numeromancer

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by numeromancer 3y ago
How much work does it take to go from an engine that can read standard XML to one that can read an ODT document's XML and do something useful with it? At what point of complexity does that engine create a de facto standard?
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by numeromancer 3y ago
This is far too possible to be funny.
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by numeromancer 3y ago
Is it April 1st already?
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by numeromancer 3y ago
Congratulations on your victory. You left that man of straw in utter tatters.
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by numeromancer 3y ago
"When the facts change..." So it is possible to go back in time! Good to know.
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by numeromancer 3y ago
AKA "Best practices"
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by numeromancer 3y ago
The only winning move is not to play.
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by numeromancer 3y ago
I don't think that they made this argument because they want to promote ISIS. I think they made it because they want to promote content for CNN, MSNBC, Pfizer, Fox News and whoever else gives them money to do so.
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by numeromancer 3y ago
Canonical releases Ubuntu 23.04 Luzer Lockdown
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by numeromancer 3y ago
Homines libenter id quod volunt, credunt.
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by numeromancer 3y ago
They did test it: see Project Follow Through. They didn't like the results, so they ignored them.
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by numeromancer 3y ago
This instruction book was authored by Siegfried Engelmann, who, among others, developed Direct Instruction. In the late 60s/early 70s there was a thorough comparison of various teaching methods called Project Follow-through; Direct In
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by numeromancer 3y ago
This project will be like a cancer for the rust community.
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Smoke, Mirrors, and Fake News About AI(news.gab.com)
4 points by numeromancer 4y ago|0 comments
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CBDCs vs. Bitcoin(coinsnacks.com)
2 points by numeromancer 4y ago|0 comments
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by numeromancer 4y ago
> These school people hate literature. It stands for everything that they stand against. A work of literature comes from one, solitary mind, not from the consensus of a collective. It is an unequivocal assertion that this is so . It abi
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by numeromancer 4y ago
You might like this: https://based.cooking/
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by numeromancer 4y ago
I don't now. I had updated AHK through `scoop`, and saw the pop-up about downloading a previous version which I didn't understand at the time. Then proceeded to find that my scripts were broken, went to the AHK site and saw the V
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AutoHotKey V2 (Breaking Upgrade)(autohotkey.com)
218 points by numeromancer 4y ago|120 comments
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by numeromancer 4y ago
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this; AHK broke compatibility with this upgrade. I tried upgrading autohotkey and it braked my scripts. It seems to have an auto-regress feature, which is nice. If someone knows where there is a co
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by numeromancer 4y ago
> Pegasus is spyware developed by the _Israeli_ cyber-arms company NSO Group that can be covertly installed on mobile phones (and other devices) running most versions of iOS and Android.
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Congress blew its last chance to curb Big Tech’s power(theverge.com)
3 points by numeromancer 4y ago|0 comments
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by numeromancer 4y ago
Chromebook is worse. They pioneered the "in order to use this device which we let you pretend to own you must first attach yourself to our borg" model.
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by numeromancer 4y ago
Civilized mothers use covfefe.
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by numeromancer 4y ago
It is not appropriate to classify this as fiction for the simple reason that Graham Hancock believes what he is saying. He may be faulting, but he is not feigning. There are likely already some documentaries which present Dr Dibble's
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by numeromancer 4y ago
It was the hacker known as "Canonical".
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by numeromancer 4y ago
Movies that I want to see made: - A David Lynch biopic on Terry Davis.
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by numeromancer 4y ago
Cf. https://suckless.org/philosophy/
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C and the Difficulty of INT8_C()(groups.google.com)
2 points by numeromancer 4y ago|0 comments
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by numeromancer 4y ago
> > Snap Store administrators had to remove the snap in accordance with our policies. > > Thank you for providing an official answer. An officious answer is more like it. Note the deliberate evasiveness (which

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