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by boogies 5y ago
Discussed 22 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30254234
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by boogies 5y ago
> Theo, by occupation, was a devil. Maybe not the greatest, but the whole paragraph’s pretty good: > Theo, by occupation, was a devil. That is, he worked as apprentice and general servant to Anton, the printer. Before that, he was luc
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by boogies 5y ago
> between macOS System Preferences, iOS Settings Why don’t those both use the same UI toolkit, like the convergent GNU/Linux DEs? (macOS seems to be getting more touch-optimized with each update — eg. making sliders giant and iOS-st
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by boogies 5y ago
Source-available variants of [GNU's Not] Unix have often been on the leading edge of user interfaces, from immitating the Xerox PARC desktop metaphor before Windows did (X11 initial release: June 1984, Windows: November 1985) to adding
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by boogies 5y ago
Enabling Google as the default search engine, or the proprietary Pocket plugin, arguably isn’t innocent inaction. It’s actively anti-privacy action.
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by boogies 5y ago
Also in food; ice cream (eg. Tillamook White Chocolate Raspberry) and cereals (eg. Trader Joe’s fruity “Joe’s O’s” IIRC).
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by boogies 5y ago
Look at https://news.ycombinator.com/active . It’s been practically overflowing with Ukraine and Russia stories for days now, to the point it’s almost a bit of a chore to pick through them all and find discussion of anything
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by boogies 5y ago
That’s what I (not OP) needed to hear! I’ve never used a physical iPod clickwheel and I tried dragging from the center and from the buttons (not between the buttons) dozens of times before coming back here and reading this. Hope jarrenae co
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by boogies 5y ago
But the University of Minnesota experiments prove at least some malicious code is capable of passing at least standard Linux code review, right?
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by boogies 5y ago
The Legotown “leaders”/“builders” that the teachers disempowered were authority figures because their knowledge of Legos was recognized and accepted by the other children. There wasn’t much conflict (just submissive acceptance of the b
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by boogies 5y ago
Your comment doesn’t appear to answer any of the questions in the one it’s replying to.
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by boogies 5y ago
> there are a few open source projects that are still in 0.xxx but for which each point release could be considered a an actual release. This is called ZeroVer: https://0ver.org/ (most recent HN discussion: https:/
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by boogies 5y ago
Minetest has a mod Advanced Trains that allows (but doesn't force) fairly complex builds with automatable scheduling, etc. and works in multiplayer. https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=ZK1PM8jFRFo&t=18m33s
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by boogies 5y ago
> I simply couldn't justify buying a Mac or an iPad to support a small % of the overall web audience. Bring back Windows Safari please :-( What about the other, cross-platform WebKit browsers?
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by boogies 5y ago
Offtopic, but The Incredibles has one of my favorite movie quotes: You always say “Be true to yourself”, but you never say which part of yourself to be true to! … which stuck in my head because so many Disney (and other?) movies seem to b
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by boogies 5y ago
A Pinephone.
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by boogies 5y ago
> The problem for phones without a “notch” like what the iPhone does is that the OEMs tried to put the proximity sensor below the screen. Why not put it next to the camera? That’s what my $200 Pinephone CE does (and the $150 model with t
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by boogies 5y ago
That’s incredibly pathetic. My phone’s UI (sxmo) is a bunch of desktop software and a handful of phone specific tools stuck together with shell scripts and it manages to turn the screen off while the proximity sensor detects my ear during a
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by boogies 5y ago
> But Adobe? I’m sorry but any company forcing professionals to store client IP on their cloud offering by definition cannot be considered secure. Not to mention that they stored and leaked the unhashed passwords of their entire userbase
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by boogies 5y ago
There’s no strong scientific evidence in favor of flossing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12216127 6 years ago Federal health expert drop flossing from health guideline https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by boogies 5y ago
Why would they do that when they could Rewrite it in Rust®? Given that it’s ~50× as complex as hello world¹, it should only take about 54,800 dependencies (including 30,000 C binding crates), 1.65 terabytes of disk space for the target fold
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by boogies 5y ago
> not having RMB-select is some kind of sacrilige Blender still does have it as an option, in fact one of the few that are displayed front and center before you start editing when it first starts up.
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by boogies 5y ago
In fact, a study showed humans walk in circles as tight as 20 meters in diameter when they can’t see landmarks or the sun. ( https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference... , ^F scientists, click ⁴ for pi
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by boogies 5y ago
I mostly believe you because of another video I’ve seen but lost the link to (and the nonfree software the cars run makes them exceptionally deprecating assets as Tesla remotely decreases max acceleration when the cars are resold), I guess
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by boogies 5y ago
> The article is paywalled Only if you choose to load the JS.
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by boogies 5y ago
I guess the convenience comparison depends on how the notification is received and how you browse HN. In my system the worst common scenario involves me viewing a different “workspace” than my browser with the page not open in it, requiring
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by boogies 5y ago
> It find it would be impossible to maintain a useful discussion that lasts longer than just a few hours without it. What’s wrong with https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=alkonaut ? (Where the “threads” link in your t
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by boogies 5y ago
Second link minus JS: https://imgin.voidnet.tech/a/AfcEnRw
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by boogies 5y ago
There seems to be a progression there from ‘I think it’ll be able to drive the easiest roads in a year or two’ to ‘It’ll be 2–4× safer than humans soon’. So in my opinion calling all of it ‘promising real FSD’ is at least half as misleading
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by boogies 5y ago
No group of professionals meets except to conspire against the public at large. — Mark Twain

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