Treczoks
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- Comment on Marvel Rivals Apologizes Following Alpha Banning Controversy 5 months ago:
"I'm sorry we got caught on this."
- Comment on Static recompilation of Majora's Mask available for Windows/Linux 5 months ago:
It needs the American version of the game. Looks like I have to wait until other regions are covered, too.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 6 months ago:
Conservatives are afraid. They (at least the professionals and the GOP as an organisation) are well aware that they are on course to get irrelevent in the future. Not only are their politicians getting older, their voter base is getting older and shrinking. So the try everything in the book to stay relevant: Gerrymandering, reducing access to the voting process fro people who are unlikely to vote for them, etc. And as we all know, fear, or worse, existencial dread, leads to hate for the other side, the group of people seen as their very threat to their existence.
They are basically cornered rats, clawing and biting the pest control man.
- Comment on Open source project seeks to clone classic Z80 chip • The Register 6 months ago:
I've seen a VHDL implementation of the Z80 on the net. It is so old, it's last fixes were from 19 years ago...
- Comment on Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them. 6 months ago:
"Thanks for the tax breaks, but now we are off to the next tax breaks"
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
I woner when they think is has blown over, and start selling user data again.
- Comment on Burning 50lbs of Thermite Made From 400 Soda Cans 8 months ago:
Reminds me of my chemistry teachers problems with thermite. I have to say he was a more theoretical guy ;-) He managed to mix the worlds first fire-resistent Thermite. He even stuck a strip of magnesium in the heap and lighted it - it burned down to the Thermite and suffocated...
And this guy just takes some soda cans and river sand and makes it work. Hats off!
- Comment on What's stopping you from coding like this ? 8 months ago:
Apart from 3., I'm in full agreement.
- Comment on VS Code Drops Ubuntu 18.04 Support, Devs 'Screwed' 8 months ago:
That a software still gets security updates does not contraindicate that it is outdated.
- Comment on VS Code Drops Ubuntu 18.04 Support, Devs 'Screwed' 9 months ago:
What does the label "18.04" tell you? It tells me that this installation is far out of date. Whoever complains about this drop of support should consider updating to a more current version for a number of reasons, including "This version of the OS is no longer supported" in general.
- Comment on Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic 9 months ago:
Until the router needs to be reset, or something else happens to it.
That's what "configuration backups" are for. You've got some, don't you?
- Comment on OpenAI CEO Altman says at Davos future AI depends on energy breakthrough 9 months ago:
If only AI was smart enough to bring us this breakthrough...
- Comment on Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic 9 months ago:
Not everybody has the money for an extra router.
No need for an extra router. I just put those device into the "has no internet access" group. It is one of those "Parental Control" things. Every device inside the net can see and talk to it, but itself cannot talk to anything outside.
- Comment on Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic 9 months ago:
This is not just about the amount of data. I'm well aware that the measured amounts were totally off. Nonetheless, it is about being allowed to send any kind of data to the outside at all. And while it is probably quite convenient that you can get a message when a device has done a job, it is sufficient that you as the owner gets it, not anyone outside.
- Comment on Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic 9 months ago:
Luckily, most embedded devices lack the smart to attach to two networks at the same time. So you keep it locked into a network where it can only do your bidding, and it won't listen to anyone else. Unless they built in some very crazy and nefarious code and drive around with network enabled cars in the owners neighborhood.
- Comment on Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic 9 months ago:
Just put the device on a separate wifi without internet access, or look at the "child protection" features of your router. Ours can put devices based on their MAC into "access groups" which range from "full access" over "internet from <time> to <time>" to "no internet at all".
- Comment on YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave 9 months ago:
Easy: Just use the right browser and adblocker, and you basically have premium, but without the ads they still throw at you.
- Comment on Cooking is just applied chemistry 10 months ago:
I like scientific cooking. I'm a big fan of Sebastian Lege, who is a cook and food designer, and who knows all the little chemical tricks of the food industry. I wish he would publish a cook book: On the left, a recipe for the dish as made by a professional chef with normal ingredients, on the right the recipe for the same dish as made by the food industry.
I remember one show where he made "Banana Milk". The banana flavor was made from vinegar, some alcohol, and some other acid...
Just today, I applied one of his ideas. I made a Chinese dish with chicken, and added baking powder to the marinade made from soy sauce, ginger, garlic, honey, salt, oil, and chili. And it was amazing!
- Comment on How much power do older mainframes work (if they're actually even run)? 10 months ago:
I don't know the exact numbers but: I frequently used a VAX11/780. Its main components were two enclosures (CPU and Memory), each about a square meter in footprint and somewhere in the range of 1.6m high (IIRC). Both had their power delivered as 3x380V (i.e. European three-phase power) into the power supply part (the lower half to 2/3rds of those blocks) which turned it into rock solid 5V - and a LOAD of heat, which meant the room also needed some extra strong AC.
That thing was an 8MHz cpu with 8MB of RAM.
- Comment on I'm Starting A Search Engine For The Fediverse 10 months ago:
A good search engine would be quite important. One thing that annoyed me back on the site that should not be named was that their search engine was completely useless - It was not even capable to find posts where I entered verbatim text of.
Having a good search engine that can actually find a post I was looking for would be a major plus for the fediverse.
- Comment on What would happen if you drank bleach, and then drank ammonia? 10 months ago:
It would give you a good chance to win a Darwin Award.
- Comment on How to remove smell from lunch box? 10 months ago:
Yep. Denture cleaners are quite good for food-safe stuff. When we cleaned out grandmas flat, I put her cleaner tablets aside, astonishing the other family members with my move: "But you've got no dentures?!?!" Those pills are great for cleaning vases or thermos bottles.
- Comment on IBM demonstrates useful Quantum computing within 133-qubit Heron, announces entry into Quantum-centric supercomputing era 10 months ago:
I'm still waiting to see something real being computed in a quantum computing device instead of just useless "quantum computing benchmarks".
So far, they have only produced the worlds most expensive not-even-hello-world devices.
- Comment on UK at risk of ‘failed election’ without major reforms, watchdog warns 10 months ago:
The Tories have been against changes to the system for ages. Now that they notice that without methods of proportional representation they will be out of jobs after the next election, this kind of change suddenly looks good.
- Comment on Jingle bells Batman smells robin laid an egg... 11 months ago:
- Comment on I hate that I am become this person but: are delivery drivers just allowed to call and say 'please come and meet me' now? 11 months ago:
They are free to try. What shall they do if you say "No"?
- Comment on Brexit backer Dyson says hypocrisy claim over HQ move to Singapore 'incredibly harmful' 11 months ago:
In the wake of what he has done to his country, it can't be harmful enough to his "reputation".
- Comment on Young girl 'unresponsive' after being run over by ute on popular Queensland island 11 months ago:
Actually, one of the key touristic things of K'gari is that you can actually drive a car on the beach, except for three set and marked zones (See here). As the article did not state where the incident happened, the car might or might not be legal there.
Keep in mind that the article states that the parents drove he daughter to the helicopter pickup point. So they might have been on a car-legal beach.
Regardless if allowing cars on a beach is a good thing or not, it is allowed in places, and letting a small child play unsupervised in such an area might not be the best parenting idea for a start. They could have gone to a "no cars allowed" beach instead. Apart from that - it is a beach. Not supervising young kids on a beach, especially one where large areas are marked as to dangerous to go into the water, is not a good idea from the word GO, anyway.
- Comment on Real quick question about the "break" 11 months ago:
No, there is no benefit. Actually avoiding continue or break like statements make code overly complicated.
Maybe she made a mental short circuit with constructs like set_jump and long_jump (which are evil).
I've 30+ years of C in my portfolio, with >1000 programs small and big, with millions of LOC, and I'd say her stand on break and continue is utterly stupid.
- Comment on ‘Politicians don’t understand science’: advisers give evidence at UK COVID inquiry 11 months ago:
FTFY: "Polititians don't want to understand science". People in politics are usually good with people, connections, talking, and relationships. And anything from bad to horrible in logic, math, and science in general.
Notable exception: Dr. Angela Merkel