Crespyl

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by Crespyl 8y ago
I think you're maybe forgetting that the goal of Mastodon, or any federated (as opposed to distributed) system, is not to have every single user run and administer their own instances, but rather to enable users to freely select from
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by Crespyl 8y ago
Because the concept of inheriting things from your ancestors is reflective of your white male heritage that doesn't have a slave-ship shaped hole in your family tree. We should find more inclusive semantics for programming languages, o
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Diversity practices in hiring, for example. In the case of Facebook, things like moderation/curation of the various news feeds and arguments around "suppression" of certain topics.
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If you like the concepts of Processing but want more out of the language, you might be interested in Quil[0], which is a Clojure (or ClojureScript) wrapper API. It allows live-coding sketches from Emacs to work really nicely. [0] https:&#x
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by Crespyl 8y ago
As an admittedly lower-mid level player, when it comes to the ranged barracks at least, I suspect there's actually some value in attacking them over the melee racks simply because the ranged ones do not regenerate their HP, unlike the
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by Crespyl 8y ago
I'm not clear on the precise history, but I get the sense that Wayland was largely originated out of the Gnome/GTK/mobile side of things, where client side decorations are considered the way to go and the standardization come
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I haven't gone too far myself, but I'm pretty sure it's possible to customize the symbol layout to better suit a particular language or user preference. IIRC you can swap out (or add) any of the side/minor triggers, but
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by Crespyl 8y ago
I've known an english variant of the "flick" keyboard (MessageEase) since my first smartphone. I find the flick/tap-and-drag gestures to be vastly more comfortable and natural than trying to use my thumbs to peck at a QW
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My experience was similar, in that I mostly avoided the promotional content after I'd seen enough to sell me on the concept. I saw the concept of "open world, seamless procedural planets, wander around and gawk at the pretty scene
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by Crespyl 8y ago
It's a bit older, but FreeSpace I/II were open sourced and the engine has had major updates and improvements over the years. The games can be had from GoG very cheaply, and hold up quite well, especially with the updated engine an
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by Crespyl 8y ago
As a kid, DVDs and players that would deny the owner the ability to skip or fastforward though trailers/intros/transitions were my first memorable experience with deliberately user-hostile hardware and software design. It had a pr
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The grading program may have been written by a librarian.
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Given that automotive control software is apparently a huge mess right now, and a rapidly growing attack surface, a more disciplined rewrite in Rust might actually be enough for an insurance company to consider...
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I can't speak to the 15" versions, but my XPS13 (onboard graphics only) runs KDE Neon beautifully with no noise or build quality issues. It's probably my favorite work laptop to date. The only minor gripe is that I haven&#x2
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Tildes is still kind of finding its feet as a community, and there's a certain degree of navel-gazing as everyone tries to figure out exactly what kind of content and behavior is/isn't desirable. That said, the stated goals a
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by Crespyl 8y ago
There's notabug.io, which is a federated link aggregator/discussion platform, has optional anonymity, and uses a PoW voting system (which allows for anonymous votes). There's some interesting elements to the design, such as p
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by Crespyl 8y ago
The dialogues were the only parts I could make sense of the first few times I read the book (at a young age). I greatly enjoyed them and found them both amusing and eye-opening; even more so when I could finally start making sense of the p
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> You can skim sections, you can skip parts, you don't have to understand everything This was very true of the first (several) times I read through the book. I pulled the book off the shelf of my Dad's library at the age of ma
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by Crespyl 8y ago
It's really not a bad way to build something when you already know for certain exactly what you need to build.
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A mechanical version of that layout would pretty much be an instant buy for me. The only ergonomic/split layout mechanical keyboards I can find so far are top-end niche products well beyond my price range.
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Hiding individual tabs is necessary for one of my own core workflow addons that broke with the recent changes: panorama/tab-groups. With tab-hiding in, the "Panorama View" extension successfully replicates all the features I
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by Crespyl 8y ago
Right, as the commenters in SO point out, any situation that's bad enough for the human pilot to eject is also almost certainly bad enough that the autopilot won't be able to do much.
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In that case, "least harm" might mean "find the least accessible location and crash in whatever manner does the most damage to sensitive components", assuming "go to nearest allied country and crash-land" isn&#
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Internet of Things means that we can enable new synergies with Web Scale techniques, like making each tread run its own software package with logging, analytics, self-maintenance, and the normal operational features, each implemented as a r
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There may be a markdown tool by that name, but in this case it's a specific brand of e-ink tablet that includes a stylus for drawing on the documents/note-taking/etc. IIRC it supports PDF and presumably other ebook formats, b
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The contents of the tab come from the accessibility engine though, so running the engine (and using those resources) is a prerequisite for showing the tab.
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It's not so much that the act of fetching and viewing pirated content will become more difficult, it's that rightsholders will continue to apply more and more restrictive techniques and outright deny content to paying customers. S
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I would argue that Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons or What Remains of Edith Finch are both examples of games that use inherent features of physically playing a game to deliver their stories in a really unique way. I would say that kind of thin
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Games are certainly a different way to tell a story, but I wouldn't say "terrible". > The way games are used as a narrative medium is by shoving movies inside them If that's how a game is presenting its story, then
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Moving to Illinois sounds more appealing than ever.

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