mftrhu

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by mftrhu 6y ago
There's already an awk-to-C compiler [1], even if it seems to be unmaintained. Python has a couple of them, more or less constrained, including Nuitka [2]. [1] http://awka.sourceforge.net/index.html [2] https:/&#
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by mftrhu 6y ago
> I want a web browser that remembers every single page I have visited (#) and then lets me search them. Did you check out WorldBrain's Memex < http://worldbrain.io/> browser extension yet?
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by mftrhu 6y ago
People the drone might fall on.
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by mftrhu 6y ago
Transportation and shopping come to mind. If you do most of your shopping online you will be less exposed to this kind of mass surveillance; conversely, if you have to use public transportation and walk around, you'll be more exposed
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by mftrhu 7y ago
I just use the builtin `abbrev` for that. I took the idea from http://home.thep.lu.se/~karlf/emacs.html#sec-7-2 , and defined a bunch of global abbrevs under the `8` "namespace", for greek letters, mathemati
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by mftrhu 7y ago
If you are inside of Emacs you could change the input method to TeX and type \leftarrow, or press C-x 8 ENTER and write LEFT ARROW, or enable the Compose key system-wide and do Compose + < + -, or copy-paste it, or buy a new keyboard, or
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by mftrhu 7y ago
I clicked on that link expecting just another CSS framework, but this is ridiculously impressive. Hats off to the author.
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by mftrhu 7y ago
They were never built, but during that period people had absolutely wild ideas. Great Britain was considering building 10 kton nuclear mines , to be buried along the borders of Germany and to be detonated in case of a Soviet invasion. E
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by mftrhu 7y ago
Federation with GNUSocial, at the very least. Issue #256 [0] - add support for ActivityPub - was opened two years ago, but it doesn't look like it got added yet. [0]: https://git.gnu.io/gnu/gnu-social/issues&#
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by mftrhu 7y ago
> It seems that nowadays it is more common to get one of those ailments. Is it? It seems to me that PTSD is just more common than what people once thought, and that, nowadays, it's treated more seriously. It's not like milita
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by mftrhu 7y ago
There isn't much to WAFF. Each WAFF file can contain more than one saved page. Each page needs to be contained within its own folder (whose name is usually the timestamp of when the page was saved, but it doesn't matter AFAICT).
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by mftrhu 7y ago
> Libertarians are not Anarchists. Unless with "libertarians" you are referring to ancaps, this is just false. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism#Rise_of_anarchi...
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by mftrhu 7y ago
Eyes on the building. Bars/shutters on the windows. An alarm system. Caltrops on the floor. A locked room with a decent door for the laptops, and/or a strongbox. Africanized killer bees. Full-disk encryption on the laptops t
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by mftrhu 7y ago
Sounds like the organization you work for should have spent more in security.
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by mftrhu 7y ago
Not quite, because while you are talking about estrogen in beef and birth control pills (Diane 35, presumably), you are talking about phytoestrogens in soy milk & co, and specifically isoflavones. Phytoestrogens have a similar structure
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by mftrhu 7y ago
Wait, QEmacs was written by Bellard, too? I stumbled across it a while ago but I didn't pay attention to the author. Damn.
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by mftrhu 7y ago
> I wonder if there's a market for an alternative "browser" that loads "native" code (or as close as practically possible) and runs it in a sandbox. This is probably not what you had in mind, and I'm not sur
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by mftrhu 7y ago
There's also NetSurf < https://www.netsurf-browser.org/> , which is in active development and which is almost as lightweight as Dillo, while having better support for CSS3. It doesn't really support JS yet -
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by mftrhu 7y ago
Conservapedia is trying to be a Wikipedia alternative - an Internet encyclopedia , from a fundamentalist point of view. RationalWiki is not , and I'm not sure why you mentioned it. It's not a Wikipedia fork or alternative. It&
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by mftrhu 7y ago
> Non-starter. The whole point of ordinance is its cheap. What's wrong with ye olde ground based x-ray laser and a mirror on a satellite? Mostly the fact that 1. as someone mentioned already, x-ray lasers are not easy to generate,
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by mftrhu 7y ago
For a blog/static website, Tipue Search [1], or maybe Datasette [2]. There are Pelican [3]/Jekyll [4] plugins for the former. [1] http://www.tipue.com/search/ [2] https://24ways.org/2018&#x2F
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by mftrhu 7y ago
What about the comments? None of the screenshots on either the website or the Play Store show how a comments thread would look like in your app.
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by mftrhu 7y ago
> I'm optimistic about its continued development though. Org is amazing, yes, but I'm not too optimistic about this - even if some of its more noticeable warts got fixed (a big one, for me, is the fact that you cannot nest quot
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by mftrhu 7y ago
> This is the most impressive example of the genre that I've seen: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/ (engine: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/#oscean ) Yeah. I am currently using org-mode (plus org-wiki, some bespoke
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by mftrhu 7y ago
Why do you think fileinput is weird?
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by mftrhu 7y ago
Almost. It was declassified as a disease by the American Psychiatric Association in 1973 [1] (and by the American Psychological Association in 1975 [2]), and the DSM-III has been the first edition to not include homosexuality. It still co
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by mftrhu 7y ago
It's not particularly thinly-veiled, but you are otherwise spot-on.
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by mftrhu 7y ago
> Everyone has a multi-megabit home connection now. Hosting a simple static site is easy and works well. Hardly. 2 megabytes/s download, around 120 kilobytes/s upload - my upload speed barely even reaches one megabit. And
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by mftrhu 7y ago
Not much more than a few Hertz, AFAICT. It should be enough to use a terminal - someone even installed X and ran XFCE on a Kindle, but it looks pretty weird.
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by mftrhu 7y ago
Both Progynon and Emmenin, the first forms of estrogen used (1928-29), were extracted from the urine of pregnant women. The material for Progynon was initially collected in a Berlin's clinic by Shering [1], and the urine needed for Emm

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