jfax

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by jfax 5y ago
Yes. It takes one to know one, after all.
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by jfax 5y ago
USB mice alone was a mistake. We didn't need anything more complicated than rs-232.
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by jfax 5y ago
Thought it would be a new programming langauge, in the tradition of naming as B, C, D, F#...
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by jfax 5y ago
I find it unusual that it is preferable to make a network connection probably half way across the world to retrieve list of food than have it locally available. Restaurant 802.11 portal pages should have a menu on it.
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by jfax 5y ago
This is why I admired TempleOS, which confronted these some of these questions and tackled it from the ground up. Why should it be hard to program graphics to the screen? It shouldn't be more than one code include, if any. Why plaintex
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by jfax 5y ago
I just came back from - actually, physically - visiting the British Library last week to do some research in the newsroom with microfilm and all. Title of this piqued my interest, but looking at the details, but the selection of papers they
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by jfax 5y ago
>I think the distributed answers have failed, sadly, mostly due to barrier to entry. I don't understand this? I've been using Mastodon for a few years now, and the Mastodon network itself has been continually growing since it&#
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by jfax 5y ago
It's a cliché but it's true.
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Habitual Be(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by jfax 5y ago|0 comments
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by jfax 5y ago
As much as I partly agree with this article, I find it painful to read because it shoddily reengineers bits of Free (as in freedom) software discourse. Specifically that proprietary software subjugates users with malicious features to make
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by jfax 5y ago
Adware has been a recurring issue on Windows since XP at least. I remember I used to get pop-ups for free smileys and mouse cursors. Of course, it's encouraged by Microsoft now.
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by jfax 5y ago
Quite impressive. Though for me when it comes to veteran video game personalities, there's Larry Bundy Jr who I fondly watched on an obscure and short-lived satellite TV network early this century that was dedicated to video games,[1]
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Tianxia(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by jfax 6y ago|0 comments
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by jfax 6y ago
Says in the article that Norway had on average, in previous years, 4 to 8 murders in the first three months of a year.
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by jfax 6y ago
>Does Norway have open borders Norway is part of the Schengen area, yeah
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by jfax 6y ago
>graph based Is it really too uncool to say "hypertext" these days? That's all I'm understanding here. Write docs in hypertext. Otherwise I agree.
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by jfax 6y ago
I was pretty shocked, given Debian is considered by some as just a bootloader for Apache.
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by jfax 6y ago
I'm forever grateful that Calvin and Hobbes introduced me to Peanuts. I became curious about Schulz when I read the foreword he did for the first collection.
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Why are Hart Taxis more expensive?(harttaxis.com)
40 points by jfax 6y ago|46 comments
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GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked(jayfax.neocities.org)
1505 points by jfax 6y ago|724 comments
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by jfax 6y ago
There's nothing particularly fascinating about this. Different language articles will use a range of different language sources.
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by jfax 6y ago
You have an extremely obnoxious, narrow view of the world then, like some child whose yet to develop a Theory of Mind and forgivably fails a false-belief exercise.[0] I suspect you're offended the opinions you're emotionally inves
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by jfax 6y ago
There are people who live in countries outside the US, you know.
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by jfax 6y ago
Cheers mate
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A Web Browser Recreation of the UK Sky EPG TV Guide(olddigibox.github.io)
1 points by jfax 6y ago|0 comments
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by jfax 6y ago
Isn't that what the PREVENT strategy is about, which has been around since 2006. This is nothing new, my mother who worked in a school was given instructional material as to how to report extremists under PREVENT.
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by jfax 6y ago
This was the article that sold me on the Free software / open source distinction years ago. Everything started to make so much more sense afterwards.
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Notes on Learning Languages(lukesmith.xyz)
45 points by jfax 6y ago|27 comments
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by jfax 6y ago
Wrong. Years ago, co-worker of mine got fired (or kinda left himself) because of his campaign to introduce javascript frameworks, React in particular, into our application. This in particular escalated into nasty, sweary arguments I've
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by jfax 6y ago
I have pledged this to myself, to the extent that I've been laying out plans to leave the subreddits I moderate.

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