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eusprig.org 1y ago

Spreadsheet Horror Stories (2024)

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weirdgloop.org 1y ago

Helping wikis move away from Fandom

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

AI-generated images got through peer review [video]

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wiki.vg 2y ago

Minecraft snapshot 24w03a pre-release protocol documentation

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wahsonline.com 2y ago

Mohawk Airline's Gaslight Service (2019)

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www.bleachbit.org 2y ago

BleachBit "stifles investigation" into Hillary Clinton (2016)

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

Etch Anything, Even Diamond [13:06] [video]

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minecraft.wiki 2y ago

Minecraft Java Edition 1.21 (Upcoming Minecraft Update)

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minecraft.wiki 2y ago

Minecraft Pi Edition (2013)

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en.wiktionary.org 2y ago

Wiktionary – Hot words newer than a year

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

The Mass Extinction Debates: A Science Communication Odyssey [2:11:42] [video]

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

I Bought the Most Comprehensive Atlas [video]

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cubxity.dev 3y ago

Testing a 1,000 player Minecraft server with Folia

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

NASA’s Hidden Underground Bunker [video]

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www.suse.com 3y ago

Closing the Leap Gap (2021)

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

QR code generator made with Minecraft redstone [video]

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wiki.theory.org 3y ago

BitTorrent Protocol Specification 1.0 (2003)

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paper-chan.moe 3y ago

Folia – Multithreading Coming to your Minecraft server

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gist.github.com 3y ago

Folia regionizing logic – Multi-threading Minecraft by splitting it into regions

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

YouTube Won't Pay a Creator [video]

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prismlauncher.org 3y ago

PrismLauncher – open-source Minecraft launcher with instances, based on MultiMC

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www.minecraft.net 3y ago

Minecraft 1.19.1 released with chat reporting and global bans on private servers

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krita.org 6y ago

Krita in 2019 and 2020

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blog.longnow.org 6y ago

What a Prehistoric Monument Reveals about the Value of Maintenance

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www.oracle.com 6y ago

Oracle JDK downloads page now require an Oracle account

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nixos.org 8y ago

Nix Pills – Why you should give NixOS a try

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ECC and DDR5 8 hours ago

This can happen, after all HDD firmware and the link is not flawless. But have you actually ruled out RAM/CPU as the primary cause? I'm skeptical.

ECC and DDR5 2 days ago

...No? Faulty storage will almost always show up as I/O errors, modern storage generally doesn't want to send a block of data to the CPU if there is an error in it. If your bits are flipping, chances are it's RAM and not storage. Your storage already has ECC.

Some crappy flash drives might not do this, though. Seems to behave like a floppy disk at times.

Huh, I guess I assumed that based on the behavior of most of the experimental flags offered on world creation. Has that always been the case?

I think mojang is taking a turn away from experimental feature flags these days, so I guess this situation will get better over time.

GLFW itself is supposed to work, but there are areas of the API surface that Minecraft touches that have been a problem, so Minecraft hasn't been able to enable it. I believe the two major issues that cause crashes have been the way Minecraft sets the taskbar icon and the way it sets the window geometry. And various quality of life problems with the mouse (like hovering over the window capturing the mouse instantly).

Not sure, but they were able to get Wayland support working out of the box in this update. Previously it required workarounds, and even with workarounds, new issues would pop up in a game of whack-a-mole, and nobody really cared because running MC in XWayland was good enough for most people. Whereas SDL3 has very solid Wayland support out of the box. Minecraft only really uses GLFW to create the window, set the taskbar icon, go into fullscreen mode, and accept input, with everything else being handled by raw OpenGL, so this was an easy switchover. Now that Minecraft supports Vulkan, it's able to use a fully modern stack on Linux desktops / Steam Decks.

They are explicitly a beta channel, and in fact if you create a world on a snapshot you don't have an upgrade path to future releases (unless you start hacking at your world files with an NBT editor). So most of the community ignores them and waits till release.

The modern desktops seem to have some way to jam themselves if the lock screen fails.

For example, KDE: https://preview.redd.it/plasma-lock-screen-messed-up-v0-zx7h...

