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by scblock 4y ago
I gave Helix a try last week and I think there are a lot of things to like about it, but until it supports soft text wrapping for prose documents it's effectively useless to me. I'm not going to bounce back and forth between neovi
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by scblock 4y ago
No, the specifics of making sure plain text email wraps correctly are just complex enough it might as well be html email. It's 2022, and in this day and age the concept of sticking to 80 columns of plain text is outdated and mostly rea
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by scblock 4y ago
Ah yes, all those thousands of engineers over the decades who are "using roman numerals wrong", rather than using a well understood system of prefixes that is just not SI.
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by scblock 4y ago
I'm not sure I understand your statement that tracking solar panels aren't viable. The vast majority of utility scale solar PV installations in the United States use single axis tracking systems. These orient the modules on a nort
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by scblock 4y ago
The text right at the top of the page, "Resellers aren’t the problem — their buying bots are", is some of the densest bullshit I have ever read. How can someone be so colossally stupid as to write and publish that line? Acting lik
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by scblock 5y ago
No.
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by scblock 5y ago
I did something much like this a few years ago and still have the iPod. It's a really nice unit and does sound good. The OS took to a 200 GB SD card like it was made for the capacity. However the earbud/IEM market has changed a lo
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by scblock 5y ago
Unreadable on mobile. Unreadable in reader mode on mobile. That takes talent. But not the kind of talent we can celebrate. They wrapped the whole wall of text in a PRE tag, which is user hostile and a poor way to use HTML. We solved this ba
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by scblock 5y ago
Because it's not. Nothing on this page is trustworthy or well reasoned.
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by scblock 5y ago
Badly written, one person's experience, etc etc etc. Mostly complaining about issues with Linux, not actually about the Framework laptop. Not worthy of the front page here. And server fell over with just a few visitors. https:/&#
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by scblock 5y ago
Viewed that way because it's the truth. It ruins everything it touches, but makes a few rich people along the way. For some that's the goal, but it's absolutely a net negative.
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by scblock 5y ago
Exactly. Once you raise a bunch of VC money you've sold your actual business to vampires. From now on it's grow at any cost. Add bloat, feature creep, unrelated projects, cost increases, and probably user data mining and sales on
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by scblock 5y ago
I mean let's look into some of the claims on the "Facts" page and compare them to Messages, which all Apple users already have. 'Tact is a chat app for families, friends, coworkers, or any other small closed groups of hu
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by scblock 5y ago
A simple chat app for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS is called Messages. What value are you offering here that we don't already have built in? Serious question, I can't fathom the reason for this.
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by scblock 5y ago
The tractor right to repair issues include software. You might even say that software is the prime issue preventing repair of the newer from equipment. Parts with drm, unsupported software, etc.
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by scblock 5y ago
They don't need them either. Doesn't matter what they think, the truly do not need them. It's time to stop this.
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by scblock 5y ago
"It’s also no secret that the average size of a website is huge, and it’s only going to get larger." This attitude seems common, that websites are just going to be fat and get fatter. That's a lie. Not if you, as a web develo
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by scblock 5y ago
I thought a friend Jim, a professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies at the University of Kentucky, had a good take on this: https://twitter.com/ridolfoj/status/1471536878658719748
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by scblock 5y ago
I have Pop!_OS on a Framework laptop as well and if it wasn't a project laptop meant entirely for the purpose of being a project laptop and test bed for a few things I would chuck it out the window. In the reality of actually using the
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by scblock 5y ago
"Nature does not use wheels. So why do people?" Regardless of how interesting a concept or development may be, check the logic of what you're writing before you hit publish.
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by scblock 5y ago
I remember decades ago helping Oh My God move a Leslie into a venue for a show. It was huge.
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by scblock 5y ago
I hate everything about this website. It uses all the tropes of a bad kickstarter campaign, and to sell you this item it preys on fear and misunderstanding. I absolutely do not trust that this company has my best interest at heart. It'
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by scblock 5y ago
You're describing actual cars from BMW and Tesla with an "Apple Car" straw man. I mean come on.
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by scblock 5y ago
This isn't that uncommon and doesn't seem like a big deal at first thought. I do appreciate the author going over the (unexpected) issues he found related to moving away from the use of ISOs, as I hadn't considered them. Whil
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by scblock 5y ago
I keep my files well organized on disk, but I am also particular about how names are both shown and sorted, and rely on careful and comprehensive tagging instead. For example, I will not name folders "National, The" or "Beatl
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by scblock 5y ago
I appreciate this perspective but I loathe using the filesystem to manage a music library. If a music player doesn't have a well designed and highly functional music library I most likely won't use it. Most are half-baked though,
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by scblock 5y ago
Fastmail recently announced a collaboration with 1Password: https://www.fastmail.com/1password/
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by scblock 5y ago
As an example of my point for using a judicious approach above, applying either of the sets of Sennheiser HD8XX measurements and resulting AutoEQ curves from the Crinacle and oratory1990 folders in the Roon DSP system collapses the headstag
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by scblock 5y ago
I would caution against applying an EQ curve to headphones without review beforehand. If EQ includes large boosts (which the example image and table shows) that can easily introduce clipping distortion if applied linearly without appropriat
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by scblock 5y ago
It's probably best to not give BMW any more bad ideas.

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