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by mlang23 5y ago
In an experimental setting, I was once given a screwdriver to feel the field around an MRI machine. They asked me to be very careful of course, because loosing the grip would indded have ment the machine would need to be shut down...
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by mlang23 5y ago
Most web apps are an accessibility disaster compared to their native counterparts. I guess that is not the main blocking factor, but not being native has subtle disadvantages all over the place. I remember there was actually a time where
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by mlang23 5y ago
Somewhat related anecdote: Roughly 20 years ago, I took part in a scientific experiment which aimed to confirm a theory that in blind individuals, parts of the formally vision-related parts of the brain are involved in reading tactile brail
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by mlang23 5y ago
Talking a bathroom break was most effective to cure a blank mind during a long test at school. At least if they would let you go.
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by mlang23 5y ago
Isn't that a rather arbitrary distinction? Feels you are making it easy for yourself to just dismiss a certain amount of "not-normal" people as not relevant to the discussion? So, what do you define as "bad genetics&qu
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by mlang23 5y ago
This is nothing new, its just being dressed up fresh and pushed by media. Where I live, the hole in the ozone layer and the imminent end of fossile energy sources was taught in school already 30 to 40 years ago. Everyone and their dog kne
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by mlang23 5y ago
I was thinking about writing a reverse move generator for chessIO just recently. Shouldn't be too hard. The question is how large the tree will grow. Its a fascinating idea looking for useful applications :-)
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by mlang23 5y ago
What a stupid headline. Talk about comparing apples and oranges... But this is normal now. Since the Google car, the media is forcing the self-driving car narrative down its readers throats. There is another similar topic which is dear to
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by mlang23 5y ago
Since I am still mostly on a plain terminal, I used to have a time when I used a rpi0w as a laptop, since I really dont need much more then an instance of Emacs and a few ssh sessions in a tmux. I switched to a real laptop by now, and its
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by mlang23 5y ago
Crazy. And also good, since that hardware is likely getting used more now.
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by mlang23 5y ago
But it is really specific to TikTok? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_selfie-related_injurie... People are not robots. Horrible mishabs happen. But 50 years ago, nobody was doing a global list of these. They en
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by mlang23 5y ago
Well, I get your somewhat nostalgic attitude. But back then, computing equipment was also way large, louder, and energy consuming. Heck, one of the "museum" disk drives we have at work used to make the light flicker in the lower
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by mlang23 5y ago
Do people still know about upx these days? However, I think executable compression is besides the point of OP. Around 18 years ago, I was going through the codebase of a program I maintained as a Debian package, and as a udeb for the inst
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by mlang23 5y ago
You haven't seen no haskell binaries yet :-) The haskell lsp client is around 150MB :-)
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by mlang23 5y ago
I also got downvoted for stating that I feel I have enough HW and can live a few years off what is there. I guess people have been trained to get the newest thing every year, that it now hurts them bad to not be able to do so for a few mon
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by mlang23 5y ago
Shell scripting is a strange beast. The fact how long it took the author to explain the reason for the first parameter expansion pretty much demonstrates that. You can (and I regularily fall for that) loose yourself in scripting. It sort
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by mlang23 5y ago
Perfect timing, for once. In 2019, I jumped onto the Sonos train, got rid of a bunch of old hardware, (finally) replaced my desktop with a ThinkPad X1. In early 2020 (before the first lockdown) I completely redid my little "home offi
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by mlang23 5y ago
Maybe they are like you, but they are definitely not like me.
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by mlang23 5y ago
I also found ringworld pretty unreadable. But I guess thats mostly because I find the world that is being built too hilarious and unbelievable. It lacks a sort of seriousness that cyberpunk usually doesn't.
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by mlang23 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b922U1_7CM
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by mlang23 5y ago
SInce you mentioned "unique" features, Emacs is the only programmable editor which works mostly the same in terminal and GUI mode. You can write extensions (in elisp) which largely dont know about the UI used by the user. So you
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by mlang23 5y ago
I was refering to this: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/rule_of_three#Rul...
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by mlang23 5y ago
Consider the rule of zero.
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by mlang23 5y ago
Emacs is the self-documenting editor for a reason. I always found the documentation very good. I submit that every sufficiently complex system will need some terminology specific to the system the user will have to learn. Not wanting to
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by mlang23 5y ago
The title is rather strange considering Emacs is Free Software. Forks are fine. So why not UX forks. But demanding changes to the original without going through the dev process as everyone else would need to do is rather weird. "X
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by mlang23 5y ago
Did you? Some of "us" never did.
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by mlang23 5y ago
As a person with disability, I have a chunk of experience when it comes to being patronised. I can tell you one thing: the giving end usually does not realize they are patronising. Either because they are too conservative to grok the conc
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by mlang23 5y ago
I dont feel it is really relevant how many people "can" get the vaccine. First of all, if you can/should get it with your current medical condition is also a fluid thing. One doctor might advice against, another might advic
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by mlang23 5y ago
Yes "HP TouchPoint Assistant" I am looking at you. You have been so obnoxious that I have decided to never ever buy anything from HP.
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by mlang23 5y ago
Is that true where you live? The latest media story around where I am is that we will not see crowded hospitals since allegedly only unvaxed people will go to hospital. So what? Since the triaging monster is out of the way, what do you n

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