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> She'll be buying her tat on eBay in future. A third of the things I buy* from eBay come shipped by Amazon. I can't always tell if they were using the warehouse for logistics or t…

Do you have data from 2000 to 2004? Not only covering an earlier Republican administration it also captures the last tech bubble.

Let us not forget that the predecessor to VeraCrypt, TrueCrypt, was suddenly discontinued and users were told they should migrate to BitLocker. There were questions about their mot…

It does happen in America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

An enemy will try to reach the same floor height as the player, and if it can't it will prefer climbing up over climbing down. It also looks left then right for another ladder or f…

Look at the subroutine `EnemyMoveGetMaxRowBot` starting at line #9353. On #9414 the data row pointer is set to the enemy's current row. On #9441 it checks if the column to the left…

> a different set of rules for companies That is sort of the problem we find ourselves in.

I'd say no. We would have had the Itanium drama 10 years earlier. The i860 had some flashy features in it (integrated graphics, SIMD) but also the same Achilles' heel as Itanium of…

The real echo of history is that Return/Enter is still rename and open/launch is Cmd-O.

In case this thread gets picked up by a search engine and some future person is wondering the same thing, there is a port of winevdm[1] to 64-bit Windows that will let you run 16-b…

The obvious implication being who Amazon considers to be their "customer". Hint, it's not you.

>The public paid for this data. Someone should file weekly FOIA requests.

I expect there's some selection bias at play. If you're taking a philosophy major in college it's likely you already feel confident in your post-graduation career, so can study thi…

IBM marketed "OS/2 for Windows" which made it sound like a compatibility layer to make Windows behave like OS/2. In truth it was the OS/2 operating system with drivers and conversi…

And dumb-dumb me just realized how trivial that would be to break. Social engineer someone into sending/receiving money to/from your wallet then pretend to be them requesting an ac…

If you ever sent money to or from a wallet you control, I'd think a reliable recovery factor would be to use that key to sign a message that Coinbase can verify with the address in…

Oh no, not again.

These are AI bots. Computational capacity is not a limiting factor. I'd argue that my desktop consumer PC is less capable of efficiently solving a PoW than a multi-GPU cluster in a…

This has become a concern for the Arch Linux wiki which now makes you pass a proof-of-work challenge to read it. Which my anti-fingerprinting browser fails at every time. Putting a…

Untested hypothesis, but I would expect the wider spacing between tracks in CMR makes it more resilient against random bit flips. I'm not aware of any experiments to prove this and…

Prepaid 5G phone bought with cash and activated by dialing 611.

https://xkcd.com/386/ Social media has bred a generation who believe that value comes from being the loudest voice in the room. One-upmanship is one of the sure ways to make your v…

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-thomson-postel-w...

> But then it says people continued to eat pork in the area. Why? Because it was cheaper. The article mentions how much easier it is to raise pigs than sheep or cattle. It also tou…