jcynix

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by jcynix 1y ago
Seems I misunderstood the notion of "slur" as I'm not a native speaker. So now I've learned a bit ;-)
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by jcynix 1y ago
>Even urban dictionary doesn’t contain a definition for skub as a slur. What about this then: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/skub
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by jcynix 1y ago
> No breeder kills dogs […] I sadly have to disagree as history tells us a different story, e.g. "Back in the day, puppies without a ridge were either euthanized or culled at birth." https://healthyhomemadedogtreats.
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by jcynix 1y ago
Sure, but my example was just that and I actually use /identical$/ as the pattern. Sorry for the typo. And I use this "historic" one liner only when I know about the contents of both directories. As soon as I need a &quo
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by jcynix 1y ago
>awk really shoots itself so much with its lack of features that it so desperately needs! That's why I use Perl instead (besides some short one liners in awk, which in some cases are even shorter than the Perl version) and do my JSO
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by jcynix 1y ago
> But you have a bigger point: I should have live demonstrations of those things to help people understand. Pink can pose problems for individuals with red-green color blindness (or more exactly: color vision deficiency). So make sure th
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by jcynix 1y ago
Take a look at Carl Hewitt's Same-Fringe solution, which flattens structures concurrently and compares the final (aka leave) nodes: http://www.nsl.com/papers/samefringe.htm If you flatten both of your trees/g
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by jcynix 1y ago
> If we care about saving a watt-hour, there are lots of places to look. Pointing fingers at the incredible energy consumption of internet-delivered HD video might not feel very comfortable to lots of folks. Air conditioning for example
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by jcynix 1y ago
IIRC Huxley became rather sceptical in his later works regarding "eugenics" or in general "scientific dictatorship" as a solution to the social problems of humanity. I may have to re-read his work "Ends and Means&qu
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by jcynix 1y ago
Let's not forget "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley, published in 1932, where he already described consumerism and instant gratification, rejection of science, as well as shallow experiences by consuming "soma" (tod
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by jcynix 1y ago
Ads definitely have an effect on me: the more intrusive they are, the more I remember them and tend to not buy that product and ignore the company altogether. But generally I'm not exposed to a lot of ads thanks to the adblockers I use
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by jcynix 1y ago
I'll second that, no app needed. A small notebook with a "table" per planned exercise and a ball pen are always in my sports bag, so its ready to go when its training time. The phone appears to be a distraction for many peop
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by jcynix 1y ago
Luminar Neo, for example, doesn't handle webp. And there's more than just Fedora, IIRC.
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by jcynix 1y ago
Exactly. And the "sensor size myth" is nothing a kid should (or would) care about. There are some very good YouTube channels talking about micro four thirds cameras, which are still a good choice, especially when used as a camera
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by jcynix 1y ago
For kids, I'd buy a small used micro four thirds camera with a pancake lens. Cheaper and later expandable if they enjoy taking pictures. Or, if it needs to be a zoomable lens, I'd look for some used (but well maintained) Digital I
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by jcynix 1y ago
Try the app Netguard which implements a nice firewall. I use it to disallow most apps network access with it. Some apps may be allowed to access the net when I'm on Wifi, but not when roaming. Netguard allows you to distinguish between
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by jcynix 1y ago
The author is Richard P. Gabriel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_P._Gabriel and he had a rather long and impressive career in software.
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by jcynix 1y ago
You can easily send text and do a lot of other automation stuff with the MacroDroid app. I use it to e.g. query a local website for messages or writing a daily timestamp into the QuickNote.md file of Markor (another highly useful app) cf.
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by jcynix 1y ago
Look at HyperCard (more or less dead, regrettably) or Excel and you'll see many useful "applications" created by non-programmers over the years. People want to create, but need tools to make this easier / more abstract t
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by jcynix 1y ago
Maybe the NYT should check Wikipedia first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-click
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by jcynix 1y ago
> The idea that information can be hyperlinked together. HyperCard was really cool and I miss it. Its most important feature IMO was to enable non-programmers to rather easily author useful software. As happend with Excel. The idea that
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by jcynix 1y ago
>It's so trivially easy to find real world counterexamples to just about any software that it's a barely interesting exercise (IMO). These lists hopefully make programmers aware that a lot of their assumptions about the real wo
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by jcynix 1y ago
I'll second that. And would like to add that find plus xargs is important to know, as it often works much better than the clumsy "exec in find itself. Oh, and thus of course find ... | xargs perl -lne "fancy stuff"
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by jcynix 1y ago
Hmm, the example page doesn't convince me, for example > The diff utility can compare files and print their differences. If we pass it the result of ls commands, we can compare the contents of directories. No, if you pass the output
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by jcynix 1y ago
Or a YouTube channel like "Upright Health" whose short and effective exercises work fine for me to compensate for too much sitting at the desk. I use them in addition to the workouts at the studio twice a week. Disclaimer: just a
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by jcynix 1y ago
If your wife isn't happy to see you fencing (which I can understand) you might want to take a look at archery instead? And add this book (which impressed me during my teenage years) to your reading list: Zen in the Art of Archery - Wik
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by jcynix 1y ago
As I don't use PHP in my server, but get a lot of requests for various PHP related stuff, I added a rule to serve a Linux kernel encrypted with a "passphrase" derived from /dev/urandom as a reply for these requests.
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by jcynix 1y ago
And YouTube isn't really interested to improve their suggestions: when I say "Not interested" to a suggestion, they ask why not with two idiotic possible answers: a) I've already seen it or b) I don't like it. If a)
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by jcynix 2y ago
My reasoning for the plain question was: as people start to replace search engines by AI chat, I thought that asking "plain" questions to see how trustworthy the answers might be, would be a good test. Because plain folks will ask
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by jcynix 2y ago
"Use a tool to verify the date if needed" that's a good idea, yes. And the answers I got are based on UTC, so 23:06 PDT should match the 23. for Europe. My reasoning for the plain question was: as people start to replace sear

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