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by boogies 6y ago
Linux Mint (Windows-like) is free and elementaryOS (macOS-like) is pay-what-you-want, $0 if you so desire ( https://elementary.io/ ). It takes less time to flash a drive and boot from it than to endure one Windows update on m
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by boogies 6y ago
> maybe there is no one who posts in a similar style (TBH I'd expect most to be parody accounts) who has achieved sufficient popularity to compete A couple pages down there are non-@realdonaldtrump tweets scattered here and there, a
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by boogies 6y ago
Same, seems to have been used ~644 times (including at least one use of “Reddit (or HN) ‘Hug of Death’”) https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... (compared to 433 times “slashdotted” has b
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by boogies 6y ago
It does link to them though.
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by boogies 6y ago
It’s a shame HN doesn’t allow enough space to include the “Have Moved or” from the actual article title.
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by boogies 6y ago
I don’t understand what you’re talking about — my terminal accesses as much from my keyboard as I’ve ever wanted it to, and everything I can imagine it wanting to short of flashing my (Num|Caps|Scroll) lock lights or something (and other te
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by boogies 6y ago
> Norton Commander, anyone? to this day there is no comparable tool What’s the problem with Midnight Commander and/or the 23 other programs at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander#Norton_Comman... ?
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by boogies 6y ago
(Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized . https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html )
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by boogies 6y ago
“His popular TED Talk: Turning Trash into Toys for learning gives an insight into his work and philosophy. This talk was among the 10 best TED talks compiled by Sir Ken Robinson and Sugata Mitra's 5 favorite education talks.” (Wikipedi
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by boogies 6y ago
DuckDuckGo is weird. Top results are useless for ‘Apple ][’ https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Apple+%5D%5B but fine for ‘Apple //e’ https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Apple+%2F%2Fe (the first one is the correct Wi
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by boogies 6y ago
Yes, I mistakenly had COM in the original comment, before editing it a while ago but maybe before jborean93’s last refresh before commenting.
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by boogies 6y ago
I think it’s very typical of very casual and exploitable users to have product names deeply connected with a certain activity — eg. using Google or Zoom as verbs — and “cloud” storage companies would like them to think of their brand name a
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by boogies 6y ago
Menus ≠ filesystems. POSIX will last forever because it’s simple, standard, solid, portable and fairly flexible (see FUSE). DOS will last forever because inertia is the only reason Windows still exists, and MS knows this and prioritizes bac
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by boogies 6y ago
There’s a word for this concept, the ‘Lindy’ effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Lindy
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by boogies 6y ago
When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by boogies 6y ago
> > Wikipedia isn't a reliable source anymore. They seems to have become a Islamist and left propaganda machine > I do think that needs some stronger sourcing. Academic study, showing leftist bias: https://hbr.org&#
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by boogies 6y ago
I would love for there to be a site that redirected eg. better.site/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzwMjOl8Iyo to https://invidious.site/watch?v=jzwMjOl8Iyo so I could easily open YouTube links with
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by boogies 6y ago
I just use a bookmarklet javascript:void(window.open('https://web.archive.org/web/*/'+location.href.replace(/\/$/,%20''))); (which is only slightly less convenient than wh
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by boogies 6y ago
Shellcheck? https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck
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by boogies 6y ago
Thanks!
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by boogies 6y ago
Have you tried any other search engines?
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by boogies 6y ago
> https://archive.assembly.org/2019/1k-intro Had to add a security exception only to receive 404 Not Found nginx/1.18.0 :/
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by boogies 6y ago
That’s exactly what it is in dwm (except that dwm defaults to using alt as the MOD(ifier) instead of super, but changing that takes only a one line patch). And you can also just use MOD-leftmouse-drag to move a window or MOD-rightmousedrag
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by boogies 6y ago
Does i3 allow you to easily toggle floating on each window (regardless of the main mode that new windows default to) like dwm?
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by boogies 6y ago
One terrorist at least disagreed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing#Impact_a... , and considering his arguments context ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge ) I think there w
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by boogies 6y ago
<strikethrough> “Simple redirector extension” sounds like a good generic tool that should exist to sed urls in a similar way to how ublockO & AdNauseum can block more than one type of content based on simple rules. One extension c
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by boogies 6y ago
Thank you! I might try this on some other things too. mpv is one tool I think handles a kind of similar thing nicely: it has a main config file for long term settings, but also allows you to use Q instead of q to quit and save state (eg. pl
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by boogies 6y ago
Upvoted, this took me years to do myself. However, the config file annoys me now because every time I do something like toggling tree view with T or changing sort between CPU and memory with P and U it pops up in my dotfile repo’s list of m
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by boogies 6y ago
Wasn’t there a requirement for working models to apply for a patent? Is there a guarantee that there’s been real research into practicality for anything that’s patented?
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Toyota Filed Patent for 'Flying Car' with Wheels Doubling as Rotors (2018)(thedrive.com)
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