No need to cast as any types at all just work with bits directly /s

Most of the people I know now never really acquired this skill, can’t really lose what they didn’t have

He loves me, he loves me not

stremio + torrentio + real debris = W

I have one too but it has an emergency physical “master key”. Also there’s a port to provide power to it through a battery bank, in case you really run out of juice though it’s potentially another point of failure. No internet connection

I’m working on a gameboy emulator and the amount of edge cases you have to consider feels just like this lol.

Software which displays pixels and outputs sound when given data from a game cart, coincidentally.

Teams is terrible, but it feels like there’s no good alternative. I liked Slack but its expensive. It also blows my mind that there’s no markdown syntax highlighting for code in both, such a basic feature even discord has.

It’s hard to figure out what he’s talking about , when he says the “whole social security database”. Like in which tables are they duplicated? Does it mean the entire row is duplicated or just the SSN, it might make sense to be duplicated depending on the schema. Is it an append only db, so there might be updated columns on the same ssn and you need to filter by the latest update timestamp? Who knows.

But also, saying that there’s a “social security database” and then following that up by the govt “doesn’t use SQL” so… the db is actually just a spreadsheet? A .txt file? The SSNs are just written down in someone’s notebook? Lol

Well many of China’s websites don’t even use HTTPS. Look at china.org.cn, or en.people.cn for example

Ya but wouldn’t I need to open up ports or host a VPN ? Otherwise my phone won’t backup unless I’m at home

I’ve been using one drive for my phone photos backup, joplin notes store and keepass. It seemed like the most economical solution cus other vendors don’t really offer 1TB, it’s usually something stupid like jumping from 200GB or 2TB. Don’t know if I should invest in a NAS or something, but I just don’t wanna deal with the hardware and networking if I have to open some ports at home , unless I can use cloudflare as well

That’s kinda strange, I was taught in school that tomato was a fruit so that’s what I always went with. As to why, I honestly have no idea and wouldn’t be able to argue

Don’t give up

Lol, well obviously it would be cheaper to host an LLM that is smaller. Imagine the cost of hosting o1

I think the single biggest issue I have with Linux is package management. Maybe this is purely distribution dependent, but for example in Ubuntu most of the packages are way outdated, not even on the latest stable version. Then I either have to:

1. Build from source which means I gotta also install all dependencies and pray that the thing builds
2. Add some rando PPA which I have no idea if I should trust
3. Use “flatpaks” or “appimages”

None of those options are appealing. And along with these multiple options I end up having multiple versions of things installed in different locations in different ways and also my PATH ends up a big mess, I think I’m just doing something very wrong.

These things are unreliable, I had 3 seagate HDDs in a row fail on me. Never had an issue with SSDs and never looked back.

They call it mackers in Australia

Your second point of trading loot and items got me thinking about my Steam CS:GO skins. Why should I trust a centralized entity like Steam who could at any moment decide to delete all my skins or remove my account for whatever reason with my skins, vs storing those skins in a wallet on a public blockchain for example to keep it’s value and always allow trading? Ofc there will always be a “centralized” smart contract but at least they can’t make changes to it if the smart contract code is audited ,

I would like to try #2 but for some reason my 5900x doesn’t have graphics so I literally need to buy a whole other GPU for this