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AnyOldName3

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  • Childhood trauma 😩

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  • It never went away. They just figured out how to make it subtle so it could be active all the time instead of just when the computer wasn't working properly. Do you really feel like you're using trauma-free software day-to-day?

  • Cyberpunk 2077 VR mod flatlines, after CD Projekt file DMCA strike and request its creator drop their paywall

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  • Generally when you see people advocate for not having to pay for things like that, it's because they want to do away with currency and the concept that a living is something that needs to be earned rather than something everyone gets as a basic right. Plenty of people make art, including games, without a profit motive, so it's not unreasonable to think that enough games would be made if everyone had way more free time and games were all made for free.

  • The sorry state of saving (mostly a rant)

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  • It's not so much about time (although I have played a couple of things that would take a ridiculously long time to save or load), it's about the number of chances to make a mistake. If you only save ten values, it's really easy for a programmer to verify that they've got everything right, but if they save ten million, there are a million times more opportunities for mistakes to sneak in and it's much harder to notice each mistake, let alone fix it.

    Fallout 4 is a bit of an odd duck here as the save format for the BGS games is basically just another ESM file, so reuses all the same serialisation and deserialisation mechanisms. Most games don't have multiple places the game data can come from and a way to combine them as they've not got an engine designed with this kind of modding in mind, so there's nothing to reuse in this way for saves. Given the general standards of engineering from that studio, if they didn't have this as a core feature of their custom engine for nearly three decades, and instead had to come up with something from scratch, they'd absolutely mess it up or have to simplify the saving system.

  • Fear that quantum computing is on the cusp of cracking cryptocurrency's encryption spurs a global investment firm to remove Bitcoin from recommendations

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  • In theory, quantum computing should be faster once hardware that's faster is available, and only if the problem you're trying to solve is in BQP, which isn't that much of what computers are used for. Progress has been slow, but continuous, so the gap between simulating a quantum computer and actually using one has been shrinking. In October last year, Google's Willow chip was verified to have achieved quantum advantage, i.e. done something that could be checked externally faster than a classical computer could have. It was only 13,000x faster, and in one specific task, which isn't really enough to change the world, but ten or twenty years ago it was still thought to be fairly plausible that the physics might not be right and even if the practical problems were solved, they still wouldn't work.

    Even if quantum computers get ludicrously fast, they're still not going to be especially common, and they'll be a piece of specialised equipment, more like an electron microscope than a home PC. Most people just don't need to do any stuff that's in BQP, so don't care if they can do it faster. If you're a company, university or government body that needs to do one of the very specific things that will be faster, though, they'll be indispensable.

    Edit: Of particular relevance to the article, at the moment, SHA256, the hashing algorithm underpinning Bitcoin, is considered to be quantum-resistant. Someone might discover some new maths that means a quantum computer can break it faster than a classical computer, but at the moment, even though people have looked into it, there's no indication that it's possible, so it should never become easier to break Bitcoin etc. with a quantum computer than a classical one.

  • Priming and sealing a painted print

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  • I've never actually needed primer to paint PLA unless the paint I was using was terrible, and wouldn't have stuck to the primer very well, either. Tamiya's acrylics have been entirely issue-free for me, both with a brush, or thinned and airbrushed, and they're not that expensive, but I've also had acceptable results with random fifteen-year-old tubes of really cheap acrylics that were sold more as a children's toy than a serious paint (although a lot of these tubes had gone bad in that time) and with Humbrol and Revel acrylics and enamels (although their acrylics come in pots that don't seal very well, so it's not that uncommon for them to be already cured when you first open them - if you're buying liquid acrylics for model painting, Tamiya is a better choice).

  • Wine 11 brings huge WoW64 overhaul, NTSYNC boost, and better gaming on Linux

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  • It's not the 'Linux on' subsystem, it's the 'Linux on Windows' subsystem, so it'd have to be Linux on Windows Windows Subsystem, which would be silly. It can't have a colon in it as some command-line tools take a subsystem as an argument, and traditionally, Windows command-line tools have used colons the same way Unix has used equals, i.e. to separate an argument name from its value, and parsing that gets harder when you're expecting colons in the value, too.

  • Wine 11 brings huge WoW64 overhaul, NTSYNC boost, and better gaming on Linux

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  • Windows has subsystems. They're called Windows Subsystems. This one's for Linux. However you slice it, the initialism has to have WS in it.

