[-] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 80 points 18 hours ago

Keep the donations coming. IA is worth a million times more to humanity than all of these publishers combined.

[-] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago

Hero. There's only one gas station I use that has ads and I'll try it there for sure. I deliberately avoid screened pumps.

[-] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 3 days ago

I think one of Biden's big missteps was to ban sales to China in the first place.

[-] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 3 days ago

In the 6 years I've been with Firefox on Linux on my 9-year-old laptop, I could count on both hands the number of sites that didn't render correctly, and on one hand the number that didn't run or weren't performant.

Maybe I'm just lucky, but I definitely feel for folks who are stuck with Chrome and all those ads.

[-] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 76 points 3 months ago

This is how you know "pro-states rights" conservatives are lying to you.

[-] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 269 points 6 months ago

They're working hard to make sure piracy provides the best experience.

[-] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 117 points 7 months ago

As an American and long time OSM contributor, I also vote extremely no on Gulf of America.

Also no on renaming New Mexico.

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Neat article about avoiding a memcpy in a circular buffer.

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I've never run a big system like this, but like the lead character in the story, I always figured exponential backoff would be enough. Turns out there's more.

[-] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 146 points 1 year ago

We need a competitor badly.

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This is a pretty cool analog arcade game. I never saw one when I was a kid... I'd have been hooked.

[-] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 138 points 1 year ago

If my ISP starts throttling my traffic, I'll just switch to one of the zero other providers in my area.

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This is an ad for something CT-scan-related, but it contains a good breakdown of how an old car cigarette lighter works. And it has a couple interactive CT Scan explorers past the video.

[-] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 81 points 1 year ago

I'm on the "OK but keep an eye on it" train, here.

Devs need feedback to know how people are using the product, and opt-out tracking is the best way to do it. In this case, it seems like my personal data is completely unidentifiable.

I was coding in the IE6 era, so I'd really prefer to not end up in a browser engine monoculture again.

[-] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 94 points 1 year ago

Related: Internet Archive hosts zillions of abandoned games. Publishers are currently trying to sue it out of existence. They accept donations.

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Can be yours for a mere $155,000. (No, I'm not the seller, but I'm curious who is!)

[-] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 72 points 2 years ago

I've been editing OSM for years. (896,339 edits in 3,427 changesets, apparently!) For me, it's all about the free data. I once got a thank you note from someone who worked for a city with a particularly large municipal park. I'd added almost all the trails to the park and other information, and they'd used it to produce a printed map for the general public. Exactly the kind of thing I'd hoped for!

Personally, I do a lot of dualsport motorcycling and most backcountry maps around here are subpar. I map tons of trails and 2track and put them on the Garmin so I know where I'm going.

OSM is also great in lots of Europe--tons of detail.

JOSM is great.

Someone just recommended Organic Maps for the phone--it's way snappier than Google Maps, but still not great with finding addresses.

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This coder rigged up GPT to create IF games.

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Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes when you write a C program? How does your code transform from lines of text into a fully functional binary executable? If you’ve been curious about the intricacies of the C program compilation process, you’ve come to the right place.

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