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by jks 4y ago
The ^V your friend had entered in insert mode will escape the ^Z so your friend just typed the line ^Zkillall vim
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by jks 4y ago
Probably Soekris. Those were nice machines but don't seem to be available any more.
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by jks 4y ago
I'm going to say that the rump kernel is an innovation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rump_kernel But admittedly it doesn't seem to have quite the following of those two other BSDs.
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by jks 4y ago
Here's a fun game. The backstory: your friend has started vim because of some unfortunate environment variable settings, has typed some keystrokes and now needs your help to exit vim. Player A suggests a sequence of keystrokes that sup
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by jks 4y ago
Does Cloudflare's "Privacy Pass" browser plugin help at all? It's advertised as reducing the number of hCaptchas you need to solve by a factor of 30, but I rarely see hCaptchas anywhere on my connection so I can't r
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by jks 4y ago
From 2010
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by jks 4y ago
Future programmers will write prompts for a future version of Github Copilot: "database layer with all the usual CRUD operations, in readable modern C++, code compiles and passes tests, test cases carefully written by computer scientis
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by jks 4y ago
And I guess being extremely dumb carries a larger risk of death than being extremely smart, so if people start out symmetrically distributed along this scale, the distribution will skew right over time.
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by jks 4y ago
> candidness (canditity? candidosity?) Candor?
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by jks 4y ago
For comparison, there's the European Web Accessibility Directive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Accessibility_Directive What it means in practice is that publicly funded websites have an accessibility report s
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by jks 4y ago
pixz ( https://github.com/vasi/pixz ) is a nice parallel xz that additionally creates an index of tar files so you can decompress individual files. I wonder if dpkg could be extended to do something similar.
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by jks 4y ago
Yes, and it shows when you compare it to a native app like CotEditor.
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by jks 4y ago
The main problems with just "pip install -r requirements.txt" are that you might get a different result the next time you run it if a (transitive) dependency has released a new version, and that upgrading dependencies is an error-
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by jks 4y ago
In terms of startup speed and editing feel, I think it's pretty much the same as TextEdit.app, and much better than any Electron-based editor.
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by jks 4y ago
The original doesn't say "10-15 meters" but ten to the power of negative fifteen meters, so his guess was off from the Bohr radius of 5.3E-11 in the other direction but by much fewer orders of magnitude than as rendered above
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by jks 4y ago
In academia, a "sabbatical" means you take some time off from teaching courses, advising students and doing administrative work so you can concentrate on your research. So in order to stay on sabbatical, he'd need to get the
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by jks 4y ago
Anecdotally, I know some scientists who prefer Sci-Hub even when their institution has a subscription to the journal. The login procedures (and possibly VPN setups when working from home) are too much work when Sci-Hub is immediate. I'
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by jks 4y ago
This is not technically Usenet, but you can access various mailing lists via NNTP at nntp://news.gmane.io. There used to be a browser interface, but apparently that attracted abuse and legal threats.
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by jks 4y ago
At least here in Finland Klarna engages in borderline-shady tactics. They use all the dark patterns you can think of to get your personal identity number even if you choose a payment method that doesn't require it, presumably to combin
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by jks 4y ago
The Estonian delivery startup Starship uses tiny self-driving robots. I wonder if those can be made cost-efficient.
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by jks 4y ago
Then there's crawshaw.io/sqlite ( https://github.com/crawshaw/sqlite ) which has some extra features.
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by jks 5y ago
Why only those two options? I like the Swedish pronunciation: yif Obligatory Dilbert link: https://dilbert.com/strip/1994-12-26
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by jks 5y ago
I was amazed when I saw that Finda is an Electron app. It's a single-author Mac-only utility that finds things much better than Spotlight: https://keminglabs.com/finda/ The author has a blog post about how he made
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by jks 5y ago
I don't have related medical issues either, but sometimes my thumb is stiff from the cold and doing the double click through a phone case is difficult.
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by jks 5y ago
Or don't follow anyone (or follow your friends if they think it's a nice social signal). Put all the interesting people in lists and view the lists in https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ instead of the usual UI.
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by jks 5y ago
Also, what would be the point? It's easier to download a data dump from https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
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by jks 5y ago
Spotify has been advertising their podcasts for a long time, and I have listened to a few of them on the service. I even tried an episode of Joe Rogan and decided I didn't like it, but after that it seemed that Spotify's recommend
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by jks 5y ago
Here's one macOS-specific tip: I want to use Facebook to connect with some relatives and friends, but I don't want to be drawn to it all the time. I have set up another account on my Mac, but in greyscale mode (System Preferences,
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by jks 5y ago
I thought it was about the pandemic. It certainly feels like it's been ten years.
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by jks 5y ago
In Finland newspapers get the data and run their own search engines of the highest earners. For example: https://verokone.hs.fi/

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