lioeters

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   by lioeters 3y ago

   Simply put, it's the worship of money and wealth. More money, closer to God.
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   by lioeters 3y ago

   > these projects use Emscripten, but in the future the same Wasm32-wasi module will work I'm curious to know more about this. Does it mean that when browsers support WASI, these projects will not need to use Emscripten? Or maybe us
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   by lioeters 3y ago

   https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/thinkpad/ https://system76.com https://frame.work/ https://puri.sm/products/librem-14/ https://www.dell.com&#x2F
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   by lioeters 3y ago

   HN-incompatible: Any website that hijacks the scroll bar or the back button of the browser..
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   by lioeters 3y ago

   This got me too, they locked me out of my account with close to a thousand dollars. I tell people every chance I get to avoid PayPal, they're a horrible company. Most of the time I hear back, "Yeah I know."
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   A minimal operating system (2K LOC) on QEMU and a RISC-V board(github.com)

   87 points by lioeters 3y ago|19 comments
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   by lioeters 3y ago

   As an aside, the image viewer is using OpenSeadragon. OpenSeadragon: An open-source, web-based viewer for high-resolution zoomable images https://openseadragon.github.io/
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   by lioeters 3y ago

   > During the event, we introduce a version of GPT that has been trained on the complete works of Plato and other esoteric texts, and invite attendees to ask deep questions of Plato. Our AI generates new dialogues in response, offering a
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   by lioeters 3y ago

   I neither support nor refute the claim, but one data point is the Global Food Security Index. In their 2022 report, the rating/ranking was: Finland Ireland Norway France Netherlands Japan Sweden Canada
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    by lioeters 3y ago

    In Spain, every month this year has been below average in terms of rain fall. People are saying it's getting hotter and drier like a desert, and that the country is becoming part of Africa.
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    by lioeters 3y ago

    What I think can improve the situation is "curation", particularly manual, effort-intensive, thoughtful and reasonably timely curation by a person or people with good taste. That's asking a lot, with many subjective variables
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    Valentina Lisitsa Plays Philip Glass(youtube.com)

    1 points by lioeters 3y ago|0 comments
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    by lioeters 3y ago

    I'm guessing the rights to the recordings belong to her brother Phil and/or the two people who produced the album. From the Bandcamp page: words and music by Connie Converse recorded by Connie Converse & Gene Deitch re
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    by lioeters 3y ago

    This link is in the article, but it sure makes for a perfect soundtrack while reading. https://connieconverse.bandcamp.com/album/how-sad-how-lovely
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    by lioeters 4y ago

    I act like you act, I do what you do But I don’t know, what it’s like to be you What consciousness is, I ain’t got a clue I got the zombie blues — David Chalmer
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    by lioeters 4y ago

    I was a teenager riding a bicycle through a neighborhood, when I came across a yard sale. Heard that someone had died. Among their things was a tape of the Koyaanisqatsi soundtrack composed by Philip Glass. Bought it for a couple of bucks,
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    by lioeters 4y ago

    I enjoyed reading about how you started learning to program Python on an Android phone using Termux. What a unique way to get into computers! I wish you a fun journey of discovery and creativity.
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    by lioeters 4y ago

    I agree. Private class fields seem totally unnecessary when you can simply "hide" functions and variables in a local scope and not export/expose it. (Or use symbols as another comment suggested.) I also don't want a libr
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    by lioeters 4y ago

    Same!
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    by lioeters 4y ago

    It's the world's smallest violin, and it's playing just for you.
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    by lioeters 4y ago

    > In the unary system, the number 0 (zero) is represented by the empty string, that is, the absence of a symbol. Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, ... are represented in unary as 1, 11, 111, 1111, 11111, 111111, ... https://en.wikiped
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    by lioeters 4y ago

    I tracked down the Git history where the phrase "essentially a buzzword" was introduced in this pull request: https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/5116/files#diff-7cfca62e... I agree that it&#x2
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    by lioeters 4y ago

    I was thinking how addiction and depression are not always a simple cause-and-effect relationship. Sometimes it's the other way around, as in self-medicating behavior ("to drown your sorrow in a bottle"), and other times they
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    by lioeters 4y ago

    Perhaps they can distinguish themselves as LibReboot, in contrast to LibreBoot.
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    by lioeters 4y ago

    > The term HTML5 is essentially a buzzword that refers to a set of modern web technologies. This includes the HTML Living Standard, along with JavaScript APIs to enhance storage, multimedia, and hardware access. > You may sometimes he
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    by lioeters 4y ago

    > a clever program that he had written for the Macintosh called Frontier, in which he had a scripting language and an outliner and a word processor and a database, all in one program Fascinating concept. I found a bit more info in an art
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    by lioeters 4y ago

    https://noyaml.com/
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    by lioeters 4y ago

    Worse is better, yet again.
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    by lioeters 4y ago

    One that comes to mind is the WASM port of FFmpeg: https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm Another is the SQLite WASM project: https://sqlite.org/wasm/doc/trunk/index.md Also v86 for x
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    by lioeters 4y ago

    > Single Executable Apps That's news to me. It makes sense to have this feature in Node.js itself, instead of various implementations in userland. "Stability: 1 - Experimental: This feature is being designed and will change.&qu