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by sjmulder 6y ago
I'd like Microsoft to succeed with a new vision for the Windows desktop but IMO the current style isn't it. As for the framework itself, it seems needlessly complicated to get started. The XAML based frameworks use a whole differe
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by sjmulder 6y ago
Almost - 6,000 years is the common figure in young earth creationism although I see Wikipedia mention 10,000 also.
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by sjmulder 7y ago
Isn’t that supposed to be share/ and maybe a few others? bin/ and lib/ are architecture specific.
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by sjmulder 7y ago
I’ve been exploring it for use for financial calculations that are ‘embarrassingly parallel’. It’s much faster alright but people here aren’t trained in data oriented programming. Might end up writing some generic accelerated building block
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by sjmulder 7y ago
That everyone does it is hardly a justification. And companies have no divine right to analytics, especially not when it concerns PII and paying customers.
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by sjmulder 7y ago
The town where I live (in the Netherlands) has green waves for cyclists. It's lovely to experience and also a good way for the council to encourage this sustainable, healthy mode of transport.
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by sjmulder 7y ago
A blatant violation of European privacy law. I hope an ICO picks this up (I've filed a notice with mine).
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by sjmulder 7y ago
https://sjmulder.nl/en Currently completely static and handwritten HTML (except the generated download indices) but I do intend to add some sort of publishing thing to it at some point.
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by sjmulder 7y ago
I think the Scottish highlands are beautiful but wondered why those mountains are mostly bare whereas most mainland ones are wooded. Wasn't happy to read why.
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by sjmulder 7y ago
I've made a little list of some text-and-hyperlink websites that I like: https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html It also includes 'lite' variants of some news sites and such. A great reprieve from the heavy
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Pale Moon Official Branding Violation(github.com)
2 points by sjmulder 7y ago|0 comments
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by sjmulder 7y ago
Warning, clicking this link from here redirects to an NSFWish image on imgur. This guy has a problem with HN.
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Patch Workflow with Mutt – 2019(kroah.com)
2 points by sjmulder 7y ago|0 comments
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by sjmulder 7y ago
Please don't disable the context menu. It's basic browser functionality. Also, think about whether your desire for information on visitors really justifies adding yet another data point to Google's dataset.
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by sjmulder 7y ago
I thought about using Docker for a reproducible build environment but, in that context, found it problematic that every time a Dockerfile is built you may end up with new base images and different package versions. That's hardly reprod
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Announcing the Pkgsrc-2019Q2 Release(mail-index.netbsd.org)
1 points by sjmulder 7y ago|0 comments
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by sjmulder 7y ago
I've been involved with Extinction Rebellion, helping to organise some small (legal!) demonstrations. Some people I was once friendly with now consider me an ecoterrorist. I have been tailed by secret police. I've been unofficiall
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by sjmulder 7y ago
Yet the site of the people who made this (Bagaar) does not have a privacy banner but happily contacts Google Analytics, DoubleClick, HotJar and HubSpot.
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by sjmulder 7y ago
We have one of these in our neighborhood and it's quite actively used. There's a Facebook group for it which does cultivate a sense of togetherness. Sometimes people take all the things but it's rare.
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by sjmulder 7y ago
Good to see it so far along! There's some work to be done in rust on portability - it's been a problem in pkgsrc too.
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by sjmulder 7y ago
If the shell and compiler are posixy enough pkgsrc may well work with minor changes!
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by sjmulder 8y ago
This came up in something related: the Dutch Greens have been campaigning recently to reduce or eliminate flights to and from Schiphol within a 750 km radius, in favour of trains. Answering your question, on the issue of price they note tha
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by sjmulder 8y ago
This looks like such a nice app! Proper Mac UI too. I'm going to try it out as soon as I get home.
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by sjmulder 8y ago
> What about: man foo | grep bar I prefer to search from within the pager to see the option description in context: man httpd /-n Then 'n' for the next hit or 'N' for the previous, like vi. This is f
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by sjmulder 8y ago
Here’s that perfect zergling video: https://youtu.be/IKVFZ28ybQs
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by sjmulder 8y ago
> weird indentation This is regular BSD style, used in lots of places. Tabs for indentation, 4 spaces for wrapped lines. > ternary operator Totally fine here IMO. Would get really verbose without. > without braces Again, regular BS
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by sjmulder 8y ago
> 451: Unavailable due to legal reasons ... GDPR ... "Legal reasons" being "we want to invasively track all our visitors but that pesky bureaucracy won't let us"? Good riddance.
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by sjmulder 8y ago
I made a little clone for fun and got a bit carried away optimising. Now at about 3x the speed of hexyl 0.3.1: https://github.com/sjmulder/hxl Most of the improvement came from not using printf, fputs, and putchar in f
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The trouble with five (2007)(plus.maths.org)
3 points by sjmulder 8y ago|0 comments
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ToaruOS(github.com)
3 points by sjmulder 8y ago|0 comments

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