StavrosK

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by StavrosK 5y ago
> giving a computer to someone doesn't turn them into a Bill Gates or Steve Jobs just because they own it. The point isn't to make every one of these kids a Bill Gates, it's to prevent the Bill Gates among them from living
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Sure, but it's worth wasting 99 laptops if even we manage to enable one child to get a better education, and that's even before considering that the other 99 laptops are probably not going to be wasted either.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
In my experience, IPFS doesn't even do a good job of fully-online updates. Maybe my setup was bad, but I couldn't get it to reliably and quickly discover content on other nodes that were definitely online.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Wow, that's a lot of bad. How did they manage to create an account with your email address? Doesn't it require verification?
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by StavrosK 5y ago
It's not about whether the person is "a success" or "a failure", it's about whether the person feels that their condition is materially impacting their daily life. If I feel that my gaming habit is impacting my
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by StavrosK 5y ago
How did that happen and why did it take weeks to resolve?
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Yeah, but in the first case you go from 1000 files to 2, whereas in the second you go from 2 to 1, which is much less impressive. Metrics are fun!
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by StavrosK 5y ago
But then you will have achieved the TODO, ruining the joke.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Almost certainly a joke.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
I saw the exact same thing and was surprised too! I wonder if it was a site that was on HN... I press "accept all" by accident and thought "wow".
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Maybe God put chicken eggs on the Earth.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Because blowing up weddings leads to dissatisfied voters, so politicians are less likely to do that very often.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
And if fewer weddings get blown up, we'll use them more and more to kill people. I wonder whether the absolute number of killings will go up or down this way.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Or like those that make the "Accept all cookies" button green and the "accept necessary" white/colorless/default.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Same here, maybe it's my portrait-orientation screen.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
* the web, not the internet.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Probably because reverse-engineering it is less effort than rewriting all the clients that Apple has already written.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Thonny looks great, thanks for the tip! I've had friends who had trouble understanding how return values work, this would help!
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by StavrosK 5y ago
They certainly look like NSIS installers.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
The Nix maintainers asked very nicely whether there was a specific reason and whether they could work with the author to solved it. The author just said "no, just don't include my stuff", which he technically didn't have
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by StavrosK 5y ago
> The project could have pinned the version and downloaded from pypi rather than repackaging. It couldn't, since Nix is a package manager and will only download things from its repository. It can't access the internet otherwise
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Apparently not, since the author couldn't/didn't want to either.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Oh damn, that's fantastic! I wanted to write a small server that did something between this and Fire above (i.e. allowed you to drop a Python script into a directory and would create a UI for its functions). It's a great way to ma
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by StavrosK 5y ago
> however it doesn't take away that often change is held back because of ...1-2%... Don't you mean "because of 52%"?
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Sure, but I don't speak much ancient Greek and I didn't want to make too many assumptions about what carried over versus what changed.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
If your users are on Freenode and don't know about your network, having the structure there doesn't do much good. It doesn't take much time to register nicknames/channels anyway, certainly not enough to risk a lawsuit fr
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by StavrosK 5y ago
What good would that do, if the users aren't connecting to the network?
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by StavrosK 5y ago
My comment was a rather tongue-in-cheek take of how Libera is carrying on the spirit of Freenode, and we should just consider Freenode a random other network that somehow got Freenode's name by accident.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
I don't understand what the big deal with all this Freenode drama is. It just got renamed to Libera, update your host files and you're done.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
He's super helpful in #python, great guy.

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