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by rvense 3y ago
I've got one a 3+, had a 2 for six or so years before. It's an adequate phone, does what I need. I'm far from a heavy phone user, though, so it's not so important to me that I could've got better specs for the same
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I've had both Brother and Nakajima typewriters that do this, late models from the 90's. (Which is funny, because one of the things I used my typewriter for was writing down the recovery keys for my password manager. In a darkened
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by rvense 3y ago
"It's easier to port a shell than it is to port a shell script" (Larry Wall)
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> Is this really a place where we need government intervention Yes, it affects all of us and positions Granny Smith for even more control over derived areas. For one, Apple are applying American morals to decisions about what kind of con
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To start: There absolutely should be limits to what kinds of devices can be sold. E.g., they should not be dangerous to operate. If you can't make a lawnmower that doesn't harm people, it's OK for governments or the EU to tel
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And we had Reddit/Digg/StumbleUpon, so...
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Doesn't it mandate it for everyone? I don't use it anymore and haven't logged in since forever, but I think I got a series of e-mails that it was being made mandatory.
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I remember just laughing when I heard that Adobe had fixed a bug that occurred when running Photoshop in more than 1GB RAM on Mac OS 9. It seemed like such a theoretical thing to have that much memory.
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It is the companies that suck, and Paul Graham is (quite literally) invested in the suckage, wherefore this dumb tweet. Which, if one wanted to create an ad campaign for that eternal Upton Sinclair quote, couldn't have been done much b
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If you are suggesting that "modern house and techno" emerged fully formed from black kids in Chicago and that Berlin techno is just imitation, I do wonder why you're even bothering to take time out to comment - this isn'
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IMO the real battle here is the cultural normalization of working 32 hours. The legal structure is just one part of it.
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I live near an experimental archaeological centre with roots going back to the 60's. I read a book by one of the founders, where he relates making his first flint axe at approximately age 16 and being so excited he went straight to the
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by rvense 3y ago
This is not a trade war, it's about the power balance between consumers, corporations and governments.
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You laugh, but if pixels (or ink) was the expensive part of making a book I'm absolutely sure we'd see this.
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I don't think it applies in this case for the exact reasons stated, but the EU does indeed have a charter on fundamental rights that covers freedom of expression, among other things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C
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Yeah, and in some sense it actually is Orientalism - a vague exotic reference. And crucially it will have registered completely different for the original audience than it would today - most people in the 60's in western Europe and Ame
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Yeah, this was one of those headlines that stopped me in my tracks. Hackers for right, we are one down.
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It's cool, nice work! And thank you for sharing it. This is just spitballing, you've already solved problem you set out to and get full marks. There are always many different ways to do things with bash/shell. Here, you could
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by rvense 3y ago
"While today 'Silly Con Valley' is thought to refer to the prevalent business models, the name was originally derived from the chemical element when people there used to actually make stuff."
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I grew up on the internet in the late 90's and I have to admit I really underestimated how big of an appetite "normies" would develop for being constantly bombarded with "content".
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Is there any sort of corporate structure around one of the forks? There's no doubt in my mind that if it were organized somehow the community would be able to fund a few developers to work on Firefox alongside Mozilla. I don't wan
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by rvense 3y ago
Yeah, it's weird. "How would people behave if everything was different?" I don't see how there's either $5 VPS or Heroku free tier in a world without free Linux on commodity hardware, and I'd argue that without
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And he performed it on Times Square in New York.
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Many people make electronics as a hobby. It's probably a fairly high-impact hobby compared to knitting or reading, but I'd credit the author for at least thinking of a use case for their little microcontroller board. I also imagin
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Yes, my first thought is - doesn't this allow other sites to interoperate with Gitlab without asking Gitlab? Like Gitea can implement this and now we can do PRs back and forth? That's fantastic, exactly what the internet is for
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I've seen the headlines "tens of thousands" in several places, but also estimates that 1.5 million people showed up.
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A) There are some important differences. For instances: sizes, spacings and colors are picked from a scale, not set in pixel values (although you can do that now if you need it.) B) There are many ways to "reinvent inline styles",
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If you thought you understood Norwegian but then suddenly don't, it's Nynorsk.
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In English, the most common convention is to capitalize every word, or every word except small ones like articles and prepositions (the, of, for).
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Cats aren't really natural in all the environments we bring them to. And they're also subsidized to hell by their owners, if we weren't feeding them tinned food there'd likely be a hundred times less.

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