kemayo

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by kemayo 3y ago
There's a bunch of replacements. I like https://newsblur.com but there are 4-6 large-ish similar sites. That said, partially what people miss is the relative cultural hegemony of Google Reader. It was RSS front-and-center,
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by kemayo 3y ago
It's perhaps worth noting that the next line of the Zen of Python is: "Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch." (I.e. unless you're Guido.) So it was a bit of a tongue in cheek statement f
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by kemayo 3y ago
There's generally one obvious way to do it. There's almost certainly other ways to do it, and those other ways might be better suited for different specific tasks, but the obvious way tends to exist and be widely usable. Are the
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by kemayo 3y ago
With only minor collusion with the bartender, you can just arrange to be given a glass made of sugar-glass. https://www.makeyourownmolds.com/how-to-sugar-glass-mold/
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by kemayo 3y ago
Given that you don't mention seeing blood, this was almost certainly just someone playing a prank by eating sugar glass. It's slightly thickened melted sugar that you've let set into a thin pane. Looks just like glass, but it
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by kemayo 3y ago
As always, correlation / causation might be complicated here. I.e. maybe the sort of conditions that make you more likely to die of a heart attack also wind up reducing your ability / motivation to exercise.
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by kemayo 3y ago
> Discord has been decent for a while. I suspect enshittification will commence soon, so we should be on the lookout for an alternative over the next five years. Discord's fine for what it is, but it's also a fundamentally diff
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by kemayo 3y ago
Specifically, it looks like they've broken any http links to t.co, while the newer https ones still work. The practical effect of this is actually worse than the thread stated -- all old media and links on Twitter are broken (at leas
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by kemayo 3y ago
With the added inconvenience that the Senator Fuckface episode will have a C-plot that contains some of the most important lore in the entire show, so you can't just tell people to skip it.
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by kemayo 3y ago
The name of the place? rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated. (...your phrasing wound up leading into sounding like the B5 intro.)
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by kemayo 3y ago
I think that part of what keeps Londo sympathetic is that, for all that he makes terrible choices and goes to some dark places, he's not doing it from self-interest. He wants to do what's best for his people. In a weird parallel w
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by kemayo 3y ago
The tight plotting is, in a sense, something that makes it difficult to recommend to people these days. Because there really are some clunky episodes, particularly early on, but they all have something important going on, even if just in
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by kemayo 3y ago
We sort of agree, in that I believe we're both saying that the law is currently doing something bad, but that preventing unauthorized reuse of the news org's content isn't necessarily unreasonable. However, I don't think
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by kemayo 3y ago
It has various takes on this: https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/options-f... Skimming that page, I think that so long as you've got a million dollars to invest in a business based in the US, and w
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by kemayo 3y ago
If the law was restricted to cases where Google / Facebook had actually scraped the content from the page and was redisplaying it, I suspect we'd be seeing far less objections. Instead, it overreached so hard that it's left
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by kemayo 3y ago
Spitballing here, but perhaps the argument could be made that news posted by a Canadian news organization to Instagram might potentially-count as news they need to be paid for if it's shown to other users on that platform? Not sure whe
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by kemayo 3y ago
"You're not allowed to not do the things you have to pay us for" sounds a bit iffy, not gonna lie.
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by kemayo 3y ago
Yeah, I'm so used to seeing skeuomorphism used in terms of UI design that this felt a bit jarring to read. Makes perfect sense, of course. The word just means imitating the design of something made of a different material.
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by kemayo 3y ago
I live in the inner city in Saint Louis, MO, which isn't the richest or most green-friendly region, and there's multiple Teslas on my block. It's been an impressive shift over the last few years.
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by kemayo 3y ago
You can run linux builds of WebKit, which should be enough to debug Safari rendering issues: https://webkit.org/downloads/
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by kemayo 3y ago
The specific guy being who he is was essential to him finding it, mind you -- the story says his niece mentioned it to him after seeing it a few blocks away, presumably because everyone knows he's "the Tron guy". Imagine ho
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by kemayo 3y ago
My spouse has been going to estate sales recently, and it's an incredibly macabre scene. You walk into a house whose owner recently died, everything looking still basically lived in, and price tags have been put up on their entire li
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by kemayo 3y ago
Came out in 1994, which more or less aligns with OP's "well into the 1990s" timeline.
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by kemayo 3y ago
I'm intensely weirded out to see that all of the classic Commander Keen games were developed-and-released between December 1990 and December 1991. That is a wild pace of graphical and gameplay development. Check out the evolution fro
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by kemayo 3y ago
In the keylogger case, it still makes the attack more complicated -- they need to steal your login before that code expires, so rather than passive password-harvesting it has to be an immediate attack.
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by kemayo 3y ago
This link will take you there regardless of text-fragment-link support: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...
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by kemayo 3y ago
There is meaning, though -- it's specifically saying something about the person sending it and how they chose to present themselves.
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by kemayo 3y ago
Have you watched the Simpsons? There's some powerful cultural baggage here. Anyway, it certainly implies not-dark skin...
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by kemayo 3y ago
Speaking as a person with light-colored skin, the default-yellow emoji still basically look like me. Or, a version of me that's on the Simpsons, at least. I imagine that if I had dark skin, I'd feel a bit alienated by this exper
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by kemayo 3y ago
Ah, I assumed it must be related to adware, since it seemed strange to call it out in your description otherwise.

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