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by boogies 6y ago
IMO it should be like Fennel and just support `lambda` and `λ`. The latter is not even that hard to type, in virtually any free (libre) OS you can just $ echo ' <Multi_key> <Y> <Y> : "Λ" # GREEK CA
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Help in the fight against DMCA anti-circumvention rules by December 7th(defectivebydesign.org)
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by boogies 6y ago
The research itself does say “This finding contradicts lay beliefs and prominent scientific theories alike”¹, though “On the basis of the high statistical power and the consistent results across samples and analytical designs, we must concl
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by boogies 6y ago
I considered it for a bit. I think I wouldn’t, because they’d presumably run proprietary, un-auditable software that could surveil many innocent bystanders — if they ran verifiably decent Free software I likely would. There are similar risk
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by boogies 6y ago
I believe governments can and do outlaw using mobile phones or taking hands off the wheel while driving. 24 hour shifts at the hospital may be justified AFAIK by potentially saving more lives than they risk losing — I would hope there are p
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by boogies 6y ago
> somehow this is taking away your freedom IIUC it could indirectly reduce some people’s freedom to live, because marijuana can impair driving but is harder to diagnose as the cause for accidents than alcohol — because tests only show wh
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by boogies 6y ago
Related: > Recent research has consistently found that earlier born children score slightly higher on average on measures of intelligence, but has found zero, or almost zero, robust effect of birth order on personality. (Wikipedia, citin
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by boogies 6y ago
What laptops don’t have issues? Many people seem to think MacBooks have exceptionally high build quality and they have m̶o̶s̶t̶ all of the types of issue you listed: • Overheating https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspen
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by boogies 6y ago
SA is copyleft ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft , http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/ , http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.html ). That just means everyone you share your
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by boogies 6y ago
And XMMS and qmmp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winamp#See_also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMMS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qmmp#Features
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by boogies 6y ago
(Not that I'm for recreational drug legalization, I may get downvoted to death¹ but I don’t actually think Prohibition was necessarily a bad idea, perhaps just badly implemented — it should have been phased in over decades like the Fou
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by boogies 6y ago
(Not that you can’t die from a Dihydrogen Monoxide overdose as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication .)
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by boogies 6y ago
Fascinating, that’s arguably worse than the lag and the browser chrome turning white while the tab is open for me on Palemoon 28.16 — an independent hard fork of ancient Firefox with the old extension APIs and incompatible with all sorts o
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by boogies 6y ago
>third party tools >it’s up to chrome https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25267165 : > ~/Library/ Safari /LocalStorage because Safari names the files in this directory according to the web sites th
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by boogies 6y ago
> Apple did the right thing by only adding warnings for more sensitive areas like your Downloads or Documents folder, but any more than that and I think it'll cause more harm than good. Browsing history is not sensitive‽
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by boogies 6y ago
> And if not, well then maybe there is simply not enough demand, because most people apparently want to be able to have a email client in the browser and do online banking, or edit Wikipedia articles in a rich html editor, or play games,
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by boogies 6y ago
> Probably suggest arch linux to someone complaining about having to track down dependencies does not make sense, since such a person is more interested in the OS just working rather than making the OS a bit of a hobby that that they wan
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by boogies 6y ago
GNOME 3 is an anomaly, and the community still actively maintains 2 as MATE (Ubuntu Mate was on HN’s frontpage for a bit ~2 weeks ago).
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by boogies 6y ago
You might appreciate https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app/ (doesn’t help far future readers except when archived on Wayback or similar though).
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by boogies 6y ago
Anti-glare coatings help somewhat (eg. most flagship Thinkpads seem to ship with them, though there’s a glossy 4K display option presumably for content creation & consumption).
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by boogies 6y ago
What? https://nitter.net/quinetweet/status/1309951041321013248 doesn’t ask for credentials and AFAIK there’s no place to enter them on the whole site, unless you type them into the search bar.
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by boogies 6y ago
^P and ^R both work
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by boogies 6y ago
That’s what X’s Compose key is for (`setxkbmap -option compose:sclk && xcape -e 'Shift_L=Multi_key'`; tap Left Shift, e, e → ə; Left Shift, x, x → ×).
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by boogies 6y ago
> Patreon but hopefully without another 3rd party middleman https://liberapay.com/ is a great 3rd party middleman / alternative to Patreon that doesn’t take a cut of payments (so arguably the best of all worlds).
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by boogies 6y ago
figlet -f banner 'foo' | sed 'y/# //' (should work with `tr '# ' ''` too, but I only have the busybox version which only works with ASCII) EDIT : and I forgot what a pain Unico
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by boogies 6y ago
Ironically IIUC replying to comments destroys the author’s ability to delete them.
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by boogies 6y ago
> Unix operating system instead of Windows or Mac macOS is a BSD, just buried under layers of proprietary UI, tracking, and DRM
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by boogies 6y ago
> Just replaced scrollock to pause to be identical as your case. I noticed. > You need xWindows to count chars ? Noice :) Tell me, oh Windows master, your superior spaceship ways of counting characters.
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by boogies 6y ago
I cheated? You edited your comment. root:~ # xclip -o while(1) { (New-Object -c "Wscript.Shell").SendKeys("{SCROLLLOCK}"); sleep -m 240 }root:~ # xclip -o | wc 0 9 87 root:~ # xclip -o | wc
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by boogies 6y ago
That’s over 80 characters long. Note that comparing AHK to xdotool is like comparing a Titanic-sized roll of Flex Tape to duct tape. I don’t use boats that have taken a lot of damage, so I don't need Titanic-sized Flex Tape.

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