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by fao_ 6y ago
> Has tags. You could build this into the command script that's currently the top post, I wrote a program for universal file-system supported tags: https://finnoleary.net/koios-tutorial.html
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by fao_ 6y ago
I mean segregating mouse actions. So: Drag, Click, etc. Also handling selection events and so on. I've been using love2d, which basically means you have to set up those manually. Then building a state machine in lua gets very messy. I
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by fao_ 6y ago
So far with game programming the most difficult problem I've had is input states. There doesn't seem to be a clean way to manage it that doesn't get very messy, very fast. Even though it should be easy to manage since it&#x27
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by fao_ 6y ago
Sure, and that can include unpublished negative data. Ben Goldacre (a Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine in the Department of Primary Care in the University of Oxford{0}), wrote in his book Bad Pharma,
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by fao_ 6y ago
Not just this, but they're assuming that everyone's server setups are enterprise-grade! People regularly still put raspberry pis and other kinds of low-cost computers on the public internet (William Gibson, for example, hosts hack
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by fao_ 6y ago
You're getting downvoted but there's probably a network hook you could add. Maybe if we had plan9 machines or lisp machines, we would be able to do that very easily. I wonder how different computing would look.
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by fao_ 6y ago
Dark Reader adds a good 5 seconds of lag to interacting with the web (including: website loading, website interaction, tab switching) for me.
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by fao_ 6y ago
> Put it back on the shelf or have hundreds of books open on the floor. Which is something people used to do. It was even referenced in movies up until the mid 2000s.
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by fao_ 6y ago
My favourite part is how they're taking something firefox had for years and then removed, and presenting it as an innovation!
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by fao_ 6y ago
If you're exposing a developer instance to the network and it has port knocking deployed, why does it matter? The discoverability of such a service is basically zero. What are the chances of the cracker finding the exact combination of
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by fao_ 6y ago
At my internship, one of the senior developers (a great guy, wish we had stayed in touch more), joked about building a company out of developer's machines (like a, Developer Machines As A Service type thing), so then, software will alw
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by fao_ 6y ago
> means it's going to be much less secure than the already not-that-secure NPM ecosystem. I have only the bare minimum of like, experience with nodejs. Would you mind fleshing out why that is so?
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In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub (2015)(custodians.online)
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by fao_ 6y ago
> but without a promise of practical applications, or at least a convincing argument that they'll find something interesting with this new collider, I find it really hard to justify the price tag. I mean, you can say that about peop
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by fao_ 6y ago
> Lately, the prevailing argument seems to be that we need to shelter in place because virus cases will increase if we don't. That was not the original justification. Of course cases will increase! The question ought to be, will the
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by fao_ 6y ago
It's not the number of people, that's a fallacy. (See: Das Kapital vol 1, and http://www.henrygeorge.org/pchp7.htm ) We have more than enough resources on the planet to feed everyone(0)(1)(2)(3)(4), it is the dist
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by fao_ 6y ago
I mean, there's a fatal flaw in the broken window fallacy anyway: > It is not seen that as our shopkeeper has spent six francs upon one thing, he cannot spend them upon another. It is not seen that if he had not had a window to rep
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by fao_ 7y ago
Maybe you should offer to move this bug report conversation somewhere more appropriate? It seems that this is better suited to a github issues thread
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by fao_ 7y ago
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted when it's the stated position of the systemd developers that they default to breaking those things. They've acknowledged it publicly. Hell, there was even a thread on the exact i
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by fao_ 7y ago
To clarify: By "Barely fluent" I mean to say that the second child mentioned was barely fluent at reading and writing, not that he was barely fluent in English as a whole.
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by fao_ 7y ago
Well this is funny. Originally (a number of years ago) I looked at using MASM, then I was informed to switch to MASM. Then (last year or something) I find out YASM is actually intended to be an improvement to NASM, which I've used for
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by fao_ 7y ago
> What about multiple authorities, but not random individual developers? That's basically how it works with e.g. game stores on PC (though Steam is certainly the largest), or package repositories on Linux. > Like you, I like bein
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by fao_ 7y ago
If you're still interested you might want to ask on TUHS: https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/
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by fao_ 7y ago
Look at how much energy and computer cycles they have to put into just for folding a single protein and then realise that scaling it up at our current level is basically impossible: https://foldingathome.org/
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by fao_ 7y ago
The point here is that youtube is not a harbinger of scientific truth. The point to make here is that Youtube is NOT the New England Journal of Science and should not act like one for just one topic - Coronavirus.
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by fao_ 7y ago
>I am not misrepresenting anything or practicing any form of disinformation. I'm not saying that you are misrepresenting or disinforming people. But, how would you know unless someone told you?
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by fao_ 7y ago
I was home educated from the age of 11, until the age of 18. I knew about 50 - 150 home educated children, among those I knew of only a couple that couldn't read or write. The one, couldn't read or write until the age of 8 or 9, w
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by fao_ 7y ago
> Kinetic energy goes as v^2. 2x speed is a 4x car crash. An extra 10 mph is worse at 60 mph than at 30 mph. (40^2-30^2 vs 70^2-60^2). Same 10 mph change, but 2x increased pain. This should be taught in school. There's very little c
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by fao_ 7y ago
The canonical location of the jargon file is at jargon-file.org, which contains not just ESR's jargon-file, but also pre-ESR versions. Apparently he ripped a lot out that represented LISP and ITS culture, and spun some of the political
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by fao_ 7y ago
I tried three different email addresses (aliases, really) and had the same problem with all of them.

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