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by somat 1y ago
I tried it back when obsd included a client, hooking into the public list was amazing, you could almost see an alternate web in there but based on the unix filesystem instead of http. unfortunately afs was dropped in 5.2 The big disappointm
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by somat 1y ago
Irix did have a very nice and flashy desktop, but compared to bsd or even linux the underlying unix system was... a bit off. and I don't think this was just familiarity with bsd, solaris felt the same way. I think it is the dynamic pre
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by somat 1y ago
> and GUIs have never been composable. Sure they have, or at least it has been tried. I think it turns out to be such a hard problem to solve that it degrades into proper programing much faster than a cli where pipes can carry hard. Some
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by somat 1y ago
There is always the complicated wires puzzle from "Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes". Where a 5 way Venn diagram encodes what action you need to take for a given state. https://bombmanual.com/web/index.html#Co
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by somat 1y ago
I thought the SEO was to keep churning out garbage articles in order to make the page more desirable to search engines because it was more recent. At least that is how it feels, like the search engines are promoting recent content over good
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by somat 1y ago
As best I understand it fascism originally described a sort of reverse socialism, I mean realistically it was socialist, it was after the same end goals as socialist policy, but it achieved them in the opposite manner, Where socialism seeks
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by somat 1y ago
The thing that helped me get over that ffmpeg bump, where you go from copying stack overflow answers to actually sort of understanding what you are doing is the fairly recent include external file syntax. On the surface it is such a minor t
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by somat 1y ago
Apologies ahead of time as this is pure FUD, That is I don't actually know what I am talking about but had an interesting thought. Remember the Debian weak keys kerfuffle, That was caused because the Debian package maintainer saw a war
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by somat 1y ago
I could say the exact same thing about X, A lot of the problems people had with X historically was that developments goal was to "create mechanisms not policy" and people just wanted a desktop environment that worked. An antidote
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by somat 1y ago
I think where obsd really shines is in the small infrastructure department, name servers, routers, time servers, web servers, mail servers. Obsd boxes tend to be easy to administrate, predicable and most importantly boring. It is a great sy
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by somat 1y ago
It is also a math thing. most(if not all) constructions intended for mathematical consumption have some of the most miserable naming I have ever seen. I think it comes down to two things. when I am feeling less charitable it is that naming
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by somat 1y ago
This is my problem with node based editors, the one I am most familiar with being blenders shader editor. I mean, sure, I guess it represents the internal structure. But it always feels so messy. Sometimes I wish blender would just let me w
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by somat 1y ago
> not directly connected to the Internet. Hopefully you don't have a neighbor like me. I keep an open wifi channel. So far the only customer has been the neighbors samsung tv phoning home. I felt bad about that and blocked it. But w
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by somat 1y ago
It is the duality of generated content. It feels great to use. But it also feels incredibly shitty to have it used on you. My recommendation. Just give the prompt. If if your readers want to expand it they can do so. don't pollute othe
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by somat 1y ago
I regard this as a prime example of customer betrayal. The company set up the brand to promote a specific product(borosilicate glass cookware) After many years of this specific promotion, to the point the pyrex was interchangeable with boro
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by somat 1y ago
On that subject I would be fine if the browser always rendered in standard mode. or offered a user configuration option to do so. No need to have the default be compatible with a dead browser. further thoughts: I just read the mdn quirks pa
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by somat 1y ago
if a convex shape is rifled while it is moving the resulting cut volume could become concave(example 1). does this new concave cut volume free up enough space to meet the rupurt cut challenge where a non-rotating sweep would not? There are
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by somat 1y ago
I would have said the biggest thing hurting plan 9 adoption is that there is no C++ compiler. And this sort of slots into the next biggest thing, it's not posix, Yes posix is several sorts of terrible and a large part of the plan 9 eth
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by somat 1y ago
I don't really know, I am currently farting around with blender trying to see, but that is far from rigorous. and going poorly. but let me explain my thought process. Note the egg shape in the article. specifically the widest band arou
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by somat 1y ago
On the subject of bags vs cyclone collectors, My mother hates the cyclone collectors with a passion. and a disposable bag was item number one on her list of features when we were looking for a replacement vacuum for her. I had never conside
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by somat 1y ago
Does it have to be straight through? I can imagine a scenario where the moving shape has to be rotated as it passes through. sort of analogous to some of those block puzzles or getting a sofa around a corner. The article does say straight t
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by somat 1y ago
Yes Iceland has no mosquitoes(or perhaps I should say had) but... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMgIVx2kUH4 People hear "Iceland has no mosquitoes" and think that means "Iceland has no biting flys", sp
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by somat 1y ago
Hell, you could run a high quality airline on the tech of the 60's. You could run a high quality airline on the tech of the 30's nothing except radios and the planes. It's not a tech problem, it's a culture problem. Just
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by somat 1y ago
As far as I can tell JS has no way to symbolicly handle unformatted templates and then format them later. For example, you can't do this. const t1 = new Template('Hello ${name}'); const str_1 = t1.format({'name&#x
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by somat 1y ago
Apparently they also make network switches. I guess it is in support of their computerized audio equipment. but I was a bit surprised when they showed up in a search result. https://usa.yamaha.com/products/proaudio&#x2F
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by somat 1y ago
js can't use a string as a template. my example: a table to lookup translated templates. most translation engines require you to use placeholder strings. this lets you use the template directly as the optional lookup key. simplified wi
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by somat 1y ago
So that's why template literals are broken. I am not much of a JS dev but sometimes I play one on TV. and I was cursing up a storm because I could not get templates to work the way I wanted them to. And I quote "What do you mean t
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by somat 1y ago
Hard disagree, the Openbsd installer is the gold standard to which all other installers compare poorly. When I picked a linux distro to put on my system to play games on, the one I choose was void linux, why, mainly because the installer lo
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by somat 1y ago
I love obsd A perhaps unjustified amount, but not because it's security, I like it... well it's hard to explain, it's a small understandable system, but it's not a minimal system, there are enough built in services to pu
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by somat 1y ago
On laptops with good support openbsd is sublime. I have a thinkpad x131 that I still use as a daily driver. Mainly because it runs obsd perfectly. never any problems suspending and resuming. I replaced the wifi when it was new to a supporte

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