Steltek

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by Steltek 6y ago
It saddens me as I see this massive infusion of developer time and energy being donated to one of the biggest tech companies around. If that effort had instead gone into making Linux better, which Homebrew obviously builds on, where would
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by Steltek 6y ago
I hadn't heard of this! Thank you! My VSCode experience is primarily "VSCode" (not Codium) w/ the MS Remote extensions and looking at code-server for its more unique capabilities. Definitely going to look into this an
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by Steltek 6y ago
VS Code is great but I'm concerned about there being a single canonical "app store". It would be nice to see an equivalent "F-Droid" that's usable side-by-side with the MS marketplace. I believe code-server (
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by Steltek 6y ago
Close. You described Vietnam all over again. The only American interest was in, and still is, stopping hostile foreign influence.
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by Steltek 6y ago
Going unremarked in this nostalgia is that those old forums were still moderated, sometimes heavily, and the #1 tool was the ban hammer. It was not a free speech love-in. Hell, Something Awful would automatically replace your post with &q
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by Steltek 6y ago
I didn't do any digging but it seems like once you have a connection established, it's not too bad. Is your roommate on a full-tunnel VPN?
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by Steltek 6y ago
I can't name a more dysfunctional hypervisor than VBox. If my choices were a Virtual Box VM or superhacky Docker-as-VM, I'd pick Docker every day. But I'd say VMs and containers solve different problems. In the case of dev
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by Steltek 6y ago
It should be expected that during this transition, everyone will have one x86 app or another. An upgrade breaking nearly 100% of users is a laughed-out-the-door bad user experience.
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by Steltek 6y ago
How much does arch matter if you're targeting AWS? Aren't the differences between local service instances vs instances running in the cloud a much bigger problem for development?
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by Steltek 6y ago
"Linux" is more than coreutils. The Mac kernel is no where close to Linux in capability and Apple hates 3rd party drivers to boot. You'll end up running a half-baked Linux VM anyway so all macOS gets you is a SSH client wit
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by Steltek 6y ago
Many thru-hikers choose trainers (or really "trail runners") over traditional hiking boots. Even without aggressive ultralight gram-shedding, a contemporary pack weighs a fraction of what it once did and you don't need to up
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by Steltek 6y ago
I use Edamagit but I still find myself popping open emacs+magit sometimes. I guess I haven't completed the assimilation into VSCode yet.
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by Steltek 6y ago
I believe it's more to do with users abandoning WhatsApp due to the concerning privacy policy that Apple forced them to disclose to their users. Many high profile influencers are recommending people switch to Signal.
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by Steltek 6y ago
Your sources need work. The salient point (defensive gun use) is not substantiated by your linked report as it specifically mentions the CDC may not collect this data: > In addition to the restrictions on certain kinds of data
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by Steltek 6y ago
Engagement _is_ moderation! When FB chooses what to show you, it's already moderating things but simply using a different value system. The're a pushback on "censorship" today but censorship has been happening for year
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by Steltek 6y ago
How would up/down votes work on a decentralized platform? Wouldn't it be easy to game by standing up your own server and wishing up a legion of sockpuppets? There's a whole Moonshot of spam resistance that's going to ne
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by Steltek 6y ago
Are people born "QAnon"? If you consider yourself moderate, are you Bi? Am I cis-liberal? I think this analogy needs a lot of work.
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by Steltek 6y ago
False. The RNC is not an open critic of the leader of their party.
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by Steltek 6y ago
Having the right to take an action is different from executing on that action. You have the right to paint your house polka dot pink but everyone is still going to think it was the wrong choice.
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by Steltek 6y ago
Socio-economic class is not tied to moral values or compassion.
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by Steltek 6y ago
I use xterm because I'm too lazy to switch, I guess. It was never bad enough for me to switch and it's present virtually everywhere, so I don't need to bother installing my favorite niche term (kind of like sticking with bas
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by Steltek 6y ago
More than that, they're on a sailboat! Electric motors offer regen when under sailpower, which is absolutely huge, or you can get a towable torpedo generator. Otherwise, get a small wind turbine. You can subsist on PV alone but there
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by Steltek 6y ago
It'd be interesting to see the corresponding public transit numbers. In the US, I'm not optimistic about a bike revolution lasting past covid. We've seen some new bike infra being deployed in Boston but not much more than w
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by Steltek 6y ago
> It's just a fundamentally different system than what you're comparing it to and has many well established communities that aren't what you appear to be alluding to. You may as well be telling me how wonderful BitTorrent
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by Steltek 6y ago
You may as well say, "There's nothing wrong with Gab/Parler/Voat as long as you stay away from the political discussions". It doesn't matter. Your technical and logical distinctions are minor and irrelevant t
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by Steltek 6y ago
Probably the gold rush for decentralized, censorship-resistant platforms for the Right to jump to. This is bad for any mainstream ambitions by the Matrix team. If it becomes the next Gab/Parler, normal people will avoid being associat
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by Steltek 6y ago
Don't you dare equate BLM with the Right. BLM is responding to the very recent history of murder, oppression, and disenfranchisement by the police and government. It was captured repeatedly on brutal video this very year. And that&#
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by Steltek 6y ago
I love the back and forth of terminology ("rioter" vs "terrorist" vs "attacker") because I think that's the key to this discussion. The military is given access to dramatically more advanced weapons and t
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by Steltek 6y ago
Twitter is not sending anyone to a gulag. What the flipping hell are you talking about?
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by Steltek 6y ago
Are there any absolute statements that one can make about humans and human behavior? All humans have arms and legs? No. Even "All humans have brains" seems debatable after 2020 :-P.

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