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by pinusc 3y ago
Excellent explanation! However, I would disagree both that there isn't an easy fix and that each of the decisions are sensible. If the syntax to temporarily set variables was different, say using : instead of =, or requiring some delim
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by pinusc 3y ago
When making a github release, you can attach whatever file you want, including .exe and .deb. The problem is that building packages is kind of a nightmare, as there's at least one (or, as is the case far too often, many) build system f
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by pinusc 3y ago
It would require doing things slightly differently, such as hardware vendors having to buy the rights to redistribute firmware blobs / source code... just because it's hard it doesn't matter it can't happen. After all, i
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by pinusc 3y ago
Realistically speaking, all signs are pointing to things not being okay. Climate is not a "solvable problem" anymore, we are past the point of no return (several of them). Damage control is all we can do now, and we are not doing
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by pinusc 4y ago
This is very cool! I've been wanting to play around with synthetizers / trackers (?) for a bit. I played around with TIC-80 (another fantasy console like PICO-8) amazing track + SFX editor, but I'm very lost as to how to actu
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by pinusc 4y ago
Perhaps the fact that tech dudes have trouble with perspective and emotion control and how to live a good life also draws them to stoicism as a way out, thus resulting in (perceptions of) a lot of tech dudes being into stoicism
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by pinusc 4y ago
Well, one shouldn't tell dad jokes as they encourage violence, especially against dads themselves. In a dad joke the punchline is apparent.
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by pinusc 4y ago
They discourage use of "brave" as a noun, which does mean "a Native American Warrior" (Free Dictionary). I never heard the word used as a noun, but I'm not a native speaker. Doesn't look like they have a probl
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by pinusc 4y ago
Are encrypted PDFs signed? AFAIK it's just symmetric encryption. You only need a password to decrypt, after all
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by pinusc 4y ago
AFAIK WebExtensions APIs are mostly compatible but the developer still has to do some setup to make them work on both
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by pinusc 4y ago
John Company 2nd edition is a fantastic game. Instant favourite, the smoothest rules (I could not have imagined a game with this complexity could flow so well and have a manual so easy to navigate) Insanely good player interaction, at no ti
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by pinusc 4y ago
I think this is the real issue. A lot of premium priced stuff today is not built to match the quality the price suggests. If you did spend $150 on a fan today, it would probably last just as long as a $15 one. Emphasis on probably, there ar
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by pinusc 4y ago
He is okay siding with the Republican party, which is extreme right wing. US politics has a right wing party (the Democrat) and an extreme right wing party (the Republicans). Both of them incorporate a version of (neo)liberalism; they diff
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by pinusc 4y ago
Strongly disagree. Learning complex girl workflows is unnecessary unless you're in a team. However, learning the absolute basics is really easy and has benefits over "storing previous versions in a zip file". By absolute basi
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by pinusc 4y ago
I'd say that metaphor not quite dead yet. A few generations are younger than CDs, but vinyl still appears in a lot of pop culture (in no small part thanks to nostalgia). I'd wager most teens would know that the vinyl scratch sound
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by pinusc 4y ago
Your paradox only shows (conclusively, I might add) the logical impossibility of omnipotence _under one definition of omnipotence_. Not a very good one, nor one that is widely used by anyone who has thought about omnipotence at all. Other d
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by pinusc 5y ago
Looks like they are still in the early stages of development. I wouldn't be surprised if in future the developers/someone else decided to host a paid version of this software so that it becomes more accessible. Right now there is
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by pinusc 5y ago
If Google privacy invasion is what you fear, then there are simpler solutions. Simply installing lineageOS on a supported android device yields a functioning, de-googlified phone. Install only open source apps (from F-Droid, for example) an
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by pinusc 5y ago
I'd say KOreader interface is not pretty, but it gets the job done quite well—and certainly with a lot more features & customization than stock.
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by pinusc 5y ago
A while ago I made Morning Digest [1] with a similar use case: to read the news on my eReader, and do so prettily. The end result is a daily epub "newspaper", auto-delivered to my device. It's essentially a complicated script
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by pinusc 5y ago
Yes, however the process is very easy today and can be done entirely software-side, thanks to 1vyrain [1]. So you don't need to flash the BIOS using an external programmer, just run what amounts to an exploited/modified update. I
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by pinusc 6y ago
By far the best solution I've seen is wireguard. Easy to set up, super fast and secure. My little swarm of VMs, containers, and raspberry Pis is all meshed together by wireguard. The only "hard" thing is that wireguard doesn&
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by pinusc 6y ago
As someone who self-hosts a bunch of bridges–great work! Really appreciate seeing a simple solution for people who don't know or don't want to self host. Also, seeing that Tulir is not working entirely pro-bono but that his effort
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by pinusc 6y ago
It's comparably high-other messaging apps are _free_. Don't get me wrong, this is awesome-I've been doing it myself manually by hosting bridges myself for a while, and it seems like a very nice solution for non-tech-savy user
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by pinusc 6y ago
I mean... it's a lot of excel formulas, but still basically excel formulas!
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by pinusc 6y ago
My first instinct is to compare this to OpenNoteScanner, the only other quasi-functioning FOSS note scanning app. The UI here is significantly more polished and better. The only thing OpenNoteScanner does better is that it starts in camera
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by pinusc 6y ago
That's not very true. Phase II trials are designed test safety, phasE III trials are designed to test efficacy. Statistics is advanced (and magic) enough that we're now reasonably sure that the vaccine has a 95% efficacy. That&#x
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by pinusc 6y ago
Someone linked a write-up above [1]. It's not simple, but I found it well-written, and doesn't assume too much networking knowledge. I guess it's still a young protocol and we have proofs of concepts but not full-fledged depl
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by pinusc 6y ago
The conspiracy theorist in me wants to believe that this is not incompetence, but sabotage. Everyone uses Google products; if they work fast in chrome and slow on firefox, people will blame Firefox, not Google. And therefore will eventually
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by pinusc 6y ago
I think subtitles and captions are the same foe YouTube-DL. However, some videos only have auto-generated captions, and YouTube-DL doesn't download these... by default. There is an option to force the download of both generated and eve

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