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by nxrabl 9y ago
I'm probably around the same age you are, and I have to disagree with you that these kinds of jokes are harmless. For one thing, cultures like this do provide safe havens to people who actually hold bigoted views 'sincerely'.
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by nxrabl 9y ago
I've been on both sides of this issue. A few months back, I needed to put together a frontend for a rest app on the local network, that my boss could use without needing to touch the command line. I'm a fairly novice programmer, b
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by nxrabl 10y ago
Since the link posted leads to the Emacs home page, the changes made are here: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/news/NEWS.25.2
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by nxrabl 10y ago
Looks like someone at Atlas Obscura listens to the No Such Thing As A Fish podcast [0] (Episode 160). Not that they shouldn't, it's a great show. [0]: http://qi.com/podcast/
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by nxrabl 10y ago
Google Gnome: https://store.google.com/magazine/gnome
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by nxrabl 10y ago
Looks like the site was generated by this [0]. They'd probably appreciate someone raising an issue. [0] https://github.com/Rebilly/ReDoc
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by nxrabl 10y ago
Discussion at: https://gitter.im/gitterHQ/gitter The goal seems to be to have the code open sourced by this June, with all history included. Stack details here: https://stackshare.io/gitter/gitter
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by nxrabl 10y ago
> Written in Lazarus Which I assume is this: http://www.lazarus-ide.org/ ? Has anyone here used it?
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Building an Ancient Greek Small-Parts Vise(youtube.com)
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by nxrabl 10y ago
> There is no question that Windows 10 is ... quite the most secure operating system ever devised. Telemetry aside, can anyone comment on this?
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by nxrabl 10y ago
Yep, ssh works out of the box with WSL.
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by nxrabl 10y ago
(Assuming Win 10) - If you have a HiDPI screen, you may run into problems with older programs looking blurry. The fix is to right click on the .exe, click 'Properties', go to the 'Compatibility' tab, and check the box ne
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by nxrabl 10y ago
>"A lot of Rustaceans don’t seem to grasp why, when the question is “where do I get feature X?” the answer “oh, there are 23 crates for that” is objectively terrifying." This is a real problem. Here's a blog idea: "Co
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by nxrabl 10y ago
Per [0], it looks as though only Bash on Ubuntu on Windows is being targeted, and not CMD or Powershell. [0] https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/28
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Our Tower: The Economist bids farewell to a formative home(economist.com)
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by nxrabl 10y ago
"The trouble with H.L. Mencken is that he believes he is H.L. Mencken. There is no cure for a delusion of that magnitude." ... is a quote I distinctly remember reading many years ago, and which I cannot find a single reference to
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by nxrabl 10y ago
I've been using QOwnNotes [0] for a while now, and while it's not quite a drop-in replacement for Evernote yet (there's no web clipper and the mobile apps are a bit rubbish), the pace of development is really impressive. [0]
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by nxrabl 10y ago
What is going on in this thread? "Just don't come here" "Just turn off your notifications" "But Angular 2/Babel 6/Literally all of Javascript really does suck" "Developers can't take cr
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by nxrabl 10y ago
Compelling Science Fiction has been consistently excellent since it started. I think I made a Patreon account just to support it. Highly recommended.
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by nxrabl 10y ago
I'd love to hear more about your workflow! It sounds like you've been able to take a thing people consider tedious, and find joy in it.
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by nxrabl 10y ago
I used it for a while when Chrome's UI was broken on high DPI screens. I loved it; it did basically everything Chrome did with a bit more polish, and as a bonus all of my Chrome extensions were compatible. Of course, I didn't have
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by nxrabl 10y ago
I was going to suggest "o" and "O" to add new task below/above selected task, but nope, that's already there! The only other vimmy thing I can think of is "/" to jump into the search box. I'
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by nxrabl 10y ago
This isn't about seating exactly, but on the topic of grouping, I remember hearing about one particularly stark example from Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast. During the French Revolution, at one point the National Assembly moved
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by nxrabl 10y ago
I was all ready to come in and blast this for breaches of privacy etc etc, but then I read this: >Forecast will show you your data and how your data compares with a University-wide picture of past and present Purdue students. Forecast al
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by nxrabl 10y ago
The free market in action!
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by nxrabl 10y ago
One of my favorite ways to waste time on the internet is to watch the sales ticker on the Bandcamp homepage go by, and click on any album people pay more than the minimum for. Found some pretty good music that way.
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by nxrabl 10y ago
“To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. ... When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and
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by nxrabl 11y ago
Serious question: how do you pronounce 'pwn'? Is it 'pone'? 'poon'? 'pwin'? 'pown'? Something else?
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by nxrabl 11y ago
You might be interested in the work being done at the Giving What We Can project: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/research/methodology/
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by nxrabl 11y ago
> (oh god, I’m doing it) What a wonderful bit of meta-defensive writing.

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