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by gorgoiler 2mo ago
Thank you for the quote. Here is the verse in full… In Memoriam AHH, Tennyson I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods: I envy not the beast th
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by gorgoiler 2mo ago
It is odd to see a blog post that cares so much about typography and yet uses a pair of hyphens in place of an em-dash. Interesting idea though. The title examples feel a lot like Apple Garamond from the turn of the century, Think differen
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by gorgoiler 2mo ago
The thing I like most about your post is it has prompted me to read an example of a user script. Thanks! In the excludes, did you mean *.bank.com, or *bank.com? Or maybe even *bank*.*!
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by gorgoiler 2mo ago
I wish libinput gave the option for pointer inertia, where the pointer glides to a gradual rather than a hard halt after you stop moving it. I’m limited to a trackpad these days and it’s a really nice feature on my Steamdeck that I’d love
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by gorgoiler 2mo ago
To be fair, there have been a few democratic developments since the founding fathers were around. 27 at the last count.
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by gorgoiler 2mo ago
Another reading is that the US is exceptional not because of any qualitative measure. It is the exception to all other countries, by definition, because it is the country where Anthropic is HQd. China ends up being “bad” not based on objec
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by gorgoiler 2mo ago
If everyone has access to the same offensive tools, everyone is able to run their own pentests and patch themselves before the bad guys get to them. It’s like a vaccine where you get to try a medication based on the original pathogen by per
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by gorgoiler 2mo ago
Debian Airport is debating whether to allow aircraft to land on autopilot. On the one hand it’s nice that autopilot gives more people the chance to fly, and it lets experienced pilots fly more often. On the other hand, Debian Airport has,
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by gorgoiler 2mo ago
The counter argument: dinosaurs were around for a staggering amount of time, no pun intended. 165 million years is reasonably long enough to ensure they left behind some nests, bones, and a feather or two. Modern humans have been around f
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by gorgoiler 3mo ago
I sort of agree with your analogy but in another sense, think of Firefox. Could I have made it myself? No! Am I grateful that I can have the output of Mozilla’s internal efforts — the browser source code — so that I can at least tweak it a
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by gorgoiler 3mo ago
Incredibly depressing, but a good and important thing to read! Not to sound overly cheerful, but shout out to my Makita DHP484 combo drill/driver and 100 piece bit set that, for a low three figure price, is far more powerful and capabl
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by gorgoiler 3mo ago
I tried searching for Flatbush on streeteasy.com and typing “Fla” into the neighborhood typeahead gave me: Chelsea [blank] Flatiron Murray Hill Flatbush Delete the three letters and search for “Bush”: Chelsea Chelsea
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by gorgoiler 3mo ago
I bought an iBook G3 specifically for running Debian back in the early 2000s. It worked absolutely perfectly and one of the huge features I miss was that the small option key to the right of the space bar was converted to a middle mouse b
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by gorgoiler 3mo ago
You should write up and publish your notes on how to fabricate connectors from cat5 wire, in the field. It would be a hit.
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by gorgoiler 3mo ago
As much as I would like to “evolve”, I don’t want to buy an RTX5090, I don’t want to run a model trained on stolen IP, and I don’t want to pay a monthly subscription to a tech bro. I suspect that I’ll never work in this industry ever again
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by gorgoiler 3mo ago
Company IT policies really got it the wrong way around with “bring your own device”. My personal phone is the last device where I would want them to have a presence. Conversely, having them manage a laptop and workstation for me is never
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by gorgoiler 3mo ago
Comments like this make me really worry for the future of Hacker News. Here we are, on a seemingly informative thread, and you’ve jumped in with baseless political propaganda no doubt designed to influence the upcoming election. His honour
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by gorgoiler 3mo ago
In general (I’m not saying this is the case with this project) if you don’t have their prompt history and you can’t re-run the LLM “compilation” yourself, is it open source? It feels a bit more like those “source available” projects where
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by gorgoiler 3mo ago
I will show you fear in a handful of dust
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by gorgoiler 3mo ago
I recommend my own personal democracy metric: your level of democracy is proportional to how easily you can shout “moron!” at your representative and have them hear you. Do you know who they are, can you find them at a public meeting, and
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by gorgoiler 3mo ago
Commoditize your opponents USP then eat up their engineering talent / silicon / real estate when they fail, perhaps? I’ll be the first to admit it seems ambitious / implausible to try to (1) undercut the megalabs (2) move eve
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by gorgoiler 3mo ago
Capitalism works great for shoes. You pay the proletariat for their labor and they labor away in your shoe factory. The shoe economy ticks over on scarcity. The knowledge economy is different. It’s hard to see how the system works in a w
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by gorgoiler 3mo ago
Interesting to see that on Desktop, Firefox (5.8%) just overtook Safari (5.0%) for third place. It doesn’t feel statistically significant but it’s a bit of data at least. (I’m a big Firefox fan and idealist.)
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by gorgoiler 3mo ago
Have you ever lost a laptop, through theft or coffee spill or mainboard failure or just accidentally wiping something? I have three machines now: two laptops that syncthing to a mini pc that sends snapshots offsite. Losing access to one la
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by gorgoiler 3mo ago
I think you’ve nailed why Robin Williams was a great actor . The therapist character absolutely has lived all of these experiences, albeit in fiction. The writing and delivery makes them real. The article is saying a good, homemade break
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by gorgoiler 3mo ago
You absolute bloody gem. Brilliant. Thank you :)
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by gorgoiler 3mo ago
Some things in life happen for the very last time and we never realize it. Where were you when Jim Maxwell interrupted the test match coverage, for the final time, to declare that “listeners on long wave will now hear the shipp-ing four-ca
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by gorgoiler 3mo ago
Because physical movement is intuitively transitive. Going from A to B then B to C is the same as going from A to C. The journey from Y to Z might feel more tiring than the journey from A to B, but only if you do them all in one day :)
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by gorgoiler 3mo ago
The rules are well intentioned. The policies stem from not standing up to bullies. In my experience: 1/ Some top-level authority writes down a rule saying “as of 2021, it is forbidden to have red pencils”. 2/ The authority might
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by gorgoiler 3mo ago
How is enforcement supposed to work? The firmware narcs pull your printer over and checksum your SD cards against permitted firmware? Or they scan it for illegal gun-algorithms?

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