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by majewsky 5y ago
> > 99% of the population will delegate the decision of what code is allowed to run to someone > I do not agree with this. You are saying people are too stupid to make decisions and that is amoral in my opinion. No, it's just
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by majewsky 5y ago
There are tons of OSS projects with great UX... just not for "normies". That's the issue: Most OSS contributors write software primarily for themselves, and if their needs don't align with those of the general population
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by majewsky 5y ago
You're absolutely correct. It appears my memory of that episode was way too rosy.
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by majewsky 5y ago
It also depends on which netcat you use. I usually use ncat (which comes with nmap) with the following invocations, and that never gave me any encoding/EOF/CRLF trouble: # on sender ncat --send-only --listen 12345 < file.
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by majewsky 5y ago
PulseAudio never intended to replace Jack. And in fact, that's one of its biggest failings. FWIW, I have recently switched from PulseAudio to PipeWire. I remembered how rough the switch from plain ALSA to PulseAudio was, and thus was u
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by majewsky 5y ago
Ads on a website can be personalized (which is why many RSS feeds for news sites only short the first three paragraphs and then force you to click through into their website). Ads in a podcast delivered by RSS feed are much harder to person
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by majewsky 5y ago
Before I switched to a tiling window manager, I had my global shortcuts in KDE set up with all the available quick-tiling actions. Win+S would maximize a window, Win+{W,A,D,X} would move and resize the window to cover the {upper,left,right,
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by majewsky 5y ago
I suppose he was working on Servo when looking into this sort of question.
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by majewsky 5y ago
I did this for the longest time, testing with SQLite and running with PostgreSQL, until I discovered that this was completely unnecessary extra complexity. It turns out that setting up and starting a fresh PostgreSQL database takes about on
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by majewsky 5y ago
It's not Lisa Lionheart, it's the copy cat doll that the big corp released at the end of the episode, when they realized that there was a market for something like Lisa Lionheart.
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by majewsky 5y ago
I have seen this story make the rounds in my local (non-English) reporting as well. Did Mattel really pay each any every one of these media? The much easier theory is that news outlets crave feel-good stories that no one will object to, lik
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by majewsky 5y ago
FWIW, I'm running Steam on Arch and it's working great. I remember that there were occasional issues with library version mismatches when I first started out with it, but I have not had any problems in the last... 3 years at least
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by majewsky 5y ago
ESL speaker from Germany here. My experience is that I can cope really well with the accents that I understand, but I struggle really hard with new accents until I crack their code, so to say. For example, the wife of a friend is from Turke
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by majewsky 5y ago
Humans are part of 99% of nature. Nature reserves are the control group that helps us understand which effects are caused by us specifically, and which are not.
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by majewsky 5y ago
Wouldn't that just result in social pressure to post at acceptable levels, or people unfriending you for posting too much shit? ...Upon rereading, I realize that I'm probably implying my own preferences as universal.
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by majewsky 5y ago
The purpose of a nature preserve, unsurprisingly, is to preserve nature as it exists within this space. Any human interference with nature inside the preserve runs the risk of tipping the scales of the natural lifecycle's balance. If s
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by majewsky 5y ago
The irony of your statement is that you can only make this accusation now because the scientific community did not stop there and diligently continued working to improve the consensus.
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by majewsky 5y ago
> since [1988] the number of annual [Polio] cases has dropped by 99.9%, from 350/year to a handful And what's more, that's not even the impressive part of the curve in terms of magnitude. Polio was once so commonplace that
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by majewsky 5y ago
Anecdata: I've seen several people in my circle who have never identified as anti-vax in the past, who reject SARS-CoV-2 vaccines on the grounds of "they were made too quick, we didn't have enough time for testing". Of c
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by majewsky 5y ago
> Futures was stabilized before the async syntax, so this used to be the only way you could do it. While that's technically true (std::future was in 1.36 and async/await syntax was in 1.39), that's a very short timespan of
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by majewsky 5y ago
He is incorporated, but as a foundation, not as a company.
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by majewsky 5y ago
> The parent claimed there wasn't time. You forgot the second part of my sentence: > or who choose to pursue non-IT hobbies to keep a work-life balance
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by majewsky 5y ago
I appreciate your sentiment. At the same time, looking at side projects runs the risk of discriminating against qualified candidates who don't have time for side projects because of other commitments (e.g. childcare or care for elderly
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by majewsky 5y ago
The purpose of CAA records is mostly to exclude CAs you don't trust. It's less of a "I trust Let's Encrypt" and more of a "I don't trust Honest Achmed". (Context for "Honest Achmed": https:
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by majewsky 5y ago
For our team, the reason is standardization. We have our entire baremetal infrastructure running Kubernetes. There is no process for running anything in not-a-Docker-container. This does come with some caveats for stateful databases, but it
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by majewsky 5y ago
> Or maybe you use sqlite in dev/tests and something bigger in prod. I had that for a while. SQLite for the test suite and Postgres for actual runs. It was a shitshow, having to support two separate SQL dialects with separate featu
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by majewsky 5y ago
You don't actually need a CDN or caching to survive being on the HN frontpage: https://xyrillian.de/thoughts/posts/latency-matters-aftermat...
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by majewsky 5y ago
It just says "Error establishing a database connection" for me. ... Yeah, that checks out.
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by majewsky 5y ago
That assumes that demand is constant. Their hope is that frequent images of mining ASICs being steamrolled will reduce demand.
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by majewsky 5y ago
Gemini is as "terminal-only" as Markdown. Just because it's a text format first and foremost, does not mean that you can't display it nicely formatted. It's more like EPUB in that regard.

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