hilyen

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by hilyen 4y ago
Oh Crazy. It is so frustrating, for people with ADHD, in order to have our brains stimulated enough to keep focus, we have to read and hear it at the same time, so our option is to buy it twice.
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by hilyen 4y ago
Rather them work on natural reading of the books with Text To Speech. People with disabilities such as Dyslexia, ADHD, partial or total Blindness have to hobble on with the terrible TTS available. You have to select the text to get it to re
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by hilyen 4y ago
the firebombing i am discussing is this one: https://exhibits.stanford.edu/saytheirnames/feature/black-wa... and the battle of blair mountain
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by hilyen 4y ago
Your ego is getting in the way of seeing the facts friend. Just because it happened before your lifetime doesn’t make it somehow less of an atrocity. US was founded on slavery and genocide. Now we outsource genocide for oil, and do slave la
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by hilyen 4y ago
Not a fan of any authoritarianism, but USA could also be described the same way. We have massive data warehouses that just collect everything, phone calls, texts, internet packets. We just have different owners, but its the same game. If yo
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by hilyen 4y ago
If they're still hashing files, its not end to end. An anecdote, an activist had a document in their Google Drive. It was not something people high up wanted being distributed. It was deleted not just from their account, but platform w
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by hilyen 4y ago
If only our government wasn't beholden to corporate power, they'd enforce the union busting laws. They know that if enough big companies become unionized, the workers would be able to exert democratic corporate power and influence
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by hilyen 4y ago
Code isn't going to solve anything unless the people deciding on what to code are the people who are directly affected by it. Code today written by America's engineers is dictated top down by their CEO's or board who are only
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by hilyen 4y ago
> The instrument can look for methane in the same way. “It turns out that methane also has a spectral signature in the same wavelength range, and that’s what has allowed us to be sensitive to methane,” EMIT principal investigator Robert
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by hilyen 4y ago
100% I think my original photo is a bit oversaturated. The real issues I see are where it makes blue things brown and red things green.
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by hilyen 4y ago
I ran a test with a photo I took if people are curious. It does a great job for guessing, but of course there is room for improvement. https://i.postimg.cc/Y9dH4GxW/palette-fm-test.jpg
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by hilyen 4y ago
Github makes money from private repo subscriptions, Sourceforge was ad based. Also Github focuses on source code hosting, a lot / most Sourceforge projects just hosted the release files to a project. The quality of the site went down h
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by hilyen 4y ago
thanks
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by hilyen 4y ago
thanks
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by hilyen 4y ago
I don't think this is working for me, I just see the radio, map and status windows and the blue logo background. Am I supposed to see something else?
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by hilyen 4y ago
So whomever is majority gets to decide what information is trustworthy? I understand it's supposed to utilize sensors and all sorts of criteria to come up with a logical & reasonable trustworthiness check. But what if one of your m
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macOS/iOS – Privacy/Security Permissions should allow setting expiration
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by hilyen 4y ago
Utter bullsh1t. Google needs to be broken up.
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by hilyen 4y ago
I look forward to new frameworks being easier to use and helpful. These new Frontend frameworks, React, Vue, Svelte, just made things 100 times more complicated. Sure they're useful for SPA's and certain use cases, but the majorit
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by hilyen 4y ago
It doesn't.
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by hilyen 4y ago
A lot of people talking about Uber, so I'll mention that with Uber, you use your own vehicle. That vehicle loses value the more you work for Uber with it. Uber is extracting that value from your vehicle and using it to profit from. Ube
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by hilyen 4y ago
The gaslighting. The usage of energy isn't the cause, its the source of the energy. They did this with recycling too, its the individual's responsibility to save the planet, not the companies packaging their products terribly to s
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by hilyen 4y ago
Not directly related, but I dream of a future where laws are published on GIT. New laws, or updates get pull requested, approval is voted on, then merged to master.
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by hilyen 4y ago
Even with Apple's Lossless format, it doesn't matter much because most people are listening through Bluetooth, which does not support lossless transmission.
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by hilyen 4y ago
wait till you hear about generational trauma. do we have trauma from the entire history of our ancestors? :|
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by hilyen 4y ago
read this https://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/themes/compa... https://www.history.com/news/americas-largest-labor-uprising...
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by hilyen 4y ago
People need to stand up to the corruption and wealth inequality, or this isn't just some far off concern, it will happen. These big companies are quite happily enjoying the same scenario internationally where workers live at their fact
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by hilyen 4y ago
Zoning laws are stupid as hell, it prevents upward movement of the middle-class because in order to afford to rent a space to do business in the approved locations in California, you must be a millionaire. Him doing work in his backyard was
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by hilyen 4y ago
You can enter a nearby address by hand just as simply.
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by hilyen 4y ago
Came to say this, I have GPS disabled globally on my laptop.

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