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by philsnow 3y ago
If you want only the other half of it (terminal “window management”), there’s dvtm. For a short while I tried using dtach + dvtm instead of screen but I wasn’t really gaining anything
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by philsnow 3y ago
Is the delay ostensibly to ensure the identities of the parties, and that's why it takes longer if any foreigners are involved? I could well imagine it being unconscionable for Germans to aver something they were not yet certain of.
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by philsnow 3y ago
The impression I got from the last time I was in Germany (some ~7 years ago), there's a going concern among at least some people that a certain ethnicity of immigrants is "taking over". This might be a pearl-clutching minori
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by philsnow 3y ago
I’ve never heard of importmaps before, thank you.
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by philsnow 3y ago
> The best thing you can do is create an environment where they feel comfortable coming to you when they mess up. They also have to know that doing certain things online constitutes "messing up".
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by philsnow 3y ago
Between Multi-Account Containers (separate browser containers for more or less every single domain), using pihole for DNS, uBlock Origin, and Privacy Badger, I scarcely ever know right away why various sites don't work for me. I can so
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by philsnow 3y ago
Looking at https://checkmyworking.com/cm-web-fonts/ with firefox on macos, it doesn't look like the kerning is quite right. In "consectetur" there is too much space between the 't' and 'e
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by philsnow 3y ago
AST diffs instead of textual diffs might have helped here (to spot the `.` making the code un-compilable). Edit: oof, though the stray character in question is inside a perfectly legitimate C string, so to catch this, any such diffs would
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by philsnow 3y ago
> Consistent with this idea, all three of the proteins in the complex are tumor suppressors, meaning that mutations in them make tumor formation more likely. The researchers confirmed that the mitotic stopwatch was frequently defective i
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by philsnow 3y ago
> only half of US Catholics have heard about transubstantiation and only a third believe in it. The USCCB is trying to work on this, we're almost 2 years into a 3-year Eucharistic "revival" (that word has weird connotation
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by philsnow 3y ago
> [configs] x [checker] = are out-of-spec clusters due to the configs telling them to be in the wrong spot, or is something else going on? You don't really need to do this one, since if the first one checks out, then you know that e
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by philsnow 3y ago
only if you're sure that .count is never null: $ echo '[{"a": {"count": null}}]' | jq -c 'sort_by(-.count)' jq: error (at <stdin>:1): null (null) cannot be negated $ echo '[{&q
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by philsnow 3y ago
There’s a similar problem I encounter from time to time: when I self-identify as “conservative” and express opinion C, many people assume I also hold opinions D, E, and F, because “that’s how all conservatives are”. There are multitudes in
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by philsnow 3y ago
> The Synchronous Idle (SYN) symbol is a heartbeat, and is especially useful for streaming data, such as to keep a connection alive. > > SYN tells the data reader that data streaming is still in progress. > > SYN ha
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by philsnow 3y ago
In the same way that CSV supports fields that contain nested CSV documents: cumbersomely / painfully, with lots of escaping of the delimiter characters.
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by philsnow 3y ago
Came here to say exactly this, the article is written maddeningly. English readers will more naturally expect the "before" to come first in a sentence, and then the "after", but in the article the "before" cons
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by philsnow 3y ago
There's also research that indicates that cancer thrives in high-glucose environment, and that starving cancers of glucose reduces their size over time.
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by philsnow 3y ago
> A lot of "keto" and "diabetic-friendly" products are terrible for most people's BG and were for mine. Absolutely, there are a lot of companies trying to cash in on this new-ish market, and they'll do anyth
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by philsnow 3y ago
I almost completely forgot about the monitor itself, and only paid attention to the numbers on my phone. It's that unobtrusive (at least the Libre 3 one that I used). I let the needle (actually: annulus? see sibling comment) get into
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by philsnow 3y ago
That's fascinating -- you know how your body sometimes manifests a craving for a food when it "knows" that you're deficient in some nutrient that food will provide? I get the same feeling (of my body directing me to take
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by philsnow 3y ago
I dove into CGMs a little bit about a year ago, mostly just for fun. Yes, I paid money to some online prescription mill for CGMs (Abbott Freestyle Libre 3, IIRC), and then put one in my arm (the applicator is a short syringe section that h
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by philsnow 3y ago
My experience was nearly identical taking the GRE in 2003.
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by philsnow 3y ago
Going to be pretty confusing between Radicle and Radicale ( https://radicale.org/v3.html )
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by philsnow 3y ago
not answering your question, but TIL that there are also GTP, UTP, and CTP, having somewhat similar functions, but each fulfilling one or more (much) smaller niches than ATP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleoside_tri
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by philsnow 3y ago
My perennial problem with frontend work is that all the articles are written for an audience of people who have been keeping up with the state of the art for the last 15 years. The first time I wrote actual frontend things in exchange for U
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by philsnow 3y ago
> Automation is not a replacement for monitoring: they are complementary absolutely. there are any number of reasons Caddy would be unable to renew the cert, just off the top of my head: - LetsEncrypt has downtime or unavailability - If
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by philsnow 3y ago
IIRC there were volunteers, at least 3 or 4 engs who were content to work on maintaining it either as their 100% project or as their 120% project, but it just wasn't an option.
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by philsnow 3y ago
I’m supposed to pay my semi-annual property taxes (on the order of ~thousands of USD) on a site that ends in .org instead of .gov, and nobody apparently sees anything weird or wrong with it.
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by philsnow 3y ago
I found myself just liberally doing “layer to image size” all over the place and was generally happier after doing it.
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by philsnow 3y ago
I was recently trying to make text along a path in Gimp and holy hell is it weird.. you create a text object, then create a path and with the path selected, right click the text object layer and choose “text along path”, and then you have

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