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by __del__ 11mo ago
It's not abundantly clear that merely booting this operating system FORMATS YOUR DISK . Yes, there's a grub menu, but it has something like a 2 second timeout before it destroys all your data.
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by __del__ 1y ago
they're suggesting that "open source" has won (attention, mind share, funding, whatever) while "free software" as defined by richard stallman has not
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by __del__ 1y ago
these look great. haven't heard the name soft dorothy in ages.
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by __del__ 1y ago
two $30 hard drives. many of us handle this sort of thing as a matter of course in our daily lives, and the walled ecosystem chases us out.
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by __del__ 2y ago
if we're aiming to present fiction, we should replace phrases like "not 100% accurate," with "not accurate." too many dummies read a line like not 100% accurate and assume the content must be something like 90% accu
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by __del__ 2y ago
perhaps "Delete pages/general-information-and-resources/psychological-safety.md" will inspire a less ambiguous response
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by __del__ 2y ago
on occasion the distinct shape of a rare uppercase word like SANCTIMONIOUSNESS is just alien enough to trigger the first effect, though you might not realize why
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by __del__ 3y ago
i agree with the nibling comment that this name works precisely because it provokes curiosity about its relevance. i can't be the only dev who saw this headline and wondered whether some entity was pushing for a csv standardization (e.
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by __del__ 3y ago
youtube is clearly able to treat music tracks differently from ordinary videos. its android app won't allow you to play music in the background (a dark pattern driving sales of youtube music premium subscriptions)
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by __del__ 3y ago
"i think you'll find you mean megabytes of ram and gigabytes of storage" ...cause that's how 90s IT people started most of their sentences
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by __del__ 3y ago
uh huh, they need to hop to it
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by __del__ 3y ago
one's first experience of raclette will have one double checking one's own armpits
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by __del__ 3y ago
it isn't controversial that a company would rather destroy a resource than let someone have it, but some of us strongly oppose this
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by __del__ 4y ago
from the letters section: >It's true that today there are some jobs that can be done only by mucking with raw HTML, and if you want to do those, you have to code them by hand. But as HTML evolves, so do HTML editors. And one day Re
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by __del__ 4y ago
i'm not the person you replied to, but i'm guessing maybe they'd have preferred: "We took ChatGPT offline earlier this week due to a bug in an external library which allowed some users to see titles from another active u
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by __del__ 4y ago
i'd nitpick about less code being a benefit (but perhaps that's why you said 'whatever that means') see: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_golf
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by __del__ 4y ago
with a name like bankman...
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by __del__ 4y ago
i think you're onto something
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by __del__ 4y ago
unsurprising (but disappointing) that hn readers are well compensated and lukewarm about unions
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by __del__ 4y ago
that's where "abort, retry, fail?" really shines
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by __del__ 4y ago
arch used to have an installer. it didn't work for everyone, and caused a lot of complaining. turned out most people could do the steps themselves. it has an installer again. maybe the userbase will change.
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by __del__ 4y ago
be careful what you clone and browse around with that
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by __del__ 4y ago
simpler than i expected. what was your original use case?
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by __del__ 4y ago
i always found those comment sections to be so odd — fifteen year old comments about a common pitfall and the information never makes it up to the official documentation? i suppose it's fitting for a web-centric language to crowd sourc
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by __del__ 4y ago
we should be able to write MDCCCLXXXVIII as MCXIIM
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by __del__ 4y ago
the fake region of that qr code bugs me more than that it has a qr code on it
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by __del__ 4y ago
iirc matrix is deprecated
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by __del__ 4y ago
if memory serves, the problem with ieee754 fp representation isn't the relative sizes of its largest and smallest possible values, but its uneven representation of the values between
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by __del__ 4y ago
it's a short walk from shells that optimize "known commands" to signed apps and an ecosystem you can't contribute to unless you've paid the appropriate gatekeeper
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by __del__ 4y ago
bitmapped fonts are pretty damn simple, but you can compress them by storing only the pixel distances to the next inversion from 0 -> 1 or 1 -> 0 along scanlines

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