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by fivre 3y ago
Alt-d is superior, since it's a left-hand shortcut! Even though the keys _are_ there I have no muscle memory for the modifiers on my right hand.
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by fivre 3y ago
Alt-d is, AFAIK, equivalent to a menubar shortcut (like Alt-f) that just happens to go to not quite a menu. None of the others close on repeat, so it doesn't either. UX consistency, though maybe the sort that doesn't matter as muc
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by fivre 3y ago
it me, missing the purpose of reusing a concise term that suggests a basic notion of a public setting where varying people interact for its failing to exactly mimic the interaction patterns of such a setting in physical european cities meta
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by fivre 3y ago
software as auteur work succeeds when it's entering a vacuum. if you're legit breaking open a field that's never been exposed to it before, sure, go wild. those fields are fewer and far between nowadays unlike creative indust
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by fivre 3y ago
https://thenewpress.com/books/theory-of-drone is a neat read from the (not that much) earlier period where drone warfare was asymmetric, trying to contextualize it in the broader history of warfare.
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by fivre 3y ago
I have had this concern raised, and I'm unclear how, if you adhere to that model of compatibility, that you don't effectively dispense with semver altogether and make every release a major version bump, as every change is breaking
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by fivre 3y ago
opinions on the merits aren't necessarily important in assessing the behavior of a regulatory agency crypto can hypothetically be every bit a brilliant new wheel paradigm as the marketers would suggest (it isn't, but whatever) and
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by fivre 3y ago
If you consider funneling a non-negligible fraction of US medical costs into paying for Intersystems Cache licenses fascinating, then yes! Those fuckers are well aware of their captive markets and extract rent like no other. The licensing c
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by fivre 3y ago
eh, not really. even if you have a CS degree you forget how to do typical algo hard problems quickly after working in industry because you so rarely need to do them. the CS degree lets me _recognize_ when there's a problem with a parti
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by fivre 3y ago
twitter removing third-party client access sure did kill it on mobile for me though. i can't be arsed to load the mobile web UI, it lacks the features i liked in my chosen third-party client, and it was easy enough to just wait around
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by fivre 3y ago
i don't think the author is the source of this post, but i am amused at posting this article on what is, in effect, a niche subreddit. codebase may not be the same, but the UX is, well, rather similar
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by fivre 4y ago
Yes. In general, DMCA was written by rightsholder lawyers early in the internet's lifetime to maximize their power and minimize their responsibilities or damages if they abuse it. The prevalence of systems like Youtube's contentID
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by fivre 4y ago
very much so imo. the standard formatter is one of the things go very much does right my protests against requiring this, as additional friction for our OSS contributors especially, unfortunately fell on deaf ears. unfortunately i just don&
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by fivre 4y ago
a lot of audio stuff is designed with the expectation that you'll be binding the control to a MIDI controller if it's important, so in that sense the skeumorphism makes a lot of sense. if the VST knob is just a visual representati
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by fivre 4y ago
it me, the incontrovertible proof that is an 11s clip of somebody dressed like an 80s action film ninja inside a fuckin random-ass hyundai
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by fivre 4y ago
TicketMaster has used their market dominance to be display incompetence in customer service with no consequences. Emailed me a "make sure to have your tickets at the show, we mailed them" the day of, sending me into a panic becaus
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by fivre 4y ago
So what, they reinvented OKCupid profiles circa 2010, but self-published?
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by fivre 4y ago
if you want to see how complex and overbuilt it is, https://www.youtube.com/c/ConnectionsMuseum has coverage of all the old PSTN equipment you could ever want i can't claim to _understand_ it half the time, but th
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by fivre 4y ago
screenshots of text on twitter exist primarily because people still want to post long segments of text on a platform that explicitly disallows it. screenshots of text are worse than actual text in every way i can think of. they do not: - al
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by fivre 4y ago
there was that one time laura loomer chained herself to the twitter building, but that was more a one-person publicity stunt than a protest. this does seem about par for the course for Epic installs, which suffer a great deal of typical ent
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by fivre 4y ago
> we shouldn’t be the ones making that call Well, who should? Is anything with the authority going to or even inclined to in the slightest? Cloudflare has maintained a lobbying/policy department since quite early on, but I'd ar
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by fivre 4y ago
> We don't and won't talk about these efforts publicly because we don't do them for marketing purposes in a post that further goes out of its way to say, "look at these morally good things we're doing (Galileo an
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by fivre 4y ago
rather ironic given that, in at least some instances i use, the primary mode of using slack (to the point that some members will complain if you violate it) is as a shitty forum. most discussions are segregated into threads; there isn'
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by fivre 4y ago
Practical experience working with Telus has been astounding. I have never met a set of system admins so incredibly ignorant of and incapable of using any of the systems they ostensibly run.
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by fivre 4y ago
> [The AMI management tools] exposed just what one needs to achieve while hiding anything about how things were done No, they exposed just what _someone working at Netflix who produces AMIs for Netflix's infrastructure and is requir
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by fivre 4y ago
it exists! https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack
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by fivre 4y ago
Survivorship bias is a thing :) For every 1 person who got a big payout, there are 99 more that just worked themselves to burnout and maybe got a mediocre options payout worth about 1/2 the salary they'd have made at BigCo. This i
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by fivre 4y ago
The media of the day have always had an outsize influence on the format of music. The modern album _exists_ because LPs became available, and the format just kinda persisted because the media after were also limited to a particular length.
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by fivre 4y ago
For some reason op copied the title from an /r/linux submission, where apparently there are aggressive automod settings still in place from a former opinionated mod: https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comment
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by fivre 4y ago
OAuth2 is a suite of protocols and standards you can use to build an auth system from people who have been working on auth systems for a while. it isn't strictly designed for federated auth, and arguably is targeted at internal systems

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