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heywhatupboys··on I used a Game Boy camera for Facetime video calls in iPadOS 17
this whole article is basically "man plugs webcam into device" but "hardware that records is very old!"
heywhatupboys··on NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild
people will put experience on their resume building literal bombs etc. why would this be any different, it is really a non-issue in comparison
heywhatupboys··on COBOL gets new life in the cloud thanks to Watsonx and AI
This is cope. It is clear that software engineering in the high-paying West is moving out to India, Eastern Europe, Latin America.

The days of the irreplacable, highly paid software engineer who does the bare minimum are over

heywhatupboys··on Firefox 1.0 New York Times ad (2004)
Ads don't have to be hard blasting gangster rap, annoyingly shouting voiceover, and flashing lights. Some cultures prefer modesty and adult looks
heywhatupboys··on For many home-schoolers, parents are no longer doing the teaching
> If we look at what goes on in other countries,

classic (deliberate) oversight in all comparative political studies in the US: there are 180 other countries. of course YOUR country will always be an outlier compared to some other countries

heywhatupboys··on Slack’s migration to a cellular architecture
Is Slack dead? unironically. Does it have a future? With Teams, etc. coming out, it seems most companies do not want to go the Slack route
heywhatupboys··on A new futex API
yes https://tuxcare.com/blog/yet-another-futex-vulnerability-fou...
heywhatupboys··on What’s the world’s oldest language?
you are being deliberately hyperbolic
heywhatupboys··on What’s the world’s oldest language?
English and Hebrew are equally old. Just like humans and chimps are.

There are species with less "evolution" than others.

heywhatupboys··on What’s the world’s oldest language?
are humans older than chimps?

no, we share a common ancestor.

Have chimps been in x country for longer than humans? maybe

not the same question

heywhatupboys··on A new futex API
wasnt futex one of the biggst security holes ever found in modern Linux?
heywhatupboys··on Larry Gagosian reshaped the art world
I hate these Amrican-centralist articles. Or rather, I don't mind their US focus but they always write "the world", not just NA.

This is the kinda commnt that HN downvotes, but I ask the Americans on here to look themseves in the eye and maybe acknowledge their overstatement?

heywhatupboys··on Email in the 18th century: the optical telegraph (2007)
I think it would take much less than a month+.

Assuming friendly territory, we have a distance of 1164 km by the path of modern roads. At walking pace, the average distance expected to cover in Europe was 30 km, so around 40 days.

Taking the speed of a horse into account, and the prevalence of roads in Germany and the Netherlands after crossing the apls, the horse rider should be able to make it with quick pace in 10 days.

heywhatupboys··on My Netlify account has been suspended, I don’t know why?
> Netlify allows users to register domains on their platform.

I read both the title and your comment as "Netflix", and I was surprised at their mission creep.

Sorry if this is a bit off topic.

heywhatupboys··on PRQL: Pipelined Relational Query Language
This is just tidyr ?
heywhatupboys··on Twitter’s Rebrand to X Could Be a Trademark Nightmare Thanks to Microsoft
blatantly wrong
heywhatupboys··on Zenbleed
time is time
heywhatupboys··on 40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight
The British culture contains NO MORE stoicism, "manhood", "stiff upper lip" or whatever you would call it than any other culture. Saying such stems from imperialism
heywhatupboys··on Zenbleed
effort to lie on a text comment << effort to lie with a video
heywhatupboys··on Zenbleed
I knew there were color schemes for the color blind.

Schemes for the blind are news to me though

heywhatupboys··on Zenbleed
> The way Spectre and Meltdown played out, you'll have to excuse me if I stand outside the blast radius while we figure out if there's a chapter 2, 3 or 4 to this story.

I am OOTL on this one, do you have some information you could share?

heywhatupboys··on Zenbleed
> I'm not sure five year olds know what microcode is

Sounds like cope being outprogrammed by a kindergartner i Roblox

heywhatupboys··on Young people are flocking to astrology
100 %, articles like this are the bane of the modern world.
heywhatupboys··on A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis
are you critizising my comment?
heywhatupboys··on FedNow Is Live
> Thankfully, the site is no longer available via clearweb

it's a frigging gossip site. Much worse has been posed to facebook. I don't agree with ANYTHING non-court-ordered takedown of sites.

Not to mention: it was ONE person with powerful personal connections to the internet backbones that got a personal favor.

They even harassed the WIFE of the lawyer representing KiwiFarming

heywhatupboys··on FedNow Is Live
> They were deplatformed for coordinating harassment campaigns that resulted in at least three confirmed suicides. That is not protected speech.

and how many has reddit lead to?

Just admit that they were deplatformed because a very powerful person pulled their strings at our frigging backbones of the internet for personal favors, and got the site banned there.

heywhatupboys··on A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis
anglo-centrist take of quotation rules
heywhatupboys··on Advanced Python Mastery
> # pcost.py

> total_cost = 0.0

> with open('../../Data/portfolio.dat', 'r') as f: > for line in f: > fields = line.split() > nshares = int(fields[1]) > price = float(fields[2]) > total_cost = total_cost + nshares * price

> print(total_cost)

yikes what a terrible reference implementation! Least they could do is reduce([...], +) as a two-liner

heywhatupboys··on Zoom fatigue unpacked
GREAT article. Recommend to everyone to read it in its entirity
heywhatupboys··on Large-scale analysis of code re-use in Atari 2600 games (2022)
no, nothing like that
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