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by riffraff 8mo ago
> Iran plans to launch drones from ships into California That does not make any sense to me. Does Iran have a bunch of ships in the Pacific? Why? How would they even got close enough to the US coast without being noticed at this point? I
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by riffraff 8mo ago
Don't forget XFN! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHTML_Friends_Network
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by riffraff 8mo ago
there's a much simpler solution for in person voting, used in Italy for example: you have a numbered sticker on the ballot, when you get the ballot the sticker id is written down, when you get out of the voting booth it gets verified a
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by riffraff 8mo ago
> For instance, such a system would be immune to corruption OTOH, it enables vote buying and intimidation at scale: you vote from home in exchange for 5€/not being beat up and have to film yourself doing it, so that the local bad gu
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by riffraff 8mo ago
AFAIK people with egg white allergy also have to avoid cooked foods. My understanding (not a chemist nor doctor) is that it's specific bits of the protein that trigger the allergic reaction, so eve if the whole protein breaks down part
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by riffraff 8mo ago
I remember my first days with Linux/Unix and being taught about man and apropos and info. But somehow I could never find anything useful via apropos! With many years of insight, I think I probably never updated the database.
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by riffraff 8mo ago
some projects (I came across Mastodon's policy[0] which they say was inspired by ghostty and others) which have a more relaxed policy of basically "LLMs are ok so long as you understand what they did, and you own it". But I t
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Dependency Tracking Is Hard(daniel.haxx.se)
15 points by riffraff 8mo ago|4 comments
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by riffraff 8mo ago
I'm starting to suspect most people at Apple (and Microsoft) just spend time in a browser these days and so they don't notice how the desktop has gone shitty.
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by riffraff 8mo ago
Transnistria Is a breakaway country which is only recognized by Russia&friends. It is technically still considered Moldova by everyone else so it's not differentiated in documents from the EU and the likes.
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by riffraff 8mo ago
> But it seems dominated by the one software that is Mastodon, and it doesn't seem to have a universe of interesting connected neat social softwares sprouting up left and right. There's quite a few activitypub software that pla
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by riffraff 8mo ago
That it was a stupid operation with a predictably useless outcome. But we also said that about the whole invading Greenland stuff, and it ended like that. And about the war in Afghanistan. And I would presume, about the Vietnam war. Trump w
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by riffraff 8mo ago
> This may be too much advanced type theory for a useful language. I think a lot of things taken for granted these days were considered "too complicated" some time ago: think of how widespread pattern matching, closures, generi
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by riffraff 8mo ago
The 1851 book "The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World"[0] and its ilk is likely what the author refers to when talking of "decisive battles where popularised in the 19th century". It is pretty obvious that single batt
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Oracle and OpenAI End Plans to Expand Flagship Data Center(bloomberg.com)
3 points by riffraff 8mo ago|1 comments
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by riffraff 8mo ago
this was the flagship data center of the "Stargate" initiative presented with great fanfare some time ago.
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by riffraff 8mo ago
> Whew. Ok. You don't tell it the code is slow. Do you tell your coworker "Hey, your code is slow" and expect great results? Yes? Why don't you? They are capable people that just didn't notice something, id I not
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by riffraff 8mo ago
To be fair, people do too.
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by riffraff 8mo ago
Chinotto (apparently called mirtle leaves bitter orange in English?) also has some confused origin (perhaps it's a mutation of some other bitter orange, but it's unclear), and afaict it's not in this chart, or I can't fi
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ActivityPub for WordPress 8.0.0 – Smash That Like Button(activitypub.blog)
2 points by riffraff 8mo ago|0 comments
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by riffraff 8mo ago
that seems like a particularly bad implementation :) IME things worked ok 70% of the time, but I do recall big matrixes of "does client library X work with server Y" with a lot of red cells.
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by riffraff 8mo ago
XML as a document markup language was neat imvho. Like, I remember working with DocBook XML[0] and it was fine. And the idea of being able to use different namespaces in a document (think MathML and SVG in XHTML) was neat too. The problems
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by riffraff 8mo ago
They don't remove it but they do reduce it. I have an inbox, and I do not receive a lot of scam post. In fact, I don't think I received any since I lived at this address (~10 years ). We do get a few promotional leaflets every oth
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by riffraff 8mo ago
And even if it was, you wouldn't believe it anyway
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by riffraff 8mo ago
Yeah reading these announcements I realized my M1 Pro is supposed to be obsolete but I still see no reason to upgrade. Also, my wife's still using the older touch bar MBP, and we'll, it works fine for her too. I'm not sure wh
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by riffraff 8mo ago
I'm pretty sure they care who takes pictures or videos of them. Try going on a train and taking pictures of a young woman or man. The only difference is these are less noticeable.
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by riffraff 8mo ago
> When you read a traditional git log, you see what changed. With ghost, you see why — I thought,that was what commit titles and descriptions are for? What changed would be the diff. Edit: perhaps the prompt describes the "how"
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by riffraff 8mo ago
It is supposed to indicate Microsoft cares only about money, which to me too, seems in the same league as microslop, i.e. mildly insulting but really not rude enough to be worth censoring.
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by riffraff 8mo ago
Last week on a comedy show (the daily show) they made a joke about bill gates "micro and soft" which was old in the 90s already, so I can confirm this is the case.
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by riffraff 8mo ago
I think Bozhidar's other projects[0][1][2] are more relevant as "credentials" for an Emacs mode, although probably more niche :) [0] Projectile, a project mode https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile [1] C

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