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by cristoperb 2y ago
See also David Graeber's "On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs": https://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/
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by cristoperb 2y ago
sqlite does recognize the SMALLINT keyword and treats it as an INTEGER (sqlite only has two number types, integer and real). See here under "Type Affinity": https://www.sqlite.org/datatype3.html
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by cristoperb 2y ago
I think my messages sent over e2e encrypted chat with expiring session keys (like Signal) is more secure than broadcasting on radios with known weaknesses. Can you explain briefly why I'm wrong/"delusional"?
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by cristoperb 2y ago
I don't see anything about Putin on that page
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Why aren't we using SSH for everything? (2015)(shazow.net)
40 points by cristoperb 2y ago|15 comments
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Optimizing the Lichess Tablebase Server(lichess.org)
246 points by cristoperb 2y ago|55 comments
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by cristoperb 2y ago
Your site looks nice and is quite readable! The thing I most dislike about sites that just use raw HTML is the lack of `max-width` on the text containers (which makes using reader mode necessary), so thanks for including that
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by cristoperb 2y ago
Is there a way to refresh from the front page? or do you just quit and start it again?
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The Ages of Programming Language Creators(pldb.io)
1 points by cristoperb 2y ago|0 comments
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by cristoperb 2y ago
yeah the landing page is pretty broken on Firefox for me, but the docs site works: https://docs.amber-lang.com/
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by cristoperb 2y ago
But that article reports the same numbers as currently on the UN site: "7,797 children (32%), and 4,959 women (20%.)" That's most of the fatalities.
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by cristoperb 2y ago
> They updated the ratio of civilians. Turns out the majority of those are adult male combatants. As of yesterday, the UN is reporting that 60% of deaths are women, children, and the elderly. So even if you want to pretend that all adult
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by cristoperb 2y ago
> it targets only Israel without laying any blame or responsibility on the Hamas The reason students are asking their schools to divest from Israel but not from Hamas is because no western schools are funding Hamas or corporations that s
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by cristoperb 2y ago
That reminds me Tolstoy's conclusion in his essay on Anarchism: "There can be only one permanent revolution — a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take plac
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by cristoperb 3y ago
Even worse, it mistakes the possibility of partial ordering to imply an actual total ordering.
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by cristoperb 3y ago
> Try opening https://kmaasrud.com/blogroll.xml in a new tab (Ctrl+click or whatever) I can't reproduce your issue (on Firefox 115.7.0esr (64-bit) from Debian). I open it in a new tab with middle click and it loads
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by cristoperb 3y ago
A static version (archive) of DMOZ is still available at http://www.odp.org/
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by cristoperb 3y ago
Can't tell if this comment is supposed to be griping from dour conservative or praise from a communist lichess fan
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by cristoperb 3y ago
Yes. Even without enabling root, you can install Termux[1] and have a full Linux cli environment with ssh. > don't understand not more people want to access their DCIM folder via sshfs I agree. I sync my camera folder with Syncthing
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by cristoperb 3y ago
It's the name of a "Lo"ng "Ra"nge wifi-like technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoRa
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by cristoperb 3y ago
it's definitely not the first time the project has gotten traction on hn (eg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37285156 )
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A Brief History of ClarisWorks(groups.csail.mit.edu)
1 points by cristoperb 3y ago|0 comments
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by cristoperb 3y ago
Harry Mack has done a few collaborations with Marcus Veltri and Rob Landis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXKJ3uv_XIk
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by cristoperb 3y ago
I've never used Omegle myself, but I've watched all of Harry Mack's Omegle Bars videos (freestyle rapping) and they are golden. Always fun to see him matched with some random kids and brighten their day: https://ww
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by cristoperb 3y ago
I use asciidoctor (via a simple filter for the nanoc static site generator[1]) for my weblogs. It works especially well for footnote-heavy essays[2] (at least compared to my attempts to use various markdown flavors for blogging), and also f
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by cristoperb 3y ago
> Scanlime I like their videos, but 26.4k subscribers is definitely not "undiscovered"
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The SQLite Query Optimizer Overview(sqlite.org)
2 points by cristoperb 3y ago|0 comments
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MacWhisper: Transcribe audio files on your Mac(goodsnooze.gumroad.com)
240 points by cristoperb 3y ago|93 comments
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by cristoperb 3y ago
I think they probably mean a non-modal visual/screen editor (like NotePad on Windows or TextEdit on Mac). I used pico on Unix before learning vi, for example, which is probably a common progression.
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by cristoperb 3y ago
Here's a press release from the ALA on the recent increase in book challenges: https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2022/09/ala-releases... > Between January 1 and August 31, 2022, ALA documen

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