armoredkitten

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by armoredkitten 6y ago
The Venn diagram of "people who would be willing to use a tool like this" and "people who are already using Signal" is a circle. Still, it's a fun proof of concept tool.
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It's also a week old. Even Google doesn't can things that quickly.
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Some, but not all, universities do have institutional repositories for their own work. But they are at best inconsistently used. Some academics also (when allowed by the licensing agreement of the journal) put their own research on a person
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by armoredkitten 6y ago
And they pay for it multiple times over. They pay once for the researchers carrying out the work, and then they pay again for the reviewers, who provide their peer review services for free (i.e., not paid by the journal). Then, they pay for
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by armoredkitten 6y ago
Even worse is the term "precoiner" (i.e., someone who hasn't "found the light" yet or whatever) which strikes me as about as insulting as saying to someone, "oh, you're not gay, you just haven't found
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by armoredkitten 6y ago
I've been using i3 for about six months or so now, and the biggest thing I've realized is that Alt+Tab as a way to switch between windows is such a frustrating approach to window management. Once you have more than two windows I n
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by armoredkitten 6y ago
I mean, I understand what you mean when it comes to Google -- the web essentially becomes locked into a particular proprietary solution to finding information. I definitely still have hundreds (maybe into the thousands?) of bookmarks of sit
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by armoredkitten 6y ago
This list would be more useful if there was any explanation of why these apps should be preferred over the many other options that are available. Why the Brave browser (based on Chromium, I might add) as opposed to Firefox? Why LastPass a
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by armoredkitten 6y ago
Ok, as someone who doesn't know a whole lot about homelabs/home servers....can someone explain why there are so many ethernet cables? What role are they all serving, exactly? I see two servers and an RPi, don't see any networ
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by armoredkitten 6y ago
That quote is definitely not original, and I believe was originally applied to TV (i.e., TV as a medium, singular form of media). (See the origins here: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/07/24/tv/ ) I me
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I can't help but feel like the real point the author is trying (not very successfully) to communicate is the importance of considering how other people will interpret and understand your messages. This includes content (will they under
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by armoredkitten 6y ago
So the company that makes browsing the web with a VPN a constant annoyance wants me to use a web browser that's completely on their server because it's "more secure"? No thanks.
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I feel like for most Windows users, using DOS is probably as (or even more) foreign as using Linux. How many times do you think the average Windows user has used a command prompt in the past year?
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by armoredkitten 6y ago
A few months ago I set up i3 to work within Xfce (essentially swapping out xfwm4 as the window manager), and I love it. It took a bit of tinkering to get the two to play nicely, as you might expect, but once I got it set up properly it was
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by armoredkitten 6y ago
I wouldn't consider generating descriptions a "solved problem". There has been progress with AI, but part of the issue is that image classifiers are trained to describe the objects in the image, but not necessarily the feelin
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by armoredkitten 6y ago
This could really benefit from using some sort of a moving average to smooth out these minor fluctuations. The long-term trend for C++ is clearly downward [0], yet a small increase from the previous month becomes a news headline. But you&#x
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by armoredkitten 6y ago
I get the same thing all the time. I think it's relatively common for people who signed up for Gmail early, and thus we able to get a bare named email (i.e., no numbers afterwards like john.doe420). The weird thing for me is that it se
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by armoredkitten 6y ago
Hey everyone! Just wanted to show off shellcaster, a terminal-based (i.e., ncurses TUI) podcast manager, which has just hit v1.0. This represents the largest coding project I've ever done (so far!), and my first project in Rust, but I&
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by armoredkitten 6y ago
> Developers are notoriously cheap. If they have the option of Firefox with paid dev features, or a free Chrome, I'm pretty confident I know which one they'll choose. Exactly. Especially since Firefox is one of the only non-Chr
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by armoredkitten 6y ago
I don't think I've ever used them personally, but this is exactly the use case for "sticky keys" -- being able to press and release the modifier key (Ctrl, Alt, Shift) and have it remain "active" until another