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by firebaze 4y ago
X11 offers at least accessibility. The wayland team, to me, seems to be hyper-focused on reducing the duties of a GUI system to only providing basic interfaces. They didn't care about usability, accessibility and practicality, and they
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by firebaze 4y ago
What's going on here? * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35217604 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35217490 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35158894
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Radar Navigation and Maneuvering Board Manual [pdf](moboard.com)
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by firebaze 4y ago
> On one hand, it aligns with my ethics to shut-down the operations of sanctioned companies to minimize their harm. Only if the sanctions are warranted by ethics. Which they are not, in this case - there isn't anything online I can
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by firebaze 4y ago
To be frank, this sounds like the feature I'd like to avoid most. I'd rather accept an OOM warning instead of dropping background tabs. I don't even use that much tabs, around 30 at most, but this is the thing I use them fo
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by firebaze 4y ago
Could you educate me about the difference? As far as I know, commonly lobbying means funding the whole party instead of an individual person. Also, lobbyists are usually required to register somewhere, which seems to be mainly a ceremonial
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Unimpeded permeation of water through helium-leak-tight graphene-based membranes(science.org)
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Why is 1Password sign-in to new device secure without MFA?(security.stackexchange.com)
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by firebaze 4y ago
This is probably true, but I honestly wonder why. Windows is a commodity as far as I understand, which you can get for free with not-so-hidden tricks, which are also apparently approved by Microsoft themselves. O365 etc. survive due to corp
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by firebaze 4y ago
If you consider this being poetry, you're on the way to burn-out in my eyes. Try to avoid to expect "feeling magic" in a job altogether - if it is there it's a dream job, if not, it's just a job and you should look
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Status Labs (reputation management company)(en.wikipedia.org)
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Is Germany in danger of repeating its Nazi past? (2020)(newrepublic.com)
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Is mathematics politically and culturally neutral?(philosophy.stackexchange.com)
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by firebaze 4y ago
I suppose I'm overlooking something, since I cannot follow this line of reasoning. When I buy a book, I usually don't know its contents beforehand (the exceptions are I had copied it somehow in my earlier years, and now I want to
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by firebaze 4y ago
Another Elon alias on HN revealed! /s
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by firebaze 4y ago
The root of all evil is someone claiming to know the root of all evil. Snarky, but in my experience 6 sigma true.
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by firebaze 4y ago
Brave search "oxygen not included lava steam turbine".
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by firebaze 4y ago
How do you come to this conclusion? Sincere question. I'm not posting personal anecdotes to support or disprove your argument, I have an opinion, and it may or may not overlap with yours.
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Fauci says herd immunity possible by fall, ‘normality’ by end of 2021 (2021)(news.harvard.edu)
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by firebaze 4y ago
Quite probably only if we're ignoring the z-axis (depth), at least when talking over minerals. I think it will be a game-changer if a few km of rock won't be a hindrance anymore. If that ever comes, that is.
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by firebaze 4y ago
Brave search. Search for brave search, and you're back to when google was good. https://search.brave.com/ (Not affiliated with brave at all, just really impressed by their search engine)
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How to Survive in the Alaskan Wilderness (2017)(alaskawild.org)
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by firebaze 4y ago
Netflix should layoff managers instead, in my circle 5 of 8 recently cancelled their subscriptions. Mostly caused by lack of interesting content.
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by firebaze 4y ago
"Brave users tend to skew right-wing" wtf. Such a reductionist opinion on HN not flagged already. Unfortunately, reality doesn't pick sides on the reason why someone chooses some tool. It may be due to right-wingism, sure. Bu
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by firebaze 4y ago
Could you tl'dr? My naive reading of your comment doesn't help.
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by firebaze 4y ago
Either you're kidding, or you're really ignoring the fact that "the enemy" will pursue the same? I'm slowly losing trust in humanity (ok, I'ma slow learner).
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by firebaze 4y ago
Did that surprise you?
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by firebaze 4y ago
If we extended that line of thought into current times, what would that lead to?
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Are Journalists Ignorant? (1922)(archive.macleans.ca)
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What would it take to show that the speed of light is not constant?(physics.stackexchange.com)
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