johnnyworker

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by johnnyworker 3y ago
What is the pipeline from a random application crashing, 99% of the time because of misconfiguration or a bug in the application, to Microsoft doing anything that fixes that? How could they even?
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
I have a super old one (8470p) which I got refurbished, and I love that thing so much. Being from 2012 it's obviously not up for real work these days, but the build quality, how you can just pop open the case and expand and swap all so
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
> I was not talking about the inventions themselves but the intent of the inventor I know. And I say that "there is no such thing" in the sense of it having a meaningful impact on the outside world. It's solely something f
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
I wanted to mention Beaker Browser, but sadly, it's been archived: https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/blob/master/archive-...
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
> inventing it for the purposes of Regardless of how the sentence continues, there is no such thing. There is making inventions in the world as it currently is, and what follows from that. edit: since the page http://tech.mit.
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
> I haven’t heard a good practical rebuttal though :/ The practical rebuttal to people justifying their deeds with sophistry a teenager can see through is to stop them, regardless of whether they like it or not, and not getting to
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
As Joseph Weizenbaum pointed out, it's like saying there are a lot of rapes in Berlin, so why not be a rapist.
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
I have been using Firefox ever since Opera bit the dust, but I have been trying, so hard, to use Vivaldi the last 3-6 months, mostly because it offers a portable version out of the box that discovers profiles just by looking at folders, i.e
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
Thank you :) But I didn't mean to say it's those pesky non-dreamers who make the problem hard. Three idealists will have ten possible utopias that are partly or completely mutually exclusive. And to be frank, I think a lot of the
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
It's not "a few people making less money", it's a few gigantic monoliths carving up the future, like blind watch-destroying gods -- or at least wanting to, no matter how nicely they dress it up. And it's not about u
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
> Boy, that article isn't cherry-picking at all! Because most people reacted well? Good one. No, it's representative. Women lost their jobs just for agreeing with JKR on this. People talking about how they want to or how everyb
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
The point is that it's infinitely better in not being there "just to take your jobs and make a few VCs richer". Nobody even claimed it's more performant. It's like the difference getting nothing, but keeping your
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
Or just right-click the input field, and if the browser recognizes it as a search field (they're good at it by default, but you can implement https://github.com/dewitt/opensearch to make extra sure), you'll g
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
I don't memorize a phrase that expresses the opposite ("historical data" vs. "news") just because it's shorter.
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
> I know of no more encouraging fact than the ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. It is something to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so make a few objects beautiful. It is far more glorious t
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
> The police have maintained that the shooting was an act of self-defense, as they argue that Merzouk was driving towards the officer. However, since the video was released, this claim has faced significant criticism. So if this video di
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Nahel_Merzouk A cop shot an unarmed teenager in the face point blank. So he wouldn't get away. What kind of "social contract", or whatever one would call it, is t
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
The point of not wanting photos of you or your house spread around the internet isn't to make it physically impossible to see you, but to restrict that privilege to the people you actually (want to) physically interact with.
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by johnnyworker 3y ago
On every drive, I have a two top level subfolders with a one-character name. One for stuff that I back up, and one for stuff I don't (e.g. Steam Libraries usually go in the second one). I'll just give examples of folders you might