Self-Perfection

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by Self-Perfection 3y ago
certbot is available in classic apt repositories in Debian and Ubuntu. No need to install it from snap. https://repology.org/project/certbot/versions
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by Self-Perfection 3y ago
This seems solvable. Most of the phones are used with SIM cards and have non zero balance. For instance we might make a law that the last $5 from cell phone subscription plan can be spent only on emergency calls, nothing else. This will mak
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by Self-Perfection 3y ago
The prospect of solving this with AI dreads me. Luckily we don't need to construct solution out of the most recent hype, we can pick previous instead. Imagine convenient crypto wallet app that you always has with you on your phone. And
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by Self-Perfection 3y ago
Every interaction that may be abused and spammed should either require payment or require strict identification of a user that it is this particular human being with permission to perform this action. In this case any spam attack can be cou
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by Self-Perfection 3y ago
Technology makes it easy to abuse resources which were previously freely available. Telemarketing calls abuse our attention. Well then one of possible solutions is to charge money for stealing or attention. We should be allowed to set price
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by Self-Perfection 3y ago
This is a nice comprehensive resource. I admire author's perseverance in expounding these edge cases and pursuing to amend them somehow. For many years! Yet filenames is not the only place that can unexpectedly include control chars. F
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by Self-Perfection 3y ago
Almost non-existing. A couple of excerpts from man page: {"a":1,"b":[true,false,null,"str"],"c":{"d":4,"e":5}} jshon [actions] < sample.json jshon -e c -> {"d&qu
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by Self-Perfection 3y ago
I would like to see a comparison with jshon. Jshon is way faster than jq and for many years available in your distro repositories.
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by Self-Perfection 3y ago
pv also has little known ability to watch already running process in similar fashion to progress tool Try cp $BIGFILE ${BIGFILE}_1 & pv --watchfd $(pidof cp)
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by Self-Perfection 3y ago
Indeed. The perfect news feed has to be tailored to the reader. For instance, events in my city have rather large impact on me but are not interesting for most of the planet.
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by Self-Perfection 3y ago
I had to start WhatsApp a year ago due to network effect. Though I despise the idea of communication network that forbids you from creating alternative clients. At least I managed to vent the steam off by setting an image that asks to write
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by Self-Perfection 4y ago
Here is one more list, detailed and comprehensive: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~cpd/history.html it goes up to present days!
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by Self-Perfection 4y ago
Guess what. Lamptest guy from my comment above tests batteries as well. Here are his websites for this project (same data but different design): https://battest.ru/ https://batterytest.ru/
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by Self-Perfection 4y ago
One guy bought over 4 thousands LED lamps over years, meticulously measured their actual specs and made a huge online catalog https://lamptest.ru/ I follow his project a bit and it looks like consumers are really at loss. G
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by Self-Perfection 4y ago
Good point. For the long time digital cameras embedded in EXIF metadata about conditions on which the photo was made. Like camera model, focal length, exposure time etc Nowadays this metadata should be extended with description of AI postpr
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by Self-Perfection 4y ago
>But given time, the events the preceded their writing gets forgotten. I've never seen any of these buildings fall down, so why do we need so many rules to prevent buildings from falling down? That is the problem with how the rules
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by Self-Perfection 4y ago
On your project website >Create graphics using a embeded Processing, audio using LibPd (Pure Data) and display maps thanks to Open Street maps, to mention a few Here is a common misnaming here. OSM project is actually called "OpenSt
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by Self-Perfection 4y ago
For several years since I got my first cell phone I held my cell phone during conversations so its top side is on the same level as top edge of my ear. Seems neat an logical, right? Then I realized that I should align its speaker to be righ
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by Self-Perfection 4y ago
I suspect rapid reduction in the visibility of stars is one of the reasons why space travel seems to catch much less human imagination and excitement that it used to like 30 years ago.
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by Self-Perfection 4y ago
We will learn much more on how to build Mars colony from Mars outpost than from Antarctica colony.
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by Self-Perfection 4y ago
Cold resistant frogs fit your description. Hyla japonica withstands freezing to -30°C They function just fine after thawing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_tree_frog#Cold_resist...
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by Self-Perfection 4y ago
Can you imagine any experiment that will adjust your belief? Show you that there is a chance it might work for bodies?
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by Self-Perfection 4y ago
Just five days ago OsmAnd 4.3 for Android with new faster rendering engine that uses OpenGL was released. https://osmand.net/blog/osmand-android-4-3-released/#new-fas...
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by Self-Perfection 4y ago
I am flabbergasted. Article starts with a title on gradient background and company logo. This is implemented as an almost 3 MB png file [1] How come?! Why not a simple text and couple of CSS tricks? Why not an SVG? Don't they notice it
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by Self-Perfection 4y ago
The purchase was made a year ago. Can we at least check how this estate was used since the purchase before lashing out onto EA for doing this purchase?
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by Self-Perfection 4y ago
First a disclaimer: I am not a part of EA community, but I have met several people from this community. And I am loosely connected to rationalists community. I find EA concept appealing and I think I should allocate some of my resources to
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by Self-Perfection 4y ago
This take on EA notion replaces it with a straw man. Essentially EA tells not "let's save as many lives as possible" but "let's improve the world according to our values as much as possible". And values might d
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by Self-Perfection 4y ago
> Linux is still in the stone age when it comes to tagging. Common Linux filesystems (including ext4 & ZFS) support extended attributes, but I'm not aware of any Linux distro or file manager that includes tagging features based
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by Self-Perfection 4y ago
It does. tail will get SIGPIPE and exit. https://stackoverflow.com/q/8369506 But tail might read up to pipe buffer size more data than is actually required. Also tail + head approach have an overhead of copying data be
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by Self-Perfection 4y ago
But this one would work: blah | sudo sh -c 'cat > /some/file'

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