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by Fwirt 6mo ago
I realize the purpose of the essay, and I agree with the author's sentiment that our possessions ask more of us than is necessary, and more than ever before. But I disagree that any object is finished . That Casio that the author ment
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by Fwirt 6mo ago
This jives with something that’s occupied my brain a couple times in the last year, the separation of art and science. Science is empirical knowledge and processes which can be transferred, art is gut feeling and subconscious knowledge appl
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by Fwirt 6mo ago
AdGuard has never given me any trouble.
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by Fwirt 6mo ago
AdGuard installs through the App Store and integrates seamlessly with Safari. It's not as perfect as some of the desktop class adblockers, but it's free and can be up and running in a couple minutes. If you're on Android, Fir
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by Fwirt 6mo ago
With modern Wi-Fi the issue isn’t really latency, it’s jitter. Most of my only moderately tech savvy friends have mesh setups that they don’t find fault with, but were also significantly more expensive than my cobbled together setup. From w
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by Fwirt 6mo ago
My APs are “only” 802.11ac, but on the other hand they were only $8/ea. And all of the speed critical devices on my network are wired anyway. It’s good enough to stream 1080p/120hz from my gaming rig to my iPad with imperceptible
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by Fwirt 6mo ago
You actually don't even need two interfaces on the box if you have a managed switch. It's not too difficult to configure your only interface as an 802.11q trunk port, and then you can use the managed switch as a sort of "inte
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by Fwirt 7mo ago
A reminder that there are still valid escape options for us systemd haters. Probably the best if you're not a heavy desktop environment user is Alpine. I ran Devuan for a couple years with only minor issues. And there's always Gen
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by Fwirt 7mo ago
I think this falls in line with the sentiment from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy": "And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
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by Fwirt 7mo ago
For starters, Sublime Text is closed-source. A better parallel would be something like Neovim, which also is extensible with Lua. What draws me to Textadept over Neovim is that it's intentionally kept very small, which means it's
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by Fwirt 7mo ago
Lexing is handled by one of Mitchell's other projects, Scintillua. You'll find the source for all the built-in lexers in there. https://github.com/orbitalquark/scintillua The documentation for Scintillua also
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by Fwirt 7mo ago
Legitimately curious, how would you implement a “secure” scratch file functionality? Or is it just that the whole notion of scratch files is insecure? The great thing about Textadept’s extensibility (and use of Lua specifically) is that it’
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by Fwirt 7mo ago
It uses Scintilla. In fact, at its core, it’s basically just a wrapper around the Scintilla message passing API. There’s a Lua script that parses the Scintilla header files to create the Lua tables that interface with the Scintilla library.
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by Fwirt 7mo ago
The splits functionality is one of its weaknesses right now IMO, but there are some improvements in the works.
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by Fwirt 7mo ago
Glad to see this hit the front page again! I’ve been making some contributions lately and it introduced me to Lua. At its core it’s basically a very thin wrapper around the Scintilla editing component used by many open source editors. I’ve
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by Fwirt 7mo ago
This is also my experience, except for small parts (where Amazon still inflates the cost to cover shipping, even if you pay for Prime) and parts sold in bulk (like hoses). Sure, I can buy 5 feet of hose on Amazon for $15, but I can just buy
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by Fwirt 7mo ago
While the idea is noble, the press release states: "This measure is based on NHK’s mission as an international public service media to provide essential information to Japanese nationals residing in or traveling in the region." Br
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by Fwirt 8mo ago
Actually, because I only needed a small quantity of a bulk product, it was much cheaper than ordering from Amazon. And I selected a location such that it was a quick detour from where we were out running errands the next day anyway. Amazon
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by Fwirt 8mo ago
This problem affects most brick and mortar retail. Every online pickup system has some method of substituting or excluding items when the system thinks they’re in stock but can’t be found on the shelves. My guess is that it’s a function of
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by Fwirt 8mo ago
And PICK is still kind of around! Today the “multi value” database torch is in the hands of Rocket Software, which licenses it as “UniData” and “UniVerse”. Most of the logic for the higher ed ERP software Colleague relies on the BASIC flavo
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by Fwirt 8mo ago
Generally things that are illegal are illegal because enough people have maimed or killed themselves with it in ways that are not “common sense”. For example, you can’t simply have electrical wire stapled to the bottom of the joists in the
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by Fwirt 8mo ago
This sounds great but violates all the building codes for a variety of reasons: eddy currents, risk of electrocution if there’s a short somewhere, noise in telecom cables, etc.
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by Fwirt 8mo ago
The problem is that a single consumer can't throw themselves into the gears of the industrial machine to slow its progress. If you stop buying food in plastic containers, the food will still be produced, and it will still be purchased
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by Fwirt 8mo ago
Backup cameras do contribute significantly to safety, to the point that I installed one in my 2002 vehicle with a cheap aftermarket head unit. The important thing to realize is that all the modern conveniences can be decoupled from the driv
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by Fwirt 8mo ago
The problem is that images of $50 bills have enough alignment marks that the code to detect them could run on hardware from the ‘90s. From what I’ve seen, these bills naively assume that somehow the printer has to detect whether something i
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by Fwirt 8mo ago
Try Alpine? It's not designed to be a "desktop" OS but it functions well as one. I find it easy enough to wrap my head around the whole thing, and it uses OpenRC by default.
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by Fwirt 8mo ago
Returning to C after a decade away, I think the bottom line is that the reason why C has stuck around for so long is straight up path dependence. C is the foundation of Unix, and Unix-like operating systems took over the world, and C is a d
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by Fwirt 9mo ago
I was an active member of the VB community back in college. I did really fall in love with mine. I never experienced any nausea or headaches, and when properly adjusted I didn’t think it was terribly uncomfortable. The “screen” technology w
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by Fwirt 9mo ago
WD-40 works great for its intended purpose. The problem is that they've marketed it the way that the dad from My Big Fat Greek Wedding raves about Windex. It's not a good lubricant, as many people have noted, as it evaporates and
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by Fwirt 9mo ago
This was my belief for many years, but then I tried sniping (with the same prices I was putting as my maximum bid before!) and my success rate skyrocketed and the prices I was paying dropped. It seems that despite repeated reminders and exp

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