slightwinder

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by slightwinder 3y ago
> I disagree with their decision to not keep the nuclear reactors running It wasn't their decision, the reactors had to shut down anyway for at least some years, as they are lacking fuel and an up-to-date operating permit. The remai
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by slightwinder 3y ago
Nuclear plants are not green, just greener than fossils. And they have no real benefits overall, but bring many problems to the table. So yeah, while they technically would reduce emissions, other options will reduce them even more, with si
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by slightwinder 3y ago
Not really. Building the plant, and mining+refining the nuclear fuel involves a significant amount of emissions. Far more than most renewables have on the list. Overall it's greener than fossil fuels, but less green than renewables. An
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by slightwinder 3y ago
> Take ImGui ( https://github.com/ocornut/imgui , an immediate mode GUI library) for example - the examples are much closer to TUI interfaces than a Swift UI app - the only difference between that an a terminal UI wou
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by slightwinder 3y ago
Fossils are not used to bridge the elimination of nuclear, that's already done by renewables. Fossils are used for industry and heat, where nuclear never added anything in the first place. And while technically it's possible to us
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by slightwinder 3y ago
There is a good deal of misinformation, astro turfing, and I think also nerdy love for fancy toys. And there is also the problematic trend of the right wing to demonize environment- and green politics. It seems it has reached a level of con
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by slightwinder 3y ago
Well, technically, this depends on the environment and is also working in proper terminal. But all the proper terminals are AFAIK GUI-terminals, so it's a thin line I guess.
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by slightwinder 3y ago
I also use the GUI, because of additional keys supported by it. But like most(?) people, I've deactivated the GUI-elements, as they are pretty useless. But ok, I guess it could be called a desktop-app because of this.
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by slightwinder 3y ago
> Any DOS app with a curses interface is a desktop application, yes. Any terminal tool with a TUI is a desktop application. A command-line tool without an interface (just arguments and pipes) is not, because it does not aim to be interac
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by slightwinder 3y ago
By that logic, any android or iOS-app would be also a desktop-application. As also any DOS-App and anything with curse-interface. What about interactive commandline-apps? Like a database-shell? They also have their own interface, it's
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by slightwinder 3y ago
AbiWord, Blender, FileZilla, GIMP, LibreOffice (formerly known as OpenOffice, formerly known as Star Office), Opera, PuTTY, Seamonkey (formerly known as Mozilla Suit), Stellarium, Thunderbird, WinSCP KDE and Gnome probably have some old run
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by slightwinder 3y ago
Emacs is not really the classical desktop-app. It's a terminal-app that just happened to also have a GUI.
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by slightwinder 3y ago
Looks good. But personally it reminds me of an angry little baby-bird, because of the stance and the white pupilless eyes. Maybe I've seen just read too many fantasy-comics, where white eyes are a typical sign for an angry animal. And
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by slightwinder 3y ago
> The fact that he called the master branch "main" is pretty sleazy too! If you've lived under a rock - "main" and "side" are terms from the pick-up artist community Maybe you've lived under a rock
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by slightwinder 4y ago
> I wonder what it is about this space that's triggering so many new products. Note-taking is a low-hanging fruit, and it's basically impossible to create the perfect solution for everyone. So there will always be a constant su
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by slightwinder 4y ago
It doesn't even need a new release. jc can already fail because of details like the system-language. With my local language, on a simple output of ls -l, it's parsing {"filename":"drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4
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by slightwinder 4y ago
> I want to be able to embed maps, images, audio files, music, draw connections between them, move them around. This cannot be accomplished in plain text. It can be accomplished in plain text, by hiding it behind a fancy interface. Which
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by slightwinder 4y ago
> Kovid puts in an extraordinary amount of work Extraordinary amount of work does not guarantee extraordinary quality or results, not even ordinary quality. > Anyone who has spent a decent amount of time on the mobileread forums will
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by slightwinder 4y ago
Awesome is disbutable. The amount of awesome parts is equal to the amount of aweful parts. Calibre is really a prime example of product which shines despite the manifold deep flaws. And this makes it really problematic, as it seems to domin
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by slightwinder 4y ago
Today I learned a new insult: obtuse. Not the place I thought I would learn something like this.
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by slightwinder 4y ago
Technically true, but looking it up, it seems the last PM was killed in 1936. Additionally, in the 192x and 193x many high ranking politicians died, of which were many PM or former PM.
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by slightwinder 4y ago
Doesn't need to be an iPad, just any dumb desktop-PC without any personalized setup is now good enough. 20 Years ago, Sun coined the concept of a net-pc, basically a dump terminal-like PC, without any relevant local setup. Things like
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by slightwinder 4y ago
Violence in Japan is so low, something like that is just outside their normal reality. It's more likely to see some malfunctioning tech, than experience a real gun fired. And with all the smoke, that's what people probably thought
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by slightwinder 4y ago
Selfhosting everything yourself is not realistic for the majority of users. And even experts who have the time, money and expertise, can't selfhost everything, after all at some point they must exchange data and trust others work. I me
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by slightwinder 4y ago
From the article, it seems to be service for scrapping data you have access anyway. As long as they only handle those data to the requesting customer, whose login they used, I don't see a difference between general public, and this use
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by slightwinder 4y ago
> but why does it have to be IRC? Because IRC works. It's open, battle tested and has huge support by an endless amount of tools and documentation. There is not much reason to not use if all you wanna do is chat. > I like being
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by slightwinder 4y ago
> And not to involve Jackson seems off because even having him in a consulting role would be a good sign. Probably better that way. The project has no right for the 3rd age, meaning the stories of the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit-Books,
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by slightwinder 4y ago
A member of the European Union, there are strong regulations for all countries here.
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by slightwinder 4y ago
> Devil’s advocate here. What could go wrong? Could be used for a scam, by a stalker, for social engineering, or several other evil ploys. Today, there are so many possible bad actions which are happening... On average, they are unlikely
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by slightwinder 4y ago
Ownership is a legal right. You found/created it, so society gives you the right to rule about it's usage for a certain time. The same applies to physical objects. You own something, because society gives you the permission, not b

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