bamboo
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- Comment on If I had to see it, so do you 4 hours ago:
If you enjoyed the first few panels, may I suggest The Hunt For Eel City short series on YouTube to you.
- Comment on IEEE 754 6 hours ago:
think Maxima gives answers as fractions by default, but didn’t know how that worked.
It’s likely based on the theory of continued fractions and the calculator has a limit to the maximum denominator allowed to return an approximation of the fraction.
- Comment on Can I get reinstated as a user to No Stupid Questions? I told the mod what I was going to do with no answer. Asked again with no answer. Then did it and no it''s spamming which is not in the rules. 2 days ago:
This is called spamming. It’s what spammers do.
- Comment on If you want to get shit done, what are effective alternatives to voting in the American Federal election system? 2 days ago:
Always vote in primaries for local politicians, not just general election, especially every 4 years. Despite some of the shitheads with power right now, there’s been some huge upsets and more progressive candidates getting nominated and/or elected.
- Comment on Its about perspective 1 week ago:
I think Johnny Craig did artwork for Tales from the Crypt, but maybe it was commissioned for a goosebumps cover? I didn’t do much digging but found the auction and sketches to be the most interesting and wanted to share it.
- Comment on Its about perspective 1 week ago:
The work is World’s Scariest Ride by Johnny Craig. Apparently according to this auction, “Johnny Craig was commissioned for a painting in 1994, and these are the concept sketches and some of the more detailed final sketches showing different P.o.V. and distance from the subject.”
- Comment on three cheers for fate! 1 week ago:
I assume a reference to orca attacking yachts: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_orca_attacks
- Comment on What is the smartest non boss enemy in a video game 1 week ago:
Not an enemy, but Kaepora Gaebora (the owl) from The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time. Feels like every time you talk with him and try to skip the dialog by mashing A, the question changes and you get stuck having to hear him repeat what he was saying.
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 1 week ago:
hmmm, maybe it’s the extension that’s not passing the referrer information in my case? I am using “Old Reddit Redirect”. The URL in that search result still shows
www.reddit.comwhen I hover over the link, and when I open it and the browser extension changes the URL toold.reddit.comwhich is where I get the login prompt.I guess other extensions might rewrite the link destination, but then that would require more access to the extension to read/write the contents of every site visited, which is too much for me.
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 1 week ago:
OP showed a screenshot for
old.reddit.comwhich is the older UI from ~2014. I have a rewrite rule in an extension that turns all reddit links into this to get the better old UI even when clicking through from a search engine result, and got the same message a few hours ago. - Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 1 week ago:
Porque no los dos? Of course don’t feed reddit with content for them to sell, or aimlessly browse the frontpage. If you need information on a niche subject, or refer to something that happened in 2011, don’t burden yourself to avoid reddit. Just set yourself to be in read only mode with ad blockers to the max so you get more from them then they get from you.
- Comment on What is negative voltage? 2 weeks ago:
Great explanation. For anyone reading this, if this helped your understanding, and want more explanation of electrical concepts like this, check out the book There Are No Electrons: Electronics for Earthlings
- Comment on If the movie Falling Down with Michael Douglas was made today in these times would it be too meta on the current society? Or would it be seen as trying to push an agenda? 3 weeks ago:
Some of that plot sounds like You Were Never Really Here which is a great movie though, although less of a critique of modern society like Falling Down is, and more about a guy destroying a human trafficking network.
- Comment on If the movie Falling Down with Michael Douglas was made today in these times would it be too meta on the current society? Or would it be seen as trying to push an agenda? 3 weeks ago:
Didn’t he snap because he was in traffic to work and his AC broke, and then at a corner store, the clerk wouldn’t give him change so he could use a payphone? The McDonald scene is iconic, but by that part, he’s already smashed up a convenience store and stolen a gun from a gang, so he was beyond snapped.
- Comment on On Copilot, the logo for Analyst looks like anal beads. 3 weeks ago:
#TheyKnew
- Comment on Did you know there was a Super Mario 64 GBA port? No, neither did I :o 4 weeks ago:
In case you’re curious how this was made: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRtOTU9Y0bk
- Comment on Now with more privacy!* 5 weeks ago:
Do you need an account to turn on enhanced privacy features?
