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by jml7c5 3y ago
The very next sentence after the one you quoted is >The machine, provided by the vending supplier Canteen, features a touch screen and uses a camera for people to purchase coffee with a card, she said.
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by jml7c5 3y ago
This is a slight digression, but I strongly suspect that master/slave in technical contexts originated as a pun. It was normal practice to refer to a canonical or primary object as the "master _____", with the same meaning as
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by jml7c5 3y ago
You are clearly in the majority. But let's pick another person at random — what is the probability that you agree on all questions? (Hint: it's not 93%!) You are aligned with majority opinion, but you still disagree with most peop
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by jml7c5 3y ago
A great goal for Firefox would be "the archiveable, downloadable internet". Make it easy to download stuff off a page, even if the site is adversarial. I should be able to right-click and download an Instagram photo or a YouTube v
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by jml7c5 3y ago
>Passkeys aren’t device-bound. I think they’ll work just fine. Is there anywhere to follow progress on this? I don't think anyone actually implements import/export of passkeys yet.
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by jml7c5 3y ago
I hope this encourages Mozilla to focus more on page archiving support on the web. I feel as though they missed a huge opportunity by not making it easy to archive pages with DOM snapshots, or easy to snag videos or images. (Go to Instagram
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by jml7c5 3y ago
Chromebooks did this for a while; they had a write-protect screw on the motherboard that had to be removed to enter developer mode and/or flash custom firmware. Once you were done, you could reinsert the screw to lock it back down agai
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by jml7c5 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38360776
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by jml7c5 3y ago
I believe it was Alberta that ended rapattack, not BC.
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by jml7c5 3y ago
Yes, Unix was designed to protect users from each other but the modern need is to protect applications/invocations from each other. It is unfortunate that Unix wasn't really designed for the modern use case. Basically https:&#x2F
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Hamilton’s Quaternions, Or, the Trouble with Triples(mathenchant.wordpress.com)
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by jml7c5 3y ago
Reminds me of this Super Metroid FAQ: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/snes/588741-super-metroid/faqs...
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by jml7c5 3y ago
I see this as one of the big unintended benefits of AppArmor and SELinux: it's easy to filter for the relevant subset of files.
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by jml7c5 3y ago
On a related note, there's a proposal for a Unicode project to improve complex script support in terminals: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2023/23107-terminal-suppt.pdf Many layout and shaping issues are present
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by jml7c5 3y ago
This recent submission seems tailor-made for you: "My 20 Year Career is Technical Debt or Deprecated" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35955336
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by jml7c5 3y ago
Those are the "multi package" numbers. Though exactly what "single" vs "multi" means in this context is unclear to me.
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by jml7c5 3y ago
This is perhaps not totally relevant, but one fun comparison I like is that a human's total energy expenditure for a year is about equivalent to the chemical energy in a single barrel of oil.
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by jml7c5 3y ago
Note that this document is a proposal for a new Unicode project; it does not describe how termimals work today.
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Proper complex script support in text terminals [pdf](unicode.org)
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The enigma is that if civilization is common, we should see evidence of mass colonization even if only a single "spreader" civilization developed. Among the millions of civilizations out there, are we assuming that none of the
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by jml7c5 3y ago
Zipline is using a rather strange propeller design that is apparently effective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOWDNBu9DkU&t=831s
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by jml7c5 3y ago
Yes, the risk is very, very low. Probably in the same ballpark as being struck by lightning. (Though I do know someone who was stalked by a cougar while they were hiking alone. So there's at least something to feel nervous about.)
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by jml7c5 3y ago
I think Musk never quite understood how other people perceive a blue tick. In his own experience on Twitter, he probably noticed that verified users were made more visible in his replies, feed, etc., and he seems to think that that is the p
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by jml7c5 3y ago
They're pretty docile. Think of them as very big raccoons, not small grizzlies. The primary thing that brings the bravest black bears into close contact with humans is their love of untended food, but they're skittish and will sca
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by jml7c5 3y ago
How does this work with routing? Does each AP get its own IP address, or is there some special protocol for running the APs "transparently" as though the router had its own built-in wireless antennae?
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FontFocus White Paper (2004)(web.archive.org)
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Those aren't really relevant to the topic of Chinese ownership, unless you believe the government told TikTok to actively promote those videos. The stupid destruction trends seem organic to me, and did not require CCP interference.
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My partner and I were consumed by this for a while. There's something very satisfying about hopping from cluster to cluster and recognizing the various meanings of a word. Makes me wonder what 3D (or even 4D) version would be like.
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by jml7c5 4y ago
Yes, it's all unified memory. As much as I dislike the loss of socketed RAM, I have to say it's working out well for Apple users so far. I wonder if CXL will change the situation for consumer devices or if it will only be useful a
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by jml7c5 4y ago
Are you using flakes? AFAIK `command-not-found` does not work with them. See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/171054 and https://discourse.nixos.org/t/why-isnt-there-an-official-bu

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