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by hnlmorg 1y ago
People definitely used to. Or at least in the UK they did.
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
Completely off topic, but when did people start calling earphones “headphones”? Headphones are the cans that cup your ears and strap around or over the head. Hence their name. Whereas earphones go inside your ear.
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
Literally the only reason in want to ring a call centre is because the online forms got me nowhere, the “press 1 for…” robot got me nowhere, and I’m desperate to speak to someone sentient, even if they are just reading from a script.
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
I think their point was that the lock picking videos were faked. But it’s still a silly comment from the Proven employee. I’ve also seen people use “liberal” as a literal curse word before. On one “reality show”, a member of the cast broke
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
Sharing this because until today, I had no idea a British computer scientist created BCPL and thus inspired B, C, C++ and its ilk. I found it interesting to see how some of the tools we use today were inspired by institutions outside of Bel
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Martin Richards, British Computer Scientist, Creator of BCPL(en.wikipedia.org)
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
There’s lots of other documents referenced in (for example) CONTRIBUTING that doesn’t exist in the repository. I’ve got zero issue with using AI for development, but the author really should have read their documentation afterwards to sanit
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
I’ve been using vhs recently. Same kind of solution: CLI, easy to install, bug focus on automation, supports gif, png, webp, etc. I’ve been really impressed with the output of vhs https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
And even in the places where it’s 25 days, there’s plenty of advent calendars that only have 12 doors - though they’re typically budget versions of expensive calendars (eg a dram of whisky behind each door)
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
I emphasise with your grief. I lost my dad when I was 30 too. He died when my wife was pregnant with our first child. It still cuts me up to think about how my kids have never known my dad, and their grandad.
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
Isn’t that an advantage by itself?
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
> That's a while ago, but Fabrice Bellard did a demo with his tiny c compiler where it would would compile the Linux Kernel at boot time and then boot the compiled Kernel. That’s interesting. Do you have a link you can share? Or rem
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
> Language wars are... for lack of a more appropriate and less-crass term... stupid. I couldn’t agree more!
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
Apples attention to detail has always been skin deep. I remember reading blog posts 20 years ago about how some apps followed Apples standards design and others didn’t follow their design standards at all. In the 90s Apple was in worse shap
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
Not quite. Interpolation is where the value is placed directly in the string rather than appended as parameters. Eg “I am $age years old”. This does result in the side effect that interpolation is typically a language feature rather than a
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
I’ve been running KDE (as in the desktop) for more than 20 years and I had no idea that Connect worked without Plasma. Thanks for sharing
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
That’s nothing new. Conglomerations had been around for decades before SGI et al and that type of organisation has its own problems. So you do see them fail too. For example Thorn used to be massive in the 80s and by the end of the 90s it h
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
Nobody was suggesting that loss of utilities is a result of bad risk management. We are saying that all competent businesses run risk management and for most businesses, the cost of AWS being down is less than the cost of going multi cloud.
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
> Not all utility companies have the same policies, but all have a resiliency plan to avoid blackout that is a bit more serious than "Just run it on AWS". You're arguing as if "run it on AWS" was a decision that
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
Exactly this! One of my projects is entirely hosted on S3. I don't care enough if it becomes unavailable for a few hours to justify paying to distribute it to GCP et al. And actually for most companies, the cost of multi-cloud is great
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
Utility companies do not have redundancy for every part of their infrastructure either. Hence why severe weather or other unexpected failures can cause loss of power, internet or even running water. Texas has had statewide power outages. Sp
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
> The lack of fan-out makes it awkward to express combinations where one sender feeds many receivers. In 1970, avoiding garbage collection was a practical necessity, but today garbage collection is available in most programming workflows
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
We understood what the GP was thinking in terms of ads. The objection is that any form of advertisement, regardless of how tasteful it might be presented, is the polar opposite of the intended purpose of tranquil windows into nature. Peop
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
Heartbleed was a great demonstration of critical systems that were under appreciated. Too few maintainers, too few security researchers and too little funding. When writing systems as complicated and as sensitive as the leading encryption s
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
> Yes, the hint is in the name: > Extensible Markup Language Thats not an helpful answer when the reason for this discussion is whether MAML, another document format with the term “Markup Language” in its name, is also a markup langua
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
But, again, he is effectively the majority shareholder. That power means literally everything. Facebook is his company in every sense of the term and if investors don’t like that then that’s their problem, not his.
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
Polling for the question “websites that may contain pornographic material” Which is my point. The OSA isn’t popular as a broad piece of legislation, but the “think of the children” aspect that something needs to be done to restrict access
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
“Mr Zuck” is more than just a manager. He owns around 20% of the economic shares of Meta and more than 50% of the voting rights. So he is acting on behalf of the shareholders because he is also the most important shareholder.
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
I felt the GP was making that same point.
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by hnlmorg 1y ago
Is it popular? I’m a parent and none of my parent friends like it. I suspect this law isn’t popular. Just the messaging of doing nothing is more unpopular. So it gets spun as this is popular. https://youtu.be/ahgjEjJkZks?si=

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