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Finding Deceit in the Chambers of Xenobia(cgwmuseum.org)
1 points by arantius 4y ago|0 comments
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by arantius 4y ago
But why is a brush/blade on _every train_ not good enough? Remove the leaves before they turn into a sticky pulp?
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by arantius 5y ago
https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/faq#dnssec "Google Public DNS is a validating, security-aware resolver. All responses from DNSSEC signed zones are validated unless clients explicitly set the CD
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by arantius 5y ago
Optimizing for time and optimizing for memory are different things. Choosing one over the other doesn't guarantee the author "did not care about performance".
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by arantius 5y ago
> Remember all of the little miniature laptops in the 90s? In the 90s? Laptops barely existed, definitely not "little minature" ones. I remember e.g. the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus_Eee_PC launche
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by arantius 5y ago
Fast/fuzzy search for pasting. The clipboard manager I used on Windows, which only works there and hasn't been supported for a while, allowed a "Win+V, type, enter" workflow to very easily search for whatever I "typ
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by arantius 5y ago
FYI There's an easier-to-remember URL for Google: https://dns.google/cache The URL above is the documentation of the feature, which happens to also embed it.
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by arantius 5y ago
I agree, this is indeed very wise. There's a second sort of form of this: even if your (first) goal isn't to make changes, but just to maintain what you've got (operations, reactions to security issues, keeping up with the ne
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by arantius 5y ago
Looks good. I adopted https://github.com/sendwheel/tw-receiver a while back which is also pretty nice, but I had to disable most of its safety features as they false triggered too often. (Acceptable for a single-user
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by arantius 5y ago
I actively use both. VLC is "for videos" for me. More: for random one-off things. WinAmp (2.x) keeps a playlist loaded, across launches, and is music only. (Opening a one-off video in VLC would destroy the playlist/state.
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by arantius 5y ago
I have the opposite position. I feel that meaningless (especially if there can be a subtle fun part) names are the only valid thing for internal projects. I've worked on so many that A) are difficult to impossible to name "descr
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Smallest Self-Replicating Program(generalist.academy)
1 points by arantius 5y ago|0 comments
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by arantius 5y ago
For me: `git gui` and the stage. Incrementally building my commits line-by-line (often with other working directory changes I don't want) feels invaluable. Work forced me to go git->hg and it frustrates me every day.
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by arantius 5y ago
I did something similar in 2008: https://tech.arantius.com/favicon-survey
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NYT Crossword Decision Puzzles Many(hackaday.com)
22 points by arantius 5y ago|2 comments
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Raspberry Pi KVMs Compared: TinyPilot and Pi-KVM v3(jeffgeerling.com)
194 points by arantius 5y ago|69 comments
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by arantius 5y ago
I rarely click on my bookmarks, but I use them very frequently. It's a way to pin an important thing into the personal search engine that is my (Firefox) address bar.
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by arantius 5y ago
In practice, on Windows, one can still use most things made 25 years ago. In actuality, I still use WinAmp 2.91 marked "Apr 16 2003" in the about screen. See also http://www.oldversion.com/ .
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by arantius 5y ago
This has been tried in the past, I remember when Yahoo had a system to put a secret image on their login page with the exact same sort of goal (avoid phishing). Regular people don't use/understand such a system (enough to make it
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by arantius 6y ago
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content="killer+app" With a peak in 2002 it seems.
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by arantius 6y ago
Everything (in the UI) just seems smaller and harder to read? With slightly more space between everything?
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by arantius 6y ago
Sounds like you want pretty much any couple-generation-old laptop.
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by arantius 6y ago
Laziness, baroque toolchains, and (most probably): Shipping your org chart.
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by arantius 6y ago
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/04/13/what-to-expect-fo...
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by arantius 6y ago
ClipX ( https://bluemars.org/clipx/ ) Mezer Tools ( https://bayden.com/mezer/ ) AllSnap ( https://github.com/iheckman/allsnap ) No updates in years (this thread is making me
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Features of SARS-CoV-2 Genome Suggest Sophisticated Laboratory Modification(zenodo.org)
2 points by arantius 6y ago|1 comments
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by arantius 6y ago
I just got the warning from portage yesterday that, in that case, told me it had been 33 days since my last sync.
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by arantius 6y ago
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/16-pixels-body-copy... "16px" is a very good font size. I.e. don't do anything, just let the browser use its default.
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by arantius 6y ago
Also in the late 90s (maybe super early 2000s?) I used "LRP" for my router, booting from only one floppy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Router_Project
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by arantius 6y ago
"Sane" is one of my personal pet-peeve words. But only because people use it in an extremely approximated sense. It seems to always mean "good, for whatever meaning of good I personally choose to define, along whatever axes

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