Pxtl

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by Pxtl 2y ago
So how many tools out there use the term "uri" to sound smart but would fall over on their faces of you passed anything but a web URL to their "uri" parameter?
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by Pxtl 2y ago
I feel genuinely awful for the 19-year-old boy who was in that suicide-tube just to please his father. His whole life, which would've been a happy one of wealth and freedom, snuffed out because of these utterly stupid risks. But for Ru
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by Pxtl 2y ago
Reminds me of Vonnegut's line from Jailbird (without the stuttering of the character who uttered it), on the principal cause of a massacre: "American amateurism in matters of life and death" I'm a Canadian. As a Millenia
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by Pxtl 2y ago
I've taken to wearing bone-conductors waaaaay to much, and I'm impressed with their flexibility for stuff like this. They keep my ears open, but when I need to hear the headset more clearly (like if I'm in a crowded area and
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by Pxtl 2y ago
My favorite case of this awkwardness: Other person: *mumble mumble* SOMETHING CLEARLY SPOKEN Me: I'm sorry, what? Them: "clearly spoken?" Me: No, the first part. Them: "something?" Me, giving up: *smiles and nods* Y
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by Pxtl 2y ago
Because people frequently in English use the abbreviation "auth", which is ambiguous.
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by Pxtl 2y ago
What metadata do you mean? Like the regular ID3 tags? Most tools so a decent job finding those on online DBs. I use musicbrainz Picard personally.
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by Pxtl 2y ago
Imho the real problem that will be harder to reverse on is the city planning. Car-oriented cities will be intrinsically far more difficult to green than urban density. Late 20th and early 21st century city planners will be remembered as an
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by Pxtl 2y ago
The Pi 5 has a power button finally, and a Normally Open jumper that you can wire into to implement a mechanical power-button off-board.
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by Pxtl 2y ago
My first Pi was a 3 and even that one was picky as hell about its power supply.
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by Pxtl 2y ago
>(1) they must have SQL injection bugs all over the app and (2) they probably aren’t hashing passwords. Actually, one I've run into is web-framework-level security systems that are hard to disable. Stuff that prevents users from ke
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by Pxtl 2y ago
Yes, I'm looking forwards to being able to choose from the Pi 6 Power, the Pi 6 Pure, the Pi 6 Play, and the Pi 6 5G, each product being actually a completely different product with completely different branding depending on which cont
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by Pxtl 2y ago
They've always felt overpriced to me imho - not intrinsically at the sticker-price level, but the workarounds needed to obtain constantly-out-of-stock units, get good-enough on/off functionality, good-enough power-supply, good-eno
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by Pxtl 2y ago
I assume that now that we're in the world of hyper-cheap batteries I'm sure we'll see somebody do that soon enough.
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by Pxtl 2y ago
I mean swim fins also propel swimmers at superhuman speeds (aside, it would be really cool if there was a proper competitive community for stuff like that, like how on land we have races for runners and races for cyclists; edit: Google info
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by Pxtl 2y ago
Compressed air energy-storage is notoriously low-efficiency compared to the alternatives. The idea is that this is a hedge: if it turns out that solar/wind become "too cheap to meter"? Then "efficiency" is meaningl
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by Pxtl 2y ago
I couldn't see in the article - is this using natural caverns or did they excavate? I know the pilot versions of this tech generally use old salt-caverns, like the one in Germany. I'm actually pretty excited about this tech - it
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by Pxtl 2y ago
Since every other language now has higher order functions and lexical closures and things like that Lisp isn't as special as it used to be. Now it's mostly just a really ugly version of those languages but with a weird emphasis
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by Pxtl 2y ago
Yes. But that's the high-level API's problem. That's a problem with any abstraction really. "What if there's something in the thing we're abstracting that doesn't fit the abstraction" isn't re
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by Pxtl 2y ago
It doesn't double the security surface area if the abstracted API goes through the low-level API. The outer one is just chrome, and so the risks of screwing something up there is far lower. Unless you're using a trash language wh
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by Pxtl 3y ago
You couldn't even use input type="date" until a couple of years ago because of Safari support. There was more than enough time of the web missing absolutely basic crap like this that you had to assume that most things were
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by Pxtl 3y ago
> I really hate how modern developers try to reinvent forms. They always, always get it worse than the basic OS/HTML forms we've had for decades. Those dead stupid, simple forms were highly accessible, very performant, and eas
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by Pxtl 3y ago
China has been making lots of things for 50 years. Experience doesn't matter if North American "manufacturers" insist on importing only the the most disposable low-quality products.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
So if a person advocates (for example) murder on an American site, this is fine until the police say it isn't? That is not a standard that 99% of the internet follows, and for good reasons. The US legal system is 100% wholly incapable
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by Pxtl 3y ago
> store bought air conditioner Yup. Saving the world is going to be ruined by Chinese shovelware-quality equipment re-stickered with American brands, but in this case it's even worse since you're hiring a professional installe
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Wait, even after Chrome's extension security got revamped into something so strict that it functionally killed adblockers, extensions still have to grab that vague-ass permission for decent functionality? Seriously?
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I think the argument in this case is that it may cross the line into unlawful behavior. Kiwifarms has been linked to suicides, and encouraging suicide is a crime. 8chan has similarly been linked to violent crimes. There are cases where sp
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Yes, he was also haranguing and leaning on and verbally abusing Apple employees to get the most productivity out of them.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Unless it's an outage in their ability to log into their own servers, they should be able to swap out the login page with a static HTML page explaining the outage. Maybe a 503 status code.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Right? I know I was like "oh, I haven't typed in my FB password in eons... maybe I changed it at some point and forgot? But if I change it what happens to all related services, is it going to log out my kids' Messenger Kids

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