darkpuma

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by darkpuma 7y ago
Vim still qualifies as a TUI under that definition (since it supports using the mouse to select text, change or resize windows, etc), though I think Vi would not.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
While civil rights deriving from the principle of awesomeness sounds like a totally rad way to run a society, in truth that is not the premise of America's First Amendment.
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Can you think of no other freedoms?
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Contrary to what you may have been told, productivity and freedom are not the same things.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Users not knowing or caring about these details is precisely why users should be kept away from the management of these projects. The details do matter, even if the user lacks the context or domain specific knowledge to make heads from ta
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by darkpuma 7y ago
What concerns me is not when you and your peers are doing nothing, but when you are doing something.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
If you browse through GNU documents, you sometimes come across strange ancient passages like > "Avoid arbitrary limits on the length or number of any data structure, including file names, lines, files, and symbols, by allocating al
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "Happens all the time with any cables really." That's such nonsense. I've never had a thinkpad cable wear out on me. I've got a whole box sitting around somewhere full of them because they never break. Bu
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I think you're feigning offense to avoid addressing the substance of his comment.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
An ICBM doesn't need to. An ICBM does not need to be that large. Being reliable and on demand is much more important than payload capacity. A Minuteman-III can launch with minutes of notice; you don't need to fool around with
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Few people travel frequently, but I bet as you go higher and higher up the food chain at Apple, you find more and more frequent travelers in the social circles of those Apple employees. This might explain the apparent overemphasis on thinne
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "Most all of what NASA does or has ever done has directly benefited the Department of Defense." People often overstate this. For instance, when pointing out that the Mercury and Gemini programs used ICBM boosters, people s
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "SpaceX vehicles are a firmware update away from being high precision ICBMs" While strictly speaking true, as an ICBM booster the Falcon 9 would be going on 6 decades obsolete. Cryogenic propellants for ICBMs have been ob
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by darkpuma 7y ago
One of the big differences is that gas chambers are only useful for killing prisoners while there is no indication whatsoever that railguns will be used to kill prisoners. (That said, if it were my execution and the choice were given to me,
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by darkpuma 7y ago
One day history will likely show the whole project amounted to nothing more than propaganda meant to impress teenage boys so they enlist. I anticipate this supposed weapon system seeing very little if any use in battle, but receiving ext
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by darkpuma 7y ago
uBlock Origin and uMatrix in particular are fantastic addons, but I think the UX is still too much for the average casual non-technical user. I wish they'd focus more on getting the UX of containers up to snuff. They are almost the
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Or maybe they just hired shitty locksmiths. Shitty locksmiths are often easier to find than real locksmiths.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
In practice 009 to 010 is a single move, because your thumb can cover and turn two or more wheels at once.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Those sort of videos in particular have a very large replay value, as many insomniacs may play that video every night.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Maybe some parents don't want their children getting along well with prisoners. I probably wouldn't mind it, but I would certainly want to be asked first.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I didn't say one side experiences this more than another. There are rational people on all "sides". Rational people may come to disagree with each other if they have different information available to them, or if they simply
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Belief in the backfire effect confirms the bias many people have towards believing their political opponents are idiots, immune to rational thought.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Quite right, and I think this is one of the reasons so many people are critical of social media.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
They certainly litter less. And yes, there are socioeconomic factors in play of course. Or, another take on it: https://www.spectator.co.uk/2015/01/david-sedaris-was-right-...
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by darkpuma 7y ago
When somebody calls you an asshole, there are two general reasons why that might be. Maybe there is something wrong with the person calling you an asshole; maybe they're having a bad day or have some sort of irrational grudge against
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by darkpuma 7y ago
If you have to ask a question like that, it's doubtful that you'll comprehend the answer: Fun.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Mission accomplished. IoT is a euphemism for e-waste.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
That absurd association was the only way he could make a phone going off at a restaurant seem like an offensively irresponsible event.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Most newspaper articles don't have or need a photograph. Did the Chicago Sun Times really have a 1:1 ratio of journalists and photographers?
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Just for starters, fact that the change will in fact give users worse performance than existing extensions like ublock origin provide, because ad blockers under the new scheme will be less effective and the performance impact of ads that ge

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