maratc

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by maratc 5mo ago
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41160292
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by maratc 5mo ago
`github-actions[bot]` was disabled for some time, if that's the actor which does the checkout in your setup it could be related. FWIW it's back to working now.
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by maratc 5mo ago
In 2016, just 400 American families were the source of 50% of all election money that year. If your "candidate" is going to "rein in big tech," how the hell are they supposed to raise money from them? And if they aren&
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by maratc 5mo ago
> If money can buy votes It's not that "money can buy votes," but for a given party money can buy facilities (offices, transportation, food, etc.) and people (activists, coordinators, etc.) and that can bring (not buy
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by maratc 5mo ago
In the US, the politicians need money to be elected in the first place, and a lot of it. Lots of money comes from the big tech (to both parties), and the big tech won't give money to anyone with a plan to "rein them in."
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by maratc 5mo ago
> "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE" 79 chars.
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by maratc 5mo ago
> the victims are children and unable to make a criminal complaint. I thought that children at any age can complain to the police. The filing side on the criminal case is "State" -- or "People", or "Rex/Regi
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by maratc 5mo ago
> It’s much harder to back into a cramped parking space than backing out into an open space. With cramped parking spaces, your real options are (a) backing into it or (b) driving forward into it. When you need to have a 90 degree turn, o
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by maratc 5mo ago
When you have a tight spot, getting into it in reverse is the only way to do it safely — your front wheels can turn but your rear wheels can’t. However I always park with the front to the exit, since I might find myself in a situation where
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by maratc 5mo ago
Your favourites have tons of "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic" stuff. The fact that so much of it is flagged is a feature of this place, not a bug. This feature is why I keep coming here almost d
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by maratc 5mo ago
Most of them downvoted, including yours (and mine). This is like a poster example of posts and discussions that we want less of here, not more.
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by maratc 5mo ago
I don't live in the US so this doesn't quite enrage me, especially since I'm aware that every US president gets tens (hundreds?) of millions of dollars in donations to their election campaigns, so a gold statue does not look
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by maratc 5mo ago
> the tech billionaires might have a vested interest in making sure stories like this get flagged Interestingly, this "anyone with an opinion different from mine must be a paid shill" argument doesn't pop quite as often
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by maratc 5mo ago
> Nvidia’s market capitalisation ($5.7 trillion) has overtaken Germany’s GDP ($5.45 trillion). Germany’s GDP is not $5.45 trillion. Germany’s GDP is $5.45 trillion per year . I can overtake your car because I can run at 5.5 m/s,
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by maratc 5mo ago
Swiss make both kinds. It's (mostly) non-Swiss who decide what kind to buy.
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by maratc 5mo ago
> The nature of the community here is a self-correcting mechanism. It looks like the community has deployed its self-correcting mechanism in this case.
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by maratc 5mo ago
I guess it falls under "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics".
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by maratc 5mo ago
I am not sure I understand this argument. With all other parameters being equal, I would assume that the larger the button is, the easier it is to mis-press that button. Half-as-large buttons should be harder (twice-as-hard) to mis-press.
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by maratc 5mo ago
On the other hand, full size arrow keys make this a non-starter for me. I need to position my fingers over the arrow keys without looking at them, and half-size allows me to do that by touch feeling.
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by maratc 5mo ago
By using their smart glasses or 20x zoom camera to take a picture of it when I take it out of the pocket at a grocery line? Thieves could snatch my paper ticket from my hands before, but at least in that situation I would be aware of it.
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by maratc 5mo ago
> It means you can sell the ticket This also means I can do it twice if I choose so.
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by maratc 5mo ago
Adding your own passes was possible before (I used websites to create passes on the phone; apps existed too) however that's been a hurdle. I wonder what the security implications of this would be. Could people snatch a QR code on my pa
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by maratc 5mo ago
For one, the article doesn't suggest that this will indeed be allowed as a part of that process. OTOH: it's easy for a flight ticket pass (which has time and airport location) but not for a gym membership pass (time can be anythin
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by maratc 5mo ago
Considering Iran has exactly one nuclear power plant being built by Russia (with Russian fuel), "it's possible in theory to also do other things" looks like extremely far-fetched theories when the actual truth is out there: t
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by maratc 6mo ago
I've never received any answer to the question "what legitimate non-military use is there for a 60%-plus enriched uranium?" The nuclear reactors can provide free electricity out of 2-5% enriched uranium, the naval propulsion
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by maratc 6mo ago
I used vim before TextMate but TM has multiple cursors where vim has none, and I use that every day. The closest thing to that in vim is "repeat edit" but your edits need to be somewhat trivial to be repeat-able. Next is vim macro
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by maratc 6mo ago
As you mentioned iTerm, you should also check out TextMate, the thing that Sublime Text was inspired by.
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by maratc 6mo ago
The real choice though is between (a) buying an apple gizmo and not having to set up local networks; and (b) buying a non-apple gizmo and having to do that.
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by maratc 6mo ago
> the plurality of instruments in most orchestras is violins. That only has to do with physics of sound intensity: to create a sound that is perceived as "twice as loud" as "one violin" you'd need ... ten violin
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by maratc 6mo ago
I converted ebooks into PDFs specifically formatted for my reader size and typeset in the fonts I like. It had proper kerning, hyphenation, widow/orphan control, drop capitals, etc. However that PDF is not reflow-able (or changeable in

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