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61.
by spindle 3y ago
IIRC, numbers without a percentage sign are assumed to be percentages. Numbers that are not percentages have to be followed by ;% (the semicolon is the NOT operator in DreamBerd).
62.
by spindle 3y ago
I came to the same conclusion from the fact that a typical database icon looks a lot more like a disk pack, with its smooth sides, than like drum memory.
63.
by spindle 3y ago
https://archive.md/jayXh
64.
by spindle 3y ago
https://archive.md/Pf993
65.
by spindle 3y ago
From the FAQ: > Leta is a privacy focused search engine provided by Mullvad for customers of our VPN.
66.
by spindle 3y ago
So much this. And also, in many fields there is lots of professional content that's been fully paid for before it hits YouTube - for example, professors make available to the public work that they've already been paid for, and the
67.
by spindle 3y ago
I think it's a good idea. It won't be as extensible as Emacs, though, because Emacs is lisp almost all the way down.
68.
by spindle 3y ago
I agree, but now we'll have BOTH :-(
69.
by spindle 3y ago
`wget https://www.literaryclock.com ` gets you a structure containing all the strings indexed by time, so that's almost an API.
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by spindle 3y ago
> Rounds of layoffs have left Twitter ... so riddled with bugs and glitches that the site goes down for hours at a time. I don't think that's true - is it? Parts of it keep going down, but surely "the site" means the
71.
by spindle 3y ago
https://archive.md/L0XBj
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by spindle 3y ago
https://archive.md/9aOMD
73.
by spindle 4y ago
https://archive.md/KfiUO
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by spindle 4y ago
At work, I've never felt like it mattered one way or the other. If a colleague's ego is too big then THAT's the problem, not who is or isn't smart. I've never found all that much correlation between how smart some
75.
by spindle 4y ago
Exactly. Anyone who thinks AI is unimpressive is somehow, weirdly, ignoring the trajectory it's on.
76.
by spindle 4y ago
https://archive.md/Xe0N5
77.
by spindle 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwu > uwu, also stylized as UwU, is an emoticon representing a cute face. The u characters represent closed eyes, while the w represents a mouth. ... It is used to express various warm,
78.
by spindle 4y ago
I agree. But you should learn Emacs anyway, because mastering such a powerful tool, even if it takes a long time - and even if you don't really need it - is FUN!
79.
by spindle 4y ago
I use external disks (not a NAS), with ZFS. Everything gets backed up to two separate disks. ZFS snapshot replication makes backing up very fast, and ZFS can also check for bitrot. I use my own simple backup script ... for a Hacker News p
80.
by spindle 4y ago
I'm not sure about the name. In my experience, alpacas are much harder to train than llamas. They are smaller, though.
81.
by spindle 4y ago
https://archive.md/TasvI
82.
by spindle 4y ago
https://archive.is/8Otzz
83.
by spindle 4y ago
Totally agree, and also: - how much company does the dog need?
84.
by spindle 4y ago
Cuis Smalltalk fixes that problem (at the expense of having fewer libraries): https://cuis.st/
85.
by spindle 4y ago
Fans of this might enjoy https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
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by spindle 4y ago
> It would prohibit general courses “with a curriculum based on unproven, theoretical or exploratory content.” I wish I was a professor there and I could tell the students it was no longer legal for me to teach theoretical physics.
87.
by spindle 4y ago
https://archive.is/DILqp
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by spindle 4y ago
Wow! IMO (and I am a professional philosopher), Russell was one of the most important philosophers ever, in a good way. And also extremely important in politics (as everyone knows) and in mathematics (as maybe not so many people know). I d
89.
by spindle 4y ago
There's no way I'm ever going to stop pronouncing it "dang!". I'm sure dang knows this.
90.
by spindle 4y ago
We live in interesting times!

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