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by mlang23 5y ago
Maybe maybe. But most of the large organisations you are refering to make the money they pay their waste^Wmanagers with not from donations, and are typically also not relying on so much volunteer work. In my book, it is totally fine to de
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by mlang23 5y ago
I realize the browser is the target audience here, but... I prefer tmux, esp. because it does NOT bypass local access control.
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by mlang23 5y ago
Hmm, seeing Parallel computing, I wonder why the difference tosay, HPX, is.
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by mlang23 5y ago
I mostly agree with your comment. However, dont get me started on Etsy. This is probably likely due to my location/language, but the first and last time I looked at Etsy, every product description was autotranslated with Google Trans
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by mlang23 5y ago
Nah. Where I live, eBay is a synonym for buying used stuff. I know thats not quite true, but this is how eBay was conceived, and is still perceived around here. We have a more local service for that, which is fine for finding something w
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by mlang23 5y ago
Thinking about this actually makes me sick to the stomache.
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by mlang23 5y ago
I stopped purchasing from Amazon years ago. I used to have a phase where I was a really good customer, back in the 2005-2012. It felt trashy back then as well, but in a good sense. These days, Amazon is full of faked reviews, duplicate p
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by mlang23 5y ago
The latest language which fits quote 1 for me was Haskell. Even though I already had some functional background (Lisp), it took me seemingly forever to actually grok purely functional programming. But once it clicked, it felt like steppin
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by mlang23 5y ago
I feel the incentive for free software / open source has changed. The >2000 explanation of why people code for free is basically "they hope to get hired due to their work". Maybe I was too naiv back in the 90s, but it di
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by mlang23 5y ago
RIP lilo
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by mlang23 5y ago
I dont use a mouse nor trackpad. Sounds like a great keyboard for me :-)
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by mlang23 5y ago
Feels like the vi vs emacs fight. For some people, it seems easy to only see their side and consider the others "smart but dumb" or similar. The reality is probably somewhere else. Tastes differ, and just because someone is not
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by mlang23 5y ago
Name a few please. I can only think of garbled alignment when reading a diff of a file which used tabs to indent. And that is not really speaking for tabs.
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by mlang23 5y ago
Monoids are cool. It took me a long time to actually discover monoids during coding. It finally clicked when I realized the QuadBitboard I wrote for a chess move generator is actually a monoid. Empty board is the neutral element, and xor
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by mlang23 5y ago
YOu get the most eye-friendly setup by going further in Accessibility settings and enabling VoiceOver. Start off with a slow speech setting, and try reading a few pages of text with it. I guess the most useful gesture for this is two-fing
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by mlang23 5y ago
I noticed this trend when Debian dropped 386 support in the i386 architecture... Thats already more then 5 years ago.
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by mlang23 5y ago
I dont believe this in the slightest. Besides, the false-positives which regularily pop up around YouTube claims are not a result of any law, or lobbying. They are the result of googles sloppy implementation of the cliam system.
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by mlang23 5y ago
One of the first uploads I did to YouTube, a recording of me playing BWV 1034-3 (Andante) got a copyright claim. This was the day I realized youtube is in fact helping big corporations to supress individuals. "We might delete your ac
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by mlang23 5y ago
That'd be great, thank you!
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by mlang23 5y ago
Surprisingly, automatic language detection isn't always reliable. And since the DOM actually has an attribute for this, which can also be placed on individual elements like a p or div, the first choice IMO is to rely on what the site
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by mlang23 5y ago
Strictly speaking, covid is not apples fault of course. However, as a long time apple user, I was always against forcing me to move from fingerprint to face ID. And my next iPhone will be an SE for exactly that reason. So I cant resist a
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by mlang23 5y ago
+1 for the natural language tag. Remember to actually update it to the language used on the site. I regularily stumble across pages with a wrong language declaration. You pretty quickly notice this if you rely on a speech synthesizer to
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by mlang23 5y ago
Anther thing I regularily use is incrementally searching backward in the history with C-r.
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by mlang23 5y ago
Also take a look at M-. (Meta+dot) which does the same thing while interactively editing a command...
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by mlang23 5y ago
If I am not mistaken, Emacs maintainance has been passed on to Lars (the author of Gnus). In any case, John is a great person involved in a lot of interesting free software. He conceived ledger (a cli double-accounting tool) and wrote a l
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by mlang23 5y ago
Do you know that effect? Once you touch a topic, it appears to show up everywhere! :-) I recently wrote a tetris clone for braille users. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26790812
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by mlang23 5y ago
Author here. Thanks for the nice comments. I actually didnt expect this submission would gain any upvotes. Thanks. I am actually pretty amazed myself how good this little idea works out. I find myself playing regularily during small br
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A Tetris clone for refreshable Braille displays(github.com)
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by mlang23 6y ago
Thanks for mentioning the demoscene. While I was never really involved, I learnt about self modifying i386 assembly code from a 15 year old. I was roughly the same age back then. And we were both writing asm at that time, so actually emp
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by mlang23 6y ago
Believe it or not, I am one of these people hurt daily by the modern web. I rely on accessibility to do my daily tasks, and accessibility is the thing that goes away bit by bit from year to year. I used to do Perl for server-side scriptin

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