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by hoherd 3y ago
Keeping it closed is such a sobering experience. Sometimes I will close Slack to make an effort to get into focus mode, and run `sleep 3600 && open /Applications/Slack.app` to make sure I'm not leaving my coworkers ha
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by hoherd 3y ago
Here's a UBO filter that hides YT shorts https://letsblock.it/filters/youtube-shorts
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by hoherd 3y ago
It wouldn't surprise me if this were his way of highlighting how JavaScript does user-hostile things. This site uses JS only to irritate the user, but other sites' JS might be malicious. I still hate it though. I'm not disabl
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by hoherd 3y ago
A book with a usb port on it to download data contained within the book would be so cyberpunk. If we can have potato chips that play music[1], we can have a book with built in storage. 1. https://web.archive.org/web/201
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by hoherd 3y ago
That's neat and all, but [Up] [Enter] isn't much harder. Is there some other aspect of the Zellij experience I'm missing?
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by hoherd 3y ago
I'm not sure if it was part of the humor, so pardon me if it was, but it's actually "Futamura" as in Yoshihiko Futamura, not "Futurama". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_evaluation#Fut
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by hoherd 3y ago
There are also pre-commit hooks to remove the character, even one listed on the pre-commit site. This type of hook has saved me on many occasions, and would have saved my coworkers if they used pre-commit. https://pre-commit.com&
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by hoherd 3y ago
I was unaware of this until a few weeks ago, so I'd like to raise awareness for anybody who it affects: Obsidian is not FOSS, and purchasing a license is required for any work that generates revenue at a for-profit company of 2 or more
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by hoherd 3y ago
That would definitely violate his strict license: /* Copyright 2023. All unauthorized distribution of this source code will be persecuted to the fullest extent of the law*/ And with such elegant code, who can blam
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by hoherd 3y ago
Same. I've tried to switch from a chromium based browser to FF several times over the last several years, and I always found something that was a deal breaker. A few months ago when the Google war on adblockers really started gaining s
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by hoherd 3y ago
That is awesome. I can't wait to see the STL files people make so we can all print them up! Meanwhile, here is a single mirror illusion STL file and a video showing off how similar illusions work https://www.thingiverse.com&
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by hoherd 3y ago
Interesting story about where blame is placed, and your move to Obsidian. Thanks for sharing. I've actually done something similar to your Obsidian repo: I put all my notes into markdown and publish them with mkdocs[1]. This gives me t
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by hoherd 3y ago
At a previous company where I had a lot of this "tacit knowledge", I had made a policy for myself. Whenever somebody asked me a question over IM or e-mail, I would look in the wiki. If the answer was not in the wiki, I would write
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by hoherd 3y ago
> In the same way programs are smart enough to know to render colored output or not, I'd love it if it could dump structured output (or not) The even lower hanging fruit is to implement json output as a command line argument in all
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by hoherd 3y ago
webusb is another missing feature, and AFAIK Mozilla has a strong stance against enabling it because of the security implications. This is one of the only reasons I keep a chrome-ish browser installed.
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by hoherd 3y ago
It's not just video games and music. Adobe Lightroom 6 was sold with a perpetual license, but its mapping and object detection libraries did not have a perpetual license, so even though you can run Adobe Lightroom 6 with your perpetual
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by hoherd 3y ago
If this interests you, then take a look at sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ!, a music software project from 2006 that uses similar classifying techniques. https://youtu.be/eRlhKaxcKpA
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by hoherd 3y ago
But it does not allow the reader to quickly skim the article. It requires the user to interact with each paragraph in order to enable the user to skim it for interesting words. Old fashioned non-interactive subheadings would allow the user
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by hoherd 3y ago
These are web developers. Of course they're going to try to force content into a narrow width view and not let you choose to have a wider view even if it makes perfectly valid sense for the given content. These are usability problems t
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by hoherd 3y ago
Even the FBI recommends blocking ads for security reasons. https://www.tomsguide.com/news/the-fbi-now-recommends-using-...
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by hoherd 3y ago
S11=50
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by hoherd 3y ago
Rust aside, one thing to consider is that a reimplementation of an existing piece of software does offer the benefit of being able to test the old version and the new version side by side for consistent behavior. You could have an entire cl
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by hoherd 3y ago
> The goal of this project is to run games from the early days of iOS This is exciting! There are a bunch of great iOS and iPadOS games that no longer work that my kids and I would love to play again! It's disappointing that Apple c
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by hoherd 3y ago
While you may be right about headers, I think the point the article makes about easily adding more fields to the result without breaking backwards compatibility is pretty compelling.
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by hoherd 3y ago
Shooting a drone is a felony. https://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoglia/2016/04/13/faa-confi... > the FAA ... confirmed that shooting down a drone is a federal crime and cited 18 USC 32. That statu
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by hoherd 3y ago
As of 2023-10-13T11:17:57-0400, registry, api, and build are marked as Major Outage.
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by hoherd 3y ago
Philips LED lights, Hue or otherwise, are wonderful. Be aware though that they seem to be enshitifying the Hue ecosystem https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37667266
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by hoherd 3y ago
After using iTerm2 as my daily driver for like a decade, and then trying out some of these other "fast" terminal emulators, I was amazed at how slow the experience in iTerm2 is. I even kept alacritty around as a second terminal fo
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by hoherd 3y ago
I think you're missing the point of the parent's suggestion. > Regulators should force companies to open source any games and associated server software that consumers paid to "own", yet companies are no longer willin
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by hoherd 3y ago
When the 4 came out, lots of people wished that power + video would be provided over the same port, just like we expect with almost every modern laptop. Does that exist on the Raspberry Pi 5? Hopefully I'm wrong, but it doesn't se

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