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by jolmg 2y ago
s/shutting down/powering off/
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by jolmg 2y ago
Hmm... I'm not familiar with the speedrunning community. However, if I check the rules it cites, while it does say this today[1]: > There obviously needs to be continuity between segments in terms of inventory, experience points or
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by jolmg 2y ago
I mean, it's a PS2, but portable, so more difficult to make and more usable...
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by jolmg 2y ago
That 2.0 update was mind-blowing on its own. Smallest device you could browse the web with, I think? Pretty sure it was still the time of PDAs, before smartphones. EDIT: Yeah, July 2005, 2 years before the iPhone came out. https:/&#x2
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by jolmg 2y ago
To add to your comment, payphones still exist. All it takes is some cash and a hoodie for an anonymous call. Further, the ability to make an anonymous police report is a feature for the safety of the person reporting. Otherwise, the person
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by jolmg 2y ago
You're not paying for art. You're paying for paper you can later display art on. Also, with e.g. an oil painting on canvas, the cost of producing that is the time of the artist to paint it by hand. I don't think 10-20K is any
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by jolmg 2y ago
Also related from yesterday, though not the same article: > I believe 6502 instruction set is a good first assembly language https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42957823
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by jolmg 2y ago
> but it seems like some authors in the 1400s wrote "ph" in some Spanish words, at least when they knew the Latin or Greek etymologies. You know, that might be analogous to Spanish speakers familiar with English writing "t
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by jolmg 2y ago
> So, if you try to make sense of it in such a way that you assume a nonsense word is you misreading > I agree that my read may not be correct either Just in case, by "you", I meant from the POV of the AI, not you the author
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by jolmg 2y ago
> explicación poética > There are, again, a couple errors here: it should be “explicación phisica” [physical explanation] not “poetic explanation” in the first line, for instance. The image seems to say "phicica" (with a &qu
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by jolmg 2y ago
> That was the last time I used Youtube. Problem's bigger than Youtube.
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by jolmg 2y ago
> (translated from Catalan by Alain Gertrand) Got curious, since I don't think I've ever seen Catalan before. The original's the previous post: https://allr.cat/per-que-deixaras-x-i-si-tambe-instagram-i-l..
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by jolmg 2y ago
> the rule of law" is the only thing holding together your country, my country, everyone's countries, and civilized society in general. Take that away, and everything around us will collapse, regressing the few survivors of tha
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by jolmg 2y ago
> and they should—due to the lack of standards—provide software that allows you to use their cameras as intended. There is a standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_video_device_class
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by jolmg 2y ago
Because of the -A instead of an -H? -A is for "Associative array".
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by jolmg 2y ago
You mean like a shell's while-do-done? It's just about allowing statements as the conditions, rather than just a single expression. Here's an example from a repl I wrote: repl_prompt="${repl_prompt-repl$ }" wh
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by jolmg 2y ago
> it depends on the movement, but it is not out of the question that your minute hand is moving once every second, and not every minute. I think the only place where I've seen the minute hand move by the minute has been on TV, in th
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by jolmg 2y ago
>> entitlement implies to me that the person has invested some time and resources in asserting their right Something else about what you said here, for titles that are earned (e.g. naturalized citizens), you don't invest time and
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by jolmg 2y ago
The way I see it "entitle" = "in title". People in their title as citizens have a right (often from birth and unalienable) to certain things such as passports. "Eligible" means you're able to be elected, b
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by jolmg 2y ago
"They're entitled to" or "Have a right to" seem more precise than "eligible". At least in my country, I think everyone (citizens) has the right to a passport. It's not something you need to be chosen
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by jolmg 2y ago
In what particular way do you think they'd be different if they'd gone into the public domain at 10 years?
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by jolmg 2y ago
> In your license, say that everything reverts to the public domain in 5 years or 10 years. Grep away and show me how many licenses do that. Look, I'm no lawyer, but my broader point is that something like that might not make much i
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by jolmg 2y ago
I think the GPL is a good license, both v2 and v3, for the restrictions they place to promote more FOSS and ensure software users the rights I would hope everyone believes they ought to have (e.g. the 4 freedoms to the software of devices
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by jolmg 2y ago
That after 10 years, what was licensed as open becomes even more open? I think only a minority of licensors and licensees would have a problem with that.
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by jolmg 2y ago
> I don’t know why Fastmail has developed mobile apps but no desktop applications so far. I wonder what the mobile app adds beyond what the platform-agnostic webapp already does.
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by jolmg 2y ago
They have added features though. They're just not invasive. They added masked emails, for example. And if I look at the settings right now, I notice they've added customization of what swipes do. I too like the feeling that they&#
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by jolmg 2y ago
Right back at you. I was also commenting on rate rather than saying that I saw one or 2 in the last 10-15 years. Not all locations are the same though, so maybe there has been a noticeable decrease where you're at. Personally, I think
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by jolmg 2y ago
> you typically need to be unsupervised with friends to get into drugs, something teenagers no longer have access to compared to 10-15 years ago. They don't? I'm pretty sure I saw unsupervised teens hanging out at a mall even j
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by jolmg 2y ago
https://www.blender.org/about/logo/ > Blender has been registered as a trademark by Blender Foundation in USA and EU. It has been used by Blender Foundation since 2002, and it’s a well recognized brand now. Alt
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by jolmg 2y ago
If you're on site foo, then go to bar, then baz, then bar again. The history GUI, whether the sidebar or the history manager (Ctrl-Shift-h), is not going to show foo, bar, baz, bar. It's going to show foo, baz, bar. The first time

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