caslon

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by caslon 5y 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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Hampster Dance (1998)(web.archive.org)
2 points by caslon 5y ago|0 comments
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by caslon 5y ago
It's worth noting for anyone curious: the Quest 2 can't actually interact with or enter the majority of worlds because of technical constraints (they aren't even offered to Quest 2 users unless the author of the world explici
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by caslon 5y ago
Most of them aren't actually all that small, it's just that the perspective it's being filmed from (the narrator's head-camera) is on a stage, and VR warps things in your periphery pretty hard. There's also the fa
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by caslon 5y ago
It's not lucky, it's just that I know better than to install Ubuntu. Ubuntu's been a bad choice from the beginning and intentionally goes against the defaults of upstream providers. Random corporate distributions never kn
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by caslon 5y ago
> Good luck getting multiple different sized monitors to work well out of the box (e.g. laptop + external) on Linux, Just Works™ actually. Using a laptop/external simultaneous combo at different resolutions right now, and it's
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by caslon 5y ago
C. UNIX and variants thereof have been maintained for over fifty years now by all sorts of people.
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by caslon 5y ago
Actually, yeah. The wealthy have always been blamed for pedophile rings, and in places like England, they've gone out of their way to propagate them. People with the job title of "socialite" absolutely do a lot of sex traff
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by caslon 5y ago
You should. It would get you what you want, in this instance.
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by caslon 5y ago
I said you. My CSS frameworks all emulate styles from long before Twitter Bootstrap was a thing, and I've always found every iteration of it to be incredibly ugly. I love writing CSS, you should also. It isn't that hard to e
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by caslon 5y ago
You can just theme modern Twitter Bootstrap to have the old 1.1.1 or 2.x aesthetics. It wouldn't take that much effort.
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by caslon 5y ago
Yeah, absolutely. Even nazis deserve free speech. If it's effective, it's effective. If the Panthers were given actual free speech during the 60s, the world would have been an infinitely better place. If labor activists were giv
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by caslon 5y ago
> Let’s get these out of the way: > 1. Yes, we’re building on Electron. Yes, we are aware of the performance tradeoffs, but have decided this is the best choice for us. We’re shipping Windows, Mac and Linux clients along with browsers
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by caslon 5y ago
Firm believer that private companies should be able to censor whatever they want here! > What if someone's speech is effective at making people afraid of exercising opposing speech? What if someone's speech convinces people to
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by caslon 5y ago
The initial goal of Google Books was to make the scans publicly available to everyone , but then the copyright system got in the way. Blame our politicians, not Google, for that one.
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by caslon 5y ago
For anyone curious, Melbourne has 5,159,211 people, which puts it ahead of fan-favorites in the US like Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Boston... and literally every city in the United States with the exception of New Yor
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by caslon 5y ago
There are already headsets with eye tracking on the market, like some of the new Pico models, for example.
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by caslon 5y ago
There is a duopoly in payment processing because it's the most regulated industry in the world. Google, Apple and Amazon are in vastly different businesses, rose to where they were based on the free market and are sustained by it, woul
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by caslon 5y ago
>forced graphical >ugly graphical at that >Javascript extensions >no Lua extensions That is all around a terrible idea, made even worse by the fact that it's proprietary software.
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by caslon 5y ago
It wouldn't have been a better comment. It would have been an off-topic comment, because the topic was the SEC going after people for insider trading.
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by caslon 5y ago
Something initially very light and small (PowWow) turned into something very... not. Is second-system effect the right term here? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect > The second-system effect or seco
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by caslon 5y ago
He wasn't bragging about it. He was just mentioning it because it had a side-effect of bringing the SEC onto him. "If your strategy in trading microelectronics stock (largely hype-based and that you have an intuitive understanding
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All Work and No Play(dissentmagazine.org)
9 points by caslon 5y ago|3 comments
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by caslon 5y ago
Oh, I wasn't asking about why YC funded it. That part's clear (macOS users spend money on subscription markdown editors that get roughly an update a year, they certainly will buy a subscription to a web browser). I was mostly ju
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by caslon 5y ago
I know the rules! I said the odds of it were slim! What was your reasoning, though, over all of the other candidates for standalone posts that instead got a group "meet the batch" thread? I can't think of something more lik
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by caslon 5y ago
This really feels like it would have had a better time with a smaller "meet the batch" thread. Given that which startups get to be featured in one of those threads rather than a standalone thread is decided by dang, it almost feel
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by caslon 5y ago
It's slow as sin, for one thing. It has deceptive licensing terms, for another. And yes, the deceptive licensing started after Oracle bought Sun. That's definitely an answer. It's buggy, ridiculous software perpetuated after
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by caslon 5y ago
(2019)
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by caslon 5y ago
...they are so trivial that they can be figured out in less than three hours. Mercurial can be learned in minutes. Fossil in half an hour. Even git isn't particularly difficult; you can get "working knowledge" of it by glan
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by caslon 5y ago
I definitely have been living on a budget, having been literally born into poverty and never quite able to move up a level. It's been with me my entire life and I assume it'll continue to be so for the rest of it. Kroger's

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