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by squiggleblaz 2y ago
I don't necessarily want search to become any fuzzier than it already is either, but what's happened has happened and I've already responded to the decline of traditional search engines. Nowadays I pretty much only search du
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by squiggleblaz 2y ago
But who is "we"? It might have been valuable to games makers, but Wine/Linux based systems seems to be adequate for them. So who is left?
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by squiggleblaz 2y ago
It's not "some c library on top of them", it's glibc. You can use another libc, but that means you're going to be incompatible with the distro expectations in terms of configuration, because that's handled by g
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by squiggleblaz 2y ago
Autosave has been part of Excel for ages. I had it enabled back in the early 1990s with the version that was distributed alongside Word 6 as part of Office 4.3 (I don't remember the Excel version number).
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by squiggleblaz 2y ago
I learnt XSLT in university back in the early/mid part of the first decade of this century. I didn't much enjoy it. I've never used it, but all my career I've had to deal with terrible ad hoc templating languages. I rece
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by squiggleblaz 2y ago
Asking the LLM for relevant case law and checking it up - productive use of LLM. Asking the LLM to write your argument for you and not checking it up - unproductive use of LLM. It's the same as with programming.
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by squiggleblaz 2y ago
I kinda wish there were programming languages, where instead of saying `import module`, you said "I must be run in a context where I have access to a function with this prototype". Effectively functions instead of modules, alongsi
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by squiggleblaz 2y ago
I think what we need is first and third party notifications about vulnerabilities in specific versions, and a culture of cherry-picking security fixes onto previous versions. (In many cases, the same patch will apply to a previous version w
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by squiggleblaz 2y ago
Basically an online version of nix-output-monitor. Might be half an idea. But it doesn't get you 100%: you get CI, but not CD.
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by squiggleblaz 2y ago
I think the PP was mistaken when they attributed it to Gaelic. It does indeed come from an antecedent of geôle; probably the spelling comes from the Norman form whereas the pronunciation comes from more widespread French forms. In any case,
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by squiggleblaz 2y ago
In fact, the only change from your characterisation is that the toolkit has been renamed from Gtk+ to GTK. Here is an example of a current claim: "GTK is a library for creating graphical user interfaces. It works on many UNIX-like plat
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by squiggleblaz 2y ago
Honestly I think you need to divide "Nix" up into two:[1] a language interpreter and the build system/sandbox. First nix interprets the expressions. It does that in your local context - so that, if it's configured to, it
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by squiggleblaz 2y ago
I guess ten years is long enough that young people don't know what a difference this made. Before Lets Encrypt, HTTPS was a luxury. The process of getting an encrypted HTTP connection for your clients was complicated because the certif
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by squiggleblaz 2y ago
This conspiracy theory is broken, because governments around the world have been struggling more than previously to get reelected. It might be that Google has been used to "select what you see so they control what you think, what you b
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by squiggleblaz 2y ago
If beating SEO was something a company with a different algorithm could do, then it would have happened by now. Google remains the default search engine because the alternatives are perhaps even more susceptible to SEO than Google, so there
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by squiggleblaz 2y ago
Sounds like it could be a candidate. Any system which can't be expressed in standard software is stranger than every system that can be.
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by squiggleblaz 2y ago
I kind of thing a half hour daylight savings difference instead of an hour is a pretty low bar for the weirdest timezone. Almost any of the others are weirder: Antarctica/Troll definitely sounds weirder. The Moroccan and Gazan timezone
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by squiggleblaz 2y ago
> > Anti-semitism is a European invention > No, antisemitism was a thing in Rome, too. Rome is in Europe. You're obviously using "European" with some meaning more concrete than just "People who live in Europe, o
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
That's how I remember it too, but I think the expectations of simplicity has changed over the years - in those days, it was closer to great defaults and no gratuitous features, whereas now it's a bit more like less flexibility (al
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
Mozilla Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation. There are various advantages to this kind of structure, but I don't know what they are. The upshot though is that the incentives of the owners of the Mozilla C
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
I think the problem here is that a car with physical buttons is safer to use than one that does not have physical buttons. This is because you have to actually look at the screen to know where tap and to determine whether you have effective
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
It is some time since you posted, and I suppose this thread will soon be closed, so I apologise for the late reply. The Press Freedom Index ranks countries media landscapes, not newspapers. Therefore, it cannot be used to allocate funding.
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
Well I suppose you can assassinate nuclear scientists, bomb the shit out of the facilities, and withhold development aid and necessary technology regardless of whether you have nuclear technology. Once bombs are on the table, boundaries are
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
Is a worst case scenario on a scale of a reproduction of the initial event, or (very much) worse, or not really that bad?
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
I don't understand this "we'd have to allow developing countries" argument. How do people in developed countries allow or stop developing countries with corrupt/inefficient governments from doing whatever they want?
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
I guess that says something about the difficulty of discoverability on the internet. Most people are probably aware of the names of several major news organisations in their country or city, but it's less obvious what the domain name s
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
If you wanted, you could call it a major disruption. I don't know exactly what makes an event a "real disaster", but I agree that suddenly being isolated from your family is a significant event, and if anyone wanted to belitt
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
> Mostly because of an outdated view on justice and crime. Mostly because certain people profit off it. If you have private prisons and lifetime voting bans for someone locked up for a few months you have mega incentives to get a lot of
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
> In some Countries, newspapers receive public funding yet may not reach thresholds of quality for public use (in many top industrialized countries the press has disappointing international official raking). I assume "raking"
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
A world without an academic publishing industry is not a world without academics who group together and agree to coordinate peer review of new research. The difference between that world and this world is basically you get PDFs that have th

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