arrakeen

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   by arrakeen 3y ago

   caps is already remapped to ctrl
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   by arrakeen 3y ago

   incredible
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   by arrakeen 3y ago

   in a world where XHTML 2 was widely adopted, would HTMX have been necessary? it seems like it was the (failed) attempt at evolving the hypermedia aspects of HTML
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   by arrakeen 3y ago

   i believe it's using Ruffle[0] and that's already happened[1] [0] https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle [1] https://homestarrunner.com/post-flash-update
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   by arrakeen 3y ago

   > Bazzite off topic, but does anyone know if this[0] is considered best practices for Fedora-based distros? the Dockerfile format already feels like you're fighting against legacy cruft for specialized containers; for specifying a g
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   by arrakeen 3y ago

   > I’m going to tip $300K for a better solution! the fact that adding this to a prompt gets a better response really exemplifies how prompting as it is today is a problem to be solved rather than an engineering discipline
7. 37.▲
   by arrakeen 3y ago

   what is it about this mostly-text page that Firefox is struggling so hard with?
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   by arrakeen 3y ago

   NO. i've tossed about posting an "Ask HN" a handful of times asking "Why are font sizes enormous these days?" i am regularly distracted by sites with huge font sizes, leading me to double check if i'm zoomed in
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   by arrakeen 3y ago

   i was a YouTube Premium subscriber ever since i was grandfathered in with the closure of Play Music up until last month. every single new feature worsened my experience until i couldn't take it anymore and cancelled. i gave feedback wi
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    by arrakeen 3y ago

    i'm pretty sure the limiting factors are the materials and machinery, both of which AI cannot help with
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    by arrakeen 3y ago

    i strongly suspect that the reason we call them "emojis" rather than "smilies" is due to the "emo" in "emoji". 100% of english speakers without any japanese knowledge associate the "emo" in
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    by arrakeen 3y ago

    i completely agree. for me, the only issues i've had with appimages are "housekeeping" UX: * i know they can technically be updated but i really have no idea how. would be cool to see a de-facto solution similar to sparkle[0]
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    by arrakeen 3y ago

    who, then, should decide what organizations and people Lichess associates and works with?
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    by arrakeen 3y ago

    > As someone who never really used Twitter before the LLM stuff started happening, and still I only pick it up once or twice per week, I've personally felt that I've had a better experience on there recently than I did a while
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    by arrakeen 3y ago

    It is not
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    by arrakeen 3y ago

    > Would I pay for an AI-based infinite album maker? You bet! it sounds like you don't even like art what exactly do you feel when you listen to music? what makes you want to listen to music? what drew you to rush and pink floyd in t
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    by arrakeen 3y ago

    i am stunned that folks didn't know about this since i've been using this shortcut hundreds of times a day for at least 20 years. i guess the moral of the story is that browser vendors really need to make it easier to discover the
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    by arrakeen 3y ago

    i find it hard to accept that the origin of the phrase has nothing to do with the fact that 月 (tsuki, moon) sounds similar to 好き (suki, like/love). can any native speakers chime in?
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    by arrakeen 3y ago

    what did you expect from a person who didn't realize that naming your programming language "nimrod" might not be a good idea?
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    by arrakeen 3y ago

    i JUST bought a lifetime pass two days ago... i'm really not pleased to read this news
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    by arrakeen 3y ago

    > Why is the town of Orania so beautiful, clean, and prosperous while the rest of South Africa is like this? because it's a tiny, self-selecting intentional community? i hate to feed the troll, but it's pretty obvious why a sma
22. 52.▲
    by arrakeen 3y ago

    who needs a font when fontconfig will gladly do this for you by default
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    by arrakeen 3y ago

    > I’ve never understood why Apple allows another device to pair with headphones that are already paired to an iCloud account. even folks who spend >$5k on headphones would find this suggestion obscene.
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    by arrakeen 3y ago

    > the service was straining under something that would become known as “the hellthread” hellthreads have been a thing on the fediverse since forever, it's as if the people behind bluesky didn't even bother to spend any time the
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    by arrakeen 3y ago

    thanks friend!
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    by arrakeen 3y ago

    TIL -- thanks!
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    by arrakeen 3y ago

    > per [sic] "per" was a pretty early non-gendered pronoun, i'm surprised the editor wasn't aware of it in 2021
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    by arrakeen 3y ago

    regardless of whether or not you think the topic is a worthy intellectual pursuit (i do not), the frequency at which it is discussed implies a racist agenda
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    by arrakeen 3y ago

    please no. Substack Notes is a self-quarantine zone for the kind of self-promoting Twitter users who viewed the site as a place for them to engage an audience. despite its many, many faults, at least the Fediverse has real people hanging ou
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    by arrakeen 3y ago

    had to look this guy up and watched the video for "All Night Long". with audio only, this is pretty much just a sample-heavy jazz-pop cover that would be indistinguishable from just a regular multi-track recording. i'm assumi