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7jjjjjjj··on Latest Airbus single aisle aircraft innovations
If you don't have a carry on, just get up and move. The flight crew has better things to do than check if you're in your assigned seat.
7jjjjjjj··on Ask HN: Why are US tech workers so pro open borders?
>Or do you believe that law enforcement is also state violence?

...It obviously is? How is that even a question?

7jjjjjjj··on Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012)
These materials are transparent to some light. They absorb a lot of infrared and ultraviolet. The human vision system can see the light that isn't absorbed and as a result is abundant in our environment.
7jjjjjjj··on New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium
Good. AI is an evil technology. These data centers shouldn't be built anywhere ever.
7jjjjjjj··on How we can reduce traffic congestion
The most regressive tax imaginable is a flat fee for every person with no consideration of income. That is exactly the effect of requiring everyone to own a car.
7jjjjjjj··on The IRS Moved IT and HR Staff to Process Taxes. It's Not Going Well
Congress doesn't spend to 2-3x what they collect. It's closer to 1.4x. Please don't spread misinformation.
7jjjjjjj··on Full Reverse Engineering of the TI-84 Plus Operating System
There's actually a hidden lowercase feature, you can use an assembly program to enable it.
7jjjjjjj··on Moving beyond fork() + exec()
>It feels crazy that we don't have a way to directly express the latter thing

Isn't that what posix_spawn is for?

7jjjjjjj··on The desperation of NYTimes
You can also install Bypass Paywalls Clean on mobile Firefox.
7jjjjjjj··on The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid
If you have a composite video adapter it's pretty easy to dub a YouTube video to VHS.
7jjjjjjj··on YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos
Or just straight up point the camera at a computer monitor, without even trying to hide it. Most of the security camera footage online is already uploaded this way.
7jjjjjjj··on What is a Demand Coop
A kingdom and a republic are also both structures, but I think there are some salient differences.
7jjjjjjj··on Hindenburg’s Smoking Room
Recirculated air is still a thousand times cleaner than air with cigarette smoke in it.
7jjjjjjj··on Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California
You need to authenticate to download the game, but then you can play it as much as you want even offline. This is true for Prism Launcher, anyway. I haven't used the official launcher in years.
7jjjjjjj··on California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws
Banning someone from driving is basically a nonpunishment as driving on a suspended license is barely enforced. Most people with suspended licenses keep driving.
7jjjjjjj··on Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI
Isn't that what FM radio is for?
7jjjjjjj··on Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI
Both of those options are better because they don't involve giving your money to Spotify.
7jjjjjjj··on State of Kdenlive
No, I use Blender a lot and don't even know what they have mapped to the numpad.
7jjjjjjj··on NeoGeo AES+: SNK announces reissue of retro console without emulation
>transparency-layering effects on things like Sonic the Hedgehog

That only worked because they expected to run over composite. Arcade cabinets used RGB which doesn't have the bandwidth limitations of composite.

7jjjjjjj··on Big-Endian Testing with QEMU
It goes without saying that all binary network protocols should document their byte order, and that if you're implementing a protocol documented as big endian you should use ntohl and friends to ensure correctness.

However if designing a new network protocol, choosing big endian is insanity. Use little endian, skip the macros, and just add

  #ifndef LITTLE_ENDIAN
    #error
Or the like to a header somewhere.
7jjjjjjj··on Big-Endian Testing with QEMU
Assuming an 8-bit byte used to be a "vendor specific hack." Assuming twos complement integers used to be a "vendor specific hack." When all the 36-bit machines died, and all the one's complement machines died, we got over it.

That's where big endian is now. All the BE architectures are dying or dead. No big endian system will ever be popular again. It's time for big endian to be consigned to the dustbin of history.

7jjjjjjj··on Make macOS consistently bad unironically
I hate rounded corners. I use stylus to apply "*{border-radius: 0 !important;}" to a bunch of sites, including YouTube.
7jjjjjjj··on Our commitment to Windows quality
Not the person your were talking to but at work the Windows machines have a bunch of MDM garbage on them that screws up the OS and requires reimaging every few months. For that reason I have a Powershell script to automatically set up a machine.
7jjjjjjj··on Passengers who refuse to use headphones can now be kicked off United flights
Playing music on the street is acceptable if and only if the music is good.
7jjjjjjj··on Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story
We already have an extremely complicated system of farm insurance and commodity futures for that.
7jjjjjjj··on Welcome (back) to Macintosh
The Minecraft JE launchers for android don't use Android's JVM, they include a version of OpenJDK and that's what's used to run the game.
7jjjjjjj··on Turning Our Back on Clean Energy
This all makes sense when you realize Trump and his goons don't actually care about the economy, or energy, or whatever. They care about the culture war. Coal is right-coded, solar is left-coded, therefore we need more coal and less solar, regardless of what the actual facts are. It really is that dumb.
7jjjjjjj··on Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub
Desktop for creating cards, mobile for reviewing them.
7jjjjjjj··on Chrome Jpegxl Issue Reopened
I think there's a difference here.

If I right click save and get a webp, it was probably converted from JPG. Very very few images are uploaded in webp. So getting a webp image means you've downloaded an inferior version.

JXL doesn't have this issue because conversion from jpeg is lossless. So you've still gotten the real, fully-quality image.

7jjjjjjj··on A graph explorer of the Epstein emails
Biden probably just forgot, like he forgot he promised to do public option. All his attention was focused on sending Isreal more bombs and having dementia.
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