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How does this compare to diskDedupe, which has been around longer and is much cheaper?

Parents can stop giving kids smartphones.

I've been running Claude Code with --dangerously-skip-permissions in a Docker container for the last month or so, allowing me to get up and stretch my legs while it does its thing.…

I'd start by identifying all the known boundaries: 52 cards, so each card can be represented by a byte. Cards are arranged into 4 stacks of up to 13 cards each, 7 columns of up to …

You can't polish a Hurd.

It'll take more than a mouse jiggler to fool this new bossware.

It reminds me of tax law in many countries. You can follow the letter of the law, but if the vibes are off, you can still be found to be in breach of a vague catch-all provision (e…

You're absolutely right. Your belt-and-braces are earning their keep.

The only time I use Reddit is when I land there via a Google search. Posts get flagged as mature at the drop of a hat, so my go-to has always been to replace www with old. Now that…

It was closed-book. Take-home, closed-book seems like an oxymoron anyway. A lot of the cheating students would have concluded that other students are going to cheat and get a much …

> including the half ass Australian solution. It was designed to be half-arsed so Digital ID can come along and save the day. Australia's Digital ID opens up to the private sector …

The defining aspect of Bedrock is C++, not DirectX. Bedrock runs on numerous platforms where DirectX isn't available. Minecraft isn't exactly be the type of game to showcase a 3D A…

The Australian one will label them as Unverified. Personally, I'd prefer them to be blocked. If it's important and legitimate, they'll register.

As an Australian, I'm happy to hear this, but also annoyed that a lot of legitimate SMS from companies don't use branded sender ID. I'm not sure why, but my guess is that SMS gatew…

AI has a way of exposing people. In this example, students who are there to get a degree from a prestigious institution, rather than to learn, are prone to take perceived shortcuts…

> But there's one performance-related area where the Framework pulls ahead—a little—and that's sustained performance. When running a heavy workload like HPL (a FP64 HPC task, that …

I was all in on Svelte and SvelteKit until I started encountering CSS weirdness caused by a bug that the Svelte developers said is "by design", namely that components' CSS isn't re…

I love how I can see the HTML being streamed onto the page in real time, like the good old days of dialup when images gradually rendered from top-to-bottom.

It's for Google.

Perhaps, but I think that by the time we're that far advanced, strokes will be entirely preventable.

There's nothing stopping you from setting up your free (as in freedom) slice of cyberspace for you and your friends, for now. Looking at all the new and proposed laws coming throug…

Taking a brief look at wizball.asm, it actually used 200 Hz interrupts on both PAL and NTSC. The timings are shown from line 39.

RAM can be increased to 16 MB and CPU speed to 48 GHz.

It's a stealth subscription product. People are losing those things all the time.

The C64 does have a couple of bitmap modes. The Last Ninja uses mode 3, which is multicolor bitmap mode. It occupies 9000 bytes including pixels (8000 bytes) and color RAM (1000 by…