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by imiric 4y ago
For a language with "explicit is better than implicit" as part of its mantra[1], Python is chock full of surprising behavior like this where the programmer really has no idea what's happening under the hood. I'm happy I
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by imiric 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPRvc2UMeMI
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by imiric 4y ago
Sure, it's not advisable, and a wetsuit is a necessity, but the fact that it's relatively safe proves that a modern canal city can have clean waters. After all, there was a royal publicity stunt a decade ago[1], part of what'
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by imiric 4y ago
Thanks! I was familiar with the LattePanda, but was looking for something more powerful. The UP Xtreme looks like it might fit the bill though. It's a shame the NUCs abandoned that form factor, and that the Pico-ITX standard never took
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by imiric 4y ago
It's certainly not the case with Amsterdam's canals. The water used to be flushed regularly, and dredging boats can frequently be seen pulling out bikes and other garbage. There's absolutely no foul odor coming from the water
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by imiric 4y ago
Awesome build! I always liked the Cube form factor. Having the internals so easily accessible is great design. The LP-179 motherboard is interesting as well. I've been looking for a NUC replacement, but the newer models have lost the s
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by imiric 4y ago
Indeed. I've tried a bunch over the years: i3, Qtile, Xmonad, herbstluftwm, awesome, dwm... And the most popular floating ones: Gnome, KWin, xfwm, Blackbox, etc. They can pry bspwm+sxhkd out of my cold dead hands. It's a fast, lig
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by imiric 4y ago
It's been a few years, so I can't say for sure. I think there were some deployment and web UI issues, but I see now v2 is written in Go, so I might give it a try again. Thanks.
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by imiric 4y ago
What's the best self-hosted version of this nowadays? I tried Miniflux and Tiny Tiny RSS a few years back, and wasn't impressed. Services like this look good, but I'd like to avoid depending on a 3rd-party to keep it running.
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by imiric 4y ago
Why would they intentionally sabotage their profits? They're acting in the interest of the company. Any concern for the user stops at the doors of the PR department. They're doing their best to fight off governments from snooping
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by imiric 4y ago
How noble of them. They really care about their users, except when they don't[1]. [1]: https://www.propublica.org/article/google-russia-rutarget-sb...
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by imiric 4y ago
> Google Play has policies in place that prohibit using this data for purposes other than advertising and user analytics. Any claims that advertising ID was created to facilitate data sales are simply false. How do policies _prevent_ dat
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by imiric 4y ago
Google takes 45% of YouTube's advertising revenue. Videos criticizing their most popular channels directly impact their profits. The company doesn't care about protecting content consumers, it only cares about their customers (adv
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by imiric 4y ago
So all months have 31 days and there are no leap years? I guess the joke is lost on me. But it's a neat design.
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by imiric 4y ago
I imagine that eventually batteries could be recharged wirelessly, just by driving on certain patches of road, ala F-Zero. :) We'll probably get there even for road vehicles in the next few decades.
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by imiric 4y ago
thought: reading this style of sentence would get annoying quickly. I don't get the point of these TBH. The usefulness of conventional commits is that they can be easily aggregated to get an idea of the types of changes that were made.
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by imiric 4y ago
Just a reminder that the origin being zoonotic and lab leaks occurring are not mutually exclusive.
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by imiric 4y ago
> WHO-China report already stated that fact. "China said so, so it must be true."
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by imiric 4y ago
> It doesn't have any impact on (2) moving forward. Of course it does. If we know how the leak happened, we can increase safety measures to avoid it happening again in the same way. How is this not obvious? A peculiar thing about hu
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by imiric 4y ago
It's hardly relevant what the WHO says or does in this discussion. They've shown themselves to be biased and untrustworthy on more than one occasion.
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by imiric 4y ago
As a counterpoint, I don't go to my bookmarks often, but when I do, it's invaluable, and I'd feel lost without them. Especially with tags, I can quickly find a number of things I find/found interesting just by using one
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by imiric 4y ago
> CA 'scandal' was vastly misrepresented by most in the press, it was a bit of a problem, but completely over stated. CA abused the friend-of-a-friend feature of FB's API to create detailed profiles of millions of voters,
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by imiric 4y ago
This is a device for early adopters and enthusiasts. That crowd will have a secondary device that does all those things, and use the PinePhone as their main pocket computer. So until things improve and there are more alternatives to what yo
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by imiric 4y ago
And all this in the 70s. Now imagine the level of sophistication propagandists have reached with the internet, where merely running ad campaigns on social media has the power to influence millions and directly control politics on a global s
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by imiric 4y ago
> If you did it would immediately be caught when a test runs anyway. That's the point though. With dynamic typing you would only (hopefully) catch this with manually written tests. With static typing you get that feedback for free a
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by imiric 4y ago
Musk has more followers than most media outlets have consumers. The media is hardly responsible for people hearing what he says.
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by imiric 4y ago
The difference is that it doesn't take 600ms for a Rust binary to render "Hello world!" to stdout. In the context of CLI apps, binary size is irrelevant to the functionality of the demo. In the context of web apps, bundle siz
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by imiric 4y ago
Is this satire? I honestly can't tell, but it made me laugh. If not, why in the world would a hello-world demo need optimization? By definition it's supposed to be the simplest thing you can build to showcase the features of what
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by imiric 4y ago
> OSX is designed for a keyboard and mouse. iOS is designed for a finger. That line has been becoming blurrier for years now. iPadOS supports keyboard and mouse inputs, and the UI is moving closer to replicating a desktop experience on e
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by imiric 4y ago
It's a small drop in the bucket of corruption that plagues the US election system. It likely has little impact compared to other well known forms of fraud: gerrymandering, lobbying, ads / social media, etc. The fact these are all

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