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I usually just pull off at a truck stop for sleep if I'm traveling, but even those have been getting filled up lately. Plenty of exits will just have semis lined up on the shoulder…

Please specify OS and Desktop/Mobile.

How do you even represent HDR colors? I've tried Googling this and I can never really find an answer. Is it basically just eight hex digits instead of six?

I wouldn't fuck with the FAA, their interpretation of what they say is what's really the law, not what's written in the FAR. About 30 years ago a pilot in a floatplane was on step …

The teacher may start off a class with a question like "what is the most efficient way to satisfy this problem given these constraints?" Some people would know the answer immediate…

I have to say re: pipewire that it's one of the few (redhat?) projects of the past 15-20 years that doesn't seem to have generated a ton of hate from users so it must be pretty goo…

Classes like this were funny. I often found that people who just knew the answer immediately had a lot of difficulty doing proofs, and the people good at doing proofs usually didn'…

They tried to blackmail MLK to get him to kill himself. A department created originally to fight the mob started acting exactly like it. There's no way a reasonable person's faith …

Honestly every time the FBI is in the news I get confirmation they're a bunch of lying incompent sleaze bags backed and protected by the state.

This is ridiculous and really only happens because the cost of securing your customer (or citizen) data is higher than the cost of losing control of it. If the cost of losing data …

Great. Let's see what sort of response this gets from the gov't. At some point we need to start treating data as a liability.

GP mixed up vim with emacs.

Mag isn't too bad, I believe you also get acclimated to it (haven't taken it in a while). IME it's not much different from having a fiber-heavy diet.

It's about equally extreme in the level of accountability as well (for better or worse).

Hah, I brought this up here a few months ago and was quickly dismissed. I wonder if opening GPT and DALLE to the public was partly intended to pollute subsequent data for anyone th…

Not even thinking about trying this without source code.

It's a mixed bag. Everything you do IRL gets photographed and uploaded by your friends without your consent for future potential employers to scour through, Twitter becoming the wh…

or save scum it to get the loot. I got umbra gear not too long after getting out of the sewers in Oblivion by opportune saving.

Great! But I imagine a lot of jobs we'd expect to be gaining will be automated. With the state of AI and robotics this trend will accelerate. We also lose a lot of interdependency …

I'm going out on a limb, but I can't see a downside to making an "ADA for the web". Any for-profit company of a certain size or revenue has to have their content available in plain…