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by macintux 10mo ago
Discussed extensively two weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46313991 (243 comments)
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by macintux 10mo ago
> Glad this submission is finally receiving upvotes. Speaking for myself, I have very little patience for technical videos, so I don't believe I've ever upvoted a YouTube submission.
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by macintux 10mo ago
1 day ago, 116 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46414475
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by macintux 10mo ago
> Bad faith actors and cultural dysfunction can break pretty much anything no matter how well thought out it might be. U.S. politics today in a nutshell.
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by macintux 10mo ago
I found one way to "adjust" slide photos: I accidentally processed a (color) roll of mine using C-41. The result was surprisingly not terrible.
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by macintux 10mo ago
I’m about ready to start flagging every comment that complains about the source material being LLM-generated. It’s tiresome, pointless, and adds absolutely nothing useful to the discussion. If the material is wrong, explain why. Otherwise,
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by macintux 10mo ago
Huh. That led me to wonder whether anyone has created CSS for DocBook, and it appears it exists. http://www.badgers-in-foil.co.uk/projects/docbook-css/
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by macintux 10mo ago
> all software devs still have a job As far as I can tell from comments on this site, that is far from reality. It's a tough market right now.
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Simple in that many of them are relatively easy to remember after learning. ¢ for example is option+4—where the dollar sign is. A keyboard with every possible character would have its own simplicity challenges.
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by macintux 10mo ago
When you go, be sure to check out Union Terminal, and catch one of the free tours. Amazing place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Union_Terminal I was lucky enough to be the only person who showed up for my to
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by macintux 10mo ago
APL seemed the likeliest candidate, but no such luck.
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This dates back to the beginning of the Mac, so it's almost 10 years older than FreeBSD. (I'm unfamiliar with other UNIX compose key tooling that may have predated it.)
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by macintux 10mo ago
Option is used extensively for non-Ascii characters, a comprehensive list would be quite long. A few of the easier to remember: option + 0 for degrees º option + u for to place an umlaut over the next typed character (when it's a valid
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by macintux 10mo ago
Erlang (and probably Prolog, but my memories there are fuzzy) use periods, commas, and semi-colons in a directly analogous way to English.
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by macintux 10mo ago
MacOS makes it simple: option + - for en-dash, option + shift + - for em-dash.
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by macintux 10mo ago
I use semi-colons frequently, probably at least a half dozen times/week. Em-dashes not so much, but I'm so deathly sick of people complaining that some piece of text must be LLM-generated that I feel the need to start using it as
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by macintux 10mo ago
Worth noting that it's easy (and probably fairly frequent) to click the wrong arrow, especially on a phone screen. I've started double-checking the "unvote" vs "undown" link that appears afterwards to make sure
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by macintux 10mo ago
You’re talking about Trump who is publicly demanding certain people be prosecuted, so point 1 is wildly invalid. Point 2 is highly debatable, and the mass cruelty of the current administration is considered by many to be worse than what it’
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by macintux 10mo ago
Reading about how other industries have created tight controls, standardization, good documentation is always of some interest.
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by macintux 10mo ago
CGP Grey has tackled this in his usual brilliant rabbit hole fashion: https://youtu.be/HSRmfNDk87s
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Name it. Name the corruption that you think has been cleaned up.
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by macintux 10mo ago
I have a vague recollection that my little cousin was nearly ended when he managed to destabilize the stand that a CRT was sitting on, and it fell just behind him, but I may be entirely hallucinating that memory. Regardless, there are multi
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by macintux 10mo ago
Related, 3 weeks ago: Functional Quadtrees (49 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46147341
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by macintux 10mo ago
The number is still rising but the growth rate is plummeting. https://assets.ourworldindata.org/uploads/2016/03/ourworldin...
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by macintux 10mo ago
Effectively they’ve turned any edge case into a potential city-wide problem and PR nightmare. One driver doesn’t know how to handle a power outage? It’s not news. Hundreds of automated vehicles all experience the same failure? National news
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by macintux 10mo ago
General rule of thumb: a misbehaving/slow server in any well-architected distributed system is vastly worse than a dead server.
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Where in the world did I imply that?
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Parents can sue the schools for retaining books they've challenged.
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For high school students, sure. I'd be very uncomfortable, but know thy enemy.
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That's true. I provided you with a link to the text to the Florida bill that does impact school libraries in another thread.

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