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by mkotowski 5y ago
Care to elaborate? Why an existence of a popular RSS reader has to do with preventing a protocol it is using from being more recognized?
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by mkotowski 5y ago
[sic] is used to indicate the fact that the transcribed/copied text is indeed correct, and the eventual error was included in the original text. The fact of pasting or transcribing the words wouldn’t matter in that context.
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Peru’s Incan Rope Bridges Are Hanging by a Thread(atlasobscura.com)
3 points by mkotowski 5y ago|0 comments
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by mkotowski 5y ago
If I remember correctly, currently it is thought that the collapse was caused by many negative events happening almost at the same time. One of those are so-called Sea Peoples (seriously [0]). A single impact could explain a collapse of a c
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The saga of the cannibal ants in a Soviet nuclear bunker (2019)(atlasobscura.com)
200 points by mkotowski 5y ago|49 comments
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An Ancient ‘Tiger God’ Helps Communities and Big Cats Coexist in India(atlasobscura.com)
1 points by mkotowski 5y ago|0 comments
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A Brief Eerie History of How the Wind Makes Us Crazy (2019)(lithub.com)
1 points by mkotowski 5y ago|0 comments
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by mkotowski 5y ago
> It was previously known that some people can change their pupil size at will, but by using indirect methods. > For example, researchers already knew that just thinking about the sun could constrict the pupils and that thinking of a
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by mkotowski 5y ago
Probably they worded it this way (assuming good intentions, of course) because whistle-based language forms were created as a tool to combat communication hurdles in a challenging terrain. With the development of long-range communication, I
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by mkotowski 5y ago
> for Italian hnewers, this means "please wait" for the rest of the world Central Europe here, I doubt this gesture would be understood here that way. The closest meaningful gesture would be demanding money (if the thumb would
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by mkotowski 5y ago
As for using it to create a new file system, the repository has a basic tutorial for that: https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp/blob/master/doc/WinFsp... > What kind of permission granting seanc
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WinFsp – Windows File System Proxy(github.com)
184 points by mkotowski 5y ago|53 comments
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by mkotowski 5y ago
> Back in 2001 there weren't any real alternatives to windows - Mac OS X Public Beta (2000) - SUSE Linux 7.0 (2000) - Debian 2.2 (2000) - OpenBSD 2.7 (2000) - Solaris 8 (2000) - AmigaOS 3.9 (2000) - and so on... [0] Hardly “no alter
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India's living dead: 'They stared at me like I was a ghost'(bbc.com)
11 points by mkotowski 5y ago|0 comments
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by mkotowski 5y ago
Such fantasy consoles more often that not have a complete programming setup built-in and are mostly free from programming gotchas that can be present on old hardware. They are also much simpler to learn and use than modern platforms, and of
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Unlocking the Secrets of ‘Invisible’ Animals(atlasobscura.com)
36 points by mkotowski 5y ago|0 comments
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by mkotowski 5y ago
Podcasts are one thing. Additionally, almost all blogs based on WordPress have RSS enabled, from what I gather. I would say that for a technology clearly not to the liking of services basing their operation on a walled garden principle it s
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by mkotowski 5y ago
> Most of the people working on software these days barely know what RSS is Using my experience from a Polish university from a field of study focused on computer science: Most of my acquaintances know what RSS is. Several of them use it
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New ‘Metal Gear Solid’ glitch discovered during normal gameplay(nme.com)
3 points by mkotowski 5y ago|0 comments
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by mkotowski 5y ago
If someone really wants something with less enforced limitations than PICO, then the TIC-80 [0] fantasy console is fully open source. [0]: https://tic80.com
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Apostrophes in Science Fiction and Fantasy Names (2013)(tor.com)
2 points by mkotowski 5y ago|1 comments
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by mkotowski 5y ago
> the only reasons we are still relevant today is for three reasons Then how we automate creation of the standards? Don’t get me wrong, but now we aren’t punching holes in cards. In the future, people probably won’t be doing a lot of thi
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by mkotowski 5y ago
In the case of Ubuntu system with Gnome/Xfce4/KDE/LXDE: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ComposeKey As for other distributions, unfortunately I have no idea, but I would hazard a guess the right setting
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by mkotowski 5y ago
In my case (AltGr similarly reserved for (mostly) Polish specific letters), I set it to the right Ctrl key, though keys like CapsLock and Menu are also good candidates.
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by mkotowski 5y ago
Actually, WinCompose started as an AHK script, so your conclusion isn't far off.
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by mkotowski 5y ago
Compose key — and by extension WinCompose — is used as a mnemonic shortcut for various characters, both predefined and custom. For example, I am using WinCompose right now: … ’ č ß ɐ ə ” « ʌ × þ ð n’t ď ɥ. All the characters inserted withou
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by mkotowski 5y ago
Well, at least it wasn’t at the level of pain of getting any IME to work on Linux (not that Windows is much better in that regard…).
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by mkotowski 5y ago
Okay, so then people will start to invest in gold. A cap on raw materials? Let’s keep a herd of cattle or two. And ad nauseam . As someone from a post-communist country: when you put a limit on capital, another form of accumulating one wil
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WinCompose – A Compose Key for Windows(github.com)
228 points by mkotowski 5y ago|134 comments
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by mkotowski 5y ago
> As in, to describe actual human slavery? Sorry, but I do not understand the question. Do you mean as to distinguish slavery relationship in logical systems (as with databases) versus human relations? If so, that wasn’t my intention. Wh

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