Shish2k

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by Shish2k 3y ago
Yup, “in order to align with global standards” has become a meme where I work, because the phrase always preceeds “we are removing one of our location-specific perks” ;(
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by Shish2k 3y ago
> a 'catalog' of all the features. A “menu”, if you will ;)
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by Shish2k 3y ago
> I don't know that there's a stable solution to this A probably-dumb idea that I haven’t seen discussed anywhere: a federation of services (I pay $30/mo to the federation -- if I spend 2/3 of my time on Netflix and 1
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by Shish2k 3y ago
If you’re designing a board specifically for mass-market linux support, “pick hardare with good linux support, or work on it yourself” doesn’t seem like too much of a stretch?
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by Shish2k 3y ago
I also find mercurial vastly more pleasant to use - nowadays I’m mostly using Sapling, since that’s basically mercurial’s frontend with the ability to speak the git protocol to git servers :)
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by Shish2k 3y ago
We could also solve cheating by representing romantic interest as an NFT which can be traded from one partner to the nest, with hotels and restaurants only accepting two-person bookings from couples who are confirmed as owning each other’s
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by Shish2k 3y ago
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/07/emails-detail-am...
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by Shish2k 3y ago
This has nothing to do with web-client vs mobile-client — it is “files viewed in any form of interactive client” vs “files being hot-linked from external websites”
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by Shish2k 3y ago
English is the PHP of human languages: Random vaguely-useful-looking bits from other languages copied & duct-taped together with no sense of consistency in either the syntax or the standard library...
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by Shish2k 3y ago
My personal-projects server has 30-odd docker containers for various DIY and open-source apps — adding one more container for my static React project is way easier to manage than adding special-cases to my frontend for serving static files
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by Shish2k 3y ago
How does comparing across architectures work? I would imagine you’d need to have different implementations for each arch, but then that would lead to different optimisations / compilers / etc on each platform, so eg CPUs which are
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by Shish2k 3y ago
Somehow I haven’t found anything as good as the internet radio streams that I was listening to with Winamp back in the day… alas now I can’t even remember the name of the big trance / electronic / etc internet-radio group-of-stati
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by Shish2k 3y ago
Correct (in a `try ... else` the else branch is executed when the try block reaches the end of the block with no exception, and the return is leaving the block without reaching the end) (Bonus context for anyone surprised that it is valid c
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by Shish2k 3y ago
> that is where the lion's share of people are. on places like reddit and twitter Facebook dwarfs reddit and twitter combined - Does that make Facebook the #1 place to host an open source community?
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by Shish2k 3y ago
I’ve been looking too, and the more research I do, the more it looks like the best idea is to get regular dimmable bulbs + zigbee dimmer switches - that’s generally going to be simpler and more reliable, the main downside being lack of any
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by Shish2k 3y ago
Air purifiers and robot vacuums, but still no "power socket” device type?? (There is “binary switch”, which is what my Matter power sockets expose - but the measurements that I actually care about (total kWh, volts, amps, frequency, et
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by Shish2k 3y ago
Why use our imaginations to “think about it”, when we can look at the data and see what actually happens in reality? The minimum wage has jumped up several times in the past due to government updates, and it has gradually shrunk over time d
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by Shish2k 3y ago
> Open, permissionless networks beat closed, proprietary ones once they are good enough. Generally yes, but not necessarily - look at what happened when we (the nerds who write free software) collectively decided that IRC was “good enoug
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by Shish2k 3y ago
It varies based on country and jurisdiction, but from an American / European perspective - some parts of the emulation scene are “definitely not legal” (eg, distributing copyrighted ROMs), and most parts of the scene are “It is complic
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by Shish2k 3y ago
> people always say "use the ROM of games you physically own” People also say “No copyright infringement intended” while uploading full movies to YouTube. People, especially when it comes to matters of copyright, typically have very
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by Shish2k 3y ago
> Some of it might be inherent Other equally-powerful tools (mercurial, sapling, etc) have considerably better UX though
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by Shish2k 3y ago
> so branches grow as tree branches do, not leaves That’s exactly the mistake though - branches (the implementation detail) don’t grow. Branches - under the hood - are “one pointer to one commit”, and they are always the same size. The
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by Shish2k 3y ago
With sufficiently fast mobile internet, there is no more need to be digging and drilling to pull cables through roads and buildings (I’ve been using a 4G/5G dongle as my primary internet access for the past 4 years because the council
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by Shish2k 3y ago
If a rounding error put me a million-trillionth of a cent into my overdraft, I’m pretty sure my bank would still activate that $20/mo overdraft fee :P
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by Shish2k 3y ago
As somebody who has written the same gameboy emulator in C++, Rust, and Zig (as well as C, Go, Nim, PHP, and Python) - I have yet to find a place where language affected emulation correctness. Gameboy audio is kind of a pain in the ass (at
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by Shish2k 3y ago
I opened up the hood of a car once and there was loads of empty space inside there. Why are they not filling up every cubic inch of the engine compartment with more pistons, or making the compartment water-tight and then filling it with e
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by Shish2k 3y ago
This is another legal ass-covering thing, because “we give our employees 3 hours of safety training” will hold up better in court than “we give our employees 5 minutes of safety training” — the actual content of the course doesn’t matter, w
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by Shish2k 3y ago
> Postgres also had a reputation for being correct but slower Even back then, I found that mysql was faster for “select * from table where primary_key = 42”, but with even the slightest complication (joins, functional queries, subqueries
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by Shish2k 3y ago
> I believe the message needs to be that anonymity is not only desirable but mandatory as well, especially because of the rise of platforms that literally track each and every possible metric about your daily life and habits Normal peopl
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by Shish2k 3y ago
Separate ingest / compaction / query sounds pretty useful - literally just this morning I needed to learn about docker memory limits, because somehow querying 10 days of data OOM’ed my 32GB server… (And my entire database, holding

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