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fredsanford··on I got my file from Clearview AI
This is already here with Google if you use oBlock or uMatrix. Endless Captchas...

"We detected suspicious blah blah blah"

fredsanford··on Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions
I don't remember UMDF as supporting video drivers. It was mostly pluggable stuff like USB storage, sound etc. But I haven' touched that stuff since 2005 or so.

Anyone that remembers WinNT 3.51 or so would likely remember the horrible video performance before most windows graphics code was moved to the kernel in win32k.sys...

fredsanford··on Sucralose with carbohydrates may blunt the body’s ability to metabolize sugar
Not just diarrhea but this horrible greasy concoction that required a shower...

Metformin could be sold as an ultra laxative for some folks...

fredsanford··on Jack Welch Inflicted Great Damage on Corporate America
For his sake I hope the afterlife doesn't do stack ranking though the irony appeals to me.
fredsanford··on Say It Is So: Baseball’s Disgrace
This makes me wonder what the Astros did against Charlie Morton... He has a ridiculous amount of break to his curve.
fredsanford··on Learn Rust with entirely too many linked lists (2019)
Search for ArrayOfStructures or StructureOfArrays to see benchmarks similar to what you're asking for
fredsanford··on To become a good C programmer (2011)
I consider [0] to be well written and fairly low fat.

0 https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy

fredsanford··on Why Aren't More Highly Intelligent People Rich?
My experince is close to yours but I would add empathy before ethics.
fredsanford··on Why I’m Leaving San Francisco: Meta study
>> i definitely want people to read in a format comfortable for them

>> i also know which rules don't matter

Are you sure? These 2 statements conflict in this context.

fredsanford··on OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch application firewall
peerblock if it's still getting updates
fredsanford··on Ask HN: Should I move in with my co-founder?
I would not because I feel it can narrow your scope. Ideas etc come from talking/experiencing things with other people.
fredsanford··on One Question You Should Never Ask Your Boss
This is the manager that wants your bathroom breaks scheduled while s/he's on the golf course or tennis court sucking up to the boss... No thanks.
fredsanford··on Boltzmann Brain
>> recurring sequence of Boltzmann brains pooping into existence

I think this finally explains current pop music to me.

Justin Beibers pooping into existence...

fredsanford··on Show HN: Tired of mobile games with IAP and ads, I made No-Bullshit Games
Then you create a soft ceiling and miss out on the whales that will spend $1K a month to have a shinier hat.
fredsanford··on BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X
IBM failed with OS/2 due to executive incompetence.

John Thompson doesn't want to be in the "kitchentop" business... Dumb ass.

fredsanford··on EA is permanently banning Linux players on Battlefield V
This is true...

There are a few that will never accept you as a customer again if you do a chargeback (Arenanet comes to mind). However, with EA, that would probably make me happy.

fredsanford··on EA is permanently banning Linux players on Battlefield V
Start disputing credit card charges involving EA and watch how fast they start talking to the player base.

They cannot easily outsource employees to deal with that.

fredsanford··on Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows
FUD
fredsanford··on DJ Steve Aoki quietly opens a cloud only pizza restaurant in Oakland
>> I get about the same enjoyment from frozen pizza as fancy pizza.

Dominos, Papa Johns and especially Pizza Hut are not real pizza. They're about the same shit as a grocery store frozen puck.

Try a real pizza place some time. For instance... If you're ever in Southern Palm Beach County in Florida, try Jack's Pizza. Or find a family run place near you...

fredsanford··on A Navy Seal's Semester at Yale, at Age 52
Ex ranger...

While I didn't serve, I did grow up with and had close family and friends that were part of navy, army and air force special forces.

The clown you describe does not last long in special forces unless he's a modern day Audie Murphy, Roy Benavidez or Chesty Puller.

fredsanford··on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney changed video game industry
I stopped reading about 3 paragraphs in when my spidey sense detected a press release...

FWIW

fredsanford··on Brave Isn't Bad
Nice revisionist history you got there...

Chrome is just a rebranded KDE Konqueror if your logic holds.

fredsanford··on Hyperscan: High-performance multiple regex matching library from Intel
Any guesstimates as to when it starts to become worth it to use hyperscan vs pcre etc?

30 regex and 1 meg of data for example.

I'm somewhat curious as I have a couple of scraping things I do where I can compile the regex once and keep it hanging around (or save to/load from disk if that's feasible) for 3 to 5 minutes at a time.

fredsanford··on San Francisco Spent a Decade Being Rich, Important, and Hating Itself
>> San Francisco has been getting worse.

From my first visit there in ~'93 to my last in ~'99 SF felt like it was going downhill quickly. I would not have gone back voluntarily after the first visit if not for job requirements.

I had an uncle who lived in Hayward who complained about both areas a lot.

After reading the news about needles, mental patients, shitting in the street etc... I dunno how it could get worse.

fredsanford··on Fast
I wrote a song for San Francisco after reading so many negatives...

To the tune of Dancing in the Street by Van Halen

(In the background) (taking a shit sounds... grunting farting)

Dropping out around the town

Are you ready for a big brown stain

Summer's here and the time is right

for shitting in the street

They're shitting on Gough Street (they'll be shitting)

At the MOMA (shitting in the street)

Up at Fort Point (shitting in the street)

All we need is fiber, (sweet sweet)

sweet fiber (sweet sweet fiber)

There'll be piles everywhere

There'll be ooooohing, ahhhing, farting, squatting

Shitting in the street

It doesn't matter when or where

As long as you shit there

Whether you're a guy or a girl. take a shit while you twirl

There'll be shitting

It's just an invitation for defecation

don't get it on your feet

There could runny or solid, but guaranteed to be squalid

Shitting in the street.

All we need is fiber, (sweet sweet)

sweet fiber (sweet sweet fiber)

There'll be piles everywhere

There'll be ooooohing, ahhhing, farting, squatting

Shitting in the street

It doesn't matter when or where

As long as you shit there

Whether you're a guy or a girl. take a shit while you twirl

Shitting in the street.

The San Francisco way!

Shitting in the street.

fredsanford··on Fast
Florida is not a close minded Commonwealth unlike my home state...
fredsanford··on Fast
Magical fairy dust from the trees we should not have chopped down? :)
fredsanford··on Eat This Much – Automatic Meal Planner
FWIW, Peanut butter and a drizzle of honey on rye is one of my goto sandwiches...
fredsanford··on Crows could be the smartest animal other than primates
When I was 12 or so we had a neighbor who had a pet raven or crow, not sure which. But this bird did the owners cigarette cough and gravel gert voice perfectly for 10 or so words.

Someone later gave the guy a mynah bird that had a 30 or so word vocabulary. The birds eventually taught each other the words and the cough.

It was pretty funny to walk past that house on a nice day and hear 3 cigarette coughs and hearing the mynah say happy halloween in a sort-of witch voice no matter the time of the year.

fredsanford··on What Happens After Prisoners Learn to Code?
>> What happens after prisoners become accountants / lawy...

Or Senators, congresscritters or Presidents? Seen the TV news lately?

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