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by rmunn 5mo ago
Thanks for the correction; edited my comment to ensure nobody gets confused by my mistake. (I'm brand-new to using MPD, just installed it last week, so I had things backwards in my head).
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by rmunn 5mo ago
Thanks for the correction; edited my comment accordingly.
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by rmunn 5mo ago
EDIT: The below is completely wrong, ignore. <del>The server-client model means you can run the server (MPD, Rockbox Zig, whatever) on your homelab, and stream music to multiple clients. So you don't have to copy all your music
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by rmunn 5mo ago
And the PICO-8 has produced some impressive projects, such as UnDUNE II ( https://liquidream.itch.io/undune2 ) which reimplements the old Dune II game (which started the entire RTS genre). Yes, within the PICO-8's constr
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by rmunn 5mo ago
Did you see the P.S. I edited in? I'm not taking objection to "hey, you should move" (or "hey, you probably shouldn't park there if you don't want your car windows smahsed"). It's the specific "i
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by rmunn 5mo ago
As I said, a lot of the obvious things. And if you're scrolling through the front page without being logged in (i.e., so the default "no mature content" filter is on), there's some really creative stuff being done. I per
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by rmunn 5mo ago
Cuts from the speaker to some background footage, then back to the speaker, are a very useful technique. They can be used to lie, too, of course (cut from the interviewee's face to the interviewer, then back to the interviewee, and you
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by rmunn 5mo ago
For image generation, this has already happened. To what degree, I can't tell, as I don't do image generation much so I don't have numbers on Midjourney subscriptions or any other image-AI-as-a-service sites. But civitai.com
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by rmunn 5mo ago
"all that follows is your own fault" does blame the victim. The abuse is definitely NOT the victim's fault, it's 100% the fault of the abuser. (Most of the time; I won't say there are never mutually-abusive relation
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by rmunn 5mo ago
Are there any groups of open-source developers who have gotten together to share a group account and the $100 cost per year? Forming an informal-ish organization, with just enough formality to be a legal organization in whatever jurisdictio
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by rmunn 5mo ago
There are effectively two options if you dismiss Linux a priori . Which yes, many people do. There are plenty of people who have no desire to try Linux. And if you're a developer then you have to consider those people, because many of
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by rmunn 5mo ago
Ah, something I can respond to without engaging in ideological battle. Instead, let's look at history. I think Marx is objectionable because he was, objectively, an awful person. I mean, just to take one single example, look at what he
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by rmunn 5mo ago
Or (more likely since most airlines won't let a nine-month pregnant woman on board), born aboard a ship. (These days, most likely a cruise ship). For extra fun, have them be born on opposite sites of the International Date Line, crossi
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by rmunn 5mo ago
Let's end this conversation right here before it descends any further into ideological battle. And in the interests of peace, I shall hold my tongue about what I think about Marx, or of you for recommending him in a positive light.
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by rmunn 5mo ago
> But it makes you wonder if the debunking community should be a bit more intentional about intercepting whatever these psychological processes are that make people immune to evidence-based correction, and target those mechanisms the sam
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by rmunn 5mo ago
The only reasons I can think of why your comment would have gotten downvoted is for ideological reasons, e.g. people dislike the president so they downvoted you for saying something even slightly positive about him. Since HN is not suppose
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by rmunn 5mo ago
Interesting vote-to-downvote ratio my comment got. Seems there are a lot more people with anti-libertarian beliefs hanging out at HN at the moment than there are people who lean libertarian. Since it was not my intention to engage in ideolo
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by rmunn 5mo ago
> Obviously nobody needs more than that per year ... You are, of course, in a position to know what everybody on Earth needs. What if someone wants to give $10 million away per year to worthy charities? Will you tell them they can't
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by rmunn 5mo ago
You're assuming the fee would be small. Put yourself in the shoes of an insurance company, deciding what to charge for liability insurance. The potential cost if you have to pay out on the insurance is very very large: depending on the
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by rmunn 5mo ago
> What is the probability that you are sharing the same birthday with people around you? If you're a twin and your twin sibling is standing next to you, nearly 100%. But not exactly 100%: there have been cases of twins born on eit
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by rmunn 6mo ago
Corrected; thanks.
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by rmunn 6mo ago
In capitalist countries, we do the same thing, except we allow people to choose whether to participate or not. (In theory, at least. The health insurance system in America is currently broken, for many reasons. A deep discussion of those re
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by rmunn 6mo ago
> As of this writing (2018-05-29) ... So this news is nearly <del>six</del> EIGHT years old. But I didn't happen to know about it until now, so that's not a complaint at all; rather, this is a thank-you for pos
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by rmunn 6mo ago
Yeah, forgot to mention that, but that's entirely correct. Modern BASIC variants (I assume) let you label lines so that GOTO and GOSUB can still be used. But with a few flow-control constructs (I don't know modern Basic but in the
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by rmunn 6mo ago
> The more "modern" basics, without line numbers, were a definite improvement. Never used them, and yet I can unquestioningly agree. The way you had to number each line in increments of 10 so that you could insert a line 15 lat
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by rmunn 6mo ago
In BASIC ? Why? Why would you do that to yourself? Don't get me wrong, if he enjoys writing code in BASIC, I'm not going to tell him to stop having fun. It would be silly to tell some random stranger "You're having fun
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by rmunn 6mo ago
First thing that comes to mind is beehives and anthills. Highly ordered societies where each insect has a role to perform. Don't know how well you think that fits the "cathedral" model, but I'd say it's pretty close
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by rmunn 6mo ago
If healthcare is free then you aren't paying your doctors. What you mean is "when healthcare is paid for by other people ", and in that case the cost of the healthcare is still calculable.
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by rmunn 6mo ago
The software I've used has been pretty consistent about Shift+Enter meaning "new line without triggering the Enter key action" and Ctrl+Enter meaning "action" (send the message, go to the next field, etc). The behav
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by rmunn 6mo ago
It would be bad if there weren't a significant number of companies paying for work on Linux to continue, because so many of them are benefiting from it, and at least some of them realize that ensuring sustainability into the future i

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