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by shrikant 5y ago
Nice to see Slackware still going strong. Like many around these parts, Slackware was my second Linux distribution, after I decided that Red Hat 5.2 was too mainstream for me. One of my favourite things about Slackware was the installer tha
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by shrikant 5y ago
If you create a Twitter List and add users into it, they stay in the list even if/when they change their handles. I used this approach to keep track of scammers a while back when Twitter DM scams were a thing amongst the circles I was
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by shrikant 5y ago
I'd argue that if you need a palate cleanser after reading Starship Troopers, go watch the Paul Verhoeven film Starship Troopers which is "surely you can't be serious about this!" take on Heinlein's book.
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by shrikant 5y ago
Redshift lets you create UDFs in Python (2.7), and via Lambda functions (for any language runtime supported by AWS Lambda). https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/user-defined-...
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by shrikant 5y ago
I got access to the Kagi beta a week or so back, and have been daily-driving it as my default search engine ever since. I've only ever "fallen back" to Google for a small handful of searches since then, and only out of curios
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by shrikant 5y ago
Yes :) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/keming
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by shrikant 5y ago
Yeah wtf, Hacker News shows me next to nothing about cutting/chopping things down with repeated blows.
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by shrikant 5y ago
> [...] an English person says "can I burn a fag" and an American person believes they are casually thinking about hurting a gay man. FYI, it's combination of difficult-to-discern keming with the default font on HN, and y
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by shrikant 5y ago
My partner LOVES the Down Dog app for yoga as well, and she's been doing yoga for some 30 years now. Pro tip for the app: if you decide to pay for it, buy your membership/subscription on the website -- it's heavily discounted
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A collection of Web3 resources for hackers(howtoweb3.guide)
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by shrikant 5y ago
The dude in the linked forum post goes on to say this: > Here is where we make the dreams of the Harkonnen become true. [...] I'm finding it really very difficult to imagine that someone's read/watched Dune and come away t
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by shrikant 5y ago
Boy have I got some bad news for you... https://www.cryptokitties.co/ is a thing.
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by shrikant 5y ago
Yeah this calls for a massive citation needed. I've come across variations of this old wives' tales before and never seen any any legitimate justification for it other than hand-waving about acids combining in some "harmful&q
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by shrikant 5y ago
Yeah absolutely, I count ourselves reasonably lucky that we only caught the disease after vaccinations. I have absolutely non-zero desire to go through this every year, unlike my parent commenter though. Would I be of a similar opinion as p
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by shrikant 5y ago
Congratulations. Both my wife and I (double vaxxed for 5 months, not boosted yet although were just about to do so) caught Omicron-flavoured Covid in the lead-up to Christmas and it wiped us out each for 2-3 days each, with a combination of
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by shrikant 5y ago
Gatekeeping access to (edit: online, but I suppose this could also apply to offline) resources based on digitally verifiable ownership and the subsequent rent-seeking is a capitalist wet dream. I'm not the least bit surprised the VCs a
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by shrikant 5y ago
> What is actually going on? Nobody actually knows yet. > Is this a pivotal moment unfolding right in front of our eyes without us seeing it? Yes I think so. I see parallels with the early days of the dotcom boom (mid to late 90s) whe
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by shrikant 5y ago
This... makes SO much sense! I really started preferring dark themes for my various tools after I got LASIK'ed, and never made the connection :)
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by shrikant 5y ago
You're probably thinking of "The elves have left Middle Earth"? That's slightly different -- it's a reference from this blogpost[0] which is talking about bean-counters taking over from focus on product, i.e., basic
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by shrikant 5y ago
Literally all of India uses WhatsApp. Non-WhatsApp users (exclusively Signal/Telegram/Mitron or whatever homegrown flavour of the day) are a rounding error.
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by shrikant 5y ago
Well, I'm pretty sure GPM did some level of acoustic matching nonsense to optimise storage or bandwidth, because it changed a bunch of songs that I'd uploaded into a different language version of song.
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by shrikant 5y ago
I've also noticed a lot of sites that now scrape GitHub Issues and the discussions on there that are increasingly spamming search results. GithubMemory, GitMemory and Giters are the domains that come to mind immediately, but there&#x27
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by shrikant 5y ago
The URL anchor reference, for today's lucky 10,000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADgS_vMGgzY
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by shrikant 5y ago
I also fear it'll be some bloated Electron monstrosity, because the copy on the landing page has some bluster about discovery, new artistes, etc. All of which is nice, but indicates to me that it'll be a "webapp packaged as d
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by shrikant 5y ago
Sure, "clean" as in doesn't do toilet/gross-out/sex humour, but a lot of his observational bits are "have you ever noticed how women are different from men in this way?"-type comparisons. I can see how som
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by shrikant 5y ago
...whose Twitter profile indicates that they're a Juicebox dev, i.e. the same service being used to "host" the DAO. I can't put my finger on why exactly, but that seems all manner of shady to me.
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by shrikant 5y ago
I'm literally looking at an Oatly Barista Edition pack right now and it clearly says it's free from milk or soya. The ingredients don't contain any soya reference as well, it's likely the rapeseed oil that makes it fatty
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by shrikant 5y ago
All the "snail mail" addresses (Data Protection Officer, GDPR requests, other legal contacts) on the TMTG Corp and Truth Social websites lead to Mar-a-Lago: 1100 South Ocean Blvd. Palm Beach, FL 33480 I guess they're not bein
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by shrikant 5y ago
Can't replicate, I'm able to comment favourable things about OpenStreetMap[s] on random videos and have it stay up just fine. Edit: I'd expect the video posted to back up its allegation with an example of a non-OpenStreetMap
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by shrikant 5y ago
The paper by this author? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae-Wan_Ho#Institute_of_Scienc... Not the most ringing endorsement.

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