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by callahad 6y ago
> The world needs a form of money that is not under the control of any one sovereign power or group of sovereigns. Do you believe that any existing cryptocurrencies currently fulfill that criterion?
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by callahad 6y ago
Apple offered free remote access to DTKs for open source developers, in cooperation with MacStadium. Cite: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/3853#issuecomment-678249...
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by callahad 6y ago
Nope. It's best to think of the rM just as a slightly digital notebook instead of as a computer. It handles PDFs, EPUBs, and its own notebook format wonderfully, but that's it.
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by callahad 6y ago
For context, the identity service optionally maps email addresses and phone numbers to Matrix IDs. It is not an essential part of most Matrix workflows, and does not affect the protocol's fundamental decentralization. To wit, in seve
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by callahad 6y ago
I thought the last Clip that supported Rockbox went out of production a few years ago? I also have a very fuzzy recollection that the batteries weren't especially replaceable, meaning we've got a finite time before they're al
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by callahad 6y ago
Which is a shame, because O'Reilly stopped selling ebooks more than three years ago: https://www.oreilly.com/content/the-mission-of-spreading-the...
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by callahad 6y ago
I'm very happy with CalcTastic, though it's not been updated since 2018 it still seems to work just fine. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shaytastic...
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by callahad 6y ago
I moved US->UK almost three years ago, and I took a 30% hit on compensation in the process (same job, new regional pay tables). What I lost in raw compensation I more than made up for in: - Holiday (29 days vs ~20 days) - Sick time (unli
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by callahad 6y ago
The video explainer linked from the EarthSky article mentioned this, clarifying that there's no known natural and abiotic means of producing phosphine on rocky planets. Apparently gas giants can crank out phosphine without it being i
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by callahad 6y ago
Three of the four MDN engineers are still there, but their manager and all of the tech writers were made redundant. It's a damn shame, but it's not dead yet.
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by callahad 6y ago
Nope. They're outside of the EU VAT territory, so those rates differ, at least.
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by callahad 6y ago
Hm, I can't reproduce that here. What version of macOS and Firefox are you running? Does the shortcut work properly in other programs?
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by callahad 6y ago
You might appreciate http://hnreplies.com/ , which emails you whenever someone replies to one of your comments.
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by callahad 6y ago
I'm not sure how seamless the experience is on macOS, but I'm happily using digiKam on Linux as an iPhoto/Photos replacement. It's nowhere near as polished as Photos, but it's capable, open source, and multi-platfor
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by callahad 6y ago
Very happy with my (5th generation) ThinkPad X1 Carbon running NixOS and connected to a Toshiba Thunderbolt 3 dock. Everything works just perfectly.
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by callahad 6y ago
If you decide to give Git one more shot, you might enjoy John Wiegley's Git from the Bottom Up ( https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/ ). It didn't teach me how to use Git, but it did teach me
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by callahad 6y ago
If I recall correctly, most of the deaths in the St. Paul caves are from people starting makeshift campfires in areas without any ventilation. Seems to be backed up by this MPR News article from 2004: http://news.minnesota.public
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by callahad 6y ago
Hah! Similarly surprised to see this here. I spent a little bit of time with John back in the summer of 2007 during a research project at the University of Minnesota. I had just finished my full cave diving certification and got roped into
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by callahad 6y ago
In the EU, there's a WaPo subscription level that explicitly touts "no on-site advertising or third-party ad tracking" as a benefit: https://imgur.com/yWPXBYe
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by callahad 7y ago
The article implies that's only recent revisions of the 2-6 TB products that use SMR, noting issues with "the latest iteration of WD REDs (WDx0EFAX replacing WDx0EFRX)"
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by callahad 7y ago
It's a notebook, but just digital enough. No browser, no clutter, just... really, really useful paper that's always there and doesn't get misplaced later.
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by callahad 7y ago
That's not at all what the court order says.
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by callahad 7y ago
Couldn't this be that? If those serials are posted somewhere that has an RSS feed, you're good to go.
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by callahad 7y ago
> Popups each time you close a tab use up unnecessary screen space. Also they often just stay there. This was just recently fixed! The "undo closed tab" toast now hides itself immediately when you switch to a new tab.
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by callahad 7y ago
No. It's part of the cleartext SNI header. There is a proposal to encrypt the SNI information, but afaik, it's not yet widely used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication
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by callahad 7y ago
> debugging is still at printf level style and reading raw bytecodes Wasmtime has had support for source-level debugging via lldb or gdb for a few months https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/09/debugging-webassembly
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by callahad 7y ago
There's a classic article worth reading titled "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
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by callahad 7y ago
You may also be thinking of CopperheadOS ( https://copperhead.co/ ).
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Signing is only required on official release and beta builds -- users on developer edition, nightly, and unbranded builds can opt-out of the signing requirement by flipping a setting in about:config.
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by callahad 7y ago
That complaint ( https://insight.rpxcorp.com/litigation_documents/13472237 ) is wild. Paragraph 19 states: > The Product practices transmitting, via a wireless transmitter and to a second image capturing device, the

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