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by drannex 3y ago
And if you want something a bit more relaxed and updated, The Dude De Ching[1], is quite good. It's a rewrite based around the core concepts of Dudeism, a fan-made spiritual practice based on the character "The Dude" from The
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I can't understate just how great "Waking Up: Overcoming the Obstacles to Human Potential" by Charles Tart (2001) is. It's a cross between engineering and the spirituality (although I argue, it's more on the philo
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by drannex 3y ago
It has been tried, and been successful in many cases (on mobile, so not linking at this time). A proper example is in respect to right to repair laws and court cases. This is one of the primary arguments in the ability to hack your own devi
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You missed the second part, which is that the use of the data is the crime, not the access to it.
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I stand by the phrase "Hacking Is Not A Crime". It's what you do with the data once you have access to it. If you do nothing, it shouldn't be a crime, the crime should be the, presumably, nefarious usage if used.
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by drannex 3y ago
Makes sense considering he is staunchly anti-trans https://web.archive.org/web/20220726042921/https://blog.alex... He was also previously the head of engineering of the Trump-related social network Trut
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by drannex 3y ago
Just a heads up, the creator and maintainer, Alex Gleason, of Soapbox (or Rebased as it was called) is [anti-trans]( https://web.archive.org/web/20220726042921/https://blog.alex... ) and was previously the
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by drannex 3y ago
Not to talk on how it affects thinking, but it most certainly affects dreaming. I have what I refer to as "recursion dreams", which are never ending code within code within code within code dreams, incredibly disorienting, dizzyin
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This is why I transitioned to being a technician early on, and then transition to working on hardware. I still mostly do programming work, but not for (direct) pay.
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You obviously haven't been on Tumblr lately where there is a giant objectum culture and love all things electric. Pylons are the rulers of dreams over there, entire blogs devoted to their beauty. The inherent eroticism of the machine a
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by drannex 3y ago
YT/google has hardcoded a delay just for Firefox users for web page and video loading, this removes that timeout sequence so it loads instantly.
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This is an absolutely perfect name for an RSS feed reader. Not my thing (the service is!) but perfect naming. The devs have a good sense of humor.
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Not only are a rather decent number of AI developers and researchers who are Chinese, perhaps, and likely , some of the best in the world. but not only this but they are also the only manufacturing center for the GPU/CPUs needed to ru
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by drannex 3y ago
Impressive (and sad...) how adding: www.youtube.com##+js(nano-stb, resolve(1), 5000, 0.001) to my uBlock origin filter list made YT much snappier on Firefox.
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I am incredibly excited for Industrial Annihilation, really looks close to my ultimate dreams RTS. > IA is a unique blend of genres: deep factory building combined with real-time strategy action.
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No real thoughts on the language yet, other than looks interesting and modern. But, that website has one of the smoothest on boarding experience I've ever seen for a new language. From the inline REPL (with built in tutorial), to the c
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Existence is political. If you want to foster a positive community, this is how you do it.
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I don't trust a single thing he says at this point without evidence, I just can't possibly see it as breakeven without it, which we likely won't receive as they are a private corp.
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I don't believe it's a risk, since you're not injecting arbitrary remote code into a document, you're more overlaying on top of it. Even if the reader wants to execute code, then it will, that's how you have a reade
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Developer tools first and foremost. Second, maybe spin them up a tumblr blog, and let them hack on a theme (changing colors, etc), same thing as an old-school myspace setup and it taught _a lot_ of people in the early 2010s how to code. Cod
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I hope this spreads to the rest of their locations.
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I don't think you can have a serious Erlang alternative without an entire runtime, but if you are interested in the (better) C-style syntax, then you miht be interested in Gleam[1] which is a seriously cool Erlang based language that i
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by drannex 3y ago
Music is more varied than it ever has been, you just have to look outside of legacy media (ie, radio). > Music played on the radio used to be a lot more varied and take chances. Music played on the radio is owned by a handful of conglome
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by drannex 3y ago
I think there's a much simpler way of looking at the issue: When you type a word, it's almost 99.9999999% of the time, in a public space, in sans-serif. Changing your font to look most similar to the way its written makes it more
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You can enable that option fairly simple, I've been using nearly all of my desktop extensions since 2020 on mobile.
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Sadly (due to them being a chromium-based browser), they are ahead and more performant of nearly everyone else in the mobile space. If they enabled the ability to use extensions, such as Kiwi (another chromium mobile browser), or Firefox, t
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Unions work, unionize.
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I'll take your "very rich" and primarily include billionaires and the extremely affluent in my following statement: Billionaires shouldn't exist. They shouldn't. We should re-implement proper progressive tax rates (
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Omega Tau also visited and talked with some of the researchers and has a great podcast episode on it (and truth be told, all of their episodes are great). https://omegataupodcast.net/312-the-wendelstein-7-x-fusion-e... (fro
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And not exactly about the same link, but same concept: The sea people: Alexander the Great trod in the footsteps of forgotten Greeks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29449160

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