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by eadmund 5y ago
> Watching movies or reading on them is a masochistic experience. As I noted elsethread, I really enjoyed watching TV (and movies, too) and reading on my Nexus tablets. I found them really well-designed for that, much preferable for rea
902.
by eadmund 5y ago
My Nexus 7 & Nexus 9 could fit in my jeans pocket (while walking — I would never have sat down with them). They were great for reading ebooks at a bar or on an æroplane, or for watching TV while playing a video game (my desk at the tim
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by eadmund 5y ago
> Well, it is an air gapped system that depends on a possibly insecure input and output device. No, an air gap means that there is a gap of air between the system and any insecure network. By definition, a YubiKey plugged into a network
904.
by eadmund 5y ago
You know what always just works? Plugging headphones into a headphone jack. It also uses significantly more well-developed technology which does not require the use of rare earth metals and eye-wateringly complex semiconductor manufacturing
905.
by eadmund 5y ago
> … the YubiKey is being used as a portable air gapped system. If it’s plugged into a networked system, it's not air-gapped. And if an air-gapped system is connected to any device which has previously been connected to a non-air-ga
906.
by eadmund 5y ago
It really is a pity that Guix didn't go for Common Lisp instead — it does allow for gradual typing. And it has standardised a ton of stuff that Guile had to implement on an ad hoc basis.
907.
by eadmund 5y ago
I think you'll find that in the beginning were M-expressions, but they were evil, and were followed by S-expressions, which were and are and ever will be good. SGML and its descendants are okay for document markup. XML for data (as opp
908.
by eadmund 5y ago
> I have been wanting the equivalent for macOS for years. Is it really a macOS-type thing? Emacs is all about tying together everything one can do on a computer into one integrated whole where anything can talk to anything; macOS seems
909.
by eadmund 5y ago
Hate to say that Speed Queens might have gotten worse in the last several years: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/speed-queen-washer/ I do not have one, so do not know how true the article is.
910.
by eadmund 5y ago
Cf. https://systemd.io/HOME_DIRECTORY/
911.
by eadmund 5y ago
Plenty of us who appreciate Linux and Unix are very, very worried about Wayland, which breaks a lot of things we have relied on and used for literal decades, and also seems to have some dubious lacunæ and misfeatures. I am actually optimist
912.
by eadmund 5y ago
> It is opaque because I cannot read, modify or understand what it’s doing without breaking out gdb, heaven forbid I want to alter its behavior in a less than approved way. In this respect I think that systemd is really a victim of the U
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by eadmund 5y ago
'I am altering the deal, pray I do not alter it further.' --Darth Lennart I actually appreciate, now, what systemd is trying to do, but I am not certain why it has to take over home directories and everything else to do it. And I
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by eadmund 5y ago
'Since March 2020, the federal government has provided $190 billion in pandemic aid to schools …'[0] 'There are 130,930 public and private K-12 schools in the U.S.'[1] $190 billion divided by 130,930 is $1.45 million dol
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by eadmund 5y ago
> I struggle to think of any moment in someone's daily life where they have to write something down. I am finding that life without a smart phone in my pocket is palpably more pleasant — and without a smart phone, the utility of a n
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by eadmund 5y ago
> ultimately if it comes out of a screen you can always capture the output, no amount of DRM will ever prevent this I think that the end goal for the media companies is to add watermarking to all media and require watermark detection on
917.
by eadmund 5y ago
I think there are a fair number of JavaScript devs who really don't appreciate being told that they are on the same ethical plane as, e.g. cigarette designers, which is pretty understandable even if one does think that JavaScript is
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by eadmund 5y ago
> What do you mean here? Griggs v. Duke Power held that if a test has a disparate impact on ethnic minorities, then the burden of proof is on employers to demonstrate that the test is reasonably related to the job. The practical effect
919.
by eadmund 5y ago
> People who live in poverty don't have money to invest. You wrote below this line that your current expenses are $500/month. The poverty line is currently $12,880. Even if you are making one half of that (which is hard to be
920.
by eadmund 5y ago
> My main philosophical gripe is that it doesn't seem to really matter what your major is. "Oh, you got a bachelors in Biology? Well, I guess that's fine. Come work at my tech company in a way that is completely unrelated
921.
by eadmund 5y ago
I think we should remember the villainy and cruelty of their crimes, but I would not say that they are necessarily scum. They committed truly evil acts, and should be punished for them, but they can still repent. Their victims' lives
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by eadmund 5y ago
I don't get it. He seems like an adult talking to adults.
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by eadmund 5y ago
People keep saying that cork taint is a thing, and it's real — but I have never once had a tainted bottle of wine. Either I have no taste, or … it's not that big of a deal. > Plus they seem to be aware of the environmental si
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by eadmund 5y ago
In the U.S., 18–21 year olds cannot legally drink, either: the federal government withholds highway funds from any state which has a drinking age less than 21, so they all raised their drinking ages.
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by eadmund 5y ago
> Then, almost overnight, "abortion" became an issue, and religious beliefs were no longer confined to church. Before that, the political issue churches were supporting was civil rights; a century before that, it was the abolit
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by eadmund 5y ago
Are there many folks who care more for a title than compensation? Granted, a higher title might help one win more compensation when negotiating one's next job, but fundamentally one must back that up. I mean, you could hire me as a
927.
by eadmund 5y ago
I have found the same thing over the years. A lot of times the folks who 'just don't do anything' and 'just don't understand' were doing plenty and understood plenty, I just was too immature to get that at the
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by eadmund 5y ago
First they took the term 'crypto,' which had always referred to cryptography, and now they have taken the term 'web.' I really hope that next year the hype is not about how cryptocurrency can do something or other for p
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by eadmund 5y ago
> There are virologists and immunologists currently exploring the mutation-space of SARS-CoV-2 for nearly all potential mutations that produce a viable virus capable of infecting human cells. Based on that mutation-space, they're tr
930.
by eadmund 5y ago
I agree with you right now, but I wonder if I will change my mind after having had some experience using the new generics. Maybe it will feel more natural then?

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