Shish2k

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by Shish2k 10y ago
It might depend on libdbus, but it wouldn't require systemd to be installed and running
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by Shish2k 10y ago
Yesterday, Engadget published "Please don't send me Smart Replies", an opinion piece on automating communication. One of its key features is being written in ASCII, which makes use of a standard set of fonts if you don't
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by Shish2k 10y ago
Why even use keyboards? They're just a lazy, creativity-free version of writing by hand. We should be having this discussion by sending each other postcards, with REAL doodled faces, every one of them unique, none of this ASCII ":
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by Shish2k 10y ago
FWIW I've switched from Graphite to InfluxDB as a drop-in replacement (ie, influxdb natively accepts graphite-formatted data, I'm ignoring all the extra nice influx features), and I've found that they're both really easy
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by Shish2k 11y ago
So you're saying people think it's a trump card, but actually it's a Trump card?
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by Shish2k 11y ago
While it's true that "A) I'm offended, change yourself to accomodate me" and "B) I'm offended, so I'm going to leave" are both forms of offence, it seems pretty dishonest to say "A and B are equa
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by Shish2k 11y ago
I find it hilarious / tragic that the top comment on "twitter attempts to fix their social problems" is that they need to stop doing that and fix their product problems; and the top comment on "twitter attempts to fix th
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by Shish2k 11y ago
I wonder what sort of data you're storing with that reduction? I'm using it as a drop-in replacement for Graphite (with Grafana as a front-end, loving both BTW) and just had disk space reduced from 140GB to 250MB :D
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by Shish2k 11y ago
> If you watched Top Gear even occasionally you'd know how rediculous it is claiming that Top Gear is serious news You could say the same thing about most mainstream newspapers and TV channels, and yet...
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by Shish2k 11y ago
> You get notifications from the personal account as well? No
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by Shish2k 11y ago
Those posts aren't coming from facebook - they're coming from the people you choose to add as friends. I choose my friends carefully, and my news feed has none of that :)
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by Shish2k 11y ago
It takes energy from the sun, it doesn't generate energy internally
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by Shish2k 11y ago
Can't seem to view images without javascript D:
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by Shish2k 11y ago
Can I get a tl;dw? Having the key "what does this do" information in the middle of a long GIF makes it pretty painful to find...
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by Shish2k 11y ago
> GPG for data at rest. TLS for data in motion. > You can also use Guttman's cryptlib, which has a sane API. Or Google Keyczar. They both have really simple interfaces, and they try to make it hard to do the wrong thing. > © C
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by Shish2k 11y ago
> To this day I can never make sense out of the "sizes" that appear on women's clothes Why does nobody step up and fix this problem? (See also: clothes for women with useful sized pockets). Given the amount of complaining
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by Shish2k 11y ago
A somewhat tangential question I've had since seeing the landing -- why are these rockets trying to land by themselves, which seems really difficult, compared to say getting the rocket roughly in the right place and then having a rob
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by Shish2k 11y ago
> this may just be the way I have my client set up Two explanations are either yes, your client is configured to show active and away people the same; or other people aren't using the 'away' feature, so they show up as act
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by Shish2k 11y ago
> Just struct declarations are enough To echo this with code, I've open sourced my collection of game archive unpackers. Given how similar they all are, this is a typical example of how to add a new decoder: https://githu
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by Shish2k 11y ago
This comment seems to be missing a "for example". I don't doubt that it's true, but it seems that you have thought about the idea, so I would like to hear your complete thought :)
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by Shish2k 11y ago
Speaking as somebody who has no idea what X..<Y means, I assume it means "start from X and carry on for as long as you are less-than Y"? Is that correct? I wonder what somebody who had no idea about X++ would guess it meant? Ba
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by Shish2k 11y ago
> number 2 ranked website on the internet runs on PHP The frontend is "PHP", but with a replacement engine, a replacement language, and a replacement standard library... Having written a bunch of facebook-style Hack and wordpre
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by Shish2k 11y ago
Are you not thinking of "dark web"? I see that a lot, but I've not seen "deep web" used by the media at all (though I won't deny that the media misusing technical words is entirely believable...)
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by Shish2k 11y ago
> "As far as we can determine, practical privacy preserving contact discovery remains an unsolved problem." This reminds me of an idea I had which I would love for people to tear apart (I know that the obvious bandwidth problem
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by Shish2k 11y ago
> the music is really sweet Have an album :) https://lazerhawk.bandcamp.com/album/redline
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by Shish2k 11y ago
Are you also surprised that vegetarian food is sold, having missed the point that most people eat meat? Or surprised that screwdriver factories still exist, having missed the point that most people prefer driving in nails using hammers? Dif
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by Shish2k 11y ago
You mean that time when "having the newsfeed app forces you to use the messaging app and vice versa" started out as forced, and then opt-out, and then opt-in? That seems like the /opposite/ of forcing people to use a giv
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by Shish2k 11y ago
Anecdote not data, but out of 96 emails in my inbox, only one of them is even remotely social (if you count a family member asking for PC tech support as social)...
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by Shish2k 11y ago
I get that MMOs are very different to regular games, but I wonder how that applies in this context - why would an MMO company strongly object to their abandonware being revived while a regular multiplayer company tolerates it?
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by Shish2k 11y ago
Ditto - automatic organisation by metadata might be nice if metadata wasn't universally inconsistent and incomplete. I tried manually fixing my whole library and it was nice for a couple of weeks, but there's so much ongoing maint

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