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by dmm 6y ago
I just said swaylock, a wayland screenlocker, had the same architectural flaw as all X11 screenlockers: when it crashes the screen unlocks. Wayland was supposed to be better but it isn't, apparently. Xscreensaver attempts to mitigate t
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by dmm 6y ago
> Heh. I’ve seen Wayland proponents cite the “impossibility” of screen locking in X11 as a reason to rewrite the entire thing from scratch. Supposedly Gnome is better but I have no idea. EDIT: I also found this looking through github i
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by dmm 6y ago
I'm really starting to understand why jwz left software and bought a nightclub. swaylocker, the wayland screen locker I'm currently using has the exact same architectural flaw: crash the dialog and get access to the desktop. http
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by dmm 6y ago
3) You have to pay capital gains tax on every transaction. The pain of calculating and reporting that is worse than the 15% + state tax.
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by dmm 6y ago
The packages you download can be easily inferred even transmitted over tls. What does tls buy you? That's the argument at least. You could always download them over tor.
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by dmm 6y ago
So in terms of copyright, is GPT-2 a derived work of that recipe? Or generally are models derived works of their training data? It seems lots of people use training data from Flickr, like COCO, and then use the resulting model for commercia
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by dmm 6y ago
> - it takes 5-10 years for a filesystem or database to mature after it's released. Great news! BTRFS was introduced in the mainline kernel in March 2009! It's been ten years.
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by dmm 6y ago
Forgive me but I'm completely missing what you're saying here. Are you saying that ZFS has a write hole when reslivering?
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by dmm 6y ago
Our minivan came with one and we've literally never used it. After a while the kids stop asking. I think we keep a dvd in the van in case we're stuck somewhere with nothing to do but it's never come up.
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by dmm 6y ago
Do you wear a helmet while driving a car? Head injuries are a top cause of death in vehicle accidents something that helmets would significantly reduce. The truth is that you never even considered wearing a helmet while drivi g because driv
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by dmm 6y ago
> First of all, a static, non-residential IP is likely needed. If you want to directly send mail that's true. But if you send mail through a smarthost, like your isp's smtp server, you can easily receive mail on a dynamic, resi
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by dmm 6y ago
The pinephone can run the mainline kernel so it will probably have support for a while. There are several distros available for it because people are excited to develop free/libre mobile devices and they are experimenting.
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by dmm 6y ago
It matters a lot to me that several of the interesting parts of vscode are proprietary and not free or open source. In particular the liveshare and remote features are proprietary. Many extensions contain proprietary parts, like the c# debu
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by dmm 6y ago
uMatrix hasn't been updated in a year and the repo has been archived: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24532973 You'll probably have to let it go someday :(
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by dmm 6y ago
A favorite HN comment that discusses this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13503951 Go read it all but here's a relevant quote: """ So how does Erlang ensure that processes don't hog a core for
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by dmm 6y ago
To be pedantic MMS has groups, not SMS. A distinction I recently discovered when switching to the pinephone which curreently supports the latter but not the former.
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by dmm 6y ago
> I also didn't like using observables with Angular to fetch/send data to API's. Not everything is an event stream, why can't we use the right tool for the job? I think the idea is to provide a single async abstractio
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by dmm 6y ago
Birth rates are below replacement almost everywhere and have resisted every attempt to raise them. By 2030 the US will have 50% more retired people per working person. Overpopulation isn't our future, Japan is.
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by dmm 6y ago
I didn't mention Disney? You asked what moral claim they would have to that work and I'm arguing that copyright is a govt imposed restriction on the natural right of humans to create and share derivative works. If we are citing le
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by dmm 6y ago
> I do not see what moral claim we have, at all. All art is based upon the past. Think of how many times the plays of Shakespeare have been remade and reinterpreted. His works represent a share heritage that generations of artists have
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by dmm 6y ago
The idea, I assume, is that you disable javascript globally and then enable it on a per-site basis. There's a button the in the uBlock origin menu to enable js for the current site.
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by dmm 6y ago
My understanding is that in many places they are regularly performed without anesthetic so they must not be that painful.
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by dmm 6y ago
If a significant number of people start leaving their tvs offline maybe they would. Everything is so integrated now. Perhaps it would be on the chips as the wifi so not much of an extra cost? Maybe it would be sold as a feature, like "
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by dmm 6y ago
hah ok I missed that. > the system won't give them my number from a completely different numbering system Perhaps your country has cell phone stores too?
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by dmm 6y ago
> If you've got adversaries doing a sun swapping attack you are in a Rick and Morty episode not the real world. It happened to Jack Dorsey. And attacks tend to become easier over time. Any employee of an at&t store could do it
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by dmm 6y ago
A McDonalds hamburger patty is just beef, salt, and pepper. It was preserved by an environment that allowed it to dry out before spoiling.
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by dmm 6y ago
> while still having kids Are they? Birth rates are below replacement everywhere outside of handful of places like Afghanistan. Even with lots of immigration the US faces a Japanese style demographic crisis. Large populations may be a bi
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by dmm 6y ago
What do you mean by ECC is more expensive? Are you talking about ECC ram being more expensive? That's probably true but why not give people the option whether to use ECC? ECC being optional is a good idea anyway because ECC memory is g
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by dmm 6y ago
> So you if you store local times as UTC, you might not get back the correct value when you convert back after a tzinfo update That shouldn't be a problem for datetimes in the past. tzdata contains not only the current offset but al
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by dmm 6y ago
From my experience the downside of functional testing is that it's slower and most importantly when a functional test fails it not obvious what is broken. The counterpoint I've heard is, "But we run the tests on every commit!

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