lewiscollard

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by lewiscollard 2mo ago
Right! If you spend enough time in there to be reading you didn't actually need a shit.
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by lewiscollard 3mo ago
> God, I hate techno-solutionism. I don't hate it nearly as much as this weird genre of accelerationism where any attempt to improve one's immediate circumstances is just a distraction from the real work that needs to be done.
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by lewiscollard 3mo ago
> The article mentions that an abuser could put spyware on your phone? Is that a realistic scenario? Yes, stalkerware is an entire genre of software and it is designed for exactly this purpose. How “stalkerware” apps are letting abusive
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by lewiscollard 5mo ago
> but I guess there is at least this precedent for using the word like that. In Windows 3.1, the SYSTEM.INI had a setting called "shell" for overriding the default program started after Windows had loaded. Use of the word &quot
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by lewiscollard 9mo ago
> Thanks, I saw that, but I never can make heads or tails of just MP. Feel like some phones have much lower MP but the quality of the photo is much higher. It does not merely feel that way; it often is. That is because megapixels measure
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by lewiscollard 9mo ago
My old man has been running Linux for nearly 20 years now. I PROMISE not only that he has never once opened a console, but would spontaneously combust if you suggested it. (I have used a command line on his computer a few times in those two
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by lewiscollard 9mo ago
I am going to get good at TIG welding. This is mostly because there's a lot of subprojects of my car that would really benefit from me doing TIG - stainless, aluminium, etc (I already got pretty good at MIG for mild steel). But also, A
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by lewiscollard 10mo ago
> I tried handwriting https://blog.jakesaunders.dev/schemaless-search-in-postgres/ bit I thought it came off as rambling. There is nothing wrong with this article. Please continue to write as you; it's what peo
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by lewiscollard 10mo ago
That's a fun trick, but please consider adding ARIA roles (e.g. role="presentation" to <table>, role="heading" aria-level="[number]" to the <font> elements used for headings) to make your site
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by lewiscollard 10mo ago
I fed the text of John F Kennedy's 1962 speech "We choose to go to the Moon" into ZeroGPT and it is rated as 72.02% AI generated.
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by lewiscollard 10mo ago
I think that merits an apology from me, then: what I said was wrong and I'm sorry. If I'd thought about that sentence for more than ten seconds, it'd be clear that it's all better explained not by indifference from the s
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by lewiscollard 11mo ago
From the UK too, and your experience is matched by mine. The last time I was in one (I mean "the last time" in both senses of the words) I waited over 20 minutes for my food; I do not know how long it would have actually taken bec
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by lewiscollard 11mo ago
(I don't know why your comment got flagged. I vouched for it; whatever we might argue about here, I don't think you're out of line in any way.) I actually feel everything you have said apart from this P5 being "nice&quot
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by lewiscollard 11mo ago
As someone building a particularly stupid car in a genre almost but not entirely unlike the OP (a turbo LS1-swapped Rover P5), I am not totally making stuff up when I say that this: > You have to be prepared to spend potentially years on
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by lewiscollard 11mo ago
Yes, any time someone says "I'm going to make a thing more reliable by adding more things to it" I either want to buy them a copy of Normal Accidents or hit them over the head with mine.
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by lewiscollard 11mo ago
> They were more or less just rewriting what you wrote. The literal opposite of what I wrote, actually, because "that" refers to "celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk", an activity not much associated with fans of C
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by lewiscollard 11mo ago
If this is intended to accuse me of being a Charlie Kirk fan I can only conclude that you either did not read what I wrote (in which case, you should refrain from replying to it), or you are being dishonest on purpose.
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by lewiscollard 11mo ago
> I'm on mathstodon.xyz (mastodon for maths) and haven't seen any of that. So I guess it's the people you subscribe to. I was on an automotive-focused instance. I did see a lot of that. > But I have the freedom to decid
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by lewiscollard 11mo ago
I was on Mastodon for three years. I deleted my account. When I found out that Charlie Kirk was murdered, my second thought was "well, best create yet another filter on Mastodon so I don't have to watch people celebrate Charlie Ki
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by lewiscollard 11mo ago
No, it is because a significant subset of React developers do not know how to write HTML.
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by lewiscollard 1y ago
> There's really no good practical solution to this problem. Remote attestation via trusted execution environments is a thing. It is not a theoretical one either. See, for example, Graphene OS's Auditor app[0]. Solving this for
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by lewiscollard 1y ago
You removed some words just now, which changes the meaning of the sentence. > but the base $3.5k spec with only 256 GB is extreme. The plain meaning of this sentence is "I expect more than 256 GB of storage when paying $3.5K for a d
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by lewiscollard 1y ago
> The main thing that gives me anxiety about this is the security surface area associated with "managing" a whole OS— kernel, userland, all of it. Like did I get the firewall configured correctly, am I staying on top of the lat
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by lewiscollard 1y ago
I know it's poor form to speak ill of the dead in general and of St Jobs in particular, but I do not see how anyone gets much more from stories like this than "Steve Jobs was an ill-tempered dick of a bully" and "power m
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by lewiscollard 1y ago
At every step there is human agency involved. People came up with the idea, people wrote the code, people deployed the code, people saw the consequences and were like "this is fine". This is why people hate us. It's like Schr
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by lewiscollard 1y ago
> What about the alternating green bars? body { background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, white 0%, white 1em, #7cb8a6 1em, #7cb8a6 calc(1em + 1px), #dbfcf5 calc(1em + 1px), #dbfcf5 calc(2em + 1px), #7cb8a6 calc(2em + 1p
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by lewiscollard 2y ago
Depending on the web server's configuration, you very much _can_ find the domain which is configured on an IP address, by attempting to connect to that IP address via HTTPS and seeing what certificate gets served. Here's an exampl
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by lewiscollard 2y ago
The push-to-left doesn't matter. Most people will read one thing on the site so they're not navigating between pages anyway, most of the remainder aren't clicking through pages fast enough to even notice the jump, most of tho
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by lewiscollard 2y ago
Yep, that works too. I wrote the shortcode because I didn't want to have to manually resize pictures. That's effort and it means if I change my layout to require wider pictures I have to go find the originals. I think you could do
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by lewiscollard 2y ago
> so I wound up putting some JS in my index page template that checks for that kind of thing. If we are going to use JS, then you might as well put the redirects themselves in JS. Have a tiny stub of JS that detects the "/?p=xx

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