port of winevdm[1] to 64-bit Windows that will let you run 16-bit programs. [1] https://github.com/otya128&
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by whoopdedo 1y ago
The obvious implication being who Amazon considers to be their "customer". Hint, it's not you.
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Free as Air, Free as Water, Free as Knowledge (1992)(bactra.org)
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by whoopdedo 1y ago
>The public paid for this data. Someone should file weekly FOIA requests.
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by whoopdedo 1y ago
I expect there's some selection bias at play. If you're taking a philosophy major in college it's likely you already feel confident in your post-graduation career, so can study things that you like. Whereas if you're in
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by whoopdedo 1y ago
IBM marketed "OS/2 for Windows" which made it sound like a compatibility layer to make Windows behave like OS/2. In truth it was the OS/2 operating system with drivers and conversion tools that made it easier for pe
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by whoopdedo 1y ago
And dumb-dumb me just realized how trivial that would be to break. Social engineer someone into sending/receiving money to/from your wallet then pretend to be them requesting an account recovery. Coinbase would have to make you si
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by whoopdedo 1y ago
If you ever sent money to or from a wallet you control, I'd think a reliable recovery factor would be to use that key to sign a message that Coinbase can verify with the address in their records. Cryptocurrency after all is just anothe
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by whoopdedo 1y ago
Oh no, not again.
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by whoopdedo 1y ago
These are AI bots. Computational capacity is not a limiting factor. I'd argue that my desktop consumer PC is less capable of efficiently solving a PoW than a multi-GPU cluster in a data center. Even if, as you say, crawlers will hit th
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by whoopdedo 1y ago
This has become a concern for the Arch Linux wiki which now makes you pass a proof-of-work challenge to read it. Which my anti-fingerprinting browser fails at every time. Putting a burden on human readers that will be only a minor temporary
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by whoopdedo 1y ago
Untested hypothesis, but I would expect the wider spacing between tracks in CMR makes it more resilient against random bit flips. I'm not aware of any experiments to prove this and it may be worth doing. If the HD manufacture can convi
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by whoopdedo 1y ago
Prepaid 5G phone bought with cash and activated by dialing 611.
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by whoopdedo 1y ago
https://xkcd.com/386/ Social media has bred a generation who believe that value comes from being the loudest voice in the room. One-upmanship is one of the sure ways to make your voice stand out.
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by whoopdedo 1y ago
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-thomson-postel-w...
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by whoopdedo 1y ago
> But then it says people continued to eat pork in the area. Why? Because it was cheaper. The article mentions how much easier it is to raise pigs than sheep or cattle. It also touches on the Isrealites being primarily sheep farmers and
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
The reason they're cozying up to ad-tech is because they're trying to ditch Google.
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
Send picture to multiple accounts, perhaps on different services, the links that are cached at the same data center can be more confidently believed to be related.
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
Back then, Netflix was using the threat of net neutrality regulation as a bargaining chip in their fight with Comcast/Cox. Once they reached an agreement on transit fees the astroturfing stopped. Since then it's only arisen as an
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
> because you know you literally did nothing to deserve it. This greatly underestimates the level of vanity. Look only at the number of people who inherited their wealth, or received substantial financial support, yet still consider them
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
Most comedy is tragic.[1] And laughing is an inherently selfish act, as Mel Brooks observed when he said, "comedy is when you fall in an open sewer and die."[2] [1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/06/2

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