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by majewsky 4y ago
You might be interested in this little tool of mine: https://github.com/majewsky/jack-autoplug - It's using the JACK API, so it works with PipeWire out of the box. I run instances of this tool as systemd services,
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> where would one suggest that most people don't experience theft? I live in Germany. The only time I ever had something stolen was at age 9, by a classmate who was shortly thereafter diagnosed as a cleptomaniac and who received the
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by majewsky 4y ago
When the code is under a non-permissive license, that means by definition that GitHub cannot derive any usage rights from it. However, displaying the source code on the website (even to a logged-in user! even to the original rights holder!)
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by majewsky 4y ago
If they did not have this clause, they would be in breach of copyright as soon as they display any source code listing to anyone (including logged-in users). If other repository services don't have something to the same effect in their
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Most Eastern European countries (most especially the Baltic states, Poland, and Moldova) are vehemently opposed to appeasement politics because they know that, if they let Putin have Ukraine, their own countries will be next on Russia'
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by majewsky 4y ago
The reason for this is navigation boxes that are shared between articles via templates. When you have a navigation box linking to several articles within a topic, and you are on article 3, then it will render as [[Article 1]] - [[Articl
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by majewsky 4y ago
Indentation-based delimiting is good for reading because it provides visual structure. For writing, it's much more effective to rely on braces or parentheses instead and have the indentation be inferred by an autoformatter. For example
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I don't agree with the implication that "the phone makes them look" is not a valid reason. The term "dark pattern" is 12 years old at this point, and we have had plenty of evidence that software companies are explic
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Obviously during the other 8 hours. There is no requirement that you need to be generating meaning every hour of the day. In fact, it's pretty much impossible. There's no way to derive a deeper meaning from the 8 hours spent sleep
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Are you counting the $2B that Facebook paid for Oculus, and the investments into Oculus since then?
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> my hardware never changes (so I don't need anything like UDEV) You don't own any USB peripherals?
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What if you spread it out across different brokers? How much communication is going on there? With traditional stocks, short positions have a certain amount of transparency because of regulation as far as I know, but I imagine such regulati
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by majewsky 4y ago
The rather small stdlib of Rust is a learning from Python: Python's stdlib really does have "everything and the kitchen sink", but lots of modules will have caveats like "do not use urllib2, use requests from PyPI instea
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> SQL is one of, if not the most, common programming language out there. Agreed with "one of", but the most common programming language is definitely Excel.
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> but alas I have not been sent my invitation to join the secret WEF army yet I'm getting e-mails every week that invite me to join the Illuminati. Maybe I should not be sending them to spam? :)
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At least it's still Latin characters. Just imagine if instead of ME21N you had to enter 請求.
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> myFunc()! panics if there is an err You can do this with generics today: func must[T](val T, err error) T { if err != nil { panic(err.Error()) } return val } //usage example file := must(os.Create
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> Everyone on both side gets unblocked full vista. Aren't the sides supposed to be completely covered in solar panels? > Navigation is super easy. No getting lost in the city. But your maps need to be inherently three-dimensional
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This manual is not as "free" as it could be: For the vast majority of its target audience, it requires effort to get it into a readable format. I would consider a HTML rendition of the same TexInfo files more free (for a certain d
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by majewsky 4y ago
True, obviously the most impactful innovation of the 19th century was Taylorism.
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How about jaywalking? Or carrying a gram of weed?
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docker-compose only deploys on individual nodes though.
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Unsigned commits won't help in this specific case though, no?
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> Information asymmetry enforces itself automacically. If that were a universal rule, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment could never have happened the way they did.
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> Hetzner also just doesn’t auto-charge you (from my experience, at least). I have my Hetzner account set up so they pull the money automatically (through SEPA Direct Debit). Not sure how it works with credit cards, but it's not lik
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Large corporations have thousands of people working on the balance sheets, though, therefore the balance sheets are much more inscrutable than those of your cookie-cutter barbershop or restaurant business.
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Great timing. I'm part of a German podcast on fundamentals of computing [1], and we just recorded an episode on Distributed Systems that discusses Raft as an example. We will probably be adding an addendum to link to this. [1] https:&
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> "make install" for example is specifically something Tup can't do. This is trivially solved by having "install.sh". `make` is different things to different people. What you describe, `make` as a tool to compute
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by majewsky 4y ago
As a WaniKani user, I don't think I'd want AI-generated content in there. The entire value proposition is that all the content is 100% hand-crafted by people who know Japanese way better than me.
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There is also usually a new year's deal where you get lifetime membership for 200$ instead of 300$, which gets announced through the community forum.

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