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by downsplat 2y ago
Don't people use whatsapp in your corner of the world? Over here in Europe all of that happens over whatsapp, which is still a Meta property at the end of the day, but one that hasn't been enshittified with off-network crap or alg
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by downsplat 2y ago
> There's a crossover point where self-managed is cheaper than cloud Single data point here: before cloud managed dbs were a thing our smallish startup was running mysql on virtual servers by installing it from the linux package man
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by downsplat 2y ago
So happy that I never stopped curating my digital music collection. Old raspberry pi with USB DAC and external HD, connected to good old hifi amplifier, and controlled via mpd from anyone's phone. It's been working wonders for alm
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by downsplat 2y ago
That sure brings some memories. They were calling sleep() so you would have time to read the messages in the status bar at the bottom of the screen. Back in 1995 or so I submitted patches changing the browser's inner loop to be select
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by downsplat 2y ago
For Android, I've been using Firefox Beta as my daily driver for over a year, it works flawlessly, and about:config is available.
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by downsplat 2y ago
That's very interesting, at $WORK we recently added SAML support in a similar use case, as a SaaS SP integrating with the customer's IdP. At the time we looked at various open source implementations, and ended up using OneLogin&#x
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by downsplat 2y ago
Translated into simple language, Ruby chose to expose the multithreading paradigm (multple threads over shared data), like Java and others. Multithreading is strictly more powerful than single threaded event loops. For some kinds of softwar
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by downsplat 2y ago
Right. I started a perl codebase in 1999, which has slowly evolved and is still one of my main projects to this day. The language has slowly improved, there are decent libraries for everything you might want to do, and I've basically n
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by downsplat 2y ago
I remember learning perl in the early 90s, it was perl 4 at the time, and it opened up a whole class of possibilities by its incredible expressivity, things you wouldn't otherwise do because they'd be far too tedious in C and not
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by downsplat 3y ago
Is Chart.js officially out of fashion? Been using it for years with good results... My charting needs are admittedly not very complicated.
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by downsplat 3y ago
I remember it was one of the remarkable take-away points of nonlinear system dynamics, aka chaos theory: the weather/climate system doesn't even have an "average regime" that it converges on. You can average over longer
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by downsplat 3y ago
Yeah, any other Windows would have been worse. For me it was crappy because no-one wants to be maintaining a second hardly-used OS on their laptop. You randomly need it once in a blue moon, have to deal with two UIs with their conventions
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by downsplat 3y ago
Reminds me of the bad old days when I regularly had to open a crappy windows 7 in a VM because some minor piece of software would not run on Linux or on the browser. Thankfully I haven't needed to do that in years. On a more constructi
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by downsplat 3y ago
Similar story here, we have a fairly large code base which has been continually evolved since year ~2000, with our own legacy "framework" for much of the server-side structure. Back then the forms used to reload the whole page, k
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by downsplat 3y ago
That's more or less how it works in English too... is it really that bad? Spanish and French also have special words for the teens, it's quite common in Europe and I've never heard of it being that difficult to learn. Some l
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by downsplat 3y ago
Such a tantalizing article... come on, where are the examples? It's like reading a description of a painting without being shown a picture! What are some of these vulgar urban words that the Riksmål elites didn't want their child
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by downsplat 3y ago
Thanks for your kind words :) Now I really need to answer something, and it's not so easy based on the info you give. I'll skip the standard religious answer to your question in terms of existential unsatisfactoriness - you can fi
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by downsplat 3y ago
For resources about Ramana Maharshi, sure, Paul Brunton was popular, but I'd first go with Arthur Osborne and/or David Godman. David has a metric ton of videos on youtube if you prefer listening to reading.
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by downsplat 3y ago
Nice description into progressive steps, sounds recommendable. It's very close to one of my favorite types of meditation, awareness of feeling. It can get pretty intense, but it's also quite regularly rewarding in clearing up inne
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by downsplat 3y ago
> One of the aims of mediation is to gradually understand that this self is really an illusion Yes this is a standard Buddhist (and not even exclusively Buddhist) point, and I'd say it's basically correct, but the problem is th
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by downsplat 3y ago
I get the appeal, it's a minimalism thing. The thinking mind makes up patterns and checks them against each other, there is no ultimate reality, blah blah blah. Besides, a mathematical ground truth would be a kind of transcendence, in
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by downsplat 3y ago
People have made harmoniums with modifications to play the 22 shrutis of carnatic music, and with those you can probably more or less approximate the right tones for most hindustani raags too, but it's rare, your average harmonium prob
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by downsplat 3y ago
A movement like Theosophy is an easy target for cynical criticism with 100+ years of hindsight, but considering the time it arose, I'd say they did some amazing work synthesizing materials from traditions that had previously barely met
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by downsplat 3y ago
As a long-time fan of Indian music, I'm so happy to see how the world is catching on to the depth and value of classical Indian musical traditions, and how Indians are making their voices heard worldwide. Just a 5 years ago I don'
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by downsplat 4y ago
Try an open source home screen launcher, I use this one, it's configurable to hell and back: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.deletescape...
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by downsplat 4y ago
> is that really cheaper than porting a calculator os to a modern CPU? There was a whole OS and programming environment in there, very closely tied to the CPU architecture. All the calculator's advanced functionality, including grap
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by downsplat 4y ago
Blast from the past for sure, OP was not but I was in Paris in the early 90s, and HP48 hacking was huge. I remember attending class, ignoring the teacher, and just patiently leafing through long print outs of HP48 disassembly, or typing in
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by downsplat 4y ago
Glottalized is not the same sound as dropped or flapped. The American English dropped t's in these examples are either completely dropped, or pronounced as a (weak) flap. If not completely dropped, the t in "button" would usu
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by downsplat 5y ago
I trust a local password manager, namely KeepassX running on my linux laptop. It's an open source dedicated piece of tech running on the local box, so I figure my trust model extends at least this far. Otherwise, no, I wouldn't t
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by downsplat 5y ago
What you say makes lots of sense, I think the best design depends on many other factors, like the size of the codebase, the size of the team, and how modularity is handled within the whole system. What made sense for my project might not m

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