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Are we already at a point where upgrading your software exposes you to more security risk than not upgrading it? I feel like we've been there for a while with the appstore platforms, anyways.

2026-02-04 20:29:37 UTC

I should install Linux.

2026-01-23 14:40:04 UTC

Why is nobody making self-leveling restaurant tables?

2026-01-19 08:15:51 UTC

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@nprofile…j9f5 If you are using displayio, then SPI is not necessarily the bottleneck. Calculating all those pixels on the fly can take time.

2025-07-31 20:04:09 UTC

Any technical solution that is supposed to block teenagers from anything is not going to work very well, because you are facing an opponent that:
* is smarter than you,
* is very dedicated,
* has a lot of free time,
* has an extensive network of friends,
* faces no serious consequences if caught,
* outnumbers you,
* considers you an immoral crook.
You really, *really* want to have them on your side. That means education rather than control.

2025-07-31 10:50:22 UTC

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@nprofile…h6f2 or a cured patient is a poor customer

2025-07-31 10:14:48 UTC

Remember when medicine was about curing diseases and not managing symptoms?

2025-07-28 20:12:22 UTC

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@nprofile…tfka There is a theory that this is how we got our ridiculously over-sized brains evolved, and you can't argue that didn't work in the long run. As long as the sense of beauty is also naturally selected and diverse enough to not lead to a mono-culture, it works. If all you have is clones of the same "perfect" ideal, then the first plague is going to wipe it.

2025-07-28 19:57:30 UTC

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@nprofile…tfka No, I have absolutely no fear of the tech nazis creating actual intelligence, and even if through some impossible miracle it actually happened, I have no fear of the hypothetical intelligence itself, because the stupid bigots will never trust it. If you have ever read Golem XIV by Stanisław Lem you already understand how this goes. What I fear is the tobacco industry happening all over again, but at a greater scale and more damage.

2025-07-28 19:40:49 UTC

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@nprofile…tfka it's not evolution when the selection is not natural, it's breeding

2025-07-28 19:02:10 UTC

Imagine, what if in the near future the battery and servo technology got so much better, that we would be able to actually build practical exoskeletons? And a company making those exoskeletons had models specially designed for babies and children, so that they never have to go through the excruciating process of learning to walk? Of course they would be forever bound to their exoskeletons, and because the particular control schema was patented, they would always have to be from that one company.

2025-07-28 17:59:45 UTC

I'm not worried about AI going rogue and becoming Skynet or paperclip optimizer. We already have defenses in place against that, because it's what many people are trying to do too. What I'm worried about is People's Temple cult, but automated. And Asbestos, but for our brains instead of lungs. We already have a huge propensity for hurting ourselves and each other, all we need is an automated way of finding who vulnerable at any given moment and giving them a little push.

2025-07-10 07:06:08 UTC

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@nprofile…g2yn you can have that in Mastodon too, you just have to pick the right instance

2025-05-28 18:49:36 UTC

Remember, predators always have front-facing eyes, like the koala bears. Herbivores have side-facing eyes, like the t-rex.

2025-05-14 19:25:51 UTC

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@nprofile…v55x How about we just ban horrible old men?

2025-05-14 19:03:23 UTC

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@nprofile…v55x Which one is he? Master, god or king?

2025-05-14 12:01:07 UTC

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@nprofile…v55x How about bachelors? Are bachelors allowed? And doctors, and professors?
What about goddesses? And saints, are saints in? How about prophets?
And emperors? If you ban kings, surely you should also ban emperors? What about benevolent dictators? Are presidents allowed? Where do we draw the line?

2025-04-24 21:16:41 UTC

I love many old SciFi books for how little politics they have, and for the fact that even when they do have politics, they are dominated by reasonable people trying to do the best they can based on available information. No feuding, no power struggles, no backstabbing or zero-sum games, no ego games. Unless it's a villain, then all that is permitted, but ultimately futile. Fairness always triumphs, even with bad endings. It's really refreshing.

