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by joemi 7y ago
Even ignoring any possible trust issues with Microsoft's ownership of Github, I think the tech world's reliance on a single host is rather dangerous. For instance, there's a story from today about the Spanish gov't order
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by joemi 7y ago
I don't think your issues with Gitlab's UI are the UI's fault. In addition to clicking on the "repository" link (which is a common term used by both Git and Github themselves) or scrolling up as others have noted, y
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by joemi 7y ago
Do you really think there aren't any people who use a Mac and run GIMP? Why would Mac distributions of it exist if no one used it? I use a Mac and run GIMP. I even bought a recommended app (I think it was Pixelmator?) a few years ago
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by joemi 7y ago
I'm pretty sure looking at it isn't the illegal part. Making, possessing, and distributing are the illegal bits. Maybe some other aspects too, like transporting or buying or some form of conspiring? I don't think the governme
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by joemi 7y ago
These aren't contradictions. "Government" is not opposed to immigration. And "the energy industry" includes the parties working towards lowering or eliminating our reliance on oil along with the parties who are happ
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by joemi 7y ago
The design is different, but I wouldn't say it's worse than github. I actually prefer sourcehut's design to github's. If nothing else, there are some undeniable benefits to sourcehut's style, such as faster page loa
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by joemi 7y ago
I'm not sure if it's officially correct, but I've heard both "rent to" and "rent from" used colloquially in (American) English.
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by joemi 7y ago
I'd be willing to bet big money that the programmers did not name this app. In a company the size of Facebook, that'd be a miracle.
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by joemi 7y ago
I'm not sure that analog sources can be relied on to be present in all systems. And I'm not sure that your other suggestions (stray network packets or uninitialized memory) can be relied on to to be sufficiently random in all syst
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by joemi 7y ago
How does this happen? How is Stripe apparently on top of responding to HN posts, but not to actual support inquiries? Could this be by design?
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by joemi 7y ago
But HN isn't (nor should it be) Stripe support. If support doesn't get answered via official channels and the user has to turn to arbitrary places to try to get the attention of someone at support, that's a serious minus, not
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by joemi 7y ago
> Under the logic of this court decision, I should be able to buy a Eurail pass, ride on a train, mail it to a friend, the friend pays me for the pass, then that friend can take the train, then re-sells it to me, then I can use it, and s
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by joemi 7y ago
That quote from the article is about "parcel traffic to the US" not from the US. The next sentence is the relevant one to your argument, I think: "U.S.-based international shippers will also pay more, at least over the sh
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by joemi 7y ago
Or from an indie bookstore, using this site that will show you indie bookstores near you that have it available for preorder: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781250237231
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by joemi 7y ago
A distraction is still a distraction. Why not get rid of one if it's not needed?
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by joemi 7y ago
It probably was downvoted because humorous comments that seem to be just for humor's sake usually aren't considered to add to the discussion. That's not to say that they never can, but it seems fairly uncommon.
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by joemi 7y ago
> It's not as simple as "Google can cut you off no questions asked whenever they feel like it" Are you sure about that? Often such terms are built into the user agreements.
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by joemi 7y ago
R.U.R. is a great quick read, and while some aspects are a bit dated, a lot of it is quite ahead of its time. Or perhaps I just feel that way due to way in which so many modern scifi stories (be it in books, tv, movies, games) were clearly
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by joemi 7y ago
Here's some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2839742
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by joemi 7y ago
Surely there's an ideal middle ground somewhere between having all of the answers and having none of the answers.
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by joemi 7y ago
You could try, but I imagine most manufacturers/stores wouldn't give that info out to non-police. And some places might not even give it out to police without a legal warrant.
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by joemi 7y ago
I think there's nothing wrong with a moderator trying to stop too many threads being created with the same criticism (thanks dang!), but names of things can be very important from a branding/marketing perspective. If people can fe
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by joemi 7y ago
Sure non-profits can probably put hundreds of dollars a month towards mailchimp. But don't you think that some non-profits would rather put that money towards whatever their non-profit is about? I don't get what's so hard to
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by joemi 7y ago
Fair point, but not everyone is in a for-profit business. Many non-profits have large email lists and little funds.
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by joemi 7y ago
Railgun projectiles are smaller than missiles, but the guns themselves aren't smaller, are they?
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by joemi 7y ago
Wow. That's awesome. I could recognize most of the movements from the video... Guess I played a lot of Prince of Persia back in the day. It's funny how the brain can recognize specific movements like that, or like when you can rec
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by joemi 7y ago
`<br />` was the correct way in XHTML to do HTML5's `<br>` (I think `<br />` still works in HTML5 or maybe browsers just don't mind it, but it's not the recommended way.)
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by joemi 7y ago
I've seen Pi's used in the art world for video installations. It can be quite a bit cheaper (and a different aesthetic) to get a pile of old CRTs than to get HDMI-capable TVs/monitors for such things.
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by joemi 7y ago
I purposefully sought out royalty-free music. As the person who set it up, I did not want to risk being culpable for anything. (When it was first set up, my boss kept requesting that I add various catchy songs he heard on the radio to it, a
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by joemi 7y ago
My work has a really old phone system which I became the admin of. I discovered it had an audio input for Music-On-Hold, so I set up a spare RPi Zero that I had as a music player so that we'd have hold music. Low effort but wonderful i

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