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by hjek 8y ago
> > If anything, it sounds too easy, making me think "what's the catch? > This is rude and uncalled for. I think she/he raise a fair point about how the Red language is advertised, and it's actually a rather fri
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Amazing! Small nitpick: I wanted to see the "hidden message" in The Game of the Century[0], but it says the last move is illegal: Illegal move played?? Rc2# [0]: http://www.dwheeler.com/misc/game_of_t
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For those who can't get enough ed, there's also edbrowse[0], an the ed-like web browser (and editor, and mail client, ...) [0]: http://edbrowse.org/
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I like that they are open about their expenses[0]. That's unusual. I wish they would be able to accept payments w/o requiring users to run non-free JS. [0]: https://10er.co/open
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Snap is written in JavaScript. Even if there's no internet in the classroom, it's easy to set up an ad-hoc wifi and a web server to make Snap available on any wifi-capable device with a web browser.
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On the Scratch download site, which I quoted, I could only see binary downloads and the information that "Scratch Desktop on Linux is currently not supported." That made me assume that it was proprietary, but I'm very happy t
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> I will try out the Python version, I don't think there's a Python version, unless you count using Ruckus via Python on Racket[0]. > lack of immediate feedback When "Automatic Reload and Preview" is enabled, OpenS
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> Scratch Desktop on Linux is currently not supported. We are working with partners and the open-source community to determine if there is a way we can support Linux in the future. Stay tuned! Apparently from version 3.0 Scratch is propr
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> OpenSCAD is much, much harder to use, > What would you suggest? Complaining is easy. What are the complaints about OpenSCAD? If it's the language itself, then there's some similar projects using Racket[0] and JavaScript[1]
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Looks a lot like Pd[0]. [0]: https://puredata.info/
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I've experienced this cut both ways though. At our print studios we have one printer that works with Windows and not GNU/Linux and one where it's the other way around.
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> virtually no average consumer is going to purchase a computer without Windows. What about the devices that Apple and Google are selling? (No endorsement implied)
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> He reproduced the printing and labelling of the originals, and kept refining his product to look more similar to the original so they'd get through customs. Ok, I think that may justify using the word "counterfeit" then
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Yea, ok. But then Windows itself has changed so much, that something like XFCE arguably feels more like XP/Vista than Windows 8 or 10 does. From my personal observation the Charms Bar especially appears to confuse people. (Or, did he i
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It seems that this "manufacturing counterfeits" is literally just copying Windows CDs: > Lundgren made 28,000 of the discs and shipped them to a broker, who planned to sell them to computer refurbishing shops for about 25 cents
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It's also great when you need an ad hoc web server: python -m http.server
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I think it depends on how the software is used. A friend of mine got a suspicious tax returns email that had a link to a form asking for credit card information. Being careful and responsible, my friend of course asked me if the site look
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> It did everything ZSH did ... and some additional things that you can't do in zsh without plugins, such as autosuggestions[0]. [0]: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions
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RMS has been writing about the issue of non-free session recording scripts in The JavaScript Trap[0]: > In addition to being nonfree, many of these programs are malware because they snoop on the user. Even nastier, some sites use service
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> Pork fat is healthier than kale Human infant eyes are healthier than raisins.
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I'm just gonna quote RMS here[0]: > And then I heard that somebody at Carnegie Mellon University had a copy of that software. So I was visiting there later, so I went to his office and I said, “Hi, I'm from MIT. Could I have a
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> Individual plants can even communicate with each other and let others know of the pain it experiences. The way cows, dogs, pigs, cats, sheep and horses express pain is very similar to humans : screaming and squirming or trembling, try
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> I absolutely love this one particular brand (Linda McCartney) of mozzarella-riddled vegetarian burger they sell in the UK. Yea, and on top of that Linda McCartney products are cheap, free from plastic packaging and pretty much availabl
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It sounds similar to what's called a shadow profile . Facebook does that[0], and it's usually considered a bit sketchy (and possibly illegal). [0]: https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/11/17225482/f
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> The veggie burger becomes a worse version of a regular burger rather than an independent dish. I can understand why some people can be put off by the taste. Having previously eaten non-human animals, I can say that I prefer the taste o
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Even if we were to accept the paper's conclusion, we should take into account that for many people a vegetarian or vegan diet is an ethical choice, because they are concerned about the killing of non-human animals for the purpose of in
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In UK at least, land ownership is very concentrated, so these "farming subsidies" are not usually going to the people you'd expect: > When our government says "we must help the farmers", it means "we must he
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> Racklog is not really Prolog - like the title says it's "Prolog-style" logic programming. You can write Racklog with the Prolog syntax as well though.[0] > So, with Prolog/Racklog, you get a database, plus an inf
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Here's some numbers from a peer-reviewed analysis from 2018[0]: > The new analysis shows that while meat and dairy provide just 18% of calories and 37% of protein, it uses the vast majority – 83% – of farmland and produces 60% of ag
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> The fact that people have now changed their minds on that particular matter doesn't mean that anything people haven't changed their minds but consider tradition is equally wrong. No, but it does mean that tradition can be a

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