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by nix0n 8y ago
As Asimov asked it, "How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?"[0] [0] https://www.physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf
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by nix0n 8y ago
Red Hat Legal feels that AGPL stops at the tarball boundary, and the preamble isn't binding[0](2009). [0] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2...
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I've had better luck if I give Pandora a bit more input data (try the "add variety" button). That being said, I used to listen to Death Cab and I'm not sure what to recommend either. Maybe Andrew Bird? I think the lesso
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> there are ... tons of creative products that you ... would truly love, if only you knew about them – music, art, stories, and more. The problem is that you don’t know about them yet ... This “discovery” problem is one that no platform
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by nix0n 8y ago
According to XKCD[0] you need a fourth random word. [0] https://xkcd.com/936/
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by nix0n 8y ago
Comparing default Chrome vs default FireFox it's easy to think they're similar, and say "Chrome is ok." But FireFox-with-blockers is in a class by itself in terms of speed and usability on both desktop and mobile. Most o
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Snopes[0] disagrees with this story. [0] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chevrolet-nova-name-spanis...
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by nix0n 8y ago
As a user, this sounds great. Is there a Firefox extension to ignore autocomplete=off?
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I initially saw the headline as "rats in Barcelona's servers " due to knowing what website I was on.
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It is wrong to eat chicken wings with ranch: they can be eaten undipped or with blue cheese dressing.
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I have the Xperia XZ1 Compact and it's a good piece of hardware. Sony's put a bit of bloatware on it, but also Stamina Mode which I think is worth it vs Google's stock. Signal strength and speed have been good for me. I re
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SeaMonkey (used to be Mozilla) Composer is free and WYSIWYG but the website you make will be very 90s looking.
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> Any neighborhood with a reputation for being hip, having art, music, bars etc. is now half populated by Airbnb guests at all times Why are there so few of these places?
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by nix0n 8y ago
Win32 is the original API for writing 32 (and 64) bit software to run on Windows. WINE functions by providing a compatibility layer for Win32 API calls. If WINE evolves to a state that it can run enough of the nominally Windows-only progr
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by nix0n 8y ago
Both are on the list, Ultimate Doom further down is a re-release of the original.
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> Maybe they'll find a way to boot them off Facebook, but then they'll just use vk or another platform I'd assume. This is true, but having it on Facebook normalizes it, which aids its spread.
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I'm surprised to learn that more than half of Americans rarely or never feel alone.
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My solution was to buy a car that has physical HVAC knobs and install a non-touchscreen aftermarket stereo.
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https://www.youtube.com/feed/history will at least tell you which one you watched last
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by nix0n 8y ago
This link might work slightly better for some people: https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jwz.org%2Fd...
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by nix0n 8y ago
> you really should just say don't do that This is counterproductive unless you also say what to do instead.
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by nix0n 9y ago
Look for older (relative to tech) companies. My current employer was founded in the 80s and still uses cubicles.
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Friendica has events, and can federate with Diaspora.
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> If you can run WordPress, you can run Friendica. The LAMP stack, for all its problems (you're not wrong) is the bog standard and is easy to rent. If you'd rather use Rails, check out Diaspora: the two systems federate togethe
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by nix0n 9y ago
I agree, definitely not for hobbyists. List price seems to be $8,000 if you're just buying one of their cheapest product. http://velodynelidar.com/docs/news/This%20Palm-Sized%20Laser...
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Hopefully they're better than Google Maps at showing ads for things that are actually open.
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Mattermost is open and self hosted so if development stops it'll just continue to exist in an unchanging state. If people start communicating in another way, their Mattermost history will still be available and searchable.
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That's true, but it's also possible to prevent these problems within a language, as Java does: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/exceptions... (Not trying to start Java v Ruby here,
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by nix0n 9y ago
I had this problem with another Android-on-PC app but it turns out I just wasn't click-and-dragging fast enough.
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Yelp's reviews are probably real, but Yelp also throws out a lot of real reviews, and they do this in a way that will skew the star rating up or down depending on whether the business purchases Yelp ads. Yelp is actually still great be

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