mr-wendel

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by mr-wendel 5y ago
Antonio García Martínez of thepullrequest.com has been writing recently about Cuba and offering interesting perspectives. I like this article, in particular: https://www.thepullrequest.com/p/the-contrarevolucion-will-b.
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
I've had a lot of fun with https://github.com/mifi/editly . It seems a bit RAM hungry as you define lots (dozens?) of clips thought. I found it super useful to write a quick Python script to auto-generate JSON in t
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
This is advice I wish I heard a long time ago. What makes it extra hard is when your dreams do line up with your work. It then becomes nearly impossible (for me, anyway) to disassociate what you do with who you are. When times are rough,
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
After that, we'll hear about the security companies they "own" whose agents and kernel modules are mandated all across corporate America. Why go through the trouble of running a VPN company yourself? That is sooooo 5-10 years
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
It's touched on in the article, and https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7e733/anom-fbi-andrew-young... explains it more. The FBI's plan was even more bold. Rather than penetrate an existing encrypt
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
"But in a press release, the screen's owners cautioned that the 3D effect can be diminished depending on the viewing angle." Probably has a pretty good range, but for sure extreme angles will make it much less fun.
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
> The global "elite" rich have a serious blind-spot though: They never seem to realize that they rely on a massive robust web of interconnected humanity to support their wealth and privilege. I'm not particularly convinced
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
cPanel : there were like 3 different APIs if I recall, and most people had to use API v1 and API v2 together. Neither was feature complete or bug free enough to use independently and it was an insane amount of trial-and-error to figure it
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
Lots of reasons probably: - Scalability: how long does it take to process ballets to create the electronic records? - Error handling: there may be lots of permutations being tested (dark marks, light marks, `x` vs `/`, marks goi
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
What a fine cut of beef this was! The very last sentence is what really gets me: > It requires buy in and input from the entire business stack. In my experience, this makes or breaks everything. Unless you have external buy-in a
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
These are legitimate concerns. They may not end up being accurate, but they are legitimate. There are a huge range of services available within the "theory" umbrella, some of which have 0% chance of involving medication. This ma
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
I can't recommend it enough. It's fun even when you're not good at it if you simply adopt the mindset that nothing is more important than getting outside and moving your body a bit. Also, I hate to generalize, but I've f
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
This hasn't been a defense. You've not offered a single criticism, alternative perspective, or insight about whether web applications should be file handlers and what doing (or not doing that) means for the web as a whole. You are
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
Thank you, saagarjha, for pointing this out. There is a huge difference in having your argument criticized (possibly even dissected and dismembered, if necessary!) and what has been said here. As someone being responded to, I'm frankly
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
Not sure I'm a fan of this site in general, but I do like their list of sites at https://swprs.org/media-navigator/ . I've picked up some great regular reads from that list.
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
Ugh, please, no. - I'm already tired of constant browser native pop-ups asking for access to things. This is just asking for the same treatment: "The site memes.example.com wants to be able to open .gif files. [Allow] [Deny]&q
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
Hmm... I like how you center on "don't want to understand things". It's a LOT harder to hate something you understand, especially when it comes to people. I'd quibble on the final part though: they do it not to make
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
Not to be overlooked on this topic is this wonderful Tailscale blog entry: https://tailscale.com/blog/sisyphean-dns-client-linux/ and corresponding HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26821298
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
There is a massive difference. A proper analog is stating that "web requests you make will be logged". If you don't want to be recorded as having walked in, don't walk in. To make this a fair comparison, the sign would s
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
> please ship the solutions to us, not the movements and the fight I'm glad this isn't completely tongue in cheek, because I consider this a huge compliment. I'm extremely critical of the USA, where I do live. The name of
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
The printf version will give you automatic quoting making copy'n'paste really easy to test. It' also mixes well w/ a verbose option for "--verbose" or such.
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
For all you Bash heads out there: DRYRUN=1 VERBOSE=1 cmd() { [ $DRYRUN -eq 1 -o $VERBOSE -eq 1 ] \ && echo -e "\033[0;33;40m# $(printf "'%s' " "$@")\033[0;0m" >&a
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
This really needs multiplayer. Each viewer gets their own robot. Robot dance party time!
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
Sometimes the best commentary comes from taking satire seriously on accident. I thought your comment was great. Every one of the outrageous behaviors listed have definitely been someone's actual reality, and for some people it was seve
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
Ok, so he missed the satire, but I give points for stating some simple truths. Despite being satire, it's an important topic and "trust in the family" (and in your parents in particular) is the keystone issue here. Everything
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
Great rant. I especially like the idea of making it clear that estimates cost time to be any good. I've only ever liked pointing when it was the best way to help people see large differences in opinion on how hard something is within t
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
You're also inhibiting your ability to dream (and your ability to remember them). That is a lot of critical emotional processing not happening. Dreams matter, even if they don't make rational sense.
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
Unsolicited meta-comments: > Super pragmatic. A tad selfish (complementing people in the hope it comes back around), but I still like it. Yah, talk about doing the right thing for the wrong reason but still beats many alternatives. Also
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
Rightly said! Additionally, is worth getting good at enjoying small talk as a good way to get comfortable (and help others get comfortable!) in novel situations. The goal isn't to imagine that every exchange is an opportunity to make a
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by mr-wendel 5y ago
I wrote This note To say Good day The end -- Your friend

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