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by handrous 5y ago
It's incredible that two of the front-runner chat programs in 2021 are called Slack and Discord, yet neither name is, AFAIK, related to or inspired by the Church of the Subgenius or Discordianism in any way.
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by handrous 5y ago
Default install Gnome2 Ubuntus, pre-PulseAudio, were the only desktop Linux distros I've used, before or after, from the "it just works" end of the spectrum and with a full-featured DE, that didn't leave me wishing I&#x2
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by handrous 5y ago
The newer butterfly keyboards got all the bad press (for good reason) but a while back I had to use one of the early aluminum models from when they were still thick enough to hold disc drives, for the first time in many years, and damn, I&#
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by handrous 5y ago
The Franco-Prussian/Franco-German war ended about eight years earlier, in which France lost territory to Germany (Alsace-Lorraine). Germany was very much ascendant at the time, unified and having recently besieged Paris itself, so that
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by handrous 5y ago
I use the "m." subdomain on some sites on purpose, when on the desktop—though not on Wikipedia, as they cut so much content out of the "m" site, it's awful, I don't even like it on mobile, though if it actual
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by handrous 5y ago
The only thing I like about tech tutorial videos is that you see everything they do, including stuff the presenter might not have thought to mention. If you're deep into some unfamiliar territory, this can be very helpful. Otherwise,
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by handrous 5y ago
I've not tried a straight broiler method—I do stovetop start, then a few minutes of straight bake, then just a little broiler—but when I do pan pizza I tend to make a thicker crust and pile things a bit higher. Bet if I made a pizza
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by handrous 5y ago
I've not noticed trouble with stones and a fast turnaround—bigger problem's the loss of heat in the air, in the time it takes to remove one and put another in—but may be that I'm just not watching close enough. I'll keep
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by handrous 5y ago
I've decided good bread at home is too much damn work. I've done the sourdough thing, I've done Flour, Water, Salt, Yeast , I've done baguettes the slow & hard, correct way. I've put a lot of time into it. Re
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by handrous 5y ago
> Also: this americanism to refer to Pizza PIE. Thats Chicago, and is abhorrent sloppy nonsense. First person I knew IRL who regularly referred to it as "pie" (to the amusement of the midwesterners he was working with—that&#x27
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by handrous 5y ago
Lots of US ovens will hit 550°F without modification, and with a stone your pizza's cooked in ~7 minutes at that temp. It'll still be damn good. Fancy and gourmet and authentic-anything? No, but damn good. It'll even come out
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by handrous 5y ago
Guess I got lucky. I know there's some variability in performance of Roku devices, which can extend to stability of applications. I've got two nearly-identical but different-brand TVs with embedded Rokus, and the older TCL one is
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by handrous 5y ago
A simple & lazy bread machine dough (they have dough settings) will produce a damn good pie, given quality toppings. Best if you can rest it at room temp for a few hours after the machine's cycle finishes, but also OK if you can&#x
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by handrous 5y ago
> C++ (by literally everyone else that does not develop in C++) Also, those who do.
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by handrous 5y ago
I picked up 0.1-and-some-change Bitcoin, largely from "faucets" and a tiny amount of collaborative mining. Basically free, a few hours of screwing-around being my only real "investment". I neglected the wallet, since it
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by handrous 5y ago
I run it in docker on my file-server machine, with an extremely lazy .sh file with always-restart enabled, so I just run once it and then it comes back up on reboot, too, nothing fancy, just manually change the version number on the image a
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by handrous 5y ago
> I honestly wish there was an open source player like Kodi that could be used to play back all these services, and could be customized to not suck. Heh, if there's a way to customize Kodi's UI to not suck, I've yet to fin
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by handrous 5y ago
> I used to be a big believer, now I'm not sure why I'm still a customer. Agreed. Been with them since the early days (had the DVD service before that), and had only them (and Prime Video, but I rarely used it) until a couple
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by handrous 5y ago
Weird, must be platform-specific. HBO and Hulu are fine on Roku. In fact, after subscribing to a bunch more services than I used to (I was Netflix-only for a really long time) I'm probably going to cancel all but those two, because the
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by handrous 5y ago
Further, I hate Amazon's interface for managing channels, let alone Prime Video (which is also terrible—shit-tier streaming services most people have never heard of manage to do better). Like almost everything else they make, the UI is
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by handrous 5y ago
> I would expect you to be an outlier and that more technologists would prefer a device they can program with the same APIs as the manufacturer without any gatekeeping and non-buggy web access most of all. I doubt most "technologist
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by handrous 5y ago
> I want to know why these folks won't LEAVE shitty redneck states and head to places with more opportunity. Being poor near family and friends is about 100x better than being poor away from them. That network can provide tens of th
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by handrous 5y ago
He eternally curses whole cities in Matthew because they got sick of him bugging people on the street and told him to leave. Shrug The Bible's pretty weird.
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by handrous 5y ago
> Not according to many on HN who argue that it is precisely why they purchased an iOS device instead of an Android one. raises hand It's not the only reason, but it is a reason. With government asleep at the wheel on regulating
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by handrous 5y ago
> Certainly, the vast majority of people in rich countries can afford to care more about fashion (including bubble color) than functionality, I've been an iOS and Android developer—as in, paid to do it. Was an Android phone user bef
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by handrous 5y ago
I'm sure some that are good-enough and not loud exist, and some classrooms probably have them, but I can also say for a fact that some schools that have managed to get ahold of good purifiers for every classroom haven't also manag
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by handrous 5y ago
This is less-bad than the real thing. [EDIT] I think I figured out the main difference: this lets me imagine that more than 10% of the "content" isn't also SEO garbage, and has actual value. [EDIT AGAIN] What it really needs
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by handrous 5y ago
I get that. I happened to catch an actual, no-bullshit white supremacist recruitment program on a fairly high-powered (like, literally—they have quite a bit of broadcast power) local AM radio station a few months back (I checked their sched
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by handrous 5y ago
> I still think you guys are bullshitting me. What prevents me from looking up phrases from your post on the internet, pick out some social groups that also use that phrase and claim you are associated with it? There isn't even a wa
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by handrous 5y ago
Picking very difficult, specific topics like this to be interested in as a kid is pretty common. Sticking with it—that's unusual.

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