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by kps 8mo ago
> We all forget that money is nice, but nation states have real power. Elon has ICBMs, but France has warheads.
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by kps 8mo ago
You can buy a thing for your fingernails, a thing for your hair, and a thing for your drains, and put them together to hurt a lot of people (though likely and ideally only yourself), but those things are not banned.
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by kps 8mo ago
> everyone should just have a full face gas mask for all hacker-ish activities, like painting Not everyone who wears eyeglasses, unless you're prepared to add another several hundred dollars for the lens holder and set of prescripti
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by kps 9mo ago
I want to work on artificial road rage. It'd be fun. Don't forget, if you cut off one Waymo, you've cut off every Waymo.
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by kps 9mo ago
And not everything that calls itself xterm-256color is actually xterm compatible *cough* GNOME *cough*.
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by kps 9mo ago
1. That script's color check doesn't check that the output is a terminal. Also test tty -s 2. Don't hardcode escape sequences. Use (e.g.) export STDOUT_COLOR_START="`tput setaf 4`".
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by kps 9mo ago
>Every good terminal emulator lets you set custom palettes Not differently for each program's output .
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by kps 9mo ago
They gave it away by saying the genuine cable was a 234 series (small basic UART) and not a 232 (big ol' 28-pin chip).
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by kps 9mo ago
Related: in C at least (C++ standards are tl;dr), type names like `int32_t` are not required to exist. Most uses, in portable code, should be `int_least32_t`, which is required.
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by kps 9mo ago
Lee died about a decade ago; I don't know whether they still have this policy. (One immediate change was that their stores started being open on Sunday.) In ‘our’ field, HP, under founders Hewlett and Packard, ran into some trouble in
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by kps 9mo ago
And the reason BSD survived is the maligned ‘advertising clause’ that most later BSD-type licenses dropped. Berkeley countersued that AT&T had promoted that System V included vi, without the required attribution.
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by kps 9mo ago
It uses jxl if the browser supports it, using <picture>¹. ¹ https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...
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by kps 9mo ago
Shouldn't that be JPEG℠ vs JPEG™?
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by kps 9mo ago
It's poorly worded, but the rest of the article implies that's average lifespan , not average age . “The average car lifespan now is closer to 322,000 kilometres, which works out to around 10 to 12 years for most drivers.” “Whi
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by kps 9mo ago
Please use `:prefers-color-scheme` throughout.
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by kps 9mo ago
Shooting on film doesn't need any RAM. Unfortunately the price of silver is also through the roof.
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by kps 9mo ago
For the (small, noncommercial) sites I help with, we've always had at least a ‘jump to content’ link at the very top, hidden by CSS, dating back to when lynx was my main browser. In practice today, it's more for people using scree
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by kps 9mo ago
And `jj undo`, so nothing is terrifying.
229.
by kps 10mo ago
MS went with Arial as a metrics-compatible substitute for Helvetica.
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by kps 10mo ago
And Times is one of the three original Postscript core typefaces, along with Helvetica and Courier.
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by kps 10mo ago
Mac Eudora was the best email client ever. If it had got UTF8 support I'd probably still be running it in an emulator.
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by kps 10mo ago
This year also US Thanksgiving.
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by kps 10mo ago
I think discussion duration is a big factor. For sites like HN, there is little point in high-effort replies, since no one will be around to see them.
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by kps 10mo ago
Today is Wednesday the 11796th of September 1993.
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by kps 10mo ago
COBOL is some five years newer than Fortran. You could try FLOW-MATIC.
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by kps 10mo ago
If you frequently write the same characters, it's straightforward to create your own keyboard layout that matches your usage, using https://software.sil.org/ukelele/
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by kps 10mo ago
When I occasionally use MTL into a language I'm not fluent in, I say so. This makes the reader aware that there may be errors unknown to me that make the writing diverge from my intent.
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by kps 10mo ago
Presumably Alpine. I bet it doesn't run GNOME either. And these are just a few of the issues!
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by kps 11mo ago
https://collaborate.unpri.org/group/35676/stream Saudi Arabia
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by kps 11mo ago
A stack of labelled backup tapes. Whereas today, we have a stack of virtual backup tapes plus a DAG on the labels. (OK, only 30 years ago we were using SCCS or maybe already RCS.)

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