stonesweep

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by stonesweep 5y ago
Nah. +4 for the thread after adding up the down/up votes. I dipped out, the conversation held no further value to continue to me especially after being told "well it's an idiom you just don't understand". No minds w
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by stonesweep 5y ago
> This seems to be a common point of confusion for people who aren't native English speakers Where did this come from and what value does it have, other than being condescending to non-native English speakers? I am a native speaker
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by stonesweep 5y ago
Man pages can be tricky as the content can vary distro by distro (how up to date is your copy of man-pages, what changes have happened, etc.) - this technique is pretty portable to extract the synopsis of a man page specifically due to the
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by stonesweep 5y ago
> One definition of "server" is "a service in a network" Can you link to something where this is a common accepted definition? I'm a systems engineer by trade, talk to a bajillion people about all sort of things
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by stonesweep 5y ago
This makes no sense (too abstract of a statement), but here let's try this: $ man systemd | head -4 | tail -1 systemd, init - systemd system and service manager An email daemon (Postfix, Exim, Dovecot, UW-IMAP, Sendmail
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by stonesweep 5y ago
100% agree, I missed that - at this point in time (and maybe still a bit today?) there was a lot of grift between C and C++ being used for Linux systems things around that time as well (including how big the resulting binaries were, because
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by stonesweep 5y ago
I disagree with your assessment, email is a service and not a server . A service can run on a server, or ephemerally as in this article (which still has servers underneath it, you're just not running them). S3 and SES are services r
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by stonesweep 5y ago
In the beginning (95-ish) Qt was license encumbered, there was serious agitation about KDE becoming popular while using it, leading to the very-open GTK based GNOME desktop competition. It was a big kerfuffle at the time. See the History of
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by stonesweep 5y ago
In the US it's the same, the FDA has regulations and all the (not real cheese) items have either a funny name ("cheeze") or have something like "imitation cheese product" or "cheese food product" (I'v
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by stonesweep 5y ago
It's an extremely mild abrasive in this form (of vinegar, yep) - some folks dilute baking soda in vinegar, I feel that's too coarse myself. One of the mildest silver polishes I know about and use, Blitz (not Flitz) is still gritti
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by stonesweep 5y ago
Many hobbiest collectors (in my travels, which is of course my experiences) use 100% acetone soak on metals. A brand known as Renaissance Wax is a popular microcrystalline coating used to inhibit reactions (ive been told its popular with k
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by stonesweep 5y ago
> Official contact tracing in the US is a complete dud and had negligible impact on the spread. I am a US citizen, I simply have lost confidence in any promise made by any tech company in regards to my privacy and roll back to War Games
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by stonesweep 5y ago
It seems like this website is trying to convert to local timezone in browser, the ICS places it at 8pm on 4/24 New York time: DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210424T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210424T212400
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by stonesweep 5y ago
nod and the .desktop file is just an INI-style file that one can hand create for anything at all, the launched app just needs to accept the URL as a parameter input as if typed on the CLI for this scheme.
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by stonesweep 5y ago
Sure thing, it's pretty simple and straightforward I can post right here. In your CI/CD runner, you add a "before" script like so (Gitlab YAML example): image: debian:latest before_script: - bash myscr
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by stonesweep 5y ago
Each DE can have slightly different paths, but in general find the file mimeapps.list. It's typically looked for in the traditional manner of /etc/, /usr/share/ and /usr/local/share/ and $HO
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by stonesweep 5y ago
I use pandoc in a CD pipeline, the version in the repos is stale compared to upstream (normal, that's how it is) unless you're on a rolling distro like Arch. I have reported pandoc bugs and had them fixed (great dev team), pulling
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by stonesweep 5y ago
The author is using random online radios so they don't get to choose the server end - as a client, VLC is powerful but I prefer Audacious for the user interface. (random user survey :) ) - I have the same problem with VLC on my Android
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by stonesweep 5y ago
It's been awhile, but IIRC the recommendation to disable it is based on security, not privacy. Other comments here explain it better than I could, not a programmer by trade.
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by stonesweep 5y ago
If the author is reading this, you've hit/stumbled on "HTTP Live Streaming" radios which are sort of the next evolution of classic Shoutcast/Icecast generated streams. There are better clients for it out there than
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by stonesweep 5y ago
I've had WebGL disabled forever, I don't use Twitch (as the other comment describes a valid use for) and really have never missed having it enabled for many years. It's frequently included in "secure yourself" tunin
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by stonesweep 5y ago
> mines would shut down This sparks an interesting thought (for me) - gold mining (and really, any mining) is intertwined in modern times; copper mining produces gold as a by-product for example. We derive palladium and platinum from ref
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by stonesweep 5y ago
> In fact the whole site is completely free Blog about this: https://blog.librarything.com/main/2020/03/librarything-goes...
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by stonesweep 5y ago
You're not the only LibraryThing user around - we get drowned out in these HN threads because the UI isn't sexy.
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by stonesweep 5y ago
B2C random internet user here, it's more complex than that for me and not always about price. I'd say the thoughts go something like this: - is this a product that involves a lot of personal time to get started with and migrate aw
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by stonesweep 5y ago
Does the debris have a degrading orbit and eventually get pulled earthward and burn up on entry? Or is that chaff out there floating around forever just outside the gravitational pull?
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by stonesweep 5y ago
Really, any company with say >2500 (?) falls in this category. It's an entire job of several people to just maintain the worker Inventory (laptops, monitors, etc) room for example. It takes a lot of infrastructure to support a compa
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by stonesweep 5y ago
I think it sort of floats in 2 territory and sort of resembles the LGPL based kernel modules which require a binary firmware blob to run (kind of, not exactly). In order to create the APK, the code must compile against the SDK and encumber
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by stonesweep 5y ago
You may be missing the subtle point - the APK provided is the same one from Google Play, which includes the Google SDK encumbered libraries (links? hooks? features?). If you run a libre device without the Google Play store (non-Google andro
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by stonesweep 5y ago
These URLs kill me, I share a lot of links and these branches use full commit strings (instead of just "default" or "stable" human readable) and the links it creates to PRs includes the actual title (which I find I can d

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