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by aasasd 4y ago
The ‘fuckcars’ subreddit is popular lately, often pops up on the r/all ‘front page’. It vaguely seems that US people have a suspicion that the need for cars and the revulsion to public transport are in large part due to the existing st
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by aasasd 4y ago
Rather the opposite for me, I'm now even more confused about what was where. Not that I quite get the picture of an infinite universe anyway, which I guess is the prerequisite here.
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by aasasd 4y ago
I'm a perpetual noob at this topic, so might be completely wrong, but: what I vaguely got from Hawking's books is that both black holes and the before-bang universe have matter in some kind of quark soup, in which our conceptions
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by aasasd 4y ago
> there is no sign of an edge of the universe How is this determined? I would think that the observable universe puts a limit on our view anyway. Is it the redshift receding into infinite wavelengths? Can the instruments even detect
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by aasasd 4y ago
My Anki decks don't have Anguilla (afaik). Guess I need to compile a list of all the colony nations, and then decide whether I'm gonna be able to learn further dozens of spots in the oceans, and to distinguish them from the fully-
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by aasasd 4y ago
The same way 127.1 goes to the localhost, and 10.1 to 10.0.0.1.
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by aasasd 4y ago
About ten years ago, when the idea that we might soon be buying self-driving cars was itself rather new and the speculations on ‘robot ethics’ popular in the media, one dude wrote: “This will be easily decided by capitalism—why would anyone
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by aasasd 4y ago
I mean, with 2 GB of memory you'll only be able to use the phone as an ebook reader anyway—and I don't mean PDF because scrolling is gonna be a bitch, what with incessant garbage collection in the background. As for storage, for m
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by aasasd 4y ago
Syntax highlighting in the shell vaguely helps.
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by aasasd 4y ago
Amazon doesn't have rights to Silmarillion, though, so they can't take anything from there.
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by aasasd 4y ago
Yep, in sixteen views I got: - one small village, basically a few houses along a road. - one town in greenery. - one instance of my phone entirely freezing up (this one is on FF, I guess).
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by aasasd 4y ago
Pretty sure the negotiations would go approximately like: “Best I can do is fifty bucks.”
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by aasasd 4y ago
> allows the driver to accelerate and brake by blowing and sucking on a tube, and to steer by turning his head Well, what I now want to know is how he controls any kind of a spin or another mishap, because that's gonna be hard wit
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by aasasd 4y ago
I think patching would be rather easy, for me. Slap two fabrics together, and then keep backstitching until satisfied. At least, I repaired some seams and didn't have any trouble. The problem is, putting a patch onto every hole is ques
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by aasasd 4y ago
I went hiking a couple times with, among others, a dude who's been in climbing and mountaineering since the eighties at least, and was like sixty at the time. This is in Russia, so in the eighties you just couldn't buy anything in
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by aasasd 4y ago
I used routing on my phone, but without the instructions, just the map, route and the GPS position marker—plus I had the map always with north on top, no rotation and no ‘3d’. This arrangement actually taught me about what is where in this
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by aasasd 4y ago
IIRC in Alfred particular folders can be added, to be searched for apps. If this works separately from main search, it might help—you'll probably need to create a folder and dump symlinks to the apps in there. Otherwise, apps can conce
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by aasasd 4y ago
A more important factor in the app-switching use-case, imo, is that Spotlight or Alfred require just static unchanging input, so you can bash it out without second thought, and usually without looking at the displayed result (after learning
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by aasasd 4y ago
If you know what you want, text search is much faster than leafing through a list of items. It's what every touch-typist discovers in the first months with their newfound power, especially if they have decent software available—like Sp
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by aasasd 4y ago
(Correction: there are more posts if I search for ‘http’ instead of ‘https’.)
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by aasasd 4y ago
If neither Wine nor VMs work for you for some reason, you might actually have an easier time with emulating classic MacOS. There are emulators specifically for it, they have to impersonate just very few models of the hardware, so success is
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by aasasd 4y ago
BTW, my theoretical favorite of those is the engine clone of Carmageddon, made by one guy in C#—however he's finished everything besides power-ups, and then abandoned the project. http://1amstudios.com/projects/o
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by aasasd 4y ago
I post that each time an open-source clone is on the front page—which is pretty much once a month, sometimes sooner. The site itself was posted on HN three times altogether—one of them in the last hour, again without any traction. This dyna
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by aasasd 4y ago
Those consumer PCs don't look too energy-efficient, though.
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by aasasd 4y ago
For some reason Youtube's offerings for ‘Space Station 13’ look like a supply of memery straight from elementary school, at least going by what I see in the list. I managed to find one vid by ‘MandaloreGaming’, whom I watched one time
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by aasasd 4y ago
And other open-source clones of various games: https://osgameclones.com
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by aasasd 4y ago
You Won't Believe THIS Reason to Stop Reading Hacker News Comments!
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by aasasd 4y ago
That will be a different one, that does Scottish accent and nothing else. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiL23P1W9dQ
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by aasasd 4y ago
Should've been re-derived from ‘fungor’ or whatever.
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by aasasd 4y ago
I was wondering if I should substitute the book for the movie, but then: > Spanning the years 1971–1997 and based on the 1984 book :thonk: Though apparently there are editions from 2000 and 2014, which are quite some gaps. Dunno yet wh

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