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martin_piper

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Programmer and eater of pizzas.

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skinnylatte, (edited ) to magASEAN
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This story of this probably trans Burmese-Chinese warlord and Golden Triangle opium smuggler turned peace broker has always fascinated me.

What a life he led. (He was often described as bisexual, but that was because he had to marry a man earlier in life; at the end of his life he asked to be called uncle by everyone)

(cw: Story doesn't use his pronouns)

https://coconuts.co/yangon/features/royal-turned-warlord-opium-pioneer-golden-triangle-olive-yang-dies-aged-90/

#TootSea #Myanmar #Chinese #Kokang #Trans #History

martin_piper,
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@skinnylatte although some of the language used needs a bit of a tidy.

martin_piper,
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@skinnylatte I understand it can be tricky when talking about historical events and people, but still the article really needs a refresh.

futurebird, to random
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I've been reading some history books about Europe in the middle ages. The matter of the education of kings is incredibly interesting. It seemed nearly universally recognized that an excellent education is essential to a family holding on to power. And even in the controversies of the day (such as religion) children of the ruling class were exposed to a surprisingly wide range of ideas. Including those treated as heresy for the general population.

martin_piper,
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@futurebird male children were. The girls often not.

MattMerk, to random
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I just had a conversation with a guy who said, “Yeah, well I’m a capitalist.”

So I asked, “Okay, how much capital do you have?”

Boy, oh boy, does that question put things in perspective. He became a caricature of an old Warner Brothers cartoon character, trying to compose himself as he fumbled for words, all while he avoided actually answering the question.

So I simply repeated the question. I highly recommend.

martin_piper,
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@MattMerk are you prepared to tell me how much money you have?
If you are not prepared to answer a question but you expect others to answer the same question then you are being dishonest and inconsistent.

Answer the question. Asking another question in response would be avoiding the question.

mcc, to random
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Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here

martin_piper,
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@mcc according to the creative commons agreement you don't have the right to remove content which would cause others to lose access to what you wrote.

martin_piper,
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@mcc they are following creative commons. Nothing in there prohibits the use of AI.

martin_piper,
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"OpenAI said ChatGPT would attribute its answers when they’re sourced from the platform."

martin_piper,
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@simon_lucy they do provide actual sources.

jacqueline, to random
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the thing about c++ is you can do

std::numeric_limits<uint32_t>::max()

and be technically correct, portable, more expressive, etc.

or you can just do

UINT32_MAX

which is probably Wrong and Bad in many ways, but has the strong advantage of not sucking ass

martin_piper,
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@jacqueline in the standard headers how is UINT32_MAX defined? A constant number or the template?

ben, to random
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Stack Overflow announced that they are partnering with OpenAI, so I tried to delete my highest-rated answers.

Stack Overflow does not let you delete questions that have accepted answers and many upvotes because it would remove knowledge from the community.

So instead I changed my highest-rated answers to a protest message.

Within an hour mods had changed the questions back and suspended my account for 7 days.

Diff view of a stack overflow question showing it being changed from the original text to a protest message, then being changed back again by a mod. Protest text reads: Why does OpenAI get to profit from our work? I have removed this question in protest of Stack Overflow's decision to partner with OpenAI. This move steals the labour of everyone who contributed to Stack Overflow with no way to opt-out. OpenAI has a history of flooding the web with inaccurate information and have explicitly stated that they will never pay creators for their work.

martin_piper,
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@ben you gave them information for free. You don't own it, they do. That was the working relationship.

Imagine if you were working for a company producing work and you suddenly tried to sabotage that work. That's what you were trying to do, sabotage it. They would be perfectly within their rights to restrict your access.

The moral of this story is, if you want to retain ownership then don't give it away (for free) to someone else.

martin_piper,
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@ben GDPR does not apply here since its not personal data. It's technical data.

martin_piper,
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@asthargf @ben I didn't say it's exactly the same, it is analogous to though. Enough to make the point that the company does own the content that the users contribute for free.

martin_piper,
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@asthargf @ben it is also not victim blaming because the poster is not the victim. The actual victim here is the forum owner because the posts were sabotaged.

martin_piper,
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@ben "This means that you cannot revoke permission..."

The terms you agreed to are very specific to say you cannot do that.

https://stackoverflow.com/legal/terms-of-service/public#licensing

martin_piper, to commodore64
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My new #MegaWang2000 video board for the #Commodore64 was built by @PCBWayOfficial and worked first time! This board provides RGB565 colour and 32 palette banks each with 256 colours. I'm really happy with the build quality from PCBWay.
https://youtu.be/z-Phui5EcDo

jacqueline, to random
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i now have 50 production-quality displays for hooray!

martin_piper,
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@jacqueline I still think it's amazing you're making this.

jacqueline, to random
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eevblog thread of guys returning a perfectly good, functioning product, because they opened it and it says "v0.7" on the pcb

martin_piper,
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@jacqueline are they insane?

martin_piper, to commodore64
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In this episode of retro games memories, I look at Parallax Scrolling used in several games, the techniques used, and where they are used.
https://youtu.be/aK630qKQMRg

futurebird, to random
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I just read a review of a children's book written in 1911 (the review is from 1913) and the person reviewing the book totally missed the point of the story. The whole thing went right over the reviewer's head.

Tempted to write the latest, least expected bad book review clap-back in the history of humankind.

1/

martin_piper,
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@futurebird when anger transcends space and time.

skinnylatte, to random
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My wife and I have been talking about our immigrant experience. She’s moved more than I have; she’s much more experienced than I am in this. (I have spent long periods of time in many countries, but I never intended to settle down anywhere: until we got to San Francisco. So it is my first immigration rodeo.)

In comparison she’s done this in several continents, several times. I asked her how she dealt with the heartbreak. She said she puts all her lives into different buckets.

martin_piper,
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@skinnylatte I've received multiple death threats, and been the target of doxing and harassment while living in Singapore. You can probably guess exactly which type of groups are responsible.

martin_piper,
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@skinnylatte and the WAAPD lot.

futurebird, to random
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Everyone acts like I'm "From the Great Depression" because I want to take the T-bone home from the steakhouse to make split pea soup but what THEY do not understand is the best split pea soup in the universe is made with a 2-inch thick proper NYC steakhouse T-bone. It's not like I'm going around back to get them with Pica's ilk.

Take the bone home.

If steakhouses had any sense they'd make soap too. Brand it with their logo.

Soup Tomorrow!

martin_piper,
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@futurebird they probably couldn't use a bone from someone else's plate and use that to make soup for someone else.

martin_piper,
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@futurebird except for those who just use the serving platter as their plate. :)

metin, (edited ) to amiga
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Jeff Minter is of course a retrogaming legend, but I dare to say that level 5 of our Amiga game Hoi (1992) wins when it comes to psychedelic gaming… 😎

The level is also a very taxing task for Amiga emulators and video compression algorithms. 😁

❗WARNING: not suitable for people who have epilepsy!

martin_piper,
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@metin Photosensitive warning

gsuberland, (edited ) to random
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is anyone aware of a physical calculator (an actual one, with buttons) designed for working with integers, hex, and binary, with support for both arithmetic and binary operations?

I'm looking for something with the simplicity of a basic calculator, with minimal cognitive effort to operate it, rather than something where I have to constantly press a bunch of buttons to switch modes or do anything useful.

NOT a regular calculator that has a hex mode - I want something designed for binary ops.

martin_piper,
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@gsuberland weren't most of them limited to 32 bits back in the day? Back then I was mostly maxing out at 16 bit values.

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