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Re:Most UI Applications Are Broken Real-Time Applications on Thursday September 21, 2023 @10:47PM (#37607270)
I've finally learned to love VS Code, but the new UI of Clion is pretty damn decent
Re:Most UI Applications Are Broken Real-Time Applications on Thursday September 21, 2023 @10:39PM (#37607231)
You're right, Sysinternals Process Monitor will show lots of stuff going on for your example.
Re:All 8,291 license plates available in the U.S. on Thursday September 21, 2023 @10:03PM (#37607013)
Great, now I need an Alice Cooper license plate. Thanks, Jon
Re:How the IAEA uses nuclear technology to control insect pests on Thursday September 21, 2023 @01:20AM (#37593483)
according to this [1], it's difficult to package them up and deliver them without harming them. if it was an easier / more lucrative problem to solve then surely it would be solved.

[1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.aba6251

Re:George Orwell Complete Works on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @01:04AM (#37565791)
Proof that nobody hates Communists more than fellow Communists. Shit, I learned that from reading Orwell.
afaik it helps guard against particularly devastating wildfires, too.
I think it's probably okay to be concerned about both of those things.
Re:Scientists figured out how to write in water on Thursday September 14, 2023 @02:23AM (#37505612)
They put a whole house on a little tittle.
that's a cool project, will definitely try it out later
1.) Pick one of the old abandoned Bitcoin addresses

2.) Start looking for a key match using this technique

3.) Heat death of the universe

4.) Profit!

Re:Every Type of Plastic Used by Lego on Saturday September 09, 2023 @06:34PM (#37450985)
When I start feeling this way it's always my cue to read up on philosophy and religion and briefly reject my nihilistic views.
Re:NaNofuzz: A Usable Tool for Automatic Test Generation [pdf] on Thursday September 07, 2023 @09:47PM (#37428269)
for Typescript, VS Code extension

github: https://github.com/nanofuzz/nanofuzz

Re:Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @03:15PM (#37396406)
it's the "all rights reversed" license
Re:Get a cable modem, go to jail (1999) on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @06:40AM (#37390054)
hey now, if i don't sleep with the thing, how am i gonna grab it when i'm asleep?
Re:The Gimmicks of Food Labeling on Monday September 04, 2023 @07:27PM (#37386176)
Not a very comprehensive list, but Mr. Sheehan's website has some information.

a quote from [1] :

'Food fraud can take place in many forms. A company might substitute one product for another, use additives or enhancements that are not approved or misrepresent the country of origin of the product. Stolen food shipments or intentional contamination of the product is also considered food fraud.

Food fraud is a continuum of deception. At one end of spectrum, there is the deliberate substitution of inferior and potentially harmful ingredients. At the other end is the mislabeling of common products by the largest food companies. The largest food companies will not engage in outright food fraud intentionally by using different ingredients that could be harmful. Instead, they typically would engage in a more subtle deception – all natural claims, no preservatives, healthy, yet containing lots of chemicals, etc.'

[1] https://spencersheehan.com/other-areas/#food

There was some cool, obscure music on the original? mp3.com, bands that never made it beyond that site. Never made it to OiNK or what.cd, etc. either
Re:Changing my relationship with GitHub Copilot on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @01:39AM (#37303895)
to each his own.

i switched from VSCode to CLion (for Rust) the other night and only lasted 5 minutes because i missed how alternating braces change color.

Re:How was the size of Earth first measured? on Sunday August 27, 2023 @12:09AM (#37279375)
make enough measurements and you can probably find those "encoded" there, too
impressive results. i think it would be easier to read at first glance if missing data/clouds were shown in white to light grey
give it to enough people and there will likely be that one person who just wants to see the world burn...their answer will be something like "hotdog juice"
Re:Maui residents who disobeyed barricades survived fires on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @04:43PM (#37241652)
More than 1,000 people were missing [1] in the Camp fire. 85 people died.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2018/11/16/668552010/more-than-600-peopl...

step 1: ask LLM to crack captcha

step 2: ask LLM to build better captcha

step 3: oh shit, skynet?

Re:Precompiled binaries removed from serde v1.0.184 on Monday August 21, 2023 @01:41AM (#37205826)
good move. can't lie though, i respect his 'fork it if you don't like it' attitude.
Re:Microsoft's backwards compatibility is insane on Friday August 18, 2023 @06:55PM (#37183182)
have you tried various compatibility options? right click -> properties -> compatibility

there's a troubleshooter there, too

Re:Larian's Unfair Advantage on Friday August 11, 2023 @11:33PM (#37096758)
I picture a tavern somewhere in Baldur's Gate named The Strange Scaffold, and the innkeep is named Xalavier Nelson Jr.
There's never going to be a perfect solution, it's an arms race. I really doubt (hope?) that large entities are going to straight up emulate end-user browsers though.

I would think filtering based on user agent will be the sweet spot for effort and performance. You could do some awful JavaScript monstrosity to detect the tiny fraction of bots who are sneaky, but if they're determined to be sneaky they will succeed at scraping.

How times have changed. I imagine pristine specimens of the rare field cock would fetch a good sum these days.
Re:Windows Repair Toolbox on Sunday August 06, 2023 @11:29PM (#37029731)
i've got cut/copy/paste on my context menu in 11...

check out autoruns [0] for easily cleaning context menu, startup junk, etc.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/aut...

Re:The Worst API Ever Made on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @12:54AM (#36952480)
Came here expecting Windows, found Windows. I think I nominate WMI though

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