JasonFruit

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by JasonFruit 4y ago
> It's not stupid. It's bold and almost risk-free. It's stupid and risky for either the US or China to escalate a war that threatens to become a global conflict between nuclear powers. I wish saner heads urging restraint
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
The dead-on imitation of hard-boiled detective prose gets me every time. "I always leave when the talk gets philosophical," indeed!
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
The developer experience is great, though its approach is much different from TKinter. The documentation is excellent, there aren't maddening incomplete corners like GTK, the results look good (if you think Qt looks good), and it&#x27
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
I appreciate the nuance of 'may' in the title. We could do with more of that.
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
Exactly! I want a printer, because my Brother b/w laser printer is a solid piece of equipment that prints many, many pages on a reasonably affordable ink cartridge, and it will last for years. What I didn't want was another crap
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
> if "the enemy" is giving your ammo to shoot them with why on earth you wouldn't use it? Hopefully because you have self restraint and are able to see that every group of a certain size has at least one irrational member?
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
I enjoyed it too, don't get me wrong, but as much as I like playing with the cruft in the (English) language spec, constructions like this are write-only.
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
Guarantee nobody's going to say that.
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
Given the state of Linux application naming, we're lucky it's not called GKCellP, so we'd have to find it via 'apt search kdeconnect' every time because we can't remember the name. (I'm looking at you, GKr
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John Boyer, blind software engineer, has died(jsonline.com)
355 points by JasonFruit 4y ago|48 comments
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
I'm interested in such things; what was the name of the book?
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
> communist on the inside The difference between "Communist on the outside" and "communist on the inside" is that the former is backed by a compulsive government with a monopoly on the use of force, and the latter is
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
Staple foods tend to rise in price by leaps rather than gradually. I think that stores accept a low profit margin on them at some times because of their disproportionate effect on the store's reputation for cheapness. We were probably
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
I am not saying it's true or false, but clarifying a wording many misunderstood.
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
Translation: If you gamble that the Fed will raise rates and get it wrong, you lose more than if you wrongly gamble that they will not.
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
> I should be thankful they don’t make me pay a yearly developer fee for making python apps on my Macbook. Apple exec scribbles furiously
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
I'm glad I sniped you before I sniped myself! I still question the interpretation of: > cannot have pairs next to each other if the second pair is one number higher But I think the outcome would be the same either way.
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
ME Bank is the best: - Must be all numerals. - Be 7 to 20 digits. - Cannot have the same number three times in a row. - Cannot have four ascending or descending numbers. - Cannot have the same number appear more than five times. - Cannot ha
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
It's not clear to me how regional differences in vowel pronunciation differ from accents.
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
Yes, and that differs from a line break inside a paragraph, which is what the author is discussing.
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
I'm sure this has a lot of value, and it's cool to see. I immediately am interested! One thing came up in the first search that's frequently overlooked in music, though: unless the prompt is Christmas music, the response sh
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
This sounds like "Great White Father" stuff to me. Are wealthy countries really so suited to telling poorer ones what they may and may not do to join the wealthy?
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
I think it's inevitable that sub-societies will form that accept technology only in ways that preserve the humanity of our interactions. We use the term "disruptive" all the time around here, but what's being disrupted
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
So true. And they left out the macaroni!
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
> not to be pedantic (proceeds to be extremely pedantic)
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
Things I learned after buying one of their machines: I now have a nice usable laptop that has great hardware compatibility with every Linux distro I've tried. They can spend the money however they like, if you ask me.
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
I don't agree with that framing, but we can agree that they are acting as a projection of the power and privilege of the person they are protecting, and that in acting on that person's behalf, they remove perceived but unlikely po
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
> normal people who are just trying to do their job… When it's the Secret Service, that's not "normal people", and their job is to figuratively or literally stomp anyone who doesn't sufficiently respect the immen
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
Scribus is amazing. I published a hymnal using it and other open source tools, and it was the easiest part of the toolchain to make do what I want. It's even scriptable with Python.
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
Shouldn't it be SFB?

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