- Comment on Was Alex Jones right about anything? 5 weeks ago:
Ok that makes sense. Still it sounds like he was regurgitating the findings of a study of frog behavior in polluted environments, and then creating a conspiracy theory around it. How was anything he added correct information on top of the preexisting evidence?
- Comment on Was Alex Jones right about anything? 5 weeks ago:
Wasn’t his thing with the frogs turning gay that the government was putting something in the water turning frogs and people gay? Maybe I don’t have a complete understanding of his hypothesis but how was he right about this?
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 5 weeks ago:
It may seem like not much changed, but it was one of the motivating factors for the big push for TLS everywhere after it was revealed that PRISM was tapped into and mirroring unencrypted communications. Also Signal probably wouldn’t be as popular as it now, with people still using unencrypted communications.
One of the NSA’s missions is to protect all of the federal government’s computer networks from cyber-terrorism. You could argue that in light of what Snowden revealed, the increased focus of security and encryption did more to protect all of the federal government’s computer networks from cyber-terrorism than any other NSA initiative ever.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 5 weeks ago:
FWIW, his passport was revoked while on a layover in Russia from Hong Kong to Cuba for an intended final destination of Ecuador. This is what caused him to seek asylum in Russia because that was his only option. His involvement with wikileaks during this time is suspicious knowing what we know now, but it seems to me he either got stuck in Russia because of the US or because of Wikileaks, and he didn’t knowingly have a relationship with Russia before getting stuck there.
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 5 weeks ago:
I kept getting spam from Hello Fresh for 75% off if you reactive your subscription, so I did and promptly cancelled again. I repeated this for 6 weeks, for 6 meals for 2 people for $28 each week. It was great while it lasted.
- Comment on Do criminals or terrorist measure themselves by how much bounty is put on their heads? Did Bin Laden think he was king shit because he was the top guy on all wanted lists? 5 weeks ago:
I’d imagine for criminals, being the 101st Most Wanted is the sweet spot. If you robbed a bank or something, you probably got away with a lot to be Most Wanted, and there are bigger fish who the feds are after. More popular and you have more people after you and have to go into serious hiding. Less popular and your crime probably didn’t net you much.
- Comment on Do criminals or terrorist measure themselves by how much bounty is put on their heads? Did Bin Laden think he was king shit because he was the top guy on all wanted lists? 5 weeks ago:
Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, some men just want to watch the world burn. Was there any meaningful improvement to anyone Bin Laden cared about after 9/11, or did he expect there to be? Seems like for a terrorist by definition is looking to cause maximum terror, not improving anyone’s life.
- Comment on AMD changes rules, denies researcher $10,000 bounty after taking 124 days to patch security flaw 1 month ago:
The flaw of not using HTTPS for the downloads is so basic it’s shocking they didn’t have internal tooling to raise this before it was shipped. I’m not familiar with AMD’s bug bounty policy but they should have at least paid $1337 to the researcher for raising this to them.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 1 month ago:
Yes exactly the same feeling for me. That was so cool and unique, there were also amazing puzzles with that mechanic.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 1 month ago:
I enjoyed Zelda Skyward Sword upon release, despite having to get the new controller that supporter more motion on the Wii for it. The dungeon on the ship in the desert that involved time travel was a standout level and i really enjoyed it at the time. Granted I haven’t played it in 10 years, it’s a good game. I am glad though that the backlash resulted in Breath of the Wild, and without Skyward Sword, Breath of the Wild would have never happened.
- Comment on Steam Key Giveaway 2 months ago:
Ooo Dungeon Baller looks neat, is that game even out yet? I’d like to check it out if you have a key available.
- Comment on A Memory From the 90s 2 months ago:
I used to work with a guy that worked at Apple Computers in the 80s/90s in Japan I think when they were getting into the market there. He described an anecdote from that era where Apple had a high volume of returns and were trying to figure out why, since the hardware was functioning when it was received. Turns out most of the returns were because the coiled cable for the keyboard would get messed up and not coil properly, which was inconvenient but acceptable in the western markets, whereas in Japan that was unacceptable for the average consumer.
- Comment on When a judge tells the jury to ‘forget XYZ,’ how can the jury possibly do that? 2 months ago:
Did they know you knew they fucked a cow? I hope you used that as leverage in every confrontation with them.