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by rmunn 7mo ago
Which would make me want the refresh rate to be user-configurable. I would not mind at all if the 1 Hz refresh rate caused parts of the page I don't care about, such as animated ads to stutter and become unwatchable. If given the choic
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by rmunn 7mo ago
Best way I've found not to think of a pink elephant is to choose to think of a green rabbit. Really focus on the mental image of the green rabbit... and voila, you're not thinking of, what was it again? Eh, not as important as t
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by rmunn 7mo ago
Which, as far as I found so far, means Forgejo. Haven't found any others. And even Forgejo Actions says that it's mostly the same as Github Actions syntax, meaning you still have to double-check that everything still works the s
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by rmunn 7mo ago
What are they called, then? Since I took a job overseas over ten years ago, I haven't been in American grocery stores much. What's the "normal" variety called? I distinctly remember Roma being the cheapest, and also wors
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by rmunn 7mo ago
If you buy the variety most often found in American grocery stores (usually labeled as Roma tomatoes), they're terrible. Try the variety labeled as "tomatoes on the vine" (four-digit produce code 4664, which I know from memor
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by rmunn 7mo ago
I doubt whether Marshall was referring to soldiers in logitiscal roles when he made his claim about only 20-25% of soldiers firing their weapons, but I do wonder whether other people are getting confused by those numbers. About twenty years
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by rmunn 7mo ago
The question to which 42 was the answer was, of course, "How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man?"
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by rmunn 7mo ago
I'd argue that although publicly-traded businesses do usually go through that cycle (I would say that it's not ALL, but it's certainly MOST, because I can't come up with a counterexample), privately-owned businesses are
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by rmunn 7mo ago
Thanks for the correction. Not having had to write anything against the Win32 API, I learned something from your comment. Appreciate the info.
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by rmunn 7mo ago
Short-term profits vs long-term profits is a tension that many companies end up making bad choices about. A comment elsewhere in this discussion by safety1st mentioned the stages companies tend to go through. First, growth, growing market s
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by rmunn 7mo ago
It doesn't, I have installed many Windows updates that didn't require a reboot. Even ones I expected to need an update, like an update to a graphics driver. Screen just went blank, then came back a second later. AFAICT it's o
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by rmunn 7mo ago
> Why? Why not connect [the Raspberry Pi] to the network you want so that it just connects to that going forward? I'm not the guy who wrote that, but I had the same use-case myself. (Except that I happened to choose the correct netw
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by rmunn 7mo ago
Making (and uploading) a copy of your data, which might include private documents or corporate secrets that you're contractually obligated NOT to disclose, without asking you permission? That's a "logical consequence" of
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by rmunn 7mo ago
Precisely. When I noticed the vagueness of most of those points, I did a Ctrl+F for "OneDrive". It produced zero results. Which is all I needed to know about Microsoft's sincerity. In fact, let me quote the first two items on
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by rmunn 7mo ago
Site's been slashdotted, I'm getting nothing but 504s when I try to load it. There's an archived copy at https://archive.is/30a07
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by rmunn 7mo ago
https://xkcd.com/2501/
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by rmunn 7mo ago
> This would have been a waste of their time if it was only an option for no one who wants this some place buried deep in the settings where it would only clutter the nesaserily complex options. I'm not sure what this sentence means
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by rmunn 8mo ago
Unless there are others that reached the fact-finding stage, that's 10 out of 62, meaning 52 were not decided on the merits. So "most" being decided on procedural grounds is still correct, IMHO. But thanks for the link, that&
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by rmunn 8mo ago
They didn't give up, they appealed. Most of the appeals, as I recall, were also decided on procedural grounds, but by that time it was (IIRC) "this is moot, we're not going to overturn the result of an election that was decid
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by rmunn 8mo ago
Most of those 62 lawsuits were thrown out on procedural grounds, such as lack of standing (which I think was a bad reason: if the losing candidate doesn't have standing to challenge an allegedly fraudulent voting system, then who does?
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by rmunn 8mo ago
I'd argue that `new Date()` returning the current time is a design mistake, and it should at least have been something like `DateTime.now()`. (Especially because it's called a date but it actually returns a timestamp: the footgu
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by rmunn 8mo ago
Converting between solar-based and lunar-based calendars is fraught with potential for ambiguity. The Buddhist calendar is a solar calendar, while the Hebrew calendar is lunar-based. So converting between dates in the Buddhist calendar and
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by rmunn 8mo ago
Many eco-warrior types, not every single one but many, have... how to put this gently... not thought things all the way through. To name just one example I can think of: protesting an oil pipeline being constructed and/or extended. Wel
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by rmunn 8mo ago
Article says room and board, plus cost of transportation, are covered. So that $13/hr goes quite a bit further than it would if a chunk of it was going towards paying for food and rent. (And if you were paying for the cost of the plane
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by rmunn 8mo ago
The "compose" key on Linux is one of my favorite things about the Linux keyboard system. You can pick which key is your "compose" key, choosing from about a dozen options. Then just as you describe, you type it in sequen
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by rmunn 8mo ago
Because most websites won't have two separate fields for "ZIP code" and "postal code". Even if they knew that ZIP Code is a trademark (I didn't until you mentioned it), they would (wisely) know that putting in
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by rmunn 8mo ago
Best thing, if you accepted the book but realize within a few steps (maybe immediately) that you didn't actually want it, would be to walk back to the person handing it out and say "Changed my mind, don't actually want it, wh
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by rmunn 8mo ago
I've seen so many LLM-generated articles by this point that obviously had no human editing done beforehand — just prompt and slap it onto the Web — that it makes me wonder every time. If I read this article, will I actually learn only
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by rmunn 8mo ago
"Just use Postgres" (which defaults to UTF-8 encoding unless specifically configured to use something else) is looking like better and better advice every day. Doesn't help those tied to legacy systems that would require a hu
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by rmunn 8mo ago
That's the kind of thing that people like to hand out to people walking by. Many people, if handed a booklet they didn't actually want to read, will just toss it on the ground.

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