spit2wind

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by spit2wind 1y ago
Does pardoning convicted January 6th insurrectionists count?
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by spit2wind 1y ago
It has plenty of benefits. Ergonomics is one. It's infinity more efficient than traditional typing. Another is sharing a space with another person. Speech to text may be great and all...but you still have to make sounds. That's pe
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by spit2wind 1y ago
I second this. Emacs is plenty capable out of the box and just fine that way. It's a "choose your own adventure" that allows you to be as disciplined or as reckless as you choose. It's almost like it grants you...freedom
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by spit2wind 1y ago
Have you tried Fossil? https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
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by spit2wind 1y ago
There's also the Emacs Widget Library[1] (which I hoped this posted would be about). It's a plain text widget library that's quite powerful. Unfortunately (and surprisingly for Emacs), the documentation for it could use some
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by spit2wind 1y ago
Ah okay, thank you
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by spit2wind 1y ago
> MIT requires attribution, but they didn't I'm confused how you and others reach this conclusion. No, it doesn't. The MIT license is one of the shortest free license that exists: Copyright (c) <year> <copyright
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by spit2wind 1y ago
This reads as FUD. I'm an American who's lived in Germany recently. On every measure, my experience was been better than the US. I can walk to the grocery. Or ride a bike. Or take the bus. Or take the train into the city. There ar
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by spit2wind 2y ago
Exactly, that's the whole point of the article. The second sentence says that, > While open source seems like a "no-brainer", it turns out that governments can be surprisingly resistant to using FOSS for a variety of reas
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by spit2wind 2y ago
Rather than stream noise over the network, I've generated it locally with either Sox or Chuck. I've since lost the Chuck script, but this is one for Sox: sox --no-show-progress -c 2 --null synth 3600 brownnoise band -n 1500 499 tr
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by spit2wind 2y ago
Do you always answer the door for Jehovah's Witnesses, alternative gas companies, or posters? Usually, people put "No soliciting" signs on their doors and in their yard. They get irritated, if not irate, when these people ri
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by spit2wind 2y ago
This page lists several ATT publications and has a link to a 1953 publication that could fit your description (and could have been a subsequent editini). Otherwise, maybe you'd recognize the name as one of the other publications? http
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by spit2wind 2y ago
The article is a based on another article. Mother Jones appears to have broken the story: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trump-el-salvad... Unfortunately, the article isn't well written (in
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by spit2wind 2y ago
The end of the article says, > Two check marks appeared after they were sent.
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by spit2wind 2y ago
Obligatory mention of the Plover stenography engine: https://www.openstenoproject.org/plover/ So far most boards seem to be made in the US. Anyone making them in Europe or elsewhere?
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by spit2wind 2y ago
Were the messages public, like on social media, or private? How were they obtained?
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by spit2wind 2y ago
As a contrast to the hand waving in the other posts which claims many don't pay full price, the degree I got cost $20k per semester for the 2 years I attended university after community college, paid in full each semeser. That's o
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by spit2wind 2y ago
At least in the US, it seems rooted in religious extremism, seeking rapture or the second coming of Christ.
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by spit2wind 2y ago
Yes, agreed, the agencies were put in place by executive order and they're being gutted. However, that doesn't mean the executive branch is being gutted. Gutted means "to destroy the essential power or effectiveness of&quot
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by spit2wind 2y ago
I suspect people are upset a because transparent government agencies, which included contact information for their employees, are being harassed, blocked, and shutdown by a dubious body which itself lacks transparency, despite claims otherw
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by spit2wind 2y ago
The executive branch is currently being gutted?
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by spit2wind 2y ago
Has anyone created a walkthrough of the code? I've looked before and not found anything, but it's a niche thing on an already niche thing.
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by spit2wind 2y ago
I've been using Fossil for personal projects and love it . It's maybe best to think of Fossil as GitHub in a box. Fossil comes with a server that includes tickets, a wiki, and a live chat space in addition to the version control.
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by spit2wind 2y ago
The author has a few words about Clean Code https://qntm.org/clean A better recommendation is "A Philosophy of Software Design" by Osterhaut.
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by spit2wind 2y ago
That sounds like a fun class! It sounds very similar to https://www.nand2tetris.org/ or Charles Petzold's book "Code".
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by spit2wind 2y ago
This is what John Osterhout calls a _tactical tornado_. It's a programmer who only develops tactically. I find his book, "A Philosophy of Software Design" provides a good vocabulary to think about the technical aspects of thi
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by spit2wind 2y ago
Programming Pearls is another book that rereads well. It's also short, too, which makes rereading it possible.
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by spit2wind 2y ago
What regulatory scrutiny do you mean? They don't need to provide severance, as far as California law seems concerned. I'm not a Californian, but an Internet search shows they're an at-will state. So it seems like everything i
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by spit2wind 2y ago
This is a terrible example because it's simply not true: > Davies gives the example of the case of Dominion Systems vs Fox News, in which Fox News repeatedly spread false stories about the election. No one at Fox seems to have expli
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by spit2wind 2y ago
Programming with AI, so far, tries to specify something precise, algorithms, in a less precise language than what we have. It's the difference between Euclid and modern notation, with AI programming being like Euclidean notation and cu

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