dpbriggs

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by dpbriggs 5y ago
Those are only people who want the end of it? Only people? Please stop with twitter-tier takes on this website. Following that with an appeal to popularity does what exactly here - disprove their anecdata?
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by dpbriggs 5y ago
My catholic school system taught the Bible was inspired by God and not to be taken necessarily literally. More of a series of parables to understand life better.
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by dpbriggs 5y ago
Who's the bottom tier of society?
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by dpbriggs 5y ago
The parent comment is just an observation and isn't implying a trend. Why do you feel the need to be snarky? This inflation, hopefully just transitory, is making tight budgets even tighter.
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by dpbriggs 5y ago
Young free software advocates exist - I'm one. I know about EEE and agree we're in a sorry state. I have a feeling MS will continue to dominate due to network effects and vscode/wsl being a nice enough experience. It'll
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by dpbriggs 5y ago
Emacs magit and smerge mode makes this a breeze.
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by dpbriggs 5y ago
This produces an unsettling flickering effect on Firefox Mobile (nightly). Baloon just sits there, saying 'soon' while all of it strobes.
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by dpbriggs 5y ago
I've mostly switched over and it's been a fantastic experience. I use ProtonDB [0] to gauge whether a game will work and there's usually some small tips and tricks to make sure the game will run fine. It's nothing more t
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by dpbriggs 5y ago
Who's actually buying fractions of an NFT? It feels like an effective way to pump and dump. Make a large initial "investment" by generating headlines off the price, get some buddies to buy some shares to legitimize it, and th
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by dpbriggs 5y ago
Firefox's reader mode makes it readable.
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by dpbriggs 5y ago
Do you think I'm making this up? I experienced this. Apparently from sibling comments it no longer occurs, and I do not possess a time machine. I'm not going to jump through hoops to prove this for you - please do some cursory onl
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by dpbriggs 5y ago
It happened. This website has a blurb about it https://censortrack.org/case/joebideninfo . I tried it a few months ago and it was blocked. Here's a screenshot I made of it: https://i.imgur.com/KZa60
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by dpbriggs 5y ago
That's a terrible take. I enjoy having control over my computer and software. There's not some PM somewhere pushing a crappy change to forward their career.
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by dpbriggs 5y ago
I would recommend checking out the emacs native-comp feature. It may not entirely solve the lag, but in my experience it helps a lot.
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by dpbriggs 5y ago
Why do people go through profiles and post these sorts of comments? The parent comment is only a one sentence opinion, and I'm unsure if any additional context is required to discuss it. I get you're pointing out OP has some colou
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by dpbriggs 5y ago
Anyone else avoid closed source tools? This would be interesting if the source was actually available.
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History of Autoconf(gnu.org)
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by dpbriggs 5y ago
The comment section on that article is quite the time capsule.
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by dpbriggs 5y ago
They aren't super heroes - they need rest as well. Reading some books you're interested may count as not taking a day off, but it's still restful compared to office work.
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by dpbriggs 5y ago
Does that make sense in this situation? Like the leading idea is that it occurred naturally, and there's heavy emphasis on it starting in that wet market. More than enough ammo already for the mob to hate on Chinese people, and sadly t
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by dpbriggs 5y ago
Anyone else here incredibly disappointed in the discourse around the lab-leak hypothesis? I'm not even talking about the truth of it. Instead the way the discussion has occurred and changed over time. In the earliest days it seemed imp
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by dpbriggs 5y ago
Not the person you're replying too, but I think you might find this video [0] interesting. He's describing his motivations and worries around making a web browser for SerenityOS. A quote from that video (3:25) really stuck with me
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by dpbriggs 5y ago
I highly recommend checking out his YouTube channel [0]. He's an _incredibly_ thoughtful person and provides good lessons in staying focused and keeping scope down. I consider him a mentor and his approach to software is something I re
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by dpbriggs 5y ago
Emacs on MacOS was also laggy for me before I started using the native comp feature. It takes a while to compile but it's seriously one of the best QoL changes I've had in years.
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by dpbriggs 6y ago
He didn't write that; it was reported as that. It wasn't appropriate but RMS being RMS wrote about a situation in which the girls were being coerced into presenting willingly, which Minksy then could have believed. RMS is technica
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by dpbriggs 6y ago
Keep them coming. I want other examples where it's appropriate for some brokers to restrict _buying_ but not selling, especially in the context of a short squeeze, with potential conflicts of interest. I understand that brokers can res
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by dpbriggs 6y ago
I'm genuinely curious: can you find examples of brokerages only allowing buying, or only allowing selling? I'm not talking about edge cases with margin calls.
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by dpbriggs 6y ago
That's great, but they should be halting trade of the stock all together if they really believed retailers were manipulating the stock. I can see the nice narrative of allowing retailers to sell ("capture gains"), but it&#x27
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by dpbriggs 6y ago
And that's somehow fine? It's blatant protection for short positions. These brokers are hamming up the "we need to protect retail from volatility" narrative when they're clearly trying their best to stop their busin
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by dpbriggs 6y ago
Why block buying and not selling? Why did they all come to the same conclusion at the same time?

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