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by foxfluff 5y ago
Generally speaking I agree.. but having observed human behavior long enough, I don't think it's realistic to break that addiction. People are attracted to free services like flies are to manure, and often these free services are
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I lost my email account to automatic suspension roughly a decade ago. I think they've been evil for a very long time now.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> And why shouldn't they have right to remove such content? They should, but they should also clearly communicate what content they consider acceptable and I think they should also notify the user and give them time to move their th
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I think the difference is that the extent to which a city can do things with your property is governed by law. And it is not in any way similar analogy; this wasn't cleaning up an abandoned account taking up public space, this was a s
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> Your expectations from free service should be zero. So it's ok if someone takes your car the next time you park on a free parking lot? It doesn't work that way in the physical world. I don't see why it should work that
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I think you failed at reading comprehension. I said nothing about the complexity of pledge.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
And they fail in other categories too, e.g. C can be very terse whereas most modern so-called replacements tend towards verbose. For me that's a development exactly in the wrong direction; I'd rather have a more terse C.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I will continue to use C because I haven't seen an appealing alternative.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> The word "portable" means a subset of everything possible. Exactly; for example, C has single precision and double double precision floating point, 64 bit types, and complex arithmetic because every CPU architecture has those
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by foxfluff 5y ago
There's no silver bullet. Pledge on a complex application that does too many things [requests too many permissions] doesn't help much. IMO complexity and churn remain the biggest problems but people are not willing to engage it.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> Was there a zero day in the font renderer? As far as I'm concerned, freetype is another spelling for CVE. There have been multiple high impact vulns. Though it usually seems to require crafted fonts, so I wouldn't be too co
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Ah but haven't you heard that nobody would buy asbestos, let alone from a mine with children? Because the market is rational, ethical, and fully informed. That's in the very definition of free market pitalism.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
The activity makes a big difference for me though. Running for example tends to not have a major impact on appetite.. sometimes I feel like it actually lowers my desire to eat. That's based on relatively short runs though (45-90 mins
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I really like Umineko, and that is the first thing that came to mind from this article. I gotta say the first episode (or was it the first two?) was rather off-putting for me because -- after a slow start -- it pretty much drags you through
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by foxfluff 5y ago
7 lines of K: http://www.nsl.com/k/ray/raya.k
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by foxfluff 5y ago
* HN user who doesn't use a password manager and doesn't sync passwords across devices and doesn't reuse passwords (except on throwaway accounts)
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> But what should make the search people at google really sweat isn't so much that google has deteriorated a bit, but that Bing and DDG have improved so much that they are now on Par. I'd say it's both, but the force that
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by foxfluff 5y ago
It's annoyingly common to have these issues with modern display. I have an older Eizo which won't wake up after going to sleep if you use DisplayPort. Dad recently bought a new monitor (can't remember brand) and it has basi
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by foxfluff 5y ago
And higher, if you didn't mind dropping from 85Hz to 60. The "HD" craze and flat panels that started off with even less than 1080p was hilarious coming from such a CRT.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I also had a 19" CRT that I ran at 1600x1200 most of the time. It was quite sharp, not as sharp as an LCD but not something I would consider blurry. As you say, just the right amount of fuzz for text. The interesting thing is that I
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Adding to com2kid's point (I had a CRT that I ran normally at 1600x1200, 80 or 85Hz), current displays still have problems with blacks. VA suffers black crush / gamma shift, IPS glows. Both suck in a way that CRTs did not. Don&
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I probably wouldn't mind it if were the lingua franca in computing.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
if (!isascii(c)) panic("stupid user");
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Sure, I'm not contesting that there's a market for it. Going along that line of reasoning, there's also a market for a group of experts you can phone and get an answer from at $100 / hour, and so on. But let's not
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I've been wanting[0] more or less the same for a long time now. Ideally the dataset should be public (and distributed) so that you could find bad actors and eliminate them from your network (i.e. when you see a bad result, you can fig
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I like their advice about taking screenshots for posterity though. https://i.imgur.com/upevafi.png
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by foxfluff 5y ago
It's one sided but that's a lot of shills if you think they're shills. Shills with 10-year-old accounts and active posting history that continues to this day. No, I'm pretty sure at least some of them must be authentic
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Yep! There's a massive amount of useful content on the web. A lot of it is just a pain to find right now, because the quality of search is bad and the amount of garbage is a thousandfold greater. It's true that walled gardens ha
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by foxfluff 5y ago
They already exist.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> So, $10/month would be a steal compared to not using a search engine at $0/month. But that's a fantasy dichotomy as long as free search engines exist, and there's plenty of them. If you could somehow change the wor

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