eredengrin

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by eredengrin 6y ago
Yes, the creation of the Tolkien universe most certainly has the most direct inspiration from Christian myth, but to say the entire thing is based on it is a much stronger statement. Once the earth is formed to the point of the arrival of t
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by eredengrin 6y ago
Yeah that quote does sound familiar, but I'd say that's a bit different than "the whole mythology is directly based on christian mythology". I think the moral framework of his world certainly has strong roots in the Chri
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by eredengrin 6y ago
> Also the whole mythology is directly based on christian mythology That sounds like a pretty big stretch to me, could you elaborate? I agree there are most certainly elements from Christianity in it, but claiming the entire thing is bas
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by eredengrin 6y ago
> > OpenBSD has an even stronger security culture. > BIG citation needed. While it may be debatable how much of an effect the OpenBSD security culture has on real world security outcomes, it is pretty obvious to most people I think
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by eredengrin 6y ago
Yeah in my view there are 2 main problems with ads. One is as you say - collecting data profiles of people that are shared around with no respect for the user's preferences. The other is they are an unpleasant experience (resource hogs
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by eredengrin 6y ago
I don't use brave myself, but I appreciate that it's actually taking serious efforts trying to fix the problem of ads. I'm kind of a little surprise hn seems to be so blind to this issue, considering the number of people here
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by eredengrin 6y ago
Yes, from what I've seen I'm not too impressed with the dev who made that commit, but really, now you're going to generalize that and call the entire group of maintainers a "den of vipers"? Who do you think reverted
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by eredengrin 7y ago
In addition to these, I've also noticed outlook365 (use it for accessing work email) gives a very minimal interface to the point of being nearly unusable with a FreeBSD user agent. Switch to a more popular one and I get full function
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by eredengrin 7y ago
Okay, so maybe don't opt in to them in the first place then?
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by eredengrin 7y ago
Neat, another weapon to use against emacs in the vim vs emacs war.
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by eredengrin 7y ago
huh, that's actually the first time I've heard a somewhat reasonable answer for that question. I wonder why pep8 gives such a terrible reason (editors that show newline chars) when there's actually a somewhat defensible reaso
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by eredengrin 7y ago
Why is this an invalid complaint? Are they complaining because it's not 120, or because it's significantly larger than 80? 120 means that you can't comfortably split two files on the same monitor (on most monitors), which is
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by eredengrin 7y ago
Except that pep8 doesn't call for 80-column limit?[1] Or am I missing something? It seems pretty clearly to request 79 to me. This is actually one of my pet peeves about pep8, why can't it just be 80 like everyone else? [1] https
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by eredengrin 7y ago
Really? I see quite a few pieces of well known and often recommended software on that list. Dolphin, KeePassXC, Krita, OBS, Telegram, VirtualBox, and wireshark for the more common ones. There's some less well known gems in the list as
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by eredengrin 7y ago
Without more context, saying that matrix is not e2e encrypted is just as much of a lie as saying it is.
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by eredengrin 7y ago
Also this line > We conclude that despite wide variations in BMI and percent body fat among ultramarathon participants, the faster men have lower percent body fat values than the slower men, and finishers have lower percent body fat valu
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by eredengrin 7y ago
> Running burns about 100 Calories / mile[0] (62.5 Calories / km). Okay, at least that blog post is written by someone with a phd, but you can't really take this at face value either. It's probably reasonably true in
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by eredengrin 7y ago
The way Aldi works I wouln't expect it to ever completely take over the market. Its selection is not intended to be big enough to do so. Generally you buy 80% or more of your stuff at Aldi, then go to the grocery store right next door
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by eredengrin 7y ago
One other thing you didn't mention is that they don't accept credit cards. Debit or cash only, to avoid the extra fees. Although I've heard this may have changed recently, but at least for a while all the ones I went to never
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by eredengrin 7y ago
I've been to quite a few Aldis and the flow in all of them is that the items get scanned and immediately placed in a cart, then there's a separate bagging area (a large counter along the wall near the exit door, a couple feet acro
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by eredengrin 7y ago
Maybe if you went to an Aldi you would change your mind. I generally prefer self checkout as well for a few reasons, all of which are not relevant for Aldi: 1) It's faster for self checkout because the line moves faster (one line for m
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by eredengrin 7y ago
The problem is, do I really want to pay $1/week for that New York Times subscription if I only read articles from them once every 3 weeks? And the funny thing is, the inconvenience of subscribing is actually more of a deterrent to me t