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by beagle3 5y ago
I use a combination of Firefox Focus (which works as an ad blocker for Safari) and Magic Lasso. It’s not perfect, and I’m not sure what each contributes anymore (they used to complement - perhaps now one is sufficient). But I hardly have an
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by beagle3 5y ago
It’s now basically done in every CGI enhanced movie - e.g. all Avenger movies, Maleficient and all modern Disney movies. It wasn’t unheard of, but wasn’t yet common in the early 2000s when the Marrix sequels were made. Also, Matrix has lots
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by beagle3 5y ago
It’s basic git that breaks down, not the monorepo model. And it’s less about LoC, and more about the number of files and how much binary stuff you put in your repo (and how often it changes). Git is really bad when binary data is involved.
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by beagle3 5y ago
I had related issues. My solution since then was to work through a soft link to a directory inside the mounted drive. Whatever the failure mode, when the storage disappears, even if the users do a “mkdir -p” (which seems to be the underlyin
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by beagle3 5y ago
Wow. So much reading into so little text. Color me impressed, even though I file this in the fiction department.
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by beagle3 5y ago
How does the book explain this comment of yours?
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by beagle3 5y ago
I was only responding to the comment, which may or may not represent the book. I don’t care enough either way, except to say I find the example/metaphor not convincing enough to consider reading the book.
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by beagle3 5y ago
I’ve raised both dogs and cats. They most definitely have multiple ways to ask for food, or to go for a walk, or to say they are sick. They can do it patiently, timidly, demandingly, angrily, etc. and there’s a progression: they might not s
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by beagle3 5y ago
1. Most of the programs put things all over the place. If you install software and use it for a while, you may find lots of keys in lots of places, all subtly affecting something. It’s technically the fault of the program, not the registry.
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by beagle3 5y ago
I only drive in rather large cities, and find that Waze >> Apple >> Google from a usability perspective; Waze and Google Maps supposedly Use the same backend these days, but somehow both UI and navigation in Waze seems to work b
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by beagle3 5y ago
You know your phone service provider has that location information in resolution that’s almost as good, right? The only way to opt out is to turn your phone off (equivalently, leave it at home). For some people, the fact that google also
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by beagle3 5y ago
You'll feel right at home in Nim, then, where "$" is the "convert to string" operator - "$x" means "a string formatted version of x" regardless of x's type.
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by beagle3 5y ago
Indeed, but it is what it is. You can either use Thunderbird and miss updates, or use a continuous server based solution and receive all of them. I’m a 4-year happy paying customer of NewsBlur, which I wholeheartedly recommend.
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by beagle3 5y ago
It’s basically a “highlight / stop” list for words in title, stories, author names, etc. nice interface for that, but from my experience not very effective. Iirc Samuel Mentioned they are working on something better that trains statist
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by beagle3 5y ago
Dropping RSS likely didn’t change their declining popularity for better or worse - and that’s the only thing they are worried about right now (and rightly so)
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by beagle3 5y ago
After more than 20 years with Thunderbird as my reader (first NNTP, then RSS), I switched to NewsBlur and am much happier. While thunderbird is a good reader, it doesn’t synchroniZe “already seen” across machines, and many feeds only have t
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by beagle3 5y ago
I just set up Ubuntu 20.04 with Unity which is still there, and it looks exactly the same as the 14.04 it replaced. Might not be there in 22.04, who knows. But even switching to Ubuntu Gnome is less of a difference than the Win7 -> Win8
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by beagle3 5y ago
The thing is, once you build a few billion dollar position, you can’t unload it quickly and profitably when you know you’ve been spotted. Indeed, shorting AMC and GameStop was very rational by any single actor - the problems were that too m
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by beagle3 5y ago
It was at some point last year replaced by something horrible with no shared ancestry, and after a month or two seemed to be back to a maps.me based version (Which it still is, I think, with a few other additions have to do with ads and som
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by beagle3 5y ago
The authentication/federation problem is what killed the public nntp use even among the non-Outlook users; But it was Outlook that had killed it among corporate and professional users. Those are two independent issues. Gmane[0][1] did
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by beagle3 5y ago
I think adopting the “each” syntax would help every language that has containers - including Python and C# It is semantically more like “map” than “foreach”, but syntactically emphasized the applied function rather than the fact that it is
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by beagle3 5y ago
Outlook killed NNTP 20 years ago by virtue of not supporting it (every other mail client at the time did). it also suffered as a discussion medium because of the decentralized unauthenticated measure, for sure - I don’t think the global hie
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by beagle3 5y ago
APL's greatest contribution is its semantics, not its syntax. (Some parts of the syntax are brilliant and would be awesome if adopted by modern languages. Others ..... not so much).
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by beagle3 5y ago
But do note that if such a thing existed, the actual resolution leaks information about your actions (the fact you are reading it / hovering, etc)
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by beagle3 5y ago
That’s not true. Many advertisers and even newsletters try to figure out which of their emails you actually read and when, so they can optimize subject and date/time for better effect - e.g. emoji in subjects on Sunday get better hits
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by beagle3 5y ago
ScreenTime is very useful when you have young kids, are working at home due to Corona, and want to give them a limited time of Among Us / TV. I had never even considered it as a self-care system - but now that I do think about it, I ag
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by beagle3 5y ago
That’s a question for courts to decide. It hangs on what interpretation courts assign to “derivative work”. There are claims both for and against this being a derivative work; for “standalone” use, the test is usually something like “if you
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by beagle3 5y ago
> The victim isn't responsible for the crime committed against them, as shown by this verdict. The victim isn't responsible, but often the damage really is irreparable, and you don't even know who is the criminal (your p
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by beagle3 5y ago
When I had to repair my phone, they asked me to write down the code; I refused, and said I'll wait there and unlock it when they need. Modern iPhones (and I would guess that's also true of Androids) apparently can be accessed by l
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by beagle3 5y ago
Sounds reasonable. Just heads up that you may need to face those implications sooner or later. To the best of my knowledge (and IANAL, but I have worked extensively with lawyers on similar questions), if your ffmpeg.wasm contains any GPL co

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