Snitch-Thursday

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by Snitch-Thursday 6y ago
Every time I get a hankering to try out forking Ensichat or implementing a quick-n-dirty self-host-server-friendly Signal Protocol-based chat application, I stop myself because Matrix is doing it all, and much better than I can. P2P Matrix
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by Snitch-Thursday 6y ago
> OTP inspired actor systems that run Webassembly code are a brilliant (and potentially way superior) alternative to microservice madness I very much agree with this. While Actor model systems have not been commonly encountered in the ci
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by Snitch-Thursday 6y ago
I've been pushing away potential suitors to learn Actor-based systems, contenting myself with researching patterns to use with F# MailboxProcessor while I wait for Gleam (the proglang that is basically statically typed Erlang) to matur
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by Snitch-Thursday 6y ago
> I learned my lessons and made the fonts bigger. Designs do not look so nice (at-least to me and my team) but they loved my work. That sent me down a nostalgia trail to this[1] book which has similar advice for Pocket PC developers. Dr
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by Snitch-Thursday 6y ago
i wish i could buy a perpetual license of Adobe Animate, any version that can take actionscript and such and compile it to an HTML5 video. I don't know if those HTML5 things still count as Rich internet applications (interactive? idk),
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by Snitch-Thursday 6y ago
That's the difference between software and hardware however, hardware is 'hard' to change, easy to swap out and replace. I totally agree with you about how the details on changing or upgrading truck components are not mutable
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by Snitch-Thursday 6y ago
Having my grandfather's diary entries from 1963 through 1995 sure helped jog his memory as we work on his memoirs. If, God forbid, he were to pass, those journals would remain, echoing some of his memories, experiences, feelings, and c
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by Snitch-Thursday 6y ago
I enjoyed this app. Features that occurred to me that I'd want if I were to create an account: can I mark which clothing options I own vs don't? For items I don't own, could my account hold my measurements to give appropriate
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by Snitch-Thursday 6y ago
This article makes no mention of k3s or k3os, which is odd to me. K3os and k0s seem to be very similar competitors, while k3s is great for serving the 'I have a VM, and I want kubernetes with no fuss' needs. If k0s makes it to 1.x
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by Snitch-Thursday 6y ago
WSDL, JSON-WSP[1], now protobuf, and many more formats abound on the web. In the spirit of 'choose the boring technology', which of these[2] is common enough / flexible enough to be worth learning to use and use well for non-
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by Snitch-Thursday 6y ago
I still use way too many DVDs and CDs for my write-once cold storage anti-ransomware needs. Good quality brands have sold their names out (TDK, Phillips, Taiyo Yuden AKA CMC), but MediaPro still seems to carry a few good brands left for now
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by Snitch-Thursday 6y ago
> CB radios Boy would I love to get ahold of some handheld radios designed for 'prepper' use. 1. use cognitive radio techniques to find and frequency-hop to whitespace radio frequencies that are conducive to best propagation ov
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by Snitch-Thursday 6y ago
For the 'I take pictures on my phone, poof its on my computer' needs, I replaced Onedrive Camera Upload with a Syncthing folder and haven't had to look back. Onedrive is of course a different product than Google Photos, and t
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by Snitch-Thursday 6y ago
Pedantry ahead: Big Stick diplomacy was Teddy, not Franklin, Roosevelt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Stick_ideology
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by Snitch-Thursday 6y ago
> Overall his projects are fascinating for anyone with interest in retro computing or learning how computers work at the lowest level I'm on the RAM-building portion of the 8-bit breadboard computer for exactly this reason. I wanted
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by Snitch-Thursday 6y ago
I'm watching Gleam[1] for my 'I want to learn Erlang but dont want to deal with having to do runtime type checks so I wish there was a Statically-Typed Erlang' dreams. [1] https://gleam.run/news/gleam-v0.
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by Snitch-Thursday 6y ago
I settled on Noodler's Heart of Darkness (the onyx black that is also bulletproof) and Roller Eel (which is Heart of Darkness but lubricated for refillable rollerball use) for my black ink needs. Noodlers BP Black was more like Noodler
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Dana Library Hand(margoburns.com)
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by Snitch-Thursday 6y ago
> That said, if given the choice between a tiny FOSS language and a tiny proprietary one (that might be profitable), I'll always choose the latter. (Not to put words in parent poster's mouth, just for reader clarity) F# is no m
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Pfizer dashes hope for Covid-19 vaccine data before the election(arstechnica.com)
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by Snitch-Thursday 6y ago
> You write what you want on a piece of paper, and hold it up to the camera and the computer tries to figure out what you wrote. Just as silly. Ironically I used to love me some graffiti on PalmOS and Google Handwriting Input on my Droid
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by Snitch-Thursday 6y ago
I have two major tools for my writing habit. 1) writingstreak.io which is great for daily word dumps. 2 ) writing.com which is a writer's community and very much reminiscent of the web 1.0 days. It may not be a nostalgia trip in terms
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by Snitch-Thursday 6y ago
I've been wanting something like Talon for years. Easily customized voice recognition for commands (you hear me say 'blah', you type/start a program/click a button labelled 'blah') is something I've n
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by Snitch-Thursday 6y ago
when I was writing my last novel draft using nuance dragon 15, it had the 'read that' command which would read the last phrase I inputted, but that wasnt enough since I had a wireless headset that let me wander the house talking t
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by Snitch-Thursday 6y ago
I think GP is saying that there would be a sea change IFF 1. there was legal unlicensed radio bandwidth for any radio services that had cognitive radio capabilities (constant frequency hopping, coordinating frequencies with other nodes afte
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by Snitch-Thursday 6y ago
I wish there was a 1-step process for white-listing known good emails, for a single address, or a single domain, or a list of either. I also wish there was a process for exporting/importing these lists. With SPF/DKIM/DMARC (w
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List of deprecated features in latest Google Groups(support.google.com)
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by Snitch-Thursday 6y ago
Update on the above case: upon appeal, they won their case, according to http://5kids1condo.com/we-won-common-sense-prevails-in-bus-d...
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by Snitch-Thursday 6y ago
> A good amount of people buy a certain car and maintain it, intending to run the vehicle into the ground completely. See my 4runner that's older than I am. I am happy to give it its $400 per year in oil changes and amortized tires,
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by Snitch-Thursday 6y ago
TLDR: Computer program UX design has to settle for boring consistency and stop reinventing the UX wheel. Learn the best UX practices for your platform based on ACTUAL USER STUDIES and apply them. UX design is like yeast in bread. Too much,

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