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ChaoticNeutralCzech

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  • See in CMYK

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  • Gemini will identify objects

    Google is desperate to find a use for their image-processing AI. Skip that step and just use a normal halftone converter. I think the AI preprocessing does little more than posterization and maybe sharpening/edge detection (also available in most 2000s image editors on a crap PC).

  • does linking to inv.nadeko.net count as piracy?

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  • Invidious is just an alternative frontend, much like Piped. It's against YouTube's ToS but that does not need to concern you (in most jurisdictions, you can't get prosecuted for using or recommending a website that breaches a civil contract). The videos are still being pulled from YouTube's servers so only those YouTube will serve are available (albeit under conditions YT would not approve of, such as without ads, with free broader playback speed options etc.). However, the server's location can be used to bypass region-locked YouTube videos, which might be considered priracy.

    Also, there are client-side alternative frontends like NewPipe, Revanced (modified official proprietary Android app) and Grayjay (with optional features like Subscription Exchange and Polycentric integration relying on FUTO servers).

  • Android verification is coming: Google confirms timeline and supported app stores

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  • What is oenisn? Misspelled Genshin? Open-ish? Leninism? Bosnian? Penis?

  • megabool

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  • PANTS_ON_FIRE,

  • Life in 2030 [SpaceboyCantLol]

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  • Would be a consolation prize in otherwise shit future. The Unicode Consortium's current stance is "no more flag emoji", which is ridiculous.

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  • Iron magnets are crap, but I imagine he does not know better having gone to school in the 50s-60s. But yes, those are magnetically weak enough and physically strong enough for a hammer to work.

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  • The magnitude of physical stress waves a magnet has to undergo to be demagnetized is huge. Most magnetic materials will shatter instead unless the force is applied precisely.

    I think he vaguely remembered something about electromagnetism and that water on electronics is a no-no.

    The main takeaway is that he should appoint an engineer to advise him on technical topics (and Surgeon General on medical matters, etc.), otherwise any sufficiently sly corporate sponsor or media can easily steer his policy by pretending to be experts. I guess the only fields he does not need to delegate are being a douchebag on TV and lying about real estate.

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  • Yeah but some are able to get better at them than others. Talent does play a role and it's best if interests align.

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  • FYI: Sipnayan is a Tagalog word, originating from a 1969 attempt by a Filipino language committee to replace the Greek/Latin-originated matematika with low level of success, much like courriel etc. pushed by the French Academy

  • Life in 2030 [SpaceboyCantLol]

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  • I hope at least the Unicode Consortium pulls their head out of their ass by then and defines sequences like

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U+1F3F3 WAVING WHITE FLAG  
U+ FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16  
U+ 200D ZERO-WIDTH JOINER  
U+1F7E5 LARGE RED SQUARE  
U+ 200D ZERO-WIDTH JOINER  
U+1F7F7 (not yet existing) LARGE LIGHT ORANGE SQUARE  
U+ 200D ZERO-WIDTH JOINER  
U+ 21BC WHITE LARGE SQUARE  
U+ FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 (forces emoji rendition of this pre-emoji character, also used in the existing trans flag sequence)  
U+ 200D ZERO-WIDTH JOINER  
U+1F7FA (not yet existing) LARGE LIGHT PURPLE SQUARE  
U+ 200D ZERO-WIDTH JOINER  
U+1F7EA LARGE PURPLE SQUARE

    This would render as a striped flag like

    if supported on the platform (on devices before Unicode 20.0 like yours right now, the fallback is "🏳️‍🟥‍🟷‍⬜️‍🟺‍🟪", much like the fallback of 🏳️‍⚧️ is "🏳️⚧️"). Fonts could include most common pride flags (with exact "canonical" color values) and/or the platforms could generate the stripes on the fly up to a limit. I think both approaches have been implemented for the family emoji set on some platforms (yup, those also use separate codepoints for members and ZWJs), after all. (I hope platforms adopt the latter approach, even though it enables arbitrary, evil "pride" flags like TERF or MAP − well, Unicode has always been able to express evil, valid Unicode sequences include U+0FD5 RIGHT-FACING SVASTI SIGN, U+1FAC3 PREGNANT MAN, U+20E0 COMBINING ENCLOSING CIRCLE BACKSLASH or the entire text of Mein Kampf.) And would people abuse it for color bitmap text art? Yes, like they do Braille now.

  • Gaming PC deflects bullet shot through wall by neighbour, saving owner's life — criminal negligence charges for culprit who claims 'firearm was accidentally discharged by her dog'

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  • RAM, especially... Very high for sure

  • The most underrated programming language: Pokémon Yellow

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  • This is how I learned about Portal in 2020

  • The most underrated programming language: Pokémon Yellow

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  • Everything is injected. Even most of Pokémon Gold, including the code enabling GBC features (the font is the same tho). This can't be done on the NES because the character (graphics) is in CPU-inaccessible memory (and therefore ROM on most cartridges). There are several stages of the payload that write and execute each other:

    1. name+item manipulation
      • a few bytes in several seconds
    2. copying existing button input buffer
      • 60 bytes per second
    3. polling buttons in a loop
      • only CPU-constrained, almost as fast as copying from the cartridge to RAM, literally fast enough to stream video at 10 fps (or in this case, 15 fps with ⅔ of the screen area updating, see technical writeup OP linked)

    The Ocarina of Time "Triforce%" TAS speedrun (very good live commentary at GDQ!) activates some debug code such as the inventory debug menu and Starfox spaceship model

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  • Prague Zoo played a key role in this and now manages the species' breeding register, consider visiting if you're in the city

  • C++ takes decades to master

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  • I used Imagine by Logotron (Czech-localized, including keywords - yes, with diacritics) as my IDE, and I still have it installed because the accompanying graphics editor (LogoMotion) is just so good. I never got to the OOP part because the textbook didn't cover it and there are no materials onlone about the Czech version (not even a keyword dictionary), and I couldn't speak English back then. I stopped programming for way too long because I couldn't get another IDE working and I didn't know how to make arrays and text I/O in Logo, the tutorials I had stopped at variables.

  • C++ takes decades to master

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  • Yay, Logo

    I used it way too long because my clumsy ass couldn't get another IDE to work

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  • Probably the most sweat-inducing user input verification code in history.

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  • There's a 2001 rewrite of the documentation. There's lots of funny instructions aside from P00 meaning root process of the computer, like an OS kernel which also includes the P00D00 abort routine. There is also SEXTMARK (sextant mark) and ENEMA (software restart).

  • Probably the most sweat-inducing user input verification code in history.

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  • I know what P00 is, that's program 00 or the root process of the computer. Terminating the subprocess hands control back to P00, which is why the processor is instructed to GOTOP00H (the H might indicate the point where the subrutine was called; presumably because the CPU lacks a hardware-implemented "return from subrutine" instruction)

    Strange that the AI did not elaborate on this, that's one of the best known parts of the Apollo software...

  • Beastly

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  • Forcing people to write CSS? I thought there was an international treaty against that