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by philsnow 4y ago
Obligatory Seinfeld bit (George doesn't slow down for some pigeons, they don't evade, he runs them over and his girlfriend thinks he's a butcher because of it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPCZtrac-Ss
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by philsnow 4y ago
> Super is dedicated only to the window manager and nothing else. This is the thing I miss most from X vs MacOS. On Mac, the command key is the primary shortcut modifier both for apps and for the OS / "window manager".
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by philsnow 4y ago
Another choice made by the interpreter is not aligning any of the sides of the triangle vertically. If you took the piano roll and flipped each triangle 90 degrees to the right, you'd get regularly occurring note spam / lots of &
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by philsnow 4y ago
AGPL makes something free as in "non-encumberable", it doesn't leave you free to do more or less whatever you want with it like the MIT or BSD licenses.
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by philsnow 4y ago
Boot up google maps, go to east Texas, turn on satellite view, and zoom out a bit: https://www.google.com/maps/@32.162224,-97.8577697,1179315m/... That easternmost part of the state is the "piney woods"
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by philsnow 4y ago
... of course you're right, thank you. It's kind of right in the name VPP isn't it? not enough coffee this evening.
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by philsnow 4y ago
> It's in small lots; it's undependable; it comes from many sources, not just a few; and it's priced wrongly. My (very poor) understanding is that much of (all of?) power that gets sold back to the utilities goes through v
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by philsnow 4y ago
> If there was some way to limit YouTube to specific channels and disable recommendations we might still allow it I do exactly this by mirroring a list of channels to my NAS and serving it with Emby. It's not 100% "educational
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by philsnow 4y ago
I read it the same way, similarly to PR campaigns that tell Californians to water their lawns less and take fewer and shorter showers, even thought that usage uses by far less water than ag or industrial uses.
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by philsnow 4y ago
> less pollution Did you read the part in the article about "super commuters"? I used to have about a 4 hour commute when I lived in the bay area. All the cars and gridlock cause a lot of pollution. If the area had built up
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by philsnow 4y ago
Using lower frequencies also means you're not stepping on the 2.4GHz band, so you won't have interference from wifi or microwaves or whatever else.
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by philsnow 4y ago
... yeah, what? If the content is really, really long, is it possible to scroll the mouse wheel one click and have it skip part of the content because "1%" (or whatever increment it is) is longer than what fits on the screen?
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by philsnow 4y ago
I upgraded from my B/W laser to a color laser, both Brother, but I'm keeping the old one in a closet. Someday when if for some reason the new one has problems (or I legit run out of color toner), I know it'll be ready to ste
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by philsnow 4y ago
Have you gotten bothered with any copyright issues (founded or unfounded) yet?
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by philsnow 4y ago
> I'm lucky to have a bank that doesn't charge overdraft fees Name-and-fame them (if it wouldn't dox yourself), that's awesome! Are they more lik ea credit union or more like a bank? > I'm probably leaving a
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by philsnow 4y ago
> it's just that nobody uses [debit cards] Nobody in your bubble. Just off the top of my head I know a couple people who don't have a single credit card, one is mid-50s, one just turned 70. > US debit cards are basically fr
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by philsnow 4y ago
Are they making breaking changes? I'll admit I don't frontend and I have no idea what niche Vite fills, but I briefly glanced at the release notes and I don't see a section talking about anything breaking even though this re
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by philsnow 4y ago
It is the very rare site or service that actually refuses to let you back in with an email confirmation or something. Sites with SMS 2FA / mobile app 2FA will nearly 100% of the time let you fall back to email. And why not? It&#x27
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by philsnow 4y ago
I think we'll get there eventually, like how on iphone/android you can deny individual "scopes" these days. It took a long time and there were some growing pains, but now I have little worry about some sketchy app slurp
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by philsnow 4y ago
> you are supposed to accept and there is no "continue without giving these permissions" so its an "either you continue or go back and dont use" thing I can't remember the site that does/did this, but there
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by philsnow 4y ago
I wonder if this works because true-ringing praise has to be about the particular person, and the production of it demonstrates that you're paying (sole) attention to them, and the attention is what causes them to enjoy the interaction
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by philsnow 4y ago
I'm past the edit window, but: I'm a dope, I didn't see the quite clear "macos 13 or newer" requirement.
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by philsnow 4y ago
> Had to update my XCode to use the generated mlpackage files :/ I keep running into this, message is RuntimeError: Error compiling model: "Error reading protobuf spec. validator error: The model supplied is of version 7, i
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by philsnow 4y ago
For what it's worth, that's configurable under the gear icon. I changed it from "25/3 any technology" to "1000/100 fiber" and most of the green dots on the map area I was zoomed into changed to red.
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by philsnow 4y ago
> Google has become shitty for finding old stuffs yes, but in their defense, the Internet has become (or has always been) shitty at keeping old stuffs around, so even if Google indexed it the link would be dead or empty by the time you g
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by philsnow 4y ago
I agree that carbon dioxide exposure is dangerous, but it is probably less dangerous because (TIL) there's a specific brain mechanism that wakes you up when your blood has elevated CO2[0]. On the other hand, carbon monoxide poisoning w
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by philsnow 4y ago
> This severe vulnerability isn't going to hurt their bottom line, even if it "should". When there's damnable, devastating security news for some publicly-traded company that makes it to the big news sources, the stoc
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by philsnow 4y ago
> they download your contact list and call logs from your car when they run the diagnostic software I'm inclined to believe you because I don't give cars access to my contacts and in general treat in-car software as already-com
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by philsnow 4y ago
> are the existing addons downloading and using server-provided JS? One would hope not, but that's hardly a safe assumption these days This reminds me of a very brief security review I did of a 3rd-party browser extension that was b
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by philsnow 4y ago
Replying here hoping that you'll have a better chance of seeing it: thank you for maintaining Brogue. I've sung praises [0][1][2] for years about the quality of the Brogue codebase (and the game itself). [0] https://n

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