FandangoRanger

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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
Reflections on trusting trust?
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
Judges are merely lawyers who have pupated.
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
I wish Google had just licensed Java from Sun.
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
Starlink is going to be brutal for these combined entertainment slash Internet mega corps.
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
emacs + tramp
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
He starts out with a false premise, “ There's no serious debate at this point about whether meat consumption as we've been doing it in the last ~50 years is harmful to the environment.“ Then he shovels a litany of weasel words in
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
I used to be a person but then I became a consumer and now I've become a row.
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
Can't cite the passage or book but it's in Decline And Fall.
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
I agree but I'd add that cheap digital shooting brought the cost down from film-tier to video-tier for takes and shoots. That, CGI, and its handmaiden, green screening, have all contributed to a film making culture that knows that resh
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
No I mean, the entire dataset. It's being jealously guarded by the "free" press.
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
To me the big value in Mathematica is the curated datasets.
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
Most people agree that TV and movies died some time before 2007.
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
Hey where can independent researchers obtain the Panama Papers? I don’t think people can be expected to simply “trust us guys.”
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
It’s a little known fact that China and India both had delegations at Caesar’s inauguration.
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
Huh, just right before they get hauled before Congress again. Very interesting timing.
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
No mention at all about the press and experts lying and saying masks don't work so there was lessened demand. And then admitting they lied a few weeks later. Any intelligent observer can see the media and experts contributed to the mis
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
That's just the thing though, Apple isn't going out of its way to tell me their plans. A couple years ago Apple decided to get rid of all my notes I had made in files in the Get Info tab's notes field. They switched the field
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
What? LOL this isn't the 1990's, there's gait detection now.
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
I never upgraded from Mojave and plan not to, I will retire my Mac Mini as an OS X machine sooner or later (once Apple stops updates). Mojave just seems like a giant pain and I have some iTunes Applescripts from ages ago that I don't w
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
It's pretty easy to understand, Rust is huge. You can't build it on a Pi 3, it'll run out of RAM if you try to compile it.
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
This is going to be great. I don't think there's anybody left who actually likes the social media barons.
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
Why does it need to go away? I never said this. MS will use Wine.
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
My objection isn't to repackaging emacs with new defaults, but promoting forks and such on the emacs site. That's not what GNU does with other forks historically either. What'd be the point of it all? There are perhaps dozens
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
I don't think any of the Wayland developers worked on X before RedHat became an essential sponsor to X.org which is, in essence, finished software. What's the function of the X.org maintainers now? Mainly merging drivers. It'
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
Just set your new tab page to some searx instance, it's quite a lot better than Google at this stage especially when it comes to filtering SEO'd results. SEO is the cancer that killed the web.
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
I think Windows as a for-pay layer on Linux is going to be the end goal. WSL is going to be LSW.
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
Didn't Knuth say this 40 years ago?
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
>In general, Wayland is moving away from the modularity, portability, and standardization of the X server. This is the core criticism that's been advanced since a decade ago. X is the standard, it's an actual standard. Waylan
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
It seems they're trying the opposite but they could go either way. If they deprecated Win32 or even used WINE they could handle legacy stuff and port whatever "Windows" is to any platform. Sure it's not quite Java becaus
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
The thing with OpenBSD is that it's probably the most old-school even including its parent, NetBSD. Even though OpenBSD is a research OS, and has modern features often before any other OS, the way you administer and maintain it is much

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