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by endgame 2y ago
They never even tried. You can donate to the top-level Mozilla Foundation but not to Mozilla Corporation, which makes the browser. People said that this was because it was a for-profit corporation. I say "rubbish" - Thunderbird is
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by endgame 2y ago
Nope, I use cash. Besides "and yet, you participate in modern society therefore you must endorse all of its problems" is not a good take, IMHO.
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Lobby groups like the Property Council of Australia were extremely supportive when the public service in New South Wales (a state of Australia) started forcing RTO: https://www.realestatebusiness.com.au/commercial/28416
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by endgame 2y ago
My latest Uber receipt reads: > Due to unanticipated tolls or surcharges on this trip, we’ve adjusted your upfront fare to reflect the actually incurred charges. Please see the receipt breakdown for details.
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by endgame 2y ago
> Australia Don't worry, Australia's going to fix that! By making "harming public confidence in the banking system or financial markets" "serious harm" under the upcoming Communications Legislation Amendment
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by endgame 2y ago
There's also https://bash-org-archive.com/
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by endgame 2y ago
The clarification identifies the mod as TF but the article body still says that it was a mod for Doom.
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by endgame 2y ago
Fantastic article. I think the title does it a disservice — I expected a disappointing chronicle of sexism, but it's full of details and strategy during one of the most interesting and volatile periods of PC gaming history. The article
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by endgame 2y ago
From one of the guys heavily involved in all this bootstrapping stuff: https://lobste.rs/s/fybdug/pulling_linux_up_by_its_bootstrap... > The answer to the question about FORTH is: > well we bootstrapped mult
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by endgame 2y ago
I wasn't around at the time, but surely ASCII was (even if not ubiquitous)? Is there any particular reason that the FS/GS/RS/US (file/group/record/unit separator) characters didn't catch on in this ro
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by endgame 2y ago
This idea of having idealised curves that get sampled at discrete points in time reminds me somewhat of Functional Reactive Programming and its predecessor, Functional Reactive Animation. Were any of the architects familiar with that world
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by endgame 2y ago
And it will be a disgusting barrage upon our senses at all hours of the day and night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs
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by endgame 2y ago
> The average webpage on the internet is so random and terrible it's not even clear how prior LLMs learn anything at all. Perhaps we should stop exposing humans to them, as well?
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by endgame 2y ago
Finishing the C interpreter gave me enough confidence to begin my own, from-scratch, interpreter project. Thank you, Bob.
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by endgame 2y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/03/opinion/covid... https://archive.is/pyJaF
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by endgame 2y ago
Is it possible for consumers to still buy these from overseas? My country seems to have stopped selling them, but I'd love to mail one to a faraway friend.
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by endgame 2y ago
Happens semi-regularly in Australia, too. More often because of fires or floods than network incompetence.
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by endgame 2y ago
This seems very important given how KHTML lead to the current near-monoculture in the browser space.
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by endgame 2y ago
You're underselling it. The bottom floor has vintage hand-cranked calculators that you're allowed to compute with!
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by endgame 2y ago
I think SSB is "Secure Scuttlebutt": http://ssbc.github.io/ssb-db/
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Google's "Find My Device" automatically opts-in; opt-out link does not work(support.google.com)
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I love Bisqwit's older videos, where things were done using a crazy mix of DOSBOX and a TSR that typed code into "that editor". The It's a shame that this video is slightly misnamed - it creates a "portal renderer&q
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by endgame 2y ago
And it's functional, too!
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by endgame 2y ago
And if Haskell isn't your jam, maybe Excel is more to your taste? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH2Je6wUvPs
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by endgame 2y ago
You may want to modernise your script because Bucket ACLs are disabled by default these days: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/about-...
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by endgame 2y ago
Reminds me a bit of "Let's Program a Calculus Student": https://iagoleal.com/posts/calculus-symbolic/
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by endgame 2y ago
GP's talking about Fargate, which is their "serverless" container runtime offering.
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by endgame 2y ago
Haskell seems to be the only language where throwing exceptions at another thread isn't a box of footguns. Anyone know why that is?
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by endgame 2y ago
Even if you build your shared objects with -fvisibility=hidden?
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by endgame 2y ago
But back in those days, you had confidence that the event loop didn't randomly drop things, and you could type ahead of what was on screen with confidence.

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