GNOME: https://forums.freebsd.org/attachments/index-jpeg.8571/

I think this only works because there is top-down integration between the different parts. The compositor knows when it's supposed to be locked. Whereas the old screen lockers were just very aggressive Xorg apps that suffer from "What if two programs did this?" problems (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110310-00/?p=11...)

The removal of dictionary definitions from google search (even if you use "define") is absolutely infuriating. Dictionary definitions are written with the exact amount of precision/broadness needed for each particular word, compared to AI output which is just wrong most of the time.

Can't they just compete in separate categories? People have been making high-level computer mods years before even ComputerCraft, RedPower, or OpenComputers existed. And people will continue to make pure-redstone computers far into the future. Neither category is replacing the other :)

Not sure if uBlock Origin has a checkbox to turn off <noscript> globally, but since it is an ad blocker, you could just manually add a global filter on all <noscript> tags. Or you could rely on the community's filter lists to remove specific instances of bullshit found in popular websites.

Indeed, <noscript> doesn't show just because the page didn't properly load the scripts in the page. It's not a fallback for errors, it's a fallback to serve users who deliberately disabled Javascript. This is a rare scenario these days, but it does get displayed when you disable JS in Tor Browser, use the disable Javascript button in uBlock Origin (I personally use this to whitelist javascript per-domain), or use various other extensions like NoScript. This is dependent on the implementation, though. In theory some crappy browser extension could provide JS disabling functionality otherwise identical to tor/ublock/noscript but forget to display <noscript>s, but I haven't heard of implementations that are like this.

Either way, make sure you have something sensible to display for all scenarios, even if it's just an error page. Mysterious blank pages are not fun.

OpenBSD 7.9 2 months ago

And even for background tasks shouldn't it be better to have them complete faster for less power

Race to idle is only clearly beneficial for tasks that have a clear start and end. If a background task is sustained, responds to unpredictable events, or does small amounts of work and wakes frequently, the CPU's boost logic won't solve your energy usage problem.

To say nothing about what if they have different features. what happens when a process that wants to use cpu feature X(avx512?) gets scheduled on a cpu without X

This idea has been proposed in the past, but isn't actually used on x86-64 or ARM. E-cores have the same instruction set as P-cores, so there's no risk of running into an invalid CPU instruction.

Truly heterogeneous instruction sets may come back in the future, though. So be on your toes.

"query strings are horrible"

That's not at all what the article says. You're responding to a weird strawman that doesn't resemble the article's actual point.

For proprietary software, sure. But open source projects rarely ever work like this.

Especially for a project like the kernel, there's no reasonable way to decide who out of thousands of interested parties should have access first.

Android is a rare exception, as of a few years ago they started a program where phone manufacturers get very favorable early access to AOSP code 4 months ahead of public release.

If the only shell(s) for a business are in a completely different jurisdiction with no connection whatsoever to any of the humans involved in operating the organization... yes. It's an outrageous way to escape the force of the law that has been rubber stamped by corrupt politicians.

For-profit companies jurisdiction shopping without any physical presence is so clearly sketchy that it's wild anyone could see it otherwise. I can't imagine a normal person not being shocked in disbelief when they first learn about the concept of tax havens.

Having posted rules on a forum/mailing list/bug tracker is only done to cause trouble? Really?

Codes of conduct exist because the alternatives are either arbitrary punishment for arbitrary infractions, or complete spamfest anarchy. It baffles me that a crowd that previously preached netiquette are now so against clarity and healthy community. (Though on second thought, maybe this is a Goomba fallacy and the folks that have so much disdain for CoCs are the people who constantly spewed flame wars and spam on 1990s usenet)

"Hairdryer sometimes get pointed at the weather sensor" and "Government sometimes fudges jobs/CPI data" are more or less the same thing. Build it into your model.

Is this comment satire? Bet on things being intentionally and secretly manipulated by people you will never meet? In what direction? This just sounds like a recipe for participating in the most financially dangerous questions.

Agent-produced emails are by definition spam. Everyone should be reacting to this news by immediately blocking your service.