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rootw0rm··on Most UI applications are broken real-time applications
I've finally learned to love VS Code, but the new UI of Clion is pretty damn decent
rootw0rm··on Most UI applications are broken real-time applications
You're right, Sysinternals Process Monitor will show lots of stuff going on for your example.
rootw0rm··on All license plates available in America
Great, now I need an Alice Cooper license plate. Thanks, Jon
rootw0rm··on Insect pests and radiation: SIT, inherited sterility, biological control
according to this [1], it's difficult to package them up and deliver them without harming them. if it was an easier / more lucrative problem to solve then surely it would be solved.

[1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.aba6251

rootw0rm··on George Orwell Complete Works
Proof that nobody hates Communists more than fellow Communists. Shit, I learned that from reading Orwell.
rootw0rm··on Replanting logged forests with diverse seedlings accelerates restoration
afaik it helps guard against particularly devastating wildfires, too.
rootw0rm··on Could Dementia in the National Security Workforce Create a Security Threat?
I think it's probably okay to be concerned about both of those things.
rootw0rm··on Scientists figured out how to write in water
They put a whole house on a little tittle.
rootw0rm··on Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware
that's a cool project, will definitely try it out later
rootw0rm··on The SHA256 for this sentence begins with: one, eight, two, a, seven, c and nine.
1.) Pick one of the old abandoned Bitcoin addresses

2.) Start looking for a key match using this technique

3.) Heat death of the universe

4.) Profit!

rootw0rm··on Every type of plastic used by LEGO (2022)
When I start feeling this way it's always my cue to read up on philosophy and religion and briefly reject my nihilistic views.
rootw0rm··on NaNofuzz: A Usable Tool for Automatic Test Generation [pdf]
for Typescript, VS Code extension

github: https://github.com/nanofuzz/nanofuzz

rootw0rm··on Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam
it's the "all rights reversed" license
rootw0rm··on Get a cable modem, go to jail (1999)
hey now, if i don't sleep with the thing, how am i gonna grab it when i'm asleep?
rootw0rm··on The Gimmicks of Food Labeling
Not a very comprehensive list, but Mr. Sheehan's website has some information.

a quote from [1] :

'Food fraud can take place in many forms. A company might substitute one product for another, use additives or enhancements that are not approved or misrepresent the country of origin of the product. Stolen food shipments or intentional contamination of the product is also considered food fraud.

Food fraud is a continuum of deception. At one end of spectrum, there is the deliberate substitution of inferior and potentially harmful ingredients. At the other end is the mislabeling of common products by the largest food companies. The largest food companies will not engage in outright food fraud intentionally by using different ingredients that could be harmful. Instead, they typically would engage in a more subtle deception – all natural claims, no preservatives, healthy, yet containing lots of chemicals, etc.'

[1] https://spencersheehan.com/other-areas/#food

rootw0rm··on Shining a light on the digital dark age
There was some cool, obscure music on the original? mp3.com, bands that never made it beyond that site. Never made it to OiNK or what.cd, etc. either
rootw0rm··on Changing my relationship with GitHub Copilot
to each his own.

i switched from VSCode to CLion (for Rust) the other night and only lasted 5 minutes because i missed how alternating braces change color.

rootw0rm··on How was the size of Earth first measured? (2015)
make enough measurements and you can probably find those "encoded" there, too
rootw0rm··on NASA Shares First Images from US Pollution-Monitoring Instrument
impressive results. i think it would be easier to read at first glance if missing data/clouds were shown in white to light grey
rootw0rm··on People in a genetic database have segments of DNA in common unexpectedly often
give it to enough people and there will likely be that one person who just wants to see the world burn...their answer will be something like "hotdog juice"
rootw0rm··on Maui residents who disobeyed barricades survived fires
More than 1,000 people were missing [1] in the Camp fire. 85 people died.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2018/11/16/668552010/more-than-600-peopl...

rootw0rm··on Useful San Francisco and Bay Area History Resources
step 1: ask LLM to crack captcha

step 2: ask LLM to build better captcha

step 3: oh shit, skynet?

rootw0rm··on Windows 11 will happily execute a binary compiled 30 years ago
have you tried various compatibility options? right click -> properties -> compatibility

there's a troubleshooter there, too

rootw0rm··on Larian's Unfair Advantage
I picture a tavern somewhere in Baldur's Gate named The Strange Scaffold, and the innkeep is named Xalavier Nelson Jr.
rootw0rm··on Sites scramble to block ChatGPT web crawler after instructions emerge
There's never going to be a perfect solution, it's an arms race. I really doubt (hope?) that large entities are going to straight up emulate end-user browsers though.

I would think filtering based on user agent will be the sweet spot for effort and performance. You could do some awful JavaScript monstrosity to detect the tiny fraction of bots who are sneaky, but if they're determined to be sneaky they will succeed at scraping.

rootw0rm··on The history and context of Aleksandr Afanasev’s obscene Russian folktales
How times have changed. I imagine pristine specimens of the rare field cock would fetch a good sum these days.
rootw0rm··on Windows Repair Toolbox
i've got cut/copy/paste on my context menu in 11...

check out autoruns [0] for easily cleaning context menu, startup junk, etc.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/aut...

rootw0rm··on The worst API ever made (2014)
Came here expecting Windows, found Windows. I think I nominate WMI though
rootw0rm··on Marijuana addiction: those struggling often face skepticism
JWH-018, the first very widely available one seemed safer (based on my own limited research) than those that followed, but was banned. it's the same thing every time. chemical gets banned, more dangerous but legal chemical takes it's place, cycle continues.

3-methylfentanyl is an early example of this.

rootw0rm··on Marijuana addiction: those struggling often face skepticism
man, I bet you're holding out for that handcrafted Japanese beer made with white truffles, beluga caviar, saffron, and gold
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