JackCh

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by JackCh 8y ago
Probably because Perforce scales to truly massive monolithic repos while git traditionally doesn't (the insanity going on at Microsoft notwithstanding.) Personally I feel the best method is using lots of small repos, one for each servi
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by JackCh 8y ago
The "Simple Mobile Tools" family of apps by Tibor Kaputa (distinctive for their orange icons) are available on F-Droid and are superb. A great fusion of minimalism and functionality, they've never let me down. https:&#x2F
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by JackCh 8y ago
I feel that editor extensions for git are the future for 99% of git interactions. Git+[fugitive/etc] still may not be as slick a UX as Mercurial+[mercenary/etc] (I've not actually used any editor extension for mercurial)
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by JackCh 8y ago
You don't have music on your local network?
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by JackCh 8y ago
To be blunt I don't believe Mercurial has reason to still exist. It's feature advantage over git is very marginal at best, and it simply lost on popularity. If you ignore the inherent value in popularity (popularity means yo
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by JackCh 8y ago
The lightning bolt "zapper mode" does not persist by design. The eye-dropper "element picker mode" persists.
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by JackCh 8y ago
> 2218 YBP not so much, as it depends on year of writing As I understand it, the "present" in YBP refers to 68 years ago, 1950. This is related to the advent of carbon dating, and the way widescale nuclear tests altered the
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by JackCh 8y ago
For those wondering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yale-Art-and-Architecture...
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by JackCh 8y ago
Yeah, once you start using cosmetic filtering you wonder how you ever lived without it. I love killing "related article" panels in particular.
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by JackCh 8y ago
You and I are on the same page here.
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by JackCh 8y ago
You missed this part: "I don't actually have a smartphone for this reason)."
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "One story that I wish was a myth is how ice cream used to be made from pig fat in the UK." That's actually pretty neat. Did it taste good?
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by JackCh 8y ago
Are they forcing app developers to not use retina screens?
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by JackCh 8y ago
I prefer a classic slashdot car comparison. They don't make me hungry.
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by JackCh 8y ago
Appreciation of food service workers in particular, and/or a desire to see local businesses thrive. (Neither of which would ever motivate me to subject myself to advertisements.)
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by JackCh 8y ago
I also pay at restaurants because I want to. I don't watch ads because I don't want to. When I was a kid my family would flip through magazines and violently tear out the ads before bothering to sit down and read the articles.
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by JackCh 8y ago
When somebody walks out of a restaurant without paying, the restaurant is free to call the cops. I therefore invite all website operators to call 911 when I use an adblocker!
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by JackCh 8y ago
Thankfully most people have more sense than Kant. In truth, I doubt Kant himself would be so hardline if he were actually put to the test in such a scenario. Talk is cheap, would he actually be so depraved in practice? I can't rule
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by JackCh 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare Among other things, they were investigating the use of nuclear bombs to create artificial harbors (probably a lot more feasible than digging a canal across Mexico, but it
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "What would be the response to a nuclear power using one of these in combat? Escalation? Retaliation in kind? The damage to the surrounding environment could be small, especially if used to target submarines and ships." Loo
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by JackCh 8y ago
Incidentally the price tag was invented by Quakers who considered haggling immoral. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_tag#History
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by JackCh 8y ago
Despite what we teach small children, lying is not immoral. Lying is amoral . The circumstance and motivation of a lie determine whether that particular lie is moral or immoral. There are times when it's moral to lie, other times w
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "What tumblr did was that suddenly all "NFSW" things to US standards" What was honestly expected? Tumblr was an American company and they got bought by another American company. The brand had a reputation for ha
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by JackCh 8y ago
Who 'gets it' more? ABC or HBO? (This is not a rhetorical question.)
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by JackCh 8y ago
Most RDBMS's got a well deserved reputation for "scary and complex" because they are enterprise grade software serious enough to have an entire career named after their administration. Much of the resources you'll find
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by JackCh 8y ago
Putting the good of the community before your personal comfort is not a trait unique to Nazis. Anybody who doesn't commit tax evasion is doing it. What made the Nazis unique was their particular notion of what constituted "good
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by JackCh 8y ago
Have you considered the possibility that some people are able to afford a vacation only because they are thrifty? Your comments are very close to "let them eat cake" levels of detachment (and yes, I know that quote is apocrypha
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by JackCh 8y ago
Habitat loss is probably the leading cause of decline and extinction right now. I'd wager habitat loss due to agriculture is killing more than glyphosate runoff by a significant margin. Whether the degree to which habitat loss is ave
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "At least that's my understanding of Taleb's argument against GMOs." I'm interested in reading more about this perspective. Is this in one of his books? Or does he have articles about this somewhere?
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by JackCh 8y ago
If you have ffmpeg, youtube-dl will let you mix and match any audio and video stream you choose, giving you a lot of options that hooktube simply doesn't. For instance you can combine a very small low quality video stream with a high

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