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Is anyone going to say it? No?

I have this comic on my wall at my desk.[1] It's about how much work goes into every detail of the everyday things we take for granted. I practice law, mostly patent litigation, and often my job entails untangling one of these stories.

[1]: https://xkcd.com/1741/

It happened when I did load the game files, I had to patch out this line to remove the second set of args:

    Module.arguments = [...args, ...params.args];

Then, it did work! :D

Weird, I get an error:

> Exception thrown: TypeError: params.args is undefined

Managed to get this compiled and running on my M1 MBA pretty quickly, although a bit tricky.

For reference to those who might attempt, I had to swap 'python' for 'python3' in the header of the waf binary, patch one file to replace 'malloc.h' with 'stdlib.h" to overcome the one compile error, compile the hlsdk-portable library referenced in the README (again with waf tweaked), and copy both the resulting dlls/hl_arm64.dylib and cl_dll/client_arm64.dylib into the valve folder.

Tens of thousands. I guess the edited title isn’t wrong, in the same way as “more than 12” is a valid answer to most questions about how many of a given thing are in a city.

https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1159799-tumblr

Star Trek combadge vibes. Neat.

Apparently there’s also a die shrink on the SoC, which is otherwise the same but should draw less power.

And so a fifth quest journal was born and provided to every employee.

> The problem is that most of the costs of providing broadband are fixed costs. To run a coaxial cable from their headend to your house, and to provide employees and crews to repair it and install it all costs the same whether you buy 10 megabits or 2 gigabits

Not sure if this is completely the case when it comes to older networks that might need upgrades because lots of folk are sharing the same coax line. In an HFC[1] network, bandwidth is shared on the coax branches, and a variable number of units can be sharing the same fiber link, which can serve a neighborhood, block, or even unit. And, so upgrades can make a network more "fiber-rich."

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_fiber-coaxial

I think these reference materials are more about how they’re well-characterized, right?

It’s peanut butter, sure, but it’s not meant to be the peanut butter or even represent any particular peanut butter.

Instead, it comes with a detailed document describing all of the kinds of measurements you could take on it and their expected results. If you’ve got a peanut butter testing machine, you can put some in there and make sure it spits out the same result.

So, you’re not comparing any peanut butter against it, just your machine’s results against the results expected.

Professors in law school love to use the Socratic method. Most classes are centered around the professor asking students about cases from the reading. The student describes the case and answers follow-up questions about it from the professor.

I think android is - and has been - more heavy-handed than Apple here. Even when you could install and trust a new root CA, some apps can and would ignore this. Apps can use certificate pinning on both iOS and Android, but apps by default on Android just ignore user-added CAs by default on Android 7+, since 2016[1].

On iOS, the process of trusting a root CA is (rightfully) tricky, requiring you to install a profile and jump through some hoops with some scary warnings, but in my experience most apps will trust it unless they're using pinning.

[1]: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2016/07/changes-to...

This is actually potentially helpful for me as a lawyer for generating a paper record, and something I was talking about (and meaning to write up a script for) the other day. Sometimes I want to use a Youtube video in a court filing (for example, as prior art in a patent case), and submitting a rough paper record of the video like this is helpful along with the actual video.

This reminds me of the quote from Star Trek, “There are many parts of my youth that I'm not proud of. There were -- loose threads; untidy parts of me that I would like to remove. But when I pulled on one of those threads, it unraveled the tapestry of my life.”

Apparently someone got this going on real hardware:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMseY5_YeRs

Weird, right clicking on this page seems to trigger a popup of "rad" for some reason for me...

    <div oncontextmenu="if (!window.__cfRLUnblockHandlers) return false; alert('rad')" ....

“I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor, just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!”

Neat. By a strange coincidence, I made something similar yesterday in a script to make each letter in HTML into a different font. I wanted to see if it would end up as an OCR-proof font:

https://gist.github.com/tonyb486/0e3efc9240953c86a50a019b56c...

An example: https://tmp.tonybox.net/chbgr.htm

Rasterized and OCR'd: https://tmp.tonybox.net/ocr.pdf

It's weird how entire TLDs get reputations like that.

NY's transit agency - the MTA - used (and still uses) the domain mta.info. My high school blocked that domain, along with every other info domain.

I have a .xyz domain that I briefly wanted to use for email, but services blocked it based entirely off the TLD. Using the same mail service (fastmail) I could send mail from my .net domains.

I have no TV in my living room now, just a projector that lives in the closet. It puts some friction between me and sitting on the couch to watch something. It just takes a few minutes to set it up, but it's enough to keep it to occasions when I really do want to watch something that way or have people over.

Was in a group where we launched a couple of weather balloons back in undergrad. One we recovered and got cool pictures from[1]. The other one never returned. I now choose to believe it was shot down by the USAF back in 2010.

[1]: https://imgur.com/a/1IAEBQs

My bottom left is that, very handy indeed.

I have the top-left corner on MacOS set to act as a "hot corner." Whenever my mouse goes there, it triggers exposé, showing all my windows to me. I got the habit from using gnome3, which does this by default, and find it quite handy with muscle memory.

Looks like the article has an important update:

> (Update, 10:50 a.m., 12/20/2022: Given that the NY legislature is technically never out of session in modern times, inaction by the governor on the bill after 10 days would make a passed but not signed bill a law. The original post originally suggested an out-of-session process. Ars regrets the error regarding New York's otherwise completely straightforward legislative system.)

> The governor has 10 days to act on the bill after Friday's delivery, or until midnight on Dec. 28. Failing to act with either a signature or a veto will make the bill become law. The bill was originally introduced in 2021, so it cannot be easily re-introduced during the next session and would have to be re-drafted and submitted.

Even that is easily forged, although that takes care of some casual sharing arguably.

But wait, I thought the new satellite SOS feature launched today? Was this during some kind of beta test?

Anyone remember using "MyYahoo!" where you could customize the page, putting feeds and other things in the boxes and arranging them as you saw fit?

I am at a law firm that uses a remote system like that. Have definitely gone two Citrix’s deep for some things, so I feel this.

Honestly, though, it’s better than the laptop the other firms have given me. One took over 10 minutes to boot, iirc. It wasn’t just the hardware, there was just so much … stuff, multiple layers of antivirus seemingly hooking all of the system calls and fighting with each other, and a document management system with blocking I/O everywhere that was somehow so embedded in Windows that it could seem to freeze the whole system.

The thin client setup may have latency, but at least it is convenient and it gets there eventually. Though I would swear it’s getting slower, or maybe my patience is waning.

My guess is that printed and scanned documents from word make up a large component of this.