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ahub
4y ago
That seem to be it. They talk about compiling a database of cave art. I'd love to access that !
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ahub
4y ago
Honestly, this devices just misses a speaker and a microphone. It would make for the best phone ever.
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ahub
4y ago
I'd recommend IRC. There are still many users and since it's completly out-of-fashion, it's not contaminated by the very graphical and instantly-rewarding culture of meme, gifs emojis and likes. It's still mostly text an
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ahub
4y ago
I've been there in the last 2 years, and we went for massive spaghetti ball to about 50% rewrite and 60% under tests. I second most comments against the "full rewrite" here: - source control it - get a local environment if yo
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4y ago
Adding one data point. I started doing exactly that a few years ago as a single man. Works wonder to fix sleep disorders, sync sleep cycle with the sun. Also helped with mood swings and boredom. The last great point is that as soon as I kno
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ahub
5y ago
I play the banjo, which is way less popular and has a specific quirk : you don't havea single tuning but dozens ! You swap then and retune the instrument according to the current song/type of music. That's additionnal burden
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ahub
5y ago
Not sure if it's relevant but I liked the approach of Pavel Fatin in measuring editor latency [0]. It uses OS level input events and actual rendering on screen. So testing the same editor/file with different settings might yield r
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ahub
5y ago
It's a way of thinking I went into, and the various recent lockdowns helped quite a lot. I spend good evenings, and enjoyed it thoroughly. But I want to bring up a REALLY STRONG WARNING about it. It's shunned in most cultures for
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ahub
5y ago
The folks at framasoft maintain a list of alternative services: https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/
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ahub
5y ago
I agree with most of the opinions in the comments. Might be you, might be the internet might be both. Might be you: You're bored and you're searching wrong. For a feel similar to geocities try the 'gemini' protocol. Its
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ahub
5y ago
Or as an alternative with no installation or dependence : `curl cht.sh tar`. Obviously, replace 'tar' by whatever command you see fit. Works on any machine online with curl available.
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ahub
6y ago
I think the author wants to prevent his/her compulsive clicking of links. I can relate to that, as I tend to open a lot of content without second-guessing. I accidentaly discover a different method to the same effect. To circumvent cen
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Among-sus – Text-mode Among Us recreation
(git.sr.ht)
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6y ago
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6y ago
Hey, similar interest here. I'm a programmer, my wife is a (proffessionnal) vegetable grower. At first glance I can tell the site is really helpful, but here are things I'd like to see too, in addition to other comments : - where
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./play.it makes native Linux packages for commercial video games
(reddit.com)
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6y ago
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ahub
7y ago
I noticed there is a `-j` argument to remove javascript. A `-i` argument for removing images would be great too.
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ahub
7y ago
Reach out when you do so, I've a similar use case here !
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ahub
8y ago
The book "Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman presents an helpful idea to deal with it : information-action ratio. Basically, news about things you can do nothing about are not news, they are noise. After reading the book,