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by pferde 6y ago
A hand-wavy explanation would be that photons are both particles and waves, so different rules apply. When you create waves on a water surface with your hands, the speed in which they propagate along the surface is the same regardless of wh
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by pferde 6y ago
Yes, asking for an e-mail for site-update-sending purposes is very sketchy. That's what RSS is for, just publish a feed like a good netizen. And indeed, your site does have a RSS feed, so what's with the e-mail address collecting?
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by pferde 6y ago
Have you tried https://github.com/SamR1/FitTrackee ?
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by pferde 6y ago
Slightly off-topic, but why on Earth does something like this need to be written in C?
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by pferde 6y ago
Looks like a read-worthy site. Are you planning to add a RSS feed to it?
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by pferde 6y ago
Isn't that exactly what government incentives are for? Subsidize the thing you want to see succeed, until it no longer needs subsidizing. Of course, that is the ideal success scenario, in the failure scenario, you subsidize the thing u
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by pferde 6y ago
Yes, a feature that originally was helping security (allowing you to "look before you step"), has been hijacked to actually harm security and/or privacy. Makes one laugh, bitterly.
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by pferde 6y ago
You must be doing facebook wrong. Millions of people use it to just keep in touch with their family and friends, and couldn't care less about the self-obsessed "influencer" crowd or collecting "likes", or any of tha
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by pferde 6y ago
Following is just an anecdote, I am aware that I may not be a representative sample, so read accordingly. My current desktop PC has been on Debian (mostly Stable, sometimes Testing) for about fifteen years now, and apart from some minor bug
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by pferde 6y ago
Why would that be? Caring about VR and Facebook are entirely orthogonal to one another. It's like saying that people who like the color yellow are unlikely to like chocolate.
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by pferde 6y ago
Hey, it's not about knowing everything. It's about knowing how to find information on how to find information on things when you need to be informed on things! :)
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by pferde 6y ago
I feel obligated to point out that there is a notable lack of eyeless developers in Linux kernel developer community, even after many, many years of development.
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by pferde 6y ago
Or even bookmark the comment's URL locally in your browser.
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by pferde 6y ago
I still use Firefox and only Firefox, as I still see it as the lesser evil, while being performant enough (I never really noticed any significant slowness that people keep harping about), but Mozilla is making it harder and harder every yea
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by pferde 6y ago
Multiprocess was a step in the right direction, of course - nobody likes it when one crashed tab brings down everything else with it. But they kept on removing various cool and useful features just because their telemetry showed that they w
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by pferde 6y ago
By consistently and continually molding Firefox to be as similar to Chrome as possible instead of offering something different enough to present a meaningful choice. Of course most users took the path of least resistance if the choice was b
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by pferde 6y ago
This would either have to have miraculously intuitive UI, or it would have to be done not on user level, but rather on matrix server level, because otherwise regular users would never start really using it. My money would be on the latter.
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by pferde 6y ago
Thanks for the reply, I really appreciate it. Unfortunately, that is not acceptable for what I had in mind.
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by pferde 6y ago
StrongDM does indeed look interesting. Can it be completely self-hosted? I am asking because some of the architecture docs mentioned "app.strongdm.com" as a necessary element, which has a webpage behind a (customer?) login. This i
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by pferde 6y ago
What, pedantic about correct terms describing correct things? If we cease to care about that, any communication using words simply stops working, because orange breathe knit, attend evasive colour and lonely arrogant arithmetic chemical won
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by pferde 6y ago
Yes, with enough explanation, you can maaaaybe, possibly, eventually come up with enough lies (simplifications) understandable by a five year old to make some kind of explanation. (The grandparent post would certainly not be enough.) But yo
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by pferde 6y ago
I would say it is indeed a meme. From Wikipedia: "A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that becomes a fad and spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a parti
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by pferde 6y ago
That's just it - a five year old might be into rockets and astronauts and all that fancy stuff (I was too), but his or her "degree of domain understanding" is nowhere near enough to grasp how those things really work, nor doe
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by pferde 6y ago
How does a five year old know what a "satellite", "gravity", "orbit", or half a dozen of other words used here is? The "ELI5" meme needs to die, it does not make any sense in most of the situations it
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by pferde 6y ago
Couldn't the same thing be achieved by routing e.g. google.com/static/ to a separate simple webserver, instead of using another domain? Or use a subdomain, e.g. static.google.com. The current way seems like needless DNS spam
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by pferde 6y ago
Also known as "bash strict mode". It's a godsend if you're unlucky enough to have to deal with bash scripting. http://redsymbol.net/articles/unofficial-bash-strict-mode/ EDIT: The comic strip w
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by pferde 6y ago
Disable javascript, and it stops being a vanity art project, and magically turns into a web article. Some people should not be allowed near web publishing.
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by pferde 6y ago
I also use certain desktop programs via docker, but like you say, it isn't ideal. Not just for the X11 socket (which is a potential security issue on its own), but also for audio (both ALSA and Pulseaudio can be made to work, but you h
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by pferde 6y ago
The important thing to keep in mind here is that Buffett is talking about "saying no to almost everything" when you are already successful. Not when you're actually still in the process of becoming successful. The rules are d
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by pferde 6y ago
In fact, that's how Google got their initial foot in the proverbial door - by being just a search engine, and presenting a clean landing page with essentially just the search textbox, at the time when incumbents (Yahoo, Altavista, ...)

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