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by nox101 2y ago
I wrote an entire blogging system in Perl. knowing perl doesn't make me want to use it. Rather it makes me want to run away screaming. it doesn't compare to vim, emacs, or lisp. Perl is objectively bad
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by nox101 2y ago
What makes Github Actions UX bad and what makes Gitlab CICD/CircleCI/Travis good? I've used 3 of those but I guess not enough to prefer one over another.
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by nox101 2y ago
and 300 baud, and before that, punch cards
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by nox101 2y ago
Perl is really really bad. Bash is also really really bad. Perl is unreadable and bash is massively insecure unless you chant the magic incantations which even the pros forget. At most you should learn Perl to learn now not to design a lang
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by nox101 2y ago
what are you listening to podcasts on that it's not easy to skip ads? I'm using Downcast. It's a fairly old app. I think it defaults to +30s +2m -30s buttons which IIRC are settable. It's trivial to skip the ads. I don&#
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by nox101 2y ago
Interestingly, I know several people what would like AI to read stuff to them and read it to them in an interesting way (not Hal-9000 ish) One friend wants conference papers turned into audio. Another wants fan-fiction read dramatically.
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by nox101 2y ago
how is that different than apps off an app store?
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by nox101 2y ago
I'm pretty sure it's rendering strings but there's also the technique of post processing on the GPU like this https://threejs.org/examples/?q=asc#webgl_effects_ascii
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by nox101 2y ago
My favorite part was the video that said Cup Noodles was invented when they tried to bring noodles to the USA and people in the USA didn't know what "cup" was. "丼？なにそれ？" in a super thick USA accent (lol). And thus t
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by nox101 2y ago
Anecdata of 1 but. In July 2021 got place for too much $$$. In July 2022 they said the rent was going up $400 a month. I moved out. In July 2023 they were asking $100 less than I was paying in July 2021 I have no idea if that was this softw
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by nox101 2y ago
I know zero about Shanghai but the first time in visited in August 2008, my friend that lived there said if I had visited just 2 months earlier it would have been a totally different experience because I'd have heard incessant car honk
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by nox101 2y ago
double parking and stopping in bike lanes has become the norm in many American cities. It's illegal and it often causes accidents since it forces people to make dangerous lane changes and backs up traffic into intersections. But, the p
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by nox101 2y ago
What about things like cookies, storage, caching, etc.. If my job has ` https://testing.internal ` and some company I visit also has ` https://testing.internal ` ...
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by nox101 2y ago
You're not wrong, but there is societal momentum to eating too much too. Common portions in the USA are ridiculous compared to say Japan. The size of a cookie, a pastry, a donut, a bag of chips, a candy bar, a meal, etc... It's m
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by nox101 2y ago
I guess this was a joke? But if not, fyi, ramen is from China. Sure, the Japanese have made it their own but even the Japanese don't list it in restaurant guides as Japanese food. There's a section for "Japanese food (和食)&quo
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by nox101 2y ago
sorry but no (1) chrome has a better security record than Safari so they are not protecting users by disallowing it. in fact they're doing the opposite. Preventing users from using more secure broswers (2) the privacy protections are a
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by nox101 2y ago
I don't know if this is relevant but your post reminded me of Keith David. I don't know if he's ever been the star but he's been in something like 378 movies https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0202966/
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by nox101 2y ago
I really loved this podcast Hardcore History 59 – (BLITZ) The Destroyer of Worlds https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-59-the-de...
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by nox101 2y ago
I ran into this recently. I was looking for a image of clown fish on Flickr with their license based search. I found a great one. I downloaded it and then started making the attribution where on I clicked through to the link of the photogra
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by nox101 2y ago
I don't really get it. Apple wants an acquisition fee? Why? Should my car manufacturer be able to demand an acquisition fee to all the stores it takes me in the first year? Should my refrigerator be able to demand an acquisition fee fr
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by nox101 2y ago
yes, And this is why it's so frustrating the police don't just setup a few honeypots and catch those 50 people. Sooooooo many citizens would be helped, neighborhoods too, ...
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by nox101 2y ago
I don't know how much more retail rental prices are but I haven't seen prices of products be higher at station stores. I can only guess, part of it might be culture and part of it might be there's so much competition. If you
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by nox101 2y ago
> But you don't think that will change with the executive order from newson to remove homeless camps? I don't remember there being homeless camps on Market but maybe I missed them. I saw them in other places around SF though. S
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by nox101 2y ago
Last time I tried playwright it required custom versions of the browsers. That meant it was impossible to use with any newer browser features. That made it impossible to use if you wanted to target new and advanced use cases or prep a site
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by nox101 2y ago
Do these count? https://www.google.com/search?q=chinese+fast+motorized+wheel... No idea if this is real but it was one of the results https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F5vZmm7isw
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by nox101 2y ago
There's a difference Meta owns Facebook so you can still talk about Facebook separate from Meta. Meta also owns Oculus Alphabet owns Google so you can still talk about Google separate from Alphabet. Alphabet also owns Waymo. X "is
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And deal with manually updating
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I don't know about the move to San Jose specifically but 9th-10th and Market in SF is arguably not a nice place currently. This is 2 blocks away https://www.ktvu.com/news/report-workers-at-sf-federal-build... This
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by nox101 2y ago
they let you do it to get rid of the asshole foreigner who doesn't know the local customs. waiting your turn, period, is part of Japanese culture. I get it can be frustrating. especially if your from the USA where increasingly no one w
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by nox101 2y ago
not my experience. I feel like (a) people like places bexasue they're trendy, not delicious. (b) People also like to brag and posting reviews give a small dose of whatever it is that people get from posting in Instagram. (c) Most peopl

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