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by floren 3y ago
> the content you find on there is pretty much exactly what you would expect Mostly blog posts about Gemini and Gemini software, in my experience... Maybe it's time for Mercury, an even simpler protocol: you open a TCP connection, t
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by floren 3y ago
I think a big problem is that Maps' bicycle routing would prefer to send you down a 55mph 4-lane street with a "sharrow" in the right lane, because that's a "bike friendly street", instead of the 25mph quiet re
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by floren 3y ago
"http get but we chopped off the low order byte of the return code" is not sufficient or necessary to implementing a non-Googlized web.
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by floren 3y ago
Hacker News Syndrome involves saying "externalities" to a pathological extent.
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by floren 3y ago
They're not trying to optimize so the kid can be a profession violinist -- god forbid, there's hardly any money there at all! No, the idea is to just do things which make the kid look different on a college application. That'
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by floren 3y ago
Good point!
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by floren 3y ago
Well, for starters, if you witness a hit and run and don't note the EXACT time along with the plate number, you're outta luck.
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by floren 3y ago
You know what's at least as common on SO? "I don't understand the thing you're asking, so I'll pretend it's the XY problem and tell you about something I do understand"
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by floren 3y ago
Living in the SF area, I'm still considering one because you can bring it inside a lot easier than a bicycle and theft is a huge concern here. It would be a good compliment to BART, I think.
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by floren 3y ago
https://zombo.com/ You can do anything at X.com, anything at all!
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by floren 3y ago
Sorry dang... instead of calling Walter a bootlicker, would it have been more acceptable to post something like the following? "Walter has a noted tendency to come racing into any thread involving labor disputes, stumbling over himself
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by floren 3y ago
I was thinking of Vikings as well.
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by floren 3y ago
Yeah historically raiders have been unable to acquire large boats to carry out their raiding.
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by floren 3y ago
Yep, 9term from plan9port.
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by floren 3y ago
Ah, I've found my new terminal font: https://building-m.net/xbackbone/jOGE6/sUGEqePe74/raw.png
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by floren 3y ago
I was asking myself the same, trying to decide if the paper had been AI-generated as some sort of meta-"Gotcha!"
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by floren 3y ago
Anytime you think, "ah, the solution is this thing from Ready Player One", step back and remember the following: - that book was set in a shitty gig economy dystopia, even if the main character managed to personally get rich in th
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by floren 3y ago
> When you get a Google phone that already has Google's browser installed, and it works relatively well, why would you change? I know you're speaking in the context of the general public, but I've found that uBlock on Fire
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by floren 3y ago
It was basically a pragmatic choice. I figured the following: - For most of the site, hand-jamming HTML works fine, because I have a small number of pages outside the blog. - For the blog, I wanted easy authoring, thus Markdown. I figured i
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by floren 3y ago
My personal website is an odd mix of static and dynamic; that is, it's mostly static, but the blog portion is dynamic. When you hit a blog URL, it fetches a Markdown file from the disk, converts to HTML, and then jams that HTML into a
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by floren 3y ago
If you had to wait for all pedestrians to be out of the crosswalk, there's plenty of places where turning would be essentially impossible -- and there's an argument to be made that anywhere with that much foot traffic ought to be
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by floren 3y ago
FairEmail is extremely good. It even does PGP in a pretty reasonable way. After a couple weeks, the $6 "unlock everything" purchase was a no-brainer.
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by floren 3y ago
Claws, and Wanderlust in emacs. FairEmail on Android
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by floren 3y ago
> Sadly they immediately remodeled and took the speak-easy out. Well sure, gotta get that basement unit... bar & pool table out, vinyl flooring & Ikea in!
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by floren 3y ago
The grape growers dehydrated grape juice and sold it in bricks as "instant juice", with instructions: "After dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, do not place the liquid in a jug away in the cupboard for twenty days, be
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by floren 3y ago
> Yuengling is just a cheaply made lager that’s really no better than Budweiser. Now, maybe in terms of production methods, but I've consumed plenty of Bud and absolutely gallons of Yuengling, and Yuengling stands apart. It's n
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7 points by floren 3y ago|3 comments
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by floren 3y ago
Any forwarding host recommendations? I've long contemplated self-hosting my main email but the deliverability has always been a worry. I've also got a 10 year old VPS whose IP presumably has a pretty good reputation by this point
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by floren 3y ago
My setup is a little unusual with the shenanigans to allow multiple clients to access a single Bridge instance, but "run Bridge on your Windows desktop and point Thunderbird at it" is a pretty well-advertised use-case in their own
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by floren 3y ago
Ah, but somebody could man-in-the-middle your request and change it around so it looks like I said some really dumb stuff (dumber than what I actually said, I mean)

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