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by rmunn 11mo ago
Good point, though I don't always have my Bluetooth keyboard available so I'm still interested in hearing people's experiences with those virtual keyboard apps.
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by rmunn 11mo ago
What's the experience like pressing Ctrl+Shift+Meta+key shortcuts with those virtual keyboard apps? I assume they turn Ctrl, Shift, etc. into toggles so that you tap Ctrl, tap Shift, tap Meta, tap the shortcut key. But that's stil
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by rmunn 11mo ago
Where's the obligation to watch ads spelled out? The legal obligation to pay for groceries is spelled out in the law: they are the possession of the store, and if you want to acquire them you need to exchange something else of value (m
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by rmunn 11mo ago
None at all. I walk in, I look at what's on offer, and if they don't have what I'm looking for, I leave without buying anything. There's a legal obligation not to steal, of course, and if you want to call that a contract
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by rmunn 11mo ago
What deal? What contract? I'm serious. Show me in the Youtube Terms of Service where it says that blocking ads is against the contract. I've looked. Carefully. There is no such language there .
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by rmunn 11mo ago
Strongly smells of LLM-generated content with all those bulleted and numbered lists, and so on. I'm not one to automatically find the use of em-dashes to be an LLM "smell" — I use them all the time myself — but there are five
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by rmunn 11mo ago
I remember it being called "Windows FP" where FP stood for Fischer-Price (maker of colorful plastic toys for babies and toddlers) at the time. Lots of people hated the design of XP after using Win98/2000. I got used to it, bu
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by rmunn 11mo ago
The start menu is one of the first things I used to fix on a brand-new Win10 install: start removing all those useless/annoying tiles until I have nothing left but a list of programs. (On Win11, the first thing I fix is to move the too
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by rmunn 11mo ago
The Framework 16 had an issue where the closed lid would flex slightly in your backpack, and press keys on the keyboard, waking up the computer. Ten days ago (Nov 14th), Framework released a BIOS update for the 16 that would turn off the ke
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by rmunn 11mo ago
Brilliant. I use Tailscale myself, but if you want everything totally under your control (and don't want to go to the trouble of setting up headscale or something similar) then that's one of the absolutely simplest, lowest-effort
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by rmunn 11mo ago
One guy I vaguely know (only know him online, never met him IRL) often says "If you're using NPM you deserve what's going to happen to you one of these days." (He means the package ecosystem, so he would say the same thi
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by rmunn 11mo ago
So true. Things that everybody does: breathe. Eat. Drink. Sleep. And a few other things that are essential to being alive . Things that not everybody does: EVERYTHING else .
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by rmunn 11mo ago
I could agree with giving sysadmins a way to specify a list of disallowed usernames (which would be useful for more reasons than to retire certain usernames, e.g. many sites would probably disallow "admin" as a username, and depen
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by rmunn 11mo ago
I should mention that you really do want good editor support with any dialect of Lisp, because having to balance parentheses by hand gets old fast. You want an editor where you can have keybindings for "pull this space-delimited item o
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by rmunn 11mo ago
Everyone's recommending books; I'm going to do the opposite and recommend a specific dialect. Install Clojure. Read https://clojure.org/guides/getting_started and choose an editor. If you don't have a fa
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by rmunn 11mo ago
That's UTF-16, though, which is basically the only place where byte-order marks are actually useful. (It was arguably the thing they were designed for, being able to tell whether you have little-endian or big-endian UTF-16. I've n
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by rmunn 11mo ago
The coworker who created the script runs Windows. When I informed him that he'd gotten a BOM into the shell script, he checked his IDE settings (JetBrains Rider) and his encoding default was set to UTF-8 without BOM, so neither of us h
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by rmunn 11mo ago
Not mentioned there, because it's discussing history that nearly all happened before Unicode was ever conceived, is the fact that the kernel expects the first two bytes to be #! and therefore a UTF-8 BOM will mess up this logic. If the
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by rmunn 11mo ago
Also relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45970885 (article about how #! allows relative paths)
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by rmunn 11mo ago
Not the ones I've used. Haskell compiles to executables, F# compiles to the same bytecode that C# does and can be shipped the same way (including compiling to executables if you need to deploy to environments where you don't expec
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by rmunn 11mo ago
AI will not go away, I agree. But many of the companies now betting the farm on AI are going to lose, and there will be server farms going for sale cheap. I'm hearing more and more people outside the tech world talk about the AI bubble
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by rmunn 11mo ago
Time to dig up a classic story about Tom Knight, who designed the first prototype of the Lisp Machine at MIT in the mid-70's. It's in the form of a classic Zen koan. This copy comes from https://jargondb.org/some_a
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by rmunn 11mo ago
Hit the link expecting to read about UTF-8 Byte Order Marks at the top of the file, so that the first few bytes aren't actually #! but 0xEF 0xBB 0xBF #! instead. Ran into this one just a few months ago when a coworker who uses Windows
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by rmunn 11mo ago
Thing is, a few years ago when Debian changed its default sh from bash to ... either ash or dash, I forget which, I got into the habit of always writing `#!/bin/bash` at the top of my scripts, in case I didn't realize that so
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by rmunn 11mo ago
> USPTO doesn't really have the budget or even often the expertise/depth. Oh yeah, there are so many patents with obvious prior art, or that are so much "the obvious way to do it" (to anyone with expertise in the fiel
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by rmunn 11mo ago
Personal anecdote in support: my first job out of college was at a data-analysis company, where my task was usually to write one-off scripts to extract data from various data sources and massage it into the format the analysts wanted for th
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by rmunn 11mo ago
There's also the https://www.cadsketcher.com/ addon for Blender, which is constraint-based. I tried it a few years ago and it was decent, but still lacking a few things. I haven't tried it recently, but I'd b
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by rmunn 1y ago
While that's partly true (modulo certain exceptions such as the cost of living varying quite a bit from place to place), the comment you were replying to was making a point about the cost of college. Which has grown so much faster than
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by rmunn 1y ago
Well, I've been assuming that zikduruqe is competent and knows how to pick up a phone and call the person (looking up a phone number in the company database) to verify that the public key came from him via fingerprint-checking over the
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by rmunn 1y ago
As for how it improves security, I'm going to hazard a guess that many of the people sending zikduruqe those messages hadn't previously set up a PGP key. So by asking for the public key and refusing to send them the credentials un

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