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by nitrogen 5y ago
Markdown but with <> for URLs instead of []? It does seem like Markdown borrowed some of these ad hoc conventions for its syntax.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Being quite good at two things can sometimes be much more advantageous than being top notch at just one thing.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I've heard similar things from other sources. AIUI it's really hard to get a new banking license, both in terms of what you have to do to prove you are following regulations, and what you have to do to get the license.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
If you do 100 things with your computer every month, and every one of them has a 1/100 chance of crapping out, you're looking at a 64% chance of something crapping out on you over the course of the month Good point (1 - 0.99 ^ 1
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by nitrogen 5y ago
It appears there was a related story though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29070133
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Does anybody know of software-defined ways to switch this behavior? I have the opposite problem sometimes -- I have an external display shared between two devices (of varying OSes), and sometimes I want it to remain a logical display on ea
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by nitrogen 5y ago
"[M]ost used tools" are not the things that really annoy people. It's the "least used critical tools" -- the things that you absolutely need to do, but only once every few months. They often involve loading thre
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Not for eight billion people. Just look at what happens when we stop loading trucks for a little while. Now imagine if you expanded all that "going without" to everything that uses energy. You'd have days at most before ma
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Having lived near a coal plant and coterie of oil refineries in the past, I will 100% agree that I'd take nuclear over coal in my backyard.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Listing large numbers and then saying "if only we could get this small percentage" doesn't make for a solid business plan, and it doesn't make a solid energy plan either. We're talking about insane amounts of land,
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by nitrogen 5y ago
If I have a synth with USB midi and a controller with USB midi, I can't connect them to each other, which is idiotic and frustrating. Is there a universal MIDI router/multiplexer box with a whole bunch of USB and MIDI ports on i
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by nitrogen 5y ago
If you're using only one 7-bit CC (and not an MSB/LSB pair) to control a filter cutoff parameter that can range from 20Hz to 20kHz, it's not possible to dial in the exact frequency you want to match a particular harmonic.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
It's weird to put variable-length text-based serialization formats into something that has to perform in realtime no matter what, on potentially limited hardware.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
This got me curious what I'd read about domain names and visual normalization of Unicode, and found this: http://www.unicode.org/Public/security/revision-05/confusabl... It might be useful for editors an
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by nitrogen 5y ago
It's very rare to run into a person who doesn't support the vaccine mandates but did get vaccinated. Or it's very rare for them to say so in the presence of fear mobs. Mixed opinions are far more common than their (in)visi
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by nitrogen 5y ago
People should be free to volunteer their own footage when they or their neighbors have been victims of a crime. Police should not be free to pull footage without asking or telling the owner of the camera.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
So do all those things once, in the browser, and then every table can have them. That's maximally useful.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
well before electronics of any sophistication could reasonably fit in such a form factor What level of sophistication would be required to get an edge from a 1cm by 3-4cm cylinder of computing and batteries?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
how much of it there can be Something like this? https://chandra.harvard.edu/xray_astro/dark_energy/chart.jpg
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Myspace was about 5-10 years after the era they're talking about.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Anathem is my favorite book of his, but I definitely had to pause and reread and just decide not to fully absorb the detailed architectural descriptions of the maths/monasteries in the early pages.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I found the data somewhere in the MS account profile page.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Bullshit, Microsoft shoves that shit down people's throats. As an example of this, I never once opted into any kind of data sharing, set telemetry to the lowest allowed setting, and don't remember ever signing into a system-wide
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Facebook is a monolith with 3 billion users. Instead they could be a technology vendor helping communities of manageable sizes run their own private/public social networks with their own moderation and data privacy needs, along with o
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by nitrogen 5y ago
If ops is handling ops and you're using automated CI/CD, then all you need to do as a software developer is "git push," and it doesn't matter whether it's containers, VMs, or bare metal running the code, nor do
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Federate. We went from walled gardens of the late 1980s and early 1990s to the federated Internet, but now we're back to walled gardens. It takes a diversity of approaches to solve the diversity of problems, and that's only real
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by nitrogen 5y ago
It's insane that any one company is expected to successfully moderate three billion people, they're doing the best they can with impossible constraints. Nobody's going to sympathize too much with a company that brought its
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Given the choices between app->k8s->vm->metal, app->vm->metal, app->k8s->metal, or app->metal, a lot of businesses really should be choosing the ones without k8s in the chain. Sometimes a single VM, with a hot spare
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by nitrogen 5y ago
It's also worth giving your platform's character map a try if you haven't already. All the major desktop environments have one -- KDE, Gnome, Windows, macOS. Sometimes searching online is still faster, sometimes the charact
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Were they out of value, or just out of cash?

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