Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org
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Software developer, open-source enthusiast, wannabe software architect. I like learning and comparing different technologies. Also general STEM nerd.
Joined May 2021
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In the old #ASCII days, you could change a letter between upper and lower case by XORing its character code with 0x20. Of course, if you tried this with anything that wasn't a letter, you'd get nonsense results.
If you try that with #Unicode code points, it sometimes works, and sometimes doesn't. But Unicode can deliver much more impressive nonsense when it doesn't.
A fun example I just found: the "lower-case" version of CAR is NO PEDESTRIANS.
>>> chr(ord('
') ^ 0x20)
'
'
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I was joking on Tumblr that two things I think the US should do are:
1. Revive the Superconducting Supercollider project (canceled in 1993)
2. Build a ton of high speed rail.
So why not combine the two? With a Superconducting Supercollider Train you could cut the travel time between New York & LA down from 6.5 hours to 13 milliseconds!
@CodingItWrong these SEO spam sites got what they deserve with the AI summaries.
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According to all known laws of DNS, there is no way a fedi instance could be hosted on an .ARPA domain.
Even if you get ahold of a domain like this, it should only be used for PTR records - right?
The instance, of course, federates anyway - because DNS doesn't care what humans think is impossible.
@VD15 the way I think the investors see it, the only way to actually profit off AI with the insane investments being put into it is to corner the market, leaving people no choice but to use one product or a couple of equally expensive alternatives. Which makes it feasible for companies to spend that much money on hardware.
Foreign and/or open serious competition threatens that business model.
I like to make fun of usians for using medieval units, but someone just reminded me that the brits measure weight in fucking stones lmao
cavemaxxing
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to be honest, arduino's compilation time is pretty fast, when you realize it does it all In The Cloud, and it has to make a dial-up connection each time, and that 286 they've got only has 4 modems, so sometimes it has to redial
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@anthropy When I was at Microsoft, backwards compatibility was the main excuse the Windows team used for not fixing terrifying design flaws. And yet, I have more success running old 32-bit Windows apps on WINE on an AArch64 CPU (with no 32-bit support in hardware) under emulation in Rosetta than on a modern Windows machine. And they often run faster.
In the last 20 years, WINE has gone from ‘maybe it will work on WINE, if you’re really lucky’ to ‘oh, it doesn’t work on Windows 11? Try WINE on another OS, it will probably be fine’.
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The WINE 10.0 change list looks amazing:
- ARM support
- Many graphics pipeline and touch input improvements, could be worth trying this with programs like Paint tool SAI and CSP
- Better high DPI and scaling support
- Native Wayland support
- Improved COM/RPC proxies and calling
- Moving from GStreamer to FFmpeg for decoding things should improve many things, also things like game intro videos etc.
- and much more
@trinsec that was me with a protein shake and cereal a year ago. Big mistake.
@CodingItWrong with how bad the clickbait problem has gotten, it could be legitimately helpful for people not using things like DeArrow.
@sponsorblock would be nice. After using it for a few weeks I'm still torn on whether the anti-clickbait functionality is worth all of the fun, not really clickbait titles being replaced by things apparently written by the most boring killjoy in the world.
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I have broken my windows in a unique way: I'm using a high-DPI display, but my menu size and some other metrics are set wrong.
This happened for reasons. But since Windows 10 removed the Appearances control panel, you can't fix it.
what if I use a ported Windows 8 appearances control panel? THAT'S HOW I BROKE IT IN THE FIRST PLACE
@liilliil @andrewstroehlein note how he explicitly noted that the salt soup is also served to patients with high blood pressure. It's natural that a hospital will serve something to patient A that could harm patient B, it's impossible to fit all cases with the same food. The problem is when it doesn't properly handle that.
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I don't know how we expect to deal with e-mail fraud when we keep insisting on unworkable solutions like "make sure you don't click scary links", while at the same time sending security reviews from external services nobody has heard of with links to third party services.
It's clear that "not sending employees to third party services they have never heard of" is a lost cause, so security needs to STOP suggesting that and instead start figuring out how to deal with it.
I just realised that the famous ghost buildings in China are literally an IRL analogue to proof-of-work cryptocurrency. People buy the apartments knowing they don't have any practical use, only as a vessel to preserve savings to one day sell to someone else buying them for the same purpose, and their supply is limited by literal work and materials.
They've implemented the most inefficient form of currency known to man, and they don't even have any of the benefits crypto provides.
Half of all new "hits" I hear on the radio are older famous songs with the vocals replaced by some wannabe pop star singing about dancing. If this is the state of the industry, then no wonder they're afraid of AI. It's literally more creative.
@NetworkManager sorry for asking, but why is your logo jerking itself off?
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Software developer, open-source enthusiast, wannabe software architect. I like learning and comparing different technologies. Also general STEM nerd.
Joined May 2021
