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901.
by dingnuts 2y ago
this has been configurable in at least some IRCds for a very long time, to hide the host. It's been that way from personal experience for at least fifteen years, but it could be longer.
902.
by dingnuts 2y ago
that's fair! I tend to be the opposite and I love that our editor lets us both have it how we like it :D
903.
by dingnuts 2y ago
where which-key really excels is when you're already halfway through a complicated series of keyboard shortcuts and can't remember the next sequence. you pause, and the menu pops up to remind you using describe bindings you have t
904.
by dingnuts 2y ago
I don't know what the maintainers chose, but honestly, which-key would be an awesome default to have turned on. It's soooo helpful for discovery and recall of commands (which is a huge problem with such a complicated application a
905.
by dingnuts 2y ago
old people don't struggle with tech because they didn't grow up with it well, they kinda do, but here's the thing when you're old, all the tech that's out will be alien to you I'm not even middle aged, I'm
906.
by dingnuts 2y ago
does your calculation include the carbon needed to lubricate the wind turbines? how about the carbon in the solar cells, and the carbon that will be needed to dispose of them when they fail? I'd argue the mix of non-carbon energy going
907.
by dingnuts 2y ago
yes, and they also have the power to tell multinationals where they are allowed, geographically, to store the locals' data. the grandparent has invented a fake problem (data regionalization, as though it cannot be addressed with regula
908.
by dingnuts 2y ago
isn't the whole point of intellectual property law to align incentives? it's no coincidence that corporations that own proprietary code don't have this problem. has anybody considered that maybe Richard Stallman was wrong? ma
909.
by dingnuts 2y ago
Congress is the owner. Want a different management ideology? Get different management. NASA is wasteful, eh? Maybe that's because they have no incentive not to be wasteful..
910.
by dingnuts 2y ago
there's already a word for using a specific type of soft language regardless as to intent, and it's "polite" don't know why we need to quibble about the meaning of "nice" or invent a new word when polite w
911.
by dingnuts 2y ago
good question -- methinks the GP didn't read the article. the rpi does have a ton of software compared to other SBCs, but the article is about fking x86 machines. With power consumption so low on some of these, I feel like they defeat
912.
by dingnuts 2y ago
> Reducing human contact will slow transmission of all diseases I find it difficult to disabuse myself of the notion that there are people who see this simple statement as justification to return to enforcing certain pandemic era counter
913.
by dingnuts 2y ago
complicating matters is that the world IS out to get him. it doesn't actually matter all that much that he deserves it, especially since to his followers, pretty much everybody in power deserves it, so the fact that all this stuff is o
914.
by dingnuts 2y ago
> anecdotally, this hit a note I’ve heard regularly from my mid-career female friends - dating men is a drain anecdotally, the women I know married good men before mid career. maybe the "mid career" women you know waited too lo
915.
by dingnuts 2y ago
this is great advice for people who want to have no friends. You should care about what the people you respect think about you, because they are people you hold in high regard. They matter. The key is to dismiss the opinions of people who s
916.
by dingnuts 2y ago
I returned to buying albums when a few that I loved disappeared off Spotify one day. It's bad enough to pay month after month and never own anything but to go listen to a favorite and find it's gone? Unacceptable. At my age I&#x27
917.
by dingnuts 2y ago
that's true for old TLDs too. Do you have data?
918.
by dingnuts 2y ago
> the theories don't protect the people who hold them. Knowing that a bureaucrat is willing to disarm you then starve you to death ... does not help that much when the army or secret police gets involved. the unelected bureaucrat b
919.
by dingnuts 2y ago
I spent my entire youth convincing people to move to platforms like signal, and including signal, that would then be used by said people only to talk to me, until they had some UX problem and I became tech support for them after many years
920.
by dingnuts 2y ago
The Chiquita corporation is a White person?
921.
by dingnuts 2y ago
Uh, friend, this is still just an internet technology enthusiast forum. Popular opinion here is equally as reliable as Reddit. If you are taking hn upvotes as some kind of expert input, you're in for a rough time.
922.
by dingnuts 2y ago
sound and radio are of course waves in completely different media. why would low frequency radio waves be insane to wildlife? it's not like it's microwave (which would cook them) or pressure (sound) which directly physically damag
923.
by dingnuts 2y ago
unless someone is specifically looking for you. imagine being a young woman with a stalker
924.
by dingnuts 2y ago
yes, really any soft surfaces will damp[0] (not "dampen") sound, but the techniques and materials can get very advanced (and expensive, and effective) 0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damping
925.
by dingnuts 2y ago
> Is mental illness a crystallisation of habits we unknowingly locked ourselves into? This has to be trolling. You have to deny even the most extreme forms of mental illness, like schizophrenia with persistent hallucinations, to be so co
926.
by dingnuts 2y ago
I feel like this story of a memory reimagined by an adult from the perspective of himself as a very precocious three year old sounds more like projection of the OP's current relationship with their father back onto a childhood memory m
927.
by dingnuts 2y ago
this is exactly what is happening. Cloudflare uses an anycast network, so IPs are shared by default. this customer is damaging Cloudflare IP reputation which hurts other customers. Cloudflare can either fire the customer to protect other cu
928.
by dingnuts 2y ago
>All SJ has to do is show that they wanted her and plant the idea that they may have been thinking of her when they hired the other actor. The end results sounds enough like her that I think OpenAI is going to have a very rough time in c
929.
by dingnuts 2y ago
it's because this, like the ATF's program "Fast and the Furious," is an underhanded play to disarm Americans and deny them of their 2nd Amendment rights through extralegal means. It's mentioned right in TFA! >Fro
930.
by dingnuts 2y ago
The grandparent is describing someone with murderous motive. That isn't a cultural difference. There are murderers in Finland, lol. A bear trap "for hunting" on your property would be a very bad alibi as booby trapping your p

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