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by ksherlock 9mo ago
I'm not the target demographic, but this seems like a step backwards. Like, once upon a time maybe you gave your jr programmer a list of things to do, and depending on their skill, familiarity with the cli, hangover status, spelling ab
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by ksherlock 9mo ago
Having played with this a couple days: 1. there's no need for the welcome pop-up every time. 2. the player timing is not good. Are you randomizing durations as a stylistic choice to sound like a first day piano player? it frequently
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by ksherlock 9mo ago
As of emacs 31.1, xterm-mouse-mode is default where supported.
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by ksherlock 9mo ago
$2,500 cars? $10,000 houses? I found the time traveler from 1960!
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by ksherlock 9mo ago
Houses are also put into revocable living trust to avoid probate when kicking the bucket.
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by ksherlock 10mo ago
Back in the time of 3.5" demo disks, I know one group that filled up their disk image with random numbers so it wouldn't compress so it would look bigger and more impressive in file listings.
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by ksherlock 10mo ago
Cuba is better location for a Trump beachside hotel and casino than, say, Gaza.
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by ksherlock 10mo ago
Alternate approach: Delete the app. Use safari to replace the app icon on your home screen with a website. That website is goatse.
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by ksherlock 10mo ago
Chevron is already involved.
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by ksherlock 10mo ago
The symbian source code is available. Looks like it uses a class-specific operator new() overload. https://github.com/SymbianSource/oss.FCL.sf.os.kernelhwsrv/b... 2. Initialisation of the CBase derived object to
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by ksherlock 10mo ago
That's very nice. I used to do http://perfectpitchpuzzle.com daily, which is similar but shorter and with wordle mechanics. I don't know how other people do these things but I've got my keyboard next to my comput
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by ksherlock 10mo ago
On the mac you just type — for an em dash or – for an en dash.
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by ksherlock 10mo ago
well, audio books: - Salem's Lot - the Moon is a harsh mistress - Stranger in a Strange land - The Stand (1990 edition, which initially confused me since I read the 1980 edition long ago) - The best short stories of Mark Twain - Nightm
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by ksherlock 10mo ago
'The South fought hard to include the "except as punishment for crime" clause in the 13th amendment.' I don't think that's historically accurate. The 13th amendment was passed in the Senate on April 8, 1864 and
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by ksherlock 10mo ago
I don't use firefox so I can't confirm, but one issue might be 15+ (?!) different config settings needed to disable AI and it still won't go away. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46095873
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by ksherlock 10mo ago
As one of the commenters pointed out, altitude. A geostationary orbit is ~26,000 miles. Dollars to donuts, that's where it is.
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by ksherlock 10mo ago
BRK-B is also a top-10 (currently #10) component in the S&P 500 with a 1.74% weight. They also own ~40 stocks and I think around half of them are in the S&P 500 (including Apple, Amazon, and Google, which are also top 10 components
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by ksherlock 11mo ago
"The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us." -- Ted Sarandos, Netflix co-CEO, circa 2012. (Actually, he walked it back slightly in 2024 - https://archive.ph/V5Kt1 ).
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by ksherlock 11mo ago
You can't have Vercel without RCE.
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by ksherlock 11mo ago
I mean, he IS the Chief EORfficer
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by ksherlock 11mo ago
The theory is that dark matter can decay or annihilate and when that happens there is an emission. A dark, or perhaps, nocturnal, emission if you will, which can be detected. https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07209
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by ksherlock 11mo ago
I appreciate that it supports Mojave.
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by ksherlock 11mo ago
I use AI to split music into separate tracks.
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by ksherlock 11mo ago
I'd guess approximately nobody does it, but with winelib you can do a native compile and link.
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by ksherlock 11mo ago
There was at least one reason... long double x87me(long double a, long double b) { return a+b; } pushq %rbp movq %rsp, %rbp fldt 32(%rbp) fldt 16(%rbp) faddp %st(1) popq %rbp retq
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by ksherlock 11mo ago
The slow food movement encourages eating local foods and gardening, among other things, so it actually improves food security, for people who aren't food insecure.
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by ksherlock 11mo ago
[[ ]] attributes were added in C++11 and later C23. There are 7 standard(C32) attributes but GCC has hundreds of them. https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/attributes.html https://en.cppreferen
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by ksherlock 1y ago
lite.cnn.com doesn't need javascript. "decent" and "biased", of course, depends on your perspective.
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by ksherlock 1y ago
Interesting. Here's some UI feedback: There seems to be a thermometer and a waveform display that are half synchronized; clicking in the thermometer moves the cursor in the waveform but clicking in the waveform doesn't adjust the
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by ksherlock 1y ago
By the way, Richard Stallman uses emacs from a text console. A text console! Not an xterm, not a terminal emulator, the text console.

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