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by mey 6y ago
Handling of arguments is one of the reasons I reach for Python or Powershell instead of a bash script when writing my own stuff. https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html is great. Powershell has the Param
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by mey 6y ago
Explored further in book, The Diamond Age
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by mey 6y ago
Oil has horrible consequences, but your rational for it being evil by being out of "reach" isn't very enlightening. By your logic we should not tap aquifers for drinking water, but mass desalination is fine. Instead, oil is
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by mey 6y ago
If it's ARM that excites you, Surface Pro X (Windows) and Pinebook (Linux) exist today. If it's macOS, you could switch now. What about the combo of macOS + ARM do you find compelling?
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by mey 6y ago
As a developer, you don't have much incentive to fix it yourself.
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by mey 6y ago
Not sure if this was true of the newer Segways, but the first generations of Segways had the performance limits encoded into the key. So you could turn it on with a key to train someone to use it, or if you had access to the tools, program
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by mey 6y ago
Yeah once we go back to an actual table (2021?) this will be amazing. I can see using this to sketch out a dungeon before breaking down into smaller maps in DungeonDraft for VTT.
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by mey 6y ago
See https://twitch.amazon.com/tp (click on the Prime Status on Twitch section)
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by mey 6y ago
What would that look like? Shifting to becoming a software developer and leading the charge a Desktop Linux? A vertical integrator like Apple, Microsoft Surface, System 76 (yes those are varying degrees of success)? I really like the NUC
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by mey 6y ago
Is this any different than making Shadow Banning visible to the user who has been Shadow Banned?
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by mey 6y ago
What has Sandisk been up to?
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by mey 6y ago
To the author, if timestamp is only a timestamp, that will not guarantee uniqueness. It may be sufficient for your use case, but unless there are other constraints on your system design you may loose data (since they will be treated as dup
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by mey 6y ago
Native Apps have more permissions to your system, like running in the background, information about your device, storage and code execution. Running a 3rd party Native Application to get around Youtube ads requires a lot of trust that that
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by mey 6y ago
Firefox Preview / Firefox both can run uBlock Origin + EFF Privacy Badger and work very well with Youtube's mobile website. The only thing I notice that is missing is Chromecast integration, but I fine living without that. Upside
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by mey 6y ago
https://www.nlg.org/police-targeting-nlg-legal-observers-at-... https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/police-are-attacking-j... Some sources Edit: https://pressfreedomtracker.us/
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by mey 6y ago
I couldn't get Firefox Preview on mobile to get back to HN.
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by mey 6y ago
Yet no mention of Hong Kong or Libya.
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by mey 6y ago
I tried, except, everywhere I looked, they promoted Op-ed pieces with equal billing and authority as traditional investigative reporting. Washington Post, NY times seemed liked the "best" based on track record for investigative
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by mey 6y ago
When there is a history of drivers BSODing post security update due to how they interact, I do have some sympathy for Microsoft on that last point.
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by mey 6y ago
Fair point. I leave the post as is for posterity. I wonder if https://github.com/Microsoft/MS-DOS will improve that situation.
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by mey 6y ago
Not sure what you mean by limited here? You have quite a few options are your disposal these days. (Depending on how you scope "power user") Cygwin (OSS compiled to Win APIs) Powershell (Native Windows fun) WSL 1 (Linux
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by mey 6y ago
- Oracle's licensing confusion (where does Java and Java(TM) begin/end). - The JVM historically has included the kitchen sink (Java 9 started addressing this). - People's impressions that it is slow or a memory hog. Edit: (Lo
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by mey 6y ago
I suggest looking into very specifically AdoptOpenJDK. https://adoptopenjdk.net/faq.html A lot of people have been digging into the general insanity of Java licensing since Java 8's divergence. Here is a good overview
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by mey 6y ago
I wish the JVM was less of a pariah. I love being able to just reach for https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-csv/user-guide.htm... Here is the entire logic of the CSV parser (test code is in a separate path
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by mey 6y ago
Wife is an Animal Crossing convert entirely due to Covid. She played zero video games on a regular basis before that. I expect she will put it back down as other recreation options become available again, but I doubt she is the only one t
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by mey 6y ago
They do love their FUD on the community version. https://www.graalvm.org/downloads/ Not sure when they clarified the licensing around GraalVM, but it's what kept me away from it since it's inception. Looks l
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by mey 6y ago
https://github.com/unfetter-discover/unfetter/issues/1613 Looks like the project may be abandoned? Time for a fork?
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by mey 6y ago
I've actually been notified by Oregon when my signature has been different enough from what's on file with them. Happened once out of like 10 times I've voted out here. The mailing confirmed my prior vote counted and asked
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by mey 6y ago
Instacart is probably the closest, but like UberEats they require the grocery store to be integrated.
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by mey 6y ago
I use Sony WH-CH700N's because they fold flat, have physical buttons, noise cancelling and have good enough sound quality. (It's bluetooth, can only ask so much) https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/138

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