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by philsnow 3y ago
True. I was thinking of a simpler criticism that, if it held, would also make Reflect less useful. aboodman replied in the sibling that (of course) they thought of that, so my criticism doesn't apply.
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by philsnow 3y ago
You don’t even need to involve deletes; if all of these happen “simultaneously”: - client A appends “a” to list L - client B appends “b” to list L - client C appends “c” to list L the server will arbitrarily apply the appends in
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by philsnow 3y ago
> who the heck knows what is even real. We're here now, whatever this is. YOLO. I don't disagree, but in this essay PKD seems to say that there is no objective reality, rather everybody has their own experiential reality that i
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by philsnow 3y ago
Specifically ligatures in monospaced fonts is what finally prompted me to turn them off in my userChrome.css file. I would be a little bit less repulsed by them if they took up the right amount of space, but they’d still be an abomination.
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by philsnow 3y ago
Trek. That's it.
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by philsnow 3y ago
Paramount+ on apple tv just crashes immediately for me (before even the profile picker) when I have the apple tv using my pi-hole as its dns server. It’s not even the biggest reason why PP is my least favorite streaming platform, since I ha
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by philsnow 3y ago
> relatively easy fixes like the horrible designed and unintuitive UI choices where the same mistakes are made year after year despite complaints...ugh! This is exactly the complaint I have about car manufacturers not having enough &#x2
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by philsnow 3y ago
Any leads on the ESP32-S3-BOX-3 SKU (the replacement for the ESP32-S3-BOX that Willow was developed for, IIUC)? I saw someplace say the only place to get it is Espressif's Aliexpress page for it, but they show out of stock for me. Tha
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by philsnow 3y ago
A common term in board games (and at least roguelike games) is “coffee break” games, which usually take ~5-15 minutes. I remember going back as far as the 00s, RPG games that didn’t have at least 40 hours of gameplay were criticized as bein
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by philsnow 3y ago
> NAR is such a cartel As some rando, I can't pay for access to the local MLS (or any MLS anywhere else). I could take some classes and get a Realtor™-brand (don't forget to pronounce it real-tore or they get huffy) License and
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by philsnow 3y ago
not many houses around here don't
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by philsnow 3y ago
A quality-of-life upgrade you might be interested in: https://www.tindie.com/products/mikepdiy/lenovo-charging-por... I had to replace the charging port in my x220, but I did not use this usb-c one, because I did
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by philsnow 3y ago
but why decode it at all, if it's meant to be opaque?
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by philsnow 3y ago
I've long been a huge fan of Xpra https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra , both because of its "screen for X" original focus (though now it supports shadowing an existing session). There was NoMachine / n
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by philsnow 3y ago
Agreed; every site has a bias, and HN's is probably more moon-shooting than others. If you're not attempting to become a billionaire, it would be worth your time to ask these questions around other places where solopreneurs hang
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by philsnow 3y ago
There's a pricing death valley in between "can be trivially expensed" and "needs to Go Through Purchasing"; there is a huge step function in the cost for you, the vendor, to sell into that enterprise that occurs ri
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by philsnow 3y ago
I used to use monosnap for annotating screenshots, but it went subscription-only (or maybe it was always subscription-based, but a previously-free-tier core feature I needed for my workflow, the s3 integration, went into a subscription tier
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by philsnow 3y ago
"I declare the Mountain besieged. [...] We will bear no weapons against you, but we leave you to your gold. You may eat that, if you will!" -- The Hobbit, Chapter 15, The Gathering of the Clouds
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by philsnow 3y ago
Interesting! Privacy concerns aside for the moment, I would guess that there is some "optimal" compression dictionary over some transferred data set, and that Google/Chrome of all people would be in a position to calculate i
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by philsnow 3y ago
> Big load for a car is >10kW I don't have any idea if it's relevant at all (or how much the number can be trusted), but when I floor the accelerator in my Bolt, the dash indicator says it's using about 120kW.
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by philsnow 3y ago
Are you referring to courgette (which the Chrome team uses to make shipping patches/updates take far fewer bytes than previously)? https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/softwar...
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by philsnow 3y ago
There might be different ideas of what makes “bad” weather. Some Californians think that any weather at all is bad, and some midwesterners think “there’s no such thing as bad weather, only wrong clothing”. I wouldn’t hesitate to order deliv
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by philsnow 3y ago
> "if it's worth doing then it's worth doing poorly" Not sure if you're talking about the GK Chesterton quote, but https://qz.com/990130/in-defense-of-amateurs
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by philsnow 3y ago
Hmm, I'm trying to say that it's much less brittle for the config setup to get 'pulled' from inside emacs rather than 'pushed' into an emacs config.
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by philsnow 3y ago
Changing config files is tricky (this wouldn't work as written for me because like many many people, I keep my emacs init in ~/.emacs.d/init.el instead of ~/.emacs). Why not do something like this? (eval (car (
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by philsnow 3y ago
> Better hope someone doesn't come out with a fancy super module that has everything integrated because there will be no disabling it as soon as that happens I was just thinking about how to find and disable all the microphones in
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by philsnow 3y ago
> Are the microphones in vehicles actively listening to conversations and shipping them off for analysis? Or is this all purely hypothetical (i.e., they say they have the right to use it, so clearly they must be trying to acquire it...)?
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by philsnow 3y ago
I live on the west coast, and sometimes visit family in the Midwest. The quality and quantity of used furniture available over there is so much better. I attribute this to much of California only becoming as densely populated as it is (whi
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by philsnow 3y ago
One of the diagrams under the bit about snapshotting has a typo reading "snapthot" and I immediately thought it was talking about instagram. (I realize now after writing it that maybe snapchat should have occurred to me first, but
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by philsnow 3y ago
100%. You can absolutely still just use off-the-shelf Ruby-the-language to get things done, without involving Rails at all, but at this point I think it would be just as weird as using awk or perl for writing a command-line program. I lov

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