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mizaru··on Google Maps renames "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" faster than US Government
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticipatory_obedience
mizaru··on EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0
No, it's the other way around. Quoting another comment:

>"Yes" means stop control, because it's a "proposition de rejet" we're looking at. rejet = reject

mizaru··on Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice
To me the most annoying thing about the UG is that your company name needs to include "UG (haftungsbeschränkt)", no abbreviations allowed. So unaesthetic...
mizaru··on Microsoft suggests command line fiddling to get Windows 10 update installed
Had a machine that was stuck on this update, the manual workaround resolved it.
mizaru··on Kevin Mitnick has died
https://www.cancer.org/cancer/survivorship/coping/attitudes-...
mizaru··on Windows Snipping Tool is vulnerable to Acropalypse too
It applies if you choose to "overwrite" any file that is larger than the generated PNG data.
mizaru··on Modeling my Grandpa with 3D Photogrammetry (2021)
I tried Meshroom and RealityCapture (both on Windows) and the latter yielded better results in a fraction of the time. YMMV.
mizaru··on LosslessCut: lossless video/audio editing
When cutting with ffmpeg you can use "frame-accurate seeking", but you may run into issues down the road (e.g. audio/video being out of sync).
mizaru··on AI-powered communication coach
Obligatory reminder that MBTI is pretty much worthless.
mizaru··on LSD-like molecules counter depession without the trip
*in mice
mizaru··on Windows needs a change in priorities
Blackbird gets blocked by Defender immediately. Not sure why I'm surprised.

edit: Then again, that tool does seem to make it quite easy to damage your Windows installation.

mizaru··on I got nerd sniped into benchmarking legacy x86 instructions (2019)
movzx eax, al

is one byte shorter, but I'm not sure if any of this would make a difference. x86 is tricky.

mizaru··on The origins of cannabis smoking: evidence from the first millennium BCE (2019)
In case somebody wonders, the Greek drink in question is Kykeon [1] which was consumed during the Eleusinian Mysteries [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kykeon

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleusinian_Mysteries

mizaru··on The promise of pills that do nothing
From one of the studies [1]: >Patients were randomized to either open-label placebo pills presented as “placebo pills made of an inert substance, like sugar pills, that have been shown in clinical studies to produce significant improvement in IBS symptoms through mind-body self-healing processes” or no-treatment controls with the same quality of interaction with providers.

I wonder what the results would have been with a less suggestive presentation.

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

mizaru··on Schnorr confirms paper is his, claims it “destroys RSA cryptosystem”
*according to someone on twitter.
mizaru··on Reversing Mental Age with Psychedelics
20mg/70kg
mizaru··on Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC
I'm wondering if this is an unpopular opinion, but I wouldn't want to use anything other than a desktop for development.
mizaru··on How to trim video clips instantly without reencoding
You may want to use -noaccurate_seek
mizaru··on Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'
iPhone X

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v74v34/saudi-arabia-hacke...

mizaru··on Show HN: Alt-tab-macos – Windows-style alt-tab on macOS
>if you press fast (within 200ms) you don't get a UI but the switch will happen

I always get the UI, no matter how fast I press the keys (W10 1903). This may have been different on previous versions.

mizaru··on How Apple Kills Indie Developers
I've done this once or twice in the past without any problems.
mizaru··on Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second
Looked it up, 11.82 bits per word, 2.62 bits per letter.
mizaru··on Fucking Color Picker
128 MB for something that should be a couple hundred KB at best? Yes, it is cancer.
mizaru··on Notepad++ drops code signing for its releases
Certum offers cheap code signing certificates for open source developers. I don't know how "good" they are, though, just stumbled across them a while ago because MPC-BE is using one.
mizaru··on Dirty lenses (2016)
Not a knife but a crab claw, which did result in some visible (on the glass) scratches: https://youtu.be/YcZkCnPs45s?t=581
mizaru··on The blind mind: No sensory visual imagery in aphantasia
>I "see" music as shapes and colors in my mind's eye

Could be a type of synesthesia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia#Chromesthesia

mizaru··on What an Audacious Hoax Reveals About Academia
Accepted, but not published, according to https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studi...
mizaru··on Was ditching the headphone jack a good idea?
Exactly. My old iPod touch is a mere 6.1 mm thick and has a headphone jack....
mizaru··on Apple starting to alert users that it will end 32-bit app support on the Mac
You're probably referring to SetWindowLong. A 64-bit compatible version (SetWindowLongPtr) of that function is available since Windows 2000.

I'm pretty sure there's a guide on how to properly port applications to 64-bit on MSDN somewhere.

mizaru··on Gaming's most fiendish anti-piracy tricks (2010)
According to Jon Burton, something like this was actually done for the Amiga game Leander, although not with the intent to damage hardware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qaq9vlfoGnA
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