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by jbaber 7mo ago
This happened to me. I tried to be a good boy and wrote to the company asking for zipper parts to fix it and they told me to buy another jacket. So I looked for companies that advertise repairability and found Patagonia made the most believ
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by jbaber 7mo ago
One of the virtues of HN is polite prodding when the rules are broken.
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by jbaber 7mo ago
I used to think this and used things like `help2man`. I now disagree, but throwing it out there.
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by jbaber 7mo ago
I tried to clean it up and put it [on sourcehut] and [on github]. [on sourcehut]: https://git.sr.ht/~jbaber/shadiff [on github]: https://github.com/jbaber/shadiff
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by jbaber 7mo ago
That's very good.
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by jbaber 7mo ago
I wrote a script that takes two git commits and opens all changed files in vimdiff tabs side by side. I find lots of things too hard to see in github gui. It depends one [tpope's vim-fugitive]. [tpope's vim-fugitive]: https:&#x2F
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by jbaber 8mo ago
I agree that sieve is now a feature. And I regret it.
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by jbaber 8mo ago
The only lock-in for github is issue tracking and actions, yes? The actions lock-in could be significant, but issues can be exported and moved. I'm glad we live far enough in the future that there are several alternatives. Of course sa
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by jbaber 8mo ago
Any combination of ghostscript flags or something to turn a random pdf into one that uses these things to make a pdf as fast and small as a djvu?
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by jbaber 8mo ago
Often enough I just make a regular html table, the 'pandoc -f html -t mediawiki' or 'pandoc -f html -t markdown' as the case may be.
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by jbaber 9mo ago
Working as Fischer intended, right?
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by jbaber 9mo ago
https://jbaber.sdf.org/ What remains of my personal site that I've been messing with since about 1998.
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by jbaber 9mo ago
I usually just write html tables, then convert to markdown via pandoc. It's a crazy world we live in.
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by jbaber 9mo ago
I am unhappy about the criminal dimension of voice cloning, too, but there are plenty of use cases. e.g. If I could have a (local!) clone of my own voice, I could get lots of wait-on-the-phone chores done by typing on my desktop to VOIP whi
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by jbaber 9mo ago
Having gotten used to SO, I was shocked when I found I could mark multiple answers correct on AskMetafilter. It felt like an innovation.
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by jbaber 9mo ago
I thought ddg supported !s at arbitrary locations, but came across enough exceptions that I now invariably put them at the beginning or end.
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by jbaber 10mo ago
I subscribe, but stare right through ads, unnoticing. Do they really not have that margin ad for berets anymore?
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by jbaber 10mo ago
Every time I want to do things like this, I run into limits on the length of the hash, and it differing for different browsers. Did you get around this?
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by jbaber 10mo ago
There are many meme images of a phrase like "I came to give presents to children and punch heretics. And I'm all out of presents." on top of an icon of St. Nicholas.
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by jbaber 10mo ago
Wow. Thanks for this recommendation! I have multiple times half-baked something like this using ffmpeg to dump out thumbnails and make cuts.
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by jbaber 10mo ago
Your comment hinted I'd actually want to read it. Thanks!
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by jbaber 10mo ago
I almost never see this, partly because there are lots of relevant things that happened in, say, 1920. I've been impressed by society's willingness to put those extra two digits everywhere.
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by jbaber 10mo ago
A recent feature for paid subscribers is the ability to skip frequently skipped sections which de facto skips in-video ads.
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by jbaber 10mo ago
TFA's first line: "David Kuloba's mother warned him about going to Russia after he accepted a job as a security guard advertised by a recruitment agency in Kenya." It's not for lack of google. This is poor young men
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by jbaber 10mo ago
I'm an average person who uses fastmail with a custom domain with a separate registrar. Fastmail does all the right DKIM, DMARC, etc. magic. And still my mail sometimes goes to spam essentially because it's not "@gmail.com&
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by jbaber 10mo ago
Thank you for this good idea and oneliner.
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by jbaber 10mo ago
The AI in Her was dangerous rather than depressing?
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by jbaber 10mo ago
We can enter e-mail's h*ll and just have attachments be base64 blobs.
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by jbaber 11mo ago
My favorite example of the inoffensive use of the word: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/toni-morrison-the-p...
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by jbaber 11mo ago
Modern unix gives me the choice to know a lot about some parts and stay ignorant about others. I don't think there's anything wrong with being real into, say, the network stack and wanting other nerds to handle the GUI for you.

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