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by boogies 6y ago
Wikipedia says there are ~350,665 Old Order Amish (apparently in the New World? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish#cite_note-Elizabethtown_... ).
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by boogies 6y ago
Useless g flag
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by boogies 6y ago
> Cyberpunk isn't written in UE4 to the best of my knowledge. It’s in (their in-house) REDengine 4 according to Wikipedia (citing https://archive.today/20180405084214/https://www.gamezone.co... ). But
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by boogies 6y ago
There is Pingus ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingus / https://pingus.seul.org/ . IDK how well it holds up, but ofc it’s Free to be improved).
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by boogies 6y ago
Strange arguable libel aside, you don’t have to compile your wm or terminal every time you make a change. There are awesomewm (and echinus and spectrwm and Qtile et al.), and xterm and GNOME Terminal and guake and konsole and xfce terminal
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by boogies 6y ago
> a simple browser for the masses [with] more user friendly UI I think you mean GNOME Web/Epiphany. They both use libwebkit2gtk ( https://webkitgtk.org/ ) as a base (as does luakit, a fairly simple and customizable br
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by boogies 6y ago
Same, plus st, which doesn’t even do tmux’s (or their tool scroll¹’s) scrollback thing and get a scrollbar or extraneous scrolling key bindings in the way (unless you apply the scrollback patch²). ¹ https://git.suckless.org/s
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by boogies 6y ago
The inventor of Twinkies lived to 88 and attributed his health to eating them regularly (I thought I’d read one every day ever since inventing them, but https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-07-03-me-10272-... s
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‘Why I, as a black man, attend KKK rallies.’ [video](invidious.site)
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by boogies 6y ago
Compose Space Space on Free OSes. It’s useful sometimes, though I wish there was a default binding for zero-width space — I resorted to a non-breaking one to unbreak a link followed by an apostrophe yesterday.
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by boogies 6y ago
IIUC the Library Genesis project mirrors SciHub (i.a.), and Libgen is mirrored on IPFS and has torrents for every 1000 files or so.
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by boogies 6y ago
I’ve wanted to give comments multiple upvotes before, but this story makes me wish HN had some sort of ‘super favorite’. #PiracySavesLives
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by boogies 6y ago
It’s arguably misleading to even call it “waste” — it’s recyclable. Even if you don’t recycle it, the little ceramic pellets weigh two hundred fifty-three thousand, one hundred and sixty-four (.55696202531645569620 ±) times less per person
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by boogies 6y ago
alternative map: https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=428818970#map=16/...
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by boogies 6y ago
Ditto. I looked and found this short 2017 story by the AP about laborers hidden on property “since mid-2015”, but it doesn’t mention their age. https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-forced-labor-20... (disa
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by boogies 6y ago
> Either you are important enough to the person that needs to switch apps, or switching the app is so low cost that the person that needs to switch doesn't care. Unfortunately, the switching costs is usually too high for most peopl
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by boogies 6y ago
To me it seems to be being somewhat intolerant. Which is a powerful way for minorities to effect change. https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
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by boogies 6y ago
Right, it mentions libpurple (represented by the purple square https://matrix.org/bridges/#libpurple ), which is a library (probably best known for use in the Pidgin frontend) that can use 10 protocols without plugins,
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by boogies 6y ago
> There’s all kinds of less-objectionable potential uses of the cages than the ones to which the Trump Administration has put them. They were built to keep children separate from each other (gender segregated) and from adults: https:&#x
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by boogies 6y ago
> 2. immigrant children in cages Who built the cages? https://lmddgtfy.net/?q=who%20built%20cages%20for%20children You’re making https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25673162 ’s point.
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by boogies 6y ago
> You can only message people that are using the SAME messaging app as you. No, Matrix supports bridging with about two dozen protocols,¹ many of which support multiple clients (at least 7: IRC, RSS, Email, SMS, Mastodon, libpurple —actu
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by boogies 6y ago
Or just something like 0 0 * * * nice -n 19 /usr/bin/units_cur for *BSD crontabs or both HN users (besides me) who prefer systemd-free distros of GNU
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by boogies 6y ago
> I worry this will probably fail over the uncertain status of Nyan Cat image/music IP... That’s how MooGNU was born: https://archive.org/details/M00GNU
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by boogies 6y ago
It’s about Unix, and GNU’s Not happens to be the best implementation of it. Which is why macOS copies pieces of it, despite needing to use obsolete versions in order to comply with Apple’s hatred for end-user freedom.
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by boogies 6y ago
https://www.gnu.org/software/units/manual/units.html#Tempera... > Conversions between temperatures are different from linear conversions between temperature increments—see the example below. The absolute t
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by boogies 6y ago
It seems that palm oil makes a decent alternative to hydrogenation. My current favorite butter is Trader Joe’s Crunchy No Stir, which contains 90% roasted peanuts, powdered sugar (cane sugar and cornstarch), palm oil, and sea salt (in that
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by boogies 6y ago
The world’s largest corporation is happy to accept gratis open source labor, but they’re rather actively antagonistic to Free/Libre software (eg. trying to eradicate strong copyleft from macOS, not only shipping ancient bash, etc. but
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by boogies 6y ago
Which IIUC should give him a larger fraction of your donation (all but payment processor fees for now, minus 10% after the beta ends), or you could pledge at https://liberapay.com/on/github/marcan/ and let hi
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by boogies 6y ago
I used the gratis demo of that site to introduce a 7 year old to vi, and hoped I just might have been an accomplice to a world record when he successfully completed vimtutor afterwards. He now uses the skills to do his schoolwork in HedgeDo
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by boogies 6y ago
“To temporarily silence bucklespring, for example to enter secrets, press ScrollLock twice (but be aware that those ScrollLock events are delivered to the application); same to unmute. The keycode for muting can be changed with the -m optio

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