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by stryan 5y ago
Debian's actually one of the distros I thought of when I said "properly set up". Their tools packages are very out of date, they don't install the proper maintenance setup by default, and the installer doesn't suppo
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To be clear, I'm not saying distros are setting it up "wrong" just not..correctly? As in, if I setup a filesystem I would assume most distros would set it up with best practices in mind. What I'm trying to convey is most
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by stryan 5y ago
BTRFS has been stable for years now as long as you don't use unsupported features like the aforementioned RAID5. A properly set up btrfs system is fine for production use, though note the "properly set up" bit, as a good numb
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by stryan 5y ago
It's a specific game engine tool: Build Your Own Net Dream[0] 0: http://www.byond.com/ ?
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Not your point, but League of Legends, DOTA2 (DOTA is a the trademarked, Valve name, DotA for the mod) and Heroes of NewEarth all had had people who worked on at least a version of the original DotA All Stars mod so technically they're
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IIRC Tobacco has MAOI-inhibitors that help amplify the addictive/pleasurable properties of nicotine. So if you just consumed nicotine through gum/patch/old-school vape juice it would be more "difficult" to get addic
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You know, I didn't think about Expr for this project but I did futz around with it as a plugin-like system for another project of mine. I liked it well enough, but I feel like it's not quite out-of-the-box robust enough for how I&
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Unfortunately I don't have anything written about it now (or a blog at all), but once things get more solid and I have code I'm not embarrassed to show I'd love to do a writeup or two.
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Thanks! Your post was really inspiring to me because I'd been grappling with the issue for a while; the rules are all hardcoded in Go right now and I'd been slowly trying to migrate the engine to either Guile or (more likely, sinc
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I've been keeping an eye on this to use for the rules engine in a card game I'm writing[0]. Very excited to get back into using Prolog; I think it's fallen by the wayside a bit in the last decade or two but there's some
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I think the vinyl shortage is contributing a lot to this. Right now if you want a physical copy that's not a CD or by a major act (Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran both released vinyl albums that supposedly took up the majority of the world
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What a small world; I read this comment while sitting in the UMD CS department machine room. Glad bad login programs aren't something I have to deal with anymore (knock on wood).
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> The “standard” doesn’t tell you what directory structure to use inside /etc to group related config files. The “standard” doesn’t tell you where an HTTP server should serve its files. Everyone just does their own thing which makes
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They actually started as a California-based company before re-basing to Hong Kong back in (IIRC) 2019. Not sure why the change.
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That's not part of the security guarantee; The message was encrypted from user-controlled end to user-controlled end. It's neither Signal nor Element's fault that your conversation partner has decided to move conversations un
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All the bridges (and the matrix server itself of course) are self-hostable.
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Okay, I'm familiar with measuring temperature by the eyes and I get your point (which essentially seems to be the same as traditional guidance i.e. don't steep the tea in boiling water. You're just accounting for the variance
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> From elsewhere in the thread: all great tea can be brewed with boiling water. The idea that green tea (or any other type of whole leaf tea) should be brewed with something under ~100C is a technique used by merchants to sell you bad te
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> Also, you can do toggle mute via hotkey (which we have a draft for at https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk/pull/2280 ), but this is surely a bonus feature. Proper Push-To-Talk with global hotkey
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In my old office I used to be able to tell if any of the machines in the lab were having issues just by walking in; the machines were old enough that if there was any issue (too much load, hard drive failing,etc) the difference in backgroun
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.deb predates RPM's by a few years, so it's probably more then just the name. While they accomplish the same thing, RPM's are actually pretty different from .deb since they're binary files. There's more