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by hjek 6y ago
The sad thing is that the difference between the 'g' and the 'r' in this case is genocide: > U.N. human rights experts investigating a possible genocide in Myanmar said on Monday that Facebook had played a role in spr
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by hjek 6y ago
Always keep pen and paper on you, so that if you're ever in a boring meeting, you can start drawing portraits or sketches of the room. Don't worry about mistakes or trying to get everything right. Don't use an eraser. Embrace
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by hjek 6y ago
> So I'm not blaming the developers in question, Much kinder than past Linus writings. I loved it too. "Double ungood" works at least as good as the swearing.
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by hjek 6y ago
Thanks for the link. Am I the only one who is terrified by reading an "amusing story" about "on-board software for a missile"? The amusement sort of requires us to completely ignore the individuals being blown to pieces.
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by hjek 6y ago
Whether it's a thing or not, I don't think it's fair to put all that on the author of the comment. The author was making some pretty clear points about how capitalism produces meaningless addictive games. Accusing author of s
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Bitcoin mining to be banned in coal-heavy region of China(independent.co.uk)
11 points by hjek 6y ago|0 comments
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by hjek 6y ago
This requires non-free JavaScript[0] to even post a search query, doesn't it? The FF add-on[1] specifies "Custom License" without specifying which one. [0] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.h
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by hjek 6y ago
Now here's an outrageous idea: How about an update that fixes performance issues?
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by hjek 6y ago
Not OP but fish's fuzzy autocomplete is snappy, especially on low-end hardware even when I mistype a lot, where zsh will often just freeze completely, for me at least.
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by hjek 6y ago
I don't get the Sponsored Top Sites setting in FF 86. Maybe it's disabled on the Debian build?
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by hjek 6y ago
Lynx was always the best browser.
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by hjek 6y ago
Nice and welcoming introduction to git. Lovely visuals and music. In the game you get "golden badges" for solving the levels with the commandline rather than the GUI. In a way this sends the message that the commandline is "e
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by hjek 6y ago
> the last line of defense against appstores everywhere Package management on Debian has started to look much like an app store (in a good way) with Gnome Software[0], just without all the non-free stuff. [0]: https://wiki.gno
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by hjek 6y ago
There's these web browser extensions that let you disable JavaScript for that reason. Websites can do way more than just hijack your browser button if your browser just runs any and all JS it receives. See for example https:/&#x2
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by hjek 6y ago
It speaks even worse of that interface. It means that the design was not only bad enough to confuse a single individual but also the two others meant to act as safety mechanism.
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by hjek 6y ago
Get the Sticky Ducky add-on[0] for hiding fixed overlays, and add Fanboy's Cookiemonster list[1] to your adblocker of choice. [0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sticky-ducky/ [1]:
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by hjek 6y ago
Agreed with your point of disposable items. Regardless of whataboutisms, the point about Bitcoin using more power than Argentina still stands. (If person A says that traffic accidents are horrible, and person B says "Is that any worse
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by hjek 6y ago
> 1. You don't decide whats a waste of energy or not. Whether or not it's a "waste", it's certainly a massive amount. More than all of Argentina or Netherlands[0], as was posted here on HN recently. As of 2020, e
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by hjek 6y ago
> Nathan Robinson, who is a self described socialist, is not someone I would go to for an objective assessment of a hedge fund's working conditions. I'm glad you didn't have a bad time working there. Yes, of course you can
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by hjek 6y ago
> Emacs is open source. I think the person you reply to is aware of that but is asking whether it's still available in upstream. > You will always be able to do that. There's a difference between the functionality existing a
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by hjek 6y ago
Nathan Robinson did a great piece[0] on Ray Dalio's principles and Bridgewater's culture, which looks extremely toxic: > Make sure, of course, that you always make specific people feel bad about mistakes: “Instead of the passiv
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by hjek 6y ago
Expert vegan here. No, gelatin is never in plain chocolates, but often added to diced coconut!
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by hjek 6y ago
alligator pear → avocado
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by hjek 6y ago
> True, but not everyone needs to get the same new links. Yea, as to create some sort of fairness in "guaranteeing" each new story a minimum number of views.
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by hjek 6y ago
I love that idea. I'm working on a HN clone in Prolog and will totally implement that. But, I think you could also make something like that for HN as a Firefox extension. Or perhaps write a simple web app that provides a RSS feed of p
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by hjek 6y ago
> charge for legacy patches Oracle are doing that with Java too.
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> I won't go past Java 11 because that's the last version that has an OpenJDK fork No. (Or how come I can do `apt install openjdk-17-jdk` on my Debian machine then?) > Oracle has changed the license for >11 that also give
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Telegram censors BLM-affiliated channels [pdf](f.cyberdrop.cc)
2 points by hjek 6y ago|0 comments
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by hjek 6y ago
Apple has a patent on scrollbars . There's no avoiding that legal nightmare.
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Both Tortuous and Torturous(craigmurray.org.uk)
1 points by hjek 6y ago|0 comments

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