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Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years(bbc.com)
931 points by alphachloride 5y ago|406 comments
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by alphachloride 5y ago
Or TkInter in python?
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by alphachloride 6y ago
A CLI stuck in a form is a GUI. You got a button, links etc
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by alphachloride 6y ago
He says: > So many of us have spent significant time and social capital moving our friends and family away from the exploitative data siphon platforms that Facebook et al offer, and on to Signal And then he says: > Signal users are ov
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by alphachloride 6y ago
You're right. I thought you were being a pedant, and I stand corrected. Vertical is a relative orientation, so the usage applies in all of the cases you indicated.
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by alphachloride 6y ago
Vertically when you look at it on a map, where north is facing up. But we both knew that.
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The Xinjiang Data Project(xjdp.aspi.org.au)
2 points by alphachloride 6y ago|0 comments
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by alphachloride 6y ago
Plain ol' vanilla javascript, of course.
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by alphachloride 6y ago
Svelte and React each have their advantages and they make a convincing case each for the #2 position for a Javascript framework.
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by alphachloride 6y ago
I personally think the point of markdown is that any text editor becomes distraction-free. Everything to do with structuring content is inline with the text. How that structure is displayed is deferred to the rendering context. I like the f
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by alphachloride 6y ago
Different strokes for different folks.
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by alphachloride 6y ago
To quote some true words of wisdom > Ain't nobody got time for that No time for the poster to read through a page of text, or for the downvoter to find the most appropriate link describing their rationale. I think it is much better
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by alphachloride 6y ago
If you don't trust an application, sandboxing is one way to go. But that goes all the way down. If you don't trust docker and the OS, run them in a VM. If you don't trust the VM, run it on a spare computer. If you don't
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by alphachloride 6y ago
I find that the time taken to get everything working means I have less time to get work done. The busywork does give me a sense of achievement, but that is not the achievement that matters. It's premature optimization to sandbox an app
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by alphachloride 6y ago
What format does it use to save documents?
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by alphachloride 6y ago
This is the first time I paid attention to notion. Tangentially a UX issue - I find applications that save my data in the cloud by default less "weighty". Can't explain it rationally. It just feels that those documents are le
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by alphachloride 6y ago
I said as much in the first 7 words of my comment. Porn is wrong. Stealing content is wrong. My feelings about porn aside, what I am doing is stealing by the law of the land. Do I feel bad about watching porn? Yes. Do I feel bad about steal
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by alphachloride 6y ago
I am speaking here as a hypocrite. I think porn is wrong and I don't pay for it on principle. I pirate it instead when I succumb to my baser urges. What I'm saying is that I have mixed feelings.
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France to start research into 'enhanced soldiers'(bbc.com)
2 points by alphachloride 6y ago|1 comments
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by alphachloride 6y ago
That's a big if. One has to learn how to not over-complicate. Exactly the reason why latex has usability issues in many cases.
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by alphachloride 6y ago
Info Report[1] produced by Conflict Armament Research[2]. Relevant info is on page 29. This investment in indigenous development really puts in perspective the long-term ambitions of IS. Are there other instances of non-state actors pursuin
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IS (Islamic State) tried to build pulse jet-powered drones – report(bbc.com)
1 points by alphachloride 6y ago|1 comments
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by alphachloride 6y ago
Having tried it for a few minutes, I prefer the light theme. I also reverted back to light themes for my text editors - I felt it was easier to focus on dark-on-light text than the other way around.
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by alphachloride 6y ago
We both know you're not haha
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by alphachloride 6y ago
^Like here. I put laugh-crying emojis ironically at the end but they were filtered out. Many terminals wouldn't do me this courtesy of shielding my eyes and instead regurgitate gibberish characters.
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by alphachloride 6y ago
I think one emoji is one emoji too many. Many terminals do not support them. This also addresses the point of terminal independence you brought up elsewhere. The yubi key example looked like using emojis for the sake of using emojis. Severa
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by alphachloride 6y ago
It rarely makes sense to debate what-ifs in history. Because we don't know the alternate. We owe all past scholars a debt of gratitude for being the keepers and makers of knowledge as it passed through time. That includes the Greece, R
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by alphachloride 6y ago
How so? The article calls it the Hindu-Arabic system. Yes - I agree that some scholarship tends to bunch all of the middle east under one umbrella. There were Persian scholars and Arab scholars - and that too is quite a broad term. However,
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by alphachloride 6y ago
Julia and excel are fundamentally different. In Excel, the logic/analysis part is on the same level as the data. The data and operations done on it are a single file. A datum is in a cell, and a formula is in a cell. You can move formu
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by alphachloride 6y ago
Perhaps he believes the pros outweigh the cons.

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