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by fao_ 6y ago
I can be happy that the FSF exists, admire a number of the goals RMS has strived towards, and still be aghast and horrified by RMS's lack of personal boundaries[1], lack of respect for women[1], and specific pieces of writing that live
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by fao_ 6y ago
> The prompt buffer (previously known as "minibuffer") supports fuzzy completion: you never have to type the suggestion in full. Just type a portion of what you want and the appropriate suggestion should come to the top. Even t
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by fao_ 6y ago
what im really hoping for is extended attributes support again. i use them for a file tagging system i made ( https://gitlab.com/finnoleary/koios ) and dont really want to be on a computer without that
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Except Multics, which predates UNIX, already had a lot of these features but better. https://www.acsac.org/2002/papers/classic-multics.pdf I don't understand how you can honestly, truly say it's "te
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by fao_ 6y ago
Thanks for responding! That wasn't my experience with using enter, but i just tried it and it works, so I'm pretty sure that was just me :) the command being relegated to buffers is useful to know. > - `tab` inserts the curren
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by fao_ 6y ago
i believe that used to be called grey hat hacking
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by fao_ 6y ago
So I compiled the prerelease today. There were a number of hiccups with the process but nothing big, and I managed to get it running. On first load you have a tutorial, and a menu to select the session. There's only one session so it
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by fao_ 6y ago
Then why bring up their deleted account? Clearly, enough people from Japan thought it was real -- so whether this specific case is or is not real, the general atmosphere in Japan is such that they find it likely enough to be real, which b
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by fao_ 6y ago
It's why arithmetical calculation was a role one had. They used an abacus for the calculation of complex sums. https://thatsmaths.com/2019/07/04/what-did-the-romans-ever-d...
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It's literally on archive.is, though. https://archive.is/oTX33 along with their twitter account: https://archive.is/VNQg8
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Hell, if you do it right, you can watch decades of your life just slip away! amazing!
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by fao_ 6y ago
> In fact I would be surprised there would be 170k criminals around the world using a single service I had never heard about, seems very high to me. Do you not think that, perhaps, criminals will know other criminals (I mean we're
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by fao_ 6y ago
Right, but worth noting that raw beef, for example, contains a lot more nutrients than cooked beef[1], and includes most of the essential vitamins you would need to live. Other parts of the animal, like the liver, would provide sources for
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by fao_ 6y ago
Did you actually read the code. I think if they were going to do that it would be a literal sleep instruction rather than a naievely used way of looping over data edit: Akchually, the DRY method of doing this would be to make a function lik
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by fao_ 6y ago
Netflix shuffles media constantly, you have to subscribe to five different streaming sites to watch a show and even then it could disappear next month, and you can't share the account with anyone else. To get good coverage of streami
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by fao_ 6y ago
Really? The offerings I looked at last month (I didn't actually buy one, to put it clearly, because I realised they don't suit my purposes) were zero-setup required. Sonarr/Radarr supposedly allows you to pick media just by t
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by fao_ 6y ago
Or you could switch to renting a seedbox and using plex/jellyfin
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by fao_ 6y ago
> Don't really know what I should think about this to be honest... Ultimately, piracy is the only remaining option. Because the company has decided it's going to brand you a pirate anyway. It costs maybe 11$/mo to hire a s
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by fao_ 6y ago
> That's laughably wrong, go look up how much revenue the Ethereum network is bringing in with smart contract fees. Nobody is using the compute power, though. Can you point to what they are using it for, if you have an example?
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“Keep the internet beautiful” – A Declaration of War (1994)(beej.us)
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It's media critique, it's not saying that everyone in the world is beautiful and unaroused, just that the way the world has changed has led to media showing beautiful people that aren't horny, and how that affects our view of
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by fao_ 6y ago
I expected a reddit-style article, but this was actually some good media critique
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by fao_ 6y ago
I wasn't, the point I was making is if their website lags like hell -- for a tiny video, what does that say about their software's efficiency, and how much they care about such things?
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by fao_ 6y ago
On the contrary, benchmarking on older computers ensures efficiency on newer systems: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/927593460642615296.html
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You would have to get a 10 years before / after comparison for it to prove anything. Also, comparing a university against itself is interesting but not at all noteworthy, for bonus points to make the paper actually useful, you could co
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by fao_ 6y ago
> You need a good way to tell that you're on target. The way to do that is to use the vision system only as a search radar, to find that there's something to shoot at and approximately where it is. Then point the laser near the
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by fao_ 6y ago
Related, my favourite thread to come out of the queer tech circles: "Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983" https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/927593460642615296.html
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by fao_ 6y ago
I'm sorry, what are PEPs, again?
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by fao_ 6y ago
> or that my first attempt didn't quite pan out as expected. Actually that's still important, it's just important from an architecture perspective.
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by fao_ 6y ago
> Current accessibility APIs are tightly coupled (conceptually and logically) to APIs that originated in the 80s: Win32 and Cocoa. You forgot AT-SPI2: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Accessibility/AT-SPI2/

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