sprayk

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Comment · 1 month ago
looks like a great book, but the cover is hard to look at after having a few painful soldering burns
Comment · 5 months ago
10 base 2 is 2 base 10. i gave four unique hard problems. and now typing this out i see that I was off by 1 (or two)
Comment · 5 months ago
there are actually 10 problems: naming things, cache invalidation, base conversions, off by one errors, and cache invalidation
Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 10 months ago
all CRTs televisions were either 60Hz or 50Hz depending on where you are in the world
Comment · 1 year ago
scoop, Choco, and winget are all very different. winget is closest to Choco in that it prefers to just run regular installers. It keeps its own state of installed packages, though, while winget uses the same sources of truth as "Add/Remove programs" (msstore/appx and the "uninstall" group in the registry). Scoop is its own thing that installs everything under its own prefix and manages its own state.
Comment · 1 year ago
It would be interesting to put an Alexa (or another voice assistant device) in a space with only an audio playback device around to keep it company, with that audio playback device playing sounds associated with various crimes (but never saying the trigger word obviously). I wonder if there are any crimes it thinks it would hear that would result in a police visit. If police were called as a result of this setup, would this constitute a false police report on Amazon's behalf?

In the US, because I'm at least reasonably confident that such a setup comes nowhere near any exceptions to free speech protections here.

Comment · 1 year ago
cat, pizza, dog, red car, Tokyo, dolphins, garden

The usual context is "oh I saw some dolphins forever ago. let me see if I can find the photos..."

Comment · 1 year ago
In my case, Comcast has a city government-granted monopoly to provide broadband, so they are my only choice (without going to a WISP/Starlink)
Comment · 2 years ago
> I had no idea Linux just added anything found on a network before the user can even accept or be notified. The more you know!

Windows does this too, I believe. At least it did it with a Xerox laser printer I bought and the Brother printer at my friend's place.

Comment · 2 years ago
the only Zenfone they make now is the Zenfone 11 Ultra, which is a big phone :(
Comment · 2 years ago
Are there any scrolling WMs you can recommend? I have always been interested but never found one that I could get working (on Linux).
Comment · 2 years ago
I never ged ads for "real" drugs, just the normal OTC/prescription stuff and occasionally some legal analogues (non-psilocybin mushroom gummies come to mind). Very curious what they look like as well and what their sites say about the purchase process (what forms of payment do they accept, how do they ship, etc).
Comment · 2 years ago

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