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  • Immigration and Customs Enforcement said the 55-year-old father of four was attempting suicide and the staff tried to save him.

    ...save him...

    for themselves

  • Prerequisites

    Those look like build prerequisites. Many decomp projects do not need original game assets at build time, just runtime.

    and after that...

    cdpath and diskpath registry keys [...] point to the correct location for the asset files

    I read this as another implication that original game files are required. Otherwise, why would you need a registry key telling the new game engine where to look for assets? The /assets file in the git repo contains only 3 pngs of icon images. There's no way they've secretly bundled a whole game's worth of models and textures in the codebase.

  • Implication from the readme is that the lego island decomp does indeed need original assets:

    The simplest way to use the recompiled binaries is to swap the original executables (ISLE.EXE, LEGO1.DLL, and CONFIG.EXE) in LEGO Island's installation directory for the ones that you've built from this source code.

  • In the US it's up to individual states to set laws that require breaks.

  • Fucking insane, and very sad.

    I recall that during the cold war, US intelligence agencies were worried that American hams might be sending secrets to amateurs in the USSR. They commissioned some report and the findings were basically "The only thing these nerds talk about are signal reports and radio equipment".

  • I'm in the habit of shredding everything.

    a) It's so fun to watch a stack of mailers turn into confetti

    b) Deniability. If I only shred important documents, then all my shredded trash is now important. If I shred everything, nobody knows how much of it is important.

    Mostly A though. I'm not yet worried about someone trying to reconstruct my shredded trash.

  • Seconding the other user's recommendation of an unmanaged switch.

    If your goal is to add more ethernet devices to your network, adding an unmanaged switch to your router is the simplest way to do it. Anything plugged into the switch will operate on the same network as your router and, as a pure hardware solution, it will never need software maintenance.

    If your goal is to learn how to build a router-oriented linux install from scratch, then go ahead with your original plan.

  • I watched a documentary about that: Into Eternity

    What I thought was interesting about the film was the balance between entertaining a fantastical vision of some future explorer stumbling across the radioactive site, and the mundanity of most of the actual work.

    One of the engineers said something like: "When we seal this up with so much concrete, there's no way you're getting in here without machinery. We should be more concerned about a future civilization that comes back here for radioactive materials when they've exhausted all other natural sources"

    And then there's a whole section of the film about rules-lawyering the storage site. The dump was chartered by the Finish government to seal waste "for all time", and the engineers were mad that nothing is truly permanent.

  • A good friend of mine is quitting their (once) dream fed job, counting down the remainder until their last day. They work for the government to enforce engineering safety standards, but can no longer stomach the gutting of safety regulations that their department manages. Upon raising ethical concerns, they got dragged into a room with lawyers who relayed a parable about ethics. The lesson was: Be "a good soldier" and ignore safety regulations if you're told to do so.

    I go to work everyday and feel like a mail clerk in the Death Star

    My friend to me

  • Ironic

    Jump
  • Pedantry:

    I can buy all the drinks I want at a bar. I'm just not allowed to consume them myself.

    No bar is going to eject someone just because they're buying drinks for other people.

  • Problem is that if you use white text on dark background, the bugs will be attracted to your code.

    Meanwhile, when I use dark text on a white background, the bugs are only attracted to whitespace. Easily removed with a linter.

  • Solarized gang rise up!

    If I don't want to be blinded by my screen, I either turn the monitor brightness down or the ambient lighting up.

  • Does this mean it should be possible to have 30 simultaneous JS8Call transmissions on a single SSB CB channel?

    Yes. If you play around with JS8Call, you'll notice that the UI picks a frequency offset from the SSB band and parks itself there. If you move the offset frequency to be near other traffic, the messages from nearby offsets will auto-populate in the yellow text box.

    Do people have to transmit after each other or can they transmit at the same time while being spaced out within the the same channel?

    Data frames are synchronized to 15 second time windows (I think). You can transmit during the same window as anyone else, as long as you're not both on the same frequency offset.

  • I appreciate that the definition of the does not contain the word the.

  • Protos reporting on the bet indicates that this unknown person had been building a position since December. The list of people who knew so far in advance must be smaller.

  • I like analog clocks because they're usually more decorative than digital clocks. If I'm going to hang a clock in a room (and I will, because I hate not knowing what time it is) then chances are high that I'll get some cool artsy analog.

  • These are really cool! I've been meaning to get a 6m antenna ever since I got my IC-705. Now that this page has taught me about the hentenna, I think I might build one.

  • Not sure if you're making a joke, but that's also the conclusion of this video:

    ChatGPT was trained on mandela-effect data (reddit posts) talking about emojis that don't really exist. When asked about these specific emojis, its text prediction is primed to answer that they exist, but it cannot substatiate that prediction by outputting the non-existing emoji.

  • I've heard people say "the wee hours of the night" to refer to time between midnight and dawn.

    I think one of the reasons that there's not a good word for that in English is because it's the time anyone is least likely to be awake, so there's not much reason to talk about it. And then by the time humans built enough lights to do something worthwhile at 02:00, we also had clocks and started to describe that period in reference to clock readings.

  • Resist: It's Time @fedia.io

    2m Moxon antenna for protesting

  • Amateur Radio @lemmy.radio

    2m Moxon antenna for protesting

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev

    Blog post where someone used Python quirks to evaluate false == true

  • Movies & TV @hexbear.net

    The Spine of Night (2021)

  • Coffee @lemmy.world

    Espresso shot pullers: How long does your method take?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world

    Appropriate settings for a private matrix server

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml

    If you got accidentally duplicated, do you think your copy would try and kill you?

  • transgender @lemmy.ml

    Agonizing: Stay or Go

  • transgender @lemmy.ml

    Tranarchy in the UK: Questions about GRC and immigration