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by livrem 3y ago
I thought that was the business model of all companies handling payments (like Klarna)? It's not as if any of them ever sends out a reminder until it is too late. I can't understand how that can be legal, but that is what everyone
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by livrem 3y ago
Even if a third-party is involved, they could serve ads based on the content of the page instead of showing me ads for the products I bought yesterday.
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by livrem 3y ago
There is a right to strike in the Swedish law as well. As long as the strike is legal (has to be a union involved and follow certain procedures) the employer definitely can not fire anyone. And the union in a case like this is paying all th
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by livrem 3y ago
The classic TIGSource Forums thread created one day earlier (unless there is some timezone-confusion going on): https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=6273.0 "The main inspiration for this game is Infiniminer, bu
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by livrem 3y ago
Feels like Android keeps making it worse, at least for older apps that have not been updated to whatever the most recent way to access files is. I have several old apps installed that I can't figure out any way to access files for anym
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by livrem 3y ago
I am always looking for old boardgames (and, to clarify: many 19th century boardgames were published just as a book; you had to construct your own components based on instructions in the book). I have managed to track down some, and receive
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by livrem 3y ago
I was wondering why all of those papers have PDF downloads with the most useless, non-descriptive, names. > Paper_high_res.pdf
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by livrem 3y ago
50 lines of elisp. I tried it just now, and it seems like what it does is that every time I press space it scrolls the buffer so that I am at the top and only see the current line I am editing. Does not look as nice as that fading out edito
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by livrem 3y ago
Yes. The Swedish Transport Union just now declared that workers will stop unloading Tesla cars in the harbors starting noon November 7, if Tesla has not yet signed the collective agreement. Other unions are expected to follow with similar a
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by livrem 3y ago
Fossil has built-in pikchr-rendering in Markdown (and on Wiki pages) that use the same method (but ```pikchr instead, unsurprisingly): https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/doc/usepikchr.md
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by livrem 3y ago
It is true that is not the law, but it is an agreement between unions and employer organizations in Sweden going back at least to 1938 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltsj%C3%B6baden_Agreement ). Following the law is a
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by livrem 3y ago
Maybe. That has not been the case for the big American companies I have worked for here in Sweden. We always got the same benefits, including stock options etc, as everyone else in the companies. Not sure what the unions would say if a comp
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by livrem 3y ago
It would be fun to have realistic emulations of digital synths and sampler I used to own, but got rid of. Not for doing anything useful, but just for the nostalgia. Is there a list somewhere of what synths are already emulated or being work
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by livrem 3y ago
I dreamt about eink boardgame components. Put new graphics on tiles and small tokens to change to a new game, or to upgrade or expand a game. Maybe a deck of eink playing cards, if that is ever feasible. I never thought of having an entire
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by livrem 3y ago
As I mentioned elsewhere here, at university in the first undergraduate computer course we started out with a unix+emacs intro. It sounds unreasonable to me to just start out asking kids to write code without first showing them the tools th
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by livrem 3y ago
At university in the 1990's we had a short mandatory unix+emacs introduction as part of our first programming course. Maybe a few hours spread out over a week or two. Enough to get everyone started I think. Most of us ended up using it
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by livrem 3y ago
Is there a drm-free ebook to buy somewhere? Someone mentioned in a recent HN thread thatthe Calibre plugin to read Kindle books no longer works, so not sure I want to buy the Kindle version right now.
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by livrem 3y ago
But if the software keeps getting modified and expanded it will not be stable. Bugs will be added. And that also causes bloat. I think they go very much hand in hand (and very much correlates with the frequency of upgrades... usually upgrad
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by livrem 3y ago
The reason for that of course is that DOS stopped changing almost 30 years ago. But, yes, Dosbox and other DOS emulators are great virtual machines if you do not want to have to rewrite your software every six months because some API change
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by livrem 3y ago
"It also worth noting that Nanofiche primarily stores data in analog format, but can also be used to encode digital data for archival preservation as well — either as analog images of digital bitmaps, or in native digital formats (such
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by livrem 3y ago
Firefox Mobile reader mode fixed it, so in practice only as inconvenient as tapping one button. Still not a good first impression.
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by livrem 3y ago
One of the terminal emulators I use, possibly the one that comes with lxqt that Lubuntu installs by default, pops up an "are you sure?" window showing exactly what I am about to paste whenever I middle-click-paste anything with a
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by livrem 3y ago
But there are three buffers! There is a Secondary buffer as well. Emacs supports it at least, but no idea how to access it elsewhere? Top answer to this su question claims there is some old X10 cutbuffers supported in X11 as well (that I le
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by livrem 3y ago
There was a clip on Swedish public service television a few months ago about an old man that sprinkled his own pee (mixed with water) around his garden every day to keep the wild boars away. All his neighbors' gardens were devastated b
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https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/ I have some of their military history books in printed books and was happy to discover recently that they are selling DRM-free EPUBs. They also cover many other historical topics (like the s
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by livrem 3y ago
That was my thought as well. I feel like everything that I used to (and sometimes still) do as a hobby has become super-commercialized and 99% of those interested in doing that thing only wants to do it for the money and not as a hobby. The
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by livrem 3y ago
Gemlogs are very much old style blogs for the hell of it. gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/
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by livrem 3y ago
I can get lost for hours some nights surfing that kind of sites on web.archive.org. There is probably more of it there than still live on the web. Go back to 1997 or so on some site on an interesting topic and begin clicking links. Gemini c
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by livrem 3y ago
I must admit I never looked at that ecosystem. Does it just happen to have been quite stable or is it a serious design decision they made and are sticking to? From a quick search I do not get the impression that .NET has been deprecating pa
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by livrem 3y ago
Even without the time traveling, I would be happy if there was just a single stable, non-bloated, reliable, portable platform that could be used for when you just want to Write Once and then know that it will Run Everywhere _forever_ (* ins

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