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by dbbolton 11y ago
>Use the up arrow key to go forward along the geodesic in the direction you're facing and the left and right arrow keys to change direction. > >Scroll to zoom, click and drag to pan. How do you scroll to zoom? Down arrow and P
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by dbbolton 11y ago
Thanks.
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by dbbolton 11y ago
What vim colorscheme is that in the screencaps?
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by dbbolton 11y ago
The demo video touts them as "eco-friendly", and I'm assuming they mean relative to traditional pneumatic tires, so how are they actually better in that regard?
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by dbbolton 11y ago
I'd like to see Robert Hare's response to this.
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by dbbolton 11y ago
That's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying that Savannah's website being ugly is not a reason to say "it's no better than SF", because it's still miles better.
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by dbbolton 11y ago
That's why I said "largely, but not entirely". I still use them.
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by dbbolton 11y ago
My approach was to start by combining SomeoneWhoCares' and MVPS' hosts files with `uniq`, which rendered such browser addons largely, though not entirely, unnecessary. The down side is you can only do that on machines where you ha
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by dbbolton 11y ago
That's a terrible example and it doesn't address my point at all.
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by dbbolton 11y ago
All of your criticisms of Savannah seem oriented around aesthetics rather than its actual functionality. Personally I don't need much eye-candy for a git host because 99% of my work is done from the command line, but even if I cared ab
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by dbbolton 11y ago
It's nice that they provide a .deb, but a signed repository/PPA would be really great.
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by dbbolton 11y ago
Why I love this: there have been a handful times where I vaguely remember a recent post from HN that I want to revisit but I don't remember enough of the exact title to find it by the Algolia search or Google, and can't find it by
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by dbbolton 11y ago
>My current Arch install doesn't have Python (because I don't need to), That still doesn't explain why installing python is such a big deal for you, or why your desire to not install python is stronger than your desire to
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by dbbolton 11y ago
I don't see your point. On Debian, which has the most traditional package manager in the world, I can still easily install several versions of Python at the same time. I'm not even sure what you mean by "your version of pytho
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by dbbolton 11y ago
>There are other webkit browsers without Chromium's extended libraries such as Surf and Web (Epiphany). What about Midori (LGPL 2.1)? For some reason it's not available for jessie, but 0.4.3 is available for wheezy, stretch, an
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by dbbolton 11y ago
I can't imagine a scenario where having python installed on a Linux desktop with non-ancient hardware would be a drawback.
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by dbbolton 11y ago
I'm not arguing about sound quality though. When I said "immersion" I was thinking about over-ear headphones generally having better isolation than on-ear.
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by dbbolton 11y ago
I was equally surprised by the on-ear style headphones. I'm sure the design team thought about the choice in depth and has good reasons behind it, but I would have imagined over-ear to be better for immersion (personally I find them mo
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by dbbolton 11y ago
Seems like the article, and several comments here, equivocate Linux with GNU. While they are most commonly used in conjunction with one another, I still don't believe that "this GNU program does too many things; therefore Linux do
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by dbbolton 11y ago
>The PiuPiu oversharing site allows users to create PiuPiu accounts and post 140-character messages. Hah- "Piu-Piu" is the Brazilian-Portuguese name for the Looney Tunes character Tweety: https://pt.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by dbbolton 11y ago
I never said it was anything of the sort. I said the dialog attribution style was ostentatious and distracting. Also, I prefaced my entire comment with a warning that it was off topic. I'm sorry you still feel so offended by it.
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by dbbolton 11y ago
Off topic writing criticism: avoid using synonyms for "said", like "replied", "inquired", and "countered". It's ostentatious and distracting. Let the dialog speak for itself, and only add the bar
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by dbbolton 11y ago
Interesting. I studied in Hesse for a semester and don't recall seeing these, at least not extensively.
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by dbbolton 11y ago
Why is VirtualBox a prereq? This appears to be a locally-run web app, unless I'm missing something.
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by dbbolton 11y ago
Off topic: what's up with the guillemets in the code example? Does that actually work as a replacement for single/double quotemarks in some shells? Mine just treats them as an ordinary character, e.g. print «Cookie: session=
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by dbbolton 11y ago
Yes-- I thought it was reasonably well established that children have superior "plastic" or "fluid" intelligence in general, but apparently a few people feel that this doesn't apply to language (for some reason).
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by dbbolton 11y ago
My degree was in linguistics (although it is not my current profession), and I wholeheartedly agree with your comment. My personal opinion is that claims of polyglotism are quite often (if not usually) exaggerated, whether intentionally or
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by dbbolton 11y ago
Or if you feel like paying royalties to someone other than Time Warner, you could always use Master Shake's composition "The Creature Thus Be Formed": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXkT54U6ZmI
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by dbbolton 11y ago
Well, I mean it can make reproducibility easier, not that it definitely will. Say- just for argument's sake- that another group of researchers did this same experiment but came to a different conclusion such as: "members of this
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by dbbolton 11y ago
I guess I can see how you got that impression from my reply to sarreph. My emphasis was on the "presumptive analysis" part, not the "self-reported anecdotes" part, but there is no way for anyone to know that since I didn

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