meruru

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by meruru 7y ago
You're technically correct of course.
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by meruru 7y ago
You can put it on your website or anywhere really. Some people use keybase.io for this.
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by meruru 7y ago
Why wouldn't it be?
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by meruru 7y ago
I don't want my emails to be readable by Google, yet they will when people I communicate with are using Gmail.
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by meruru 7y ago
FWIW the essays I mentioned are from the early 2000s. Java's Cover is from 2001: http://www.paulgraham.com/javacover.html
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by meruru 7y ago
Those essays were written a long time ago and reflected the situation at the time. I can't really say how accurate they were, but you're using the present tense and mentioning present technology, so I thought it would be worth to
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by meruru 7y ago
pg wrote a bunch of really good essays about Java vs Python vs Lisp and how those were perceived by programmers. I always remember them when I see Go being compared to Java while still being liked by Hackers. I wonder what he would write ab
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by meruru 7y ago
>These large mammals are attracted to a hive by not only the honey in the combs, but also a colony’s eggs, larvae and pupae — and even the bees themselves. In one fell swoop, a colony can disappear. Wow can you imagine swallowing a bee n
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by meruru 7y ago
Because GIMP falls short as a Photoshop replacement, but there are plenty of people using Krita instead of Photoshop.
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by meruru 7y ago
I've always seem this kind of criticism of the "tech bubble" as a great endorsement of the tech community. Where else do you see people so interested in so many subjects that they have to be constantly reminded they are speak
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by meruru 7y ago
That's an interesting question. Why aren't we? I figure we basically already have technology-wise so there's not any research left to do and we have no reason to actually move there yet.
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by meruru 7y ago
An underwater amusement park would be a nice goal to develop underwater construction technology actually. I could see that being important if the surface of the Earth becomes inhospitable and it perhaps could be popular enough as an attract
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by meruru 7y ago
Go and Rust mostly compete as the "which of these newish languages should I learn next".
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by meruru 7y ago
Obviously laptops count as desktops for the purpose of this discussion, since we are talking about desktop operating systems, which is what laptops run.
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by meruru 7y ago
>If you're more interested in the “free” than the “open source” part This phrasing will confuse people who are not familiar with the expression "Free Software". It would be better phrased like this: >If you're more
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Valve's Proton Keeps Making Its Way in Compatibility(boilingsteam.com)
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by meruru 7y ago
I don't think the mosquitoes realize they can kill people.
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by meruru 7y ago
That's a meme propagated by the news, but I'm pretty sure the desktop is still a thing.
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by meruru 7y ago
>exactly whose English should we be spelling in I know we'll never be able to choose one, but any dialect would be fine to standardize on.
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by meruru 7y ago
Pretty good results actually. I could read it to the end: >Finally, then, after some 20 years of orthography reform, we would have a logical, coherent spelling in use throughout the English-speaking world. I guess it helps that a lot of
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by meruru 7y ago
It's by one of the authors of HtDP: https://www.htdp.org/
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by meruru 7y ago
He's talking about the software so your comments about cases and tables feel unrelated. If you just mean to say it's still a prototype, it could've been phrased better. When you said "I agree" then followed up with
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by meruru 7y ago
Q3 according to the videos.
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by meruru 7y ago
This is incredibly exciting. For those that haven't seen it, here's a bullet list of the Librem 5 differentiators: + Does not use Android or iOS. The Librem 5 comes with the mobile version of our FSF-endorsed operating system
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by meruru 7y ago
I always found weird that someone would want to cheat in a game like online chess. I mean, what's the point? Does anyone have insight on what's going on in the head of cheaters?
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by meruru 7y ago
I'm not concerned with false positives. That's something the legal system can expect and handle properly. My issue with this kind of technology is the potential for abuse by incumbent powers. What happens when the government start
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by meruru 7y ago
The Librem 5 has a kill switch for the radio: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
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by meruru 7y ago
I use Lineage OS ( https://lineageos.org ) with the cameras taped. It's not perfectly secure, but it's the best tradeoff I can make at the moment. Here's a few better options I want to switch to in the future: Graph
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by meruru 7y ago
I consider my desktop computer to be far more secure than my phone, since it's harder for someone to access it physically and it isn't running Android. The things I install on it are more trustworthy as well, since they're mo
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by meruru 7y ago
I tape my phone cameras too.

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