  • Should speakers hum when they're connected to a stereo, but the volume of is turned all the way down?

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  • If the ferrite is filtering a hum you can hear, it's also filtering parts of your music that you can hear because a ferrite just dampens a frequency range and can't tell what is and isn't supposed to be there.

  • Debian rule

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  • Given the number of times I've had to triage issues caused by mispackaged Debian builds, I'm baffled that Debian maintainers are under the impression that their users generally know they're supposed to report problems to the package maintainers rather than upstream. Maybe people who've been using Debian since the naughties do, but for the average user, Debian seems to be crafted specifically to generate duplicate upstream issue reports.

  • electron rule

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  • KDE uses plenty of Qt Quick, so there's still JS-type webby stuff going on.

  • I've always appreciated Roddenberry's explanation for this.

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  • In 1 Clavdivs, his character's name had anus in it, so maybe try an image search for hairy anus?

  • Why do servers and supercomputers primarily run on Linux and not on some Microsoft/Apple/Google/Amazon OS?

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  • Downstream packagers are under no obligation not to do dumb things that break things for users and make the users blame the upstream developers.

  • Shame, shame- We know your name.

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  • You're thinking of ITV. It's Graham Norton on Fridays on the BBC.

  • Why do servers and supercomputers primarily run on Linux and not on some Microsoft/Apple/Google/Amazon OS?

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  • apt was mentioned, so this might actually be Debian's problem. Python doesn't support being installed without its standard library, but (unless they've decided to stop being dumb since I last checked) Debian's python package only contains part of the standard library, and the rest is split into other optional packages. If you find software that says its only dependency is python, on Debian-derived distros, it might not work without installing extra packages, and if the software's maintainer doesn't use Debian and know about this, then their installation instructions won't cover it.

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  • But all the interesting people are in the computer, the same place as the bad stuff is.

  • Get on that grindset

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  • And the context was a sentence that was correct if you used OED sense 1, or MW sense 1, but you decided to parse it as MW sense 2b and then complain that the sentence was incorrect.

  • Will the government be able to put 2 & 2 together

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  • Obviously they'll have a carve-out for businesses that apply for a VPN licence and have the other end of the VPN remain in the country. Not because they listen to the public saying that VPNs have legitimate uses, but because the megacorp they consult with before drafting the law says it's the only legitimate use-case and has a VPN product they can sell to small businesses that can't afford to wait for their self-hosted VPN to be certified by the one overworked civil servant who has sole responsibility for approving every VPN licence.

  • Get on that grindset

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  • OED:

    1. totally or partially resistant to a particular infectious disease or pathogen.
    2. protected or exempt, especially from an obligation or the effects of something.

    Merriam Webster

    1. : not susceptible or responsive

      especially: having a high degree of resistance to a disease
    2. a: produced by, involved in, or concerned with immunity or an immune response

      b: having or producing antibodies or lymphocytes capable of reacting with a specific antigen
    3. a: marked by protection

      b: free, exempt

    So unless you pretend that MW's 2b sense is the only valid one, the immunity is immunity.

    If you have a sample of HIV at 37°C in blood, but with all the immune cells removed, it'll still all become inert after around a week simply due to chemical reactions with other components of blood etc.. It's pretty comparable to a population of animals - if you take away their ability to reproduce, they'll die of old age when left for long enough even if you're not actively killing them.

    Edit: fat-fingered the save button while previewing the formatting

  • Get on that grindset

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    • this is a shitpost community, not a biotech publication, so immune here means the dictionary definition, not any domain-specific technical jargon, otherwise people can't make shitposts about diplomatic immunity
    • lacking the receptor that HIV uses to hijack the regular immune response in order to reproduce means the regular immune response destroys it
    • even in a normal person, after exposure, a lot of HIV gets destroyed by other parts of the immune system, often enough to eliminate it before an infection gains a foothold. Once an infection takes hold, it outbreeds the immune response as it's the part best equipped to deal with a large viral load that it interferes with.
    • if you've got the virus in your body, but due to the lack of the receptor, it can't reproduce, then it doesn't remain viable for very long as each viron accumulates damage over time, and ceases to function once it's too badly damaged. People carrying a disease have enough viral reproduction going on to balance out the virus being destroyed.