2025-04-23 13:46:19 UTC

What are we going to do with all those graphics cards when the bubble inevitably bursts?

2024-12-03 21:16:49 UTC

Is there a single medical condition that doesn't have amongst its symptoms tiredness and muscle pains?

2024-10-17 19:15:05 UTC

Linux is actually the name of the penguin. The operating system is called Linux's monster.

2024-10-03 19:54:23 UTC

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@npub1lv4…ru5g If we could only dance a question to ask them...

2024-09-18 09:36:14 UTC

Do you see yourself as more of a hack or a crank?

2024-09-01 13:35:47 UTC

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@npub16uz…xx07 I don't think moving the blame is going to help much, the hardware is not getting simpler any time soon. Just use a high level language that doesn't make you care about irrelevant things.

2024-08-26 09:52:31 UTC

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@npub1sh4…32nx I'm sure you can construct a convoluted hypothetical use case to rationalize any technical decision.

2024-08-26 09:50:33 UTC

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@npub1sh4…32nx How often do you make new images?

2024-08-26 09:47:11 UTC

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@npub1sh4…32nx Why does your CI pipeline install packages? Wouldn't it be much faster to use an image that already has everything installed?

2024-08-26 09:40:38 UTC

Why does a package manager have to be fast? How often do you install packages? What is wrong with you?

2024-08-26 07:00:14 UTC

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@npub1wst…ez75 It can make sure the metadata is present, that's half the problem solved.

2024-08-15 10:23:21 UTC

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@npub15pp…4jdw Do you know what book or lecture this is from?

2024-08-01 19:06:10 UTC

You can judge the quality of any fictional utopia by how it treats the children, the disabled, and those who don't want to fit in it. Most just pretend they don't exist, like Star Trek. The more honest ones hint at some ways of eliminating them. There are some ambitious ones that tolerate them. The best ones make them integral to the whole thing.

2024-08-01 09:23:47 UTC

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@npub16mt…pnwy I think arping would work?

2024-07-31 20:50:59 UTC

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@npub18yv…xxyn It's so sad to see the very companies that made the life of game archivists and emulator authors a hell now exploiting the very work that they made (and keep making) so unnecessarily hard.

2024-07-27 22:13:55 UTC

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@npub1sua…szrk you get the chainsaw later in the game

2024-07-26 22:22:13 UTC

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@npub1sg4…xslc We had some fun playing Core Keeper. The Cassette Beasts added multiplayer recently too, but I haven't tried it yet.

2024-07-26 14:19:28 UTC

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@npub1sua…szrk chainsaw attack!

2024-07-15 14:30:09 UTC

Vegan as in dish, or vegan as in diet?

2024-07-04 11:43:05 UTC

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@npub1sh4…32nx is that... HTML?

2024-07-01 21:44:04 UTC

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@npub1dm5…5sqe Subtract 500 and divide by -30? Oh and add 1.

2024-06-11 09:50:29 UTC

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@npub15nw…s0l7 except you don't get to collect e-mail addresses of the subscribers

2024-06-09 17:53:13 UTC

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@npub1sh4…32nx It varies, obviously, but one explanation that I've heard is that God created all the varieties of dogs, in potentia, and dog breeders are just discovering them by trying different combinations.

2024-05-31 09:11:53 UTC

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@npub1l6r…sa08 I always assumed that if any of those things were true, then I would do the thing for free anyways, and so nobody is going to pay me for doing the thing.

2024-05-29 14:50:49 UTC

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@npub1q37…k2ta I tried asking Microsoft various things many times, but they never respond.

2024-05-29 13:44:56 UTC

Does anybody know where I put that laser-cut Arduino quadruped robot I bought from China seven years ago and never did anything with?

2024-05-28 09:36:52 UTC

Remember, it's all about the side quests. Whatever you think the main plot is, it's less important than you think. It's always the things you do on the side, the ones you didn't plan for, just did because there was an opportunity to do them, that usually make the difference. The main plot will progress whether you want it or not. Take your time for the side quests.

2024-05-23 18:26:42 UTC

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@npub1dm5…5sqe light and dark theme

2024-05-22 15:21:54 UTC

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@npub1sys…ckr3 even better, structure it so that you don't know what language it is until the last lesson

2024-05-09 08:41:29 UTC

Why can't I use my phone or tablet as a touchpad for my computer?

2024-05-08 14:14:23 UTC

Don't store your whole passwords in the password manager.
Have a short personal phrase that you add to the front or end of the stored password.
This way even if your stored passwords leak, they don't grant immediate access.

2024-04-12 21:45:32 UTC

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@npub1836…8jp6 They are financially independent. They invested all the money they got from Google in a fund that now earns enough for them to operate indefinitely, even with the salary their CEO gets.

2024-03-12 20:17:20 UTC

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@npub1dm5…5sqe but still no AI, just imagine what would be possible now!

2024-03-12 20:04:54 UTC

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@npub1dm5…5sqe Never forget https://www.theregister.com/2013/08/06/xerox_copier_flaw_means_dodgy_numbers_and_dangerous_designs/

2023-12-23 09:26:59 UTC

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@npub1836…8jp6 but everything on Earth is in orbit?

2023-12-22 23:00:30 UTC

How do you measure the weight of objects that themselves have a considerable gravitational pull? How much does the Earth weight, for instance? Not asking for the mass, but for the weight.

2023-12-14 17:01:22 UTC

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@npub1836…8jp6 JIT stands for "Just In Time" and means "just in time compilation", which means the code is being compiled as it runs, usually with different code paths getting their own optimized compilations, so they can be super fast for the most common case. PyPy does that, and it manages to be faster than then equivalent code written in C or C++ for some cases this way.
For "dependencies" I'm still not sure if you mean subclassing, imports, or something else? Do you have an example?

2023-12-14 16:42:35 UTC

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@npub1836…8jp6 PyPy has JIT, cPython doesn't (although the there is some work on adding a partial jit-like mechanism). But even cPython always compiled the files into bytecode (those are the .pyc files you can find that it caches on the disk if it has write access).
And going back to "circular dependencies", I don't even know what you mean. You can have circular imports – the module being imported will just not be fully initialized until it finishes... initializing. Or do you mean pip deps?

2023-12-14 16:29:51 UTC

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@npub1836…8jp6 Simple. Nobody uses a python interpreter. We use python code that is compiled into bytecode and runs in a virtual machine.

2023-08-28 10:43:02 UTC

An #electronics question. I have a number of displays that have 0.7mm pitch on their ribbon connector. But searching LCSC, Mouser and Digikey yields no FPC connectors with 0.7mm pitch. There are literally all other pitches, except for 0.7mm. What am I missing? Am I searching wrong? Is this secretly some other pitch? Where and how do I find connectors for those displays?

2023-08-24 13:11:22 UTC

I think that #python remained a useful language for unexpectedly long time because it manage to fly under the radar. The management of companies that used python didn't know they are using python – it was purely the choice of the engineers, and they didn't run their mouths. But it couldn't last forever.

2023-08-14 15:08:36 UTC

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@npub1836…8jp6 I mean any skill that requires practice, any knowledge that needs learning inevitably creates a group of "elite" people who have that skill or knowledge, distinguished from all other who didn't expend that effort (because they didn't want to, or because they didn't have access to it). The only way around it is to force everyone to learn the same skills and knowledge – that's what the public education system is attempting to do, with mixed results. And you can only do it to some degree.

2023-08-14 14:56:06 UTC

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@npub1836…8jp6 You mean, like, mobs?

2023-08-07 16:16:18 UTC

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@npub17ge…hgsu food-safe and recyclable

2023-08-04 21:00:03 UTC

I need a "My other computer has 64kB of RAM" sticker for my laptop.