That’s why you host over Tor with an .onion domain. Immune to takedowns.
Correct. Just ask the Silk Road guy…
Readit News__david__ commented on Radicle: The Sovereign Forge radicle.xyz... · Posted by u/ibobev
> What would read better in your opinion?
You're asking someone else to describe what your project is doing?
The lack of good description isn't unique, I've bee skipping more and more of those lately, but asking others to tell the developers what they've developed is new in my book.
Sometimes when you’re close to something it’s very hard to describe it because you’ve been looking at it from all angles for so long that when someone else approaches it from a different direction it’s hard to see what blind spots they might have. It’s not crazy to ask people for input and it’s not crazy to say “we’re open to patches if you just want to do it yourself”.
For me personally I was (and still am a bit) unclear on what being “based on git” means. Can I just rebase with abandon? Is there a concept of force push? Can I safely use lazy-git, tig, commit-patch, and other git utilities? Or is it more integrated and i have to use the rad cli to avoid corrupting the git repo? What about the issues? If I write some software and publish it with radicle, is there a way for plain git client to clone the repo without installing radicle (and without keeping a plain git mirror somewhere)?
Long time ago, I was looking for game with some hidden rules, browsing random wikipedia.
I came across Mao [1].
It looked so cool, game that has it is culture.
I wanted to try, luckily using siblings is not considered war crime. Since I had read about it in wikipedia we did not have culture to base it on. It morphed to basically uno with normal playing card deck but winner gets to make new rule, any rule. They will enforce it but they will not tell it to anyone else, they will just comment: "you broke rules, take penalty"
Since we played it way too much with siblings, we had times where my brother took 15 card penalty on game start. There was ~4 day trip we played near 30h of Mao.
I still love it, but can't play it any more since people rarely have attention to detuct the hidden rules. But also I feel creatively blocked since I can't make super complex rules when playing with new people, and the magic between my siblings has dimished bit.
Interesting, that kind of reminds me of Things In Rings [1]. I haven’t played it yet but it looks pretty good.
[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/408547/things-in-rings
__david__ commented on Max Payne – two decades later – Graphics Critique (2021) darkcephas.blogspot.com/2... · Posted by u/davikr
> I booted Halo and was literally mesmerized when I came out of a tunnel onto the Halo and saw the sky and the landmass.
I had the same feeling when I exited starship in Unreal. Right now it is nothing, but then it was oh my god, this is beautiful. The bird in sky, the colors, the palm…
Oh yeah, Unreal was so nice looking. For me, though, that moment was in the Quake prerelease demo (“q1test”). It was clearly polygonal and you could look up and down with the mouse at a very nice high frame rate, which was pretty amazing in its own right, but then I walked up to a hole in the floor and looked down into a completely different but equally well rendered room. Suddenly the possibilities of verticality hit me and I just sat there mesmerized…
__david__ commented on I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone idiallo.com/byte-size/can... · Posted by u/firefoxd
The most egregious thing in recent iterations of Win11 is that a fresh installation will basically map all of your home folder to OneDrive. My Documents, My Pictures, My Music, etc. A recent Windows update also told me that I need OneDrive now to back up my files. Yup, apparently you really, really need it.
Worse is that the notification for this “error” telling me I couldn’t back up without OneDrive was behind the little dot in the restart/logout menu in the start menu, which (until now) only showed me that updates were required. Now that they’ve infested that notification with ads there’s no reason for me to ever look at it again. Good job, Microsoft.
__david__ commented on 4 billion if statements (2023) andreasjhkarlsson.github.... · Posted by u/damethos
Maybe we can even find some correlation in the bit pattern of the input and the Boolean table!
Perhaps, but I fear you’re veering way too much into “clever” territory. Remember, this code has to be understandable to the junior members of the team! If you’re not careful you’ll end up with arcane operators, strange magic numbers, and a general unreadable mess.
__david__ commented on Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB tomshardware.com/video-ga... · Posted by u/doener
SSDs did not "stop getting bigger a decade plus ago." The largest SSD announced in 2015 was 16TB. You can get 128-256TB SSDs today.
You can buy 16-32TB consumer SSDs on NewEgg today. Or 8TB in M.2 form factor. In 2015, the largest M.2 SSDs were like 1TB. That's merely a decade. At a decade "plus," SSDs were tiny as recently as 15 years ago.
Perhaps my searching skills aren’t great but I don’t see any consumer ssds over 8TB. Can you share a link?
It was my understanding that ssds have plateaued due to wattage restriction across SATA and M.2 connections. I’ve only seen large SSDs in U.3 and E[13].[SL] form factors which I would not call consumer.
> Wall wanted a language that allowed for cleverness, suprise, and ingenuity. [...] Having to learn to be a poet to be a good coder was too high a barrier.
To me this just sounds, umm, pathologically eclectic.
But I bet you could really list some rubbish with it…
9.0 has really pushed some big game changes. Sure it's a dinosaur's language from beyond times but still has it uses.
I would pick TCL over Python any day.
I love tcl. My absolute favorite thing about it is that `man tcl` [1] gives a dozen paragraphs that completely describe the language itself. Its simplicity always astounded me since it seems really simplistic but at some level it’s just as malleable as lisp. I wish it had caught on more (outside the hardware community which seems to have fully embraced it).
__david__ commented on Today I Learned: Binfmt_misc dfir.ch/posts/today_i_lea... · Posted by u/malmoeb
nit: while test and [ are binaries, [[ is a bash keyword.
Another nit, while test and [ are indeed binaries, they are also bash built-ins (for performance, presumably) so bash won’t exec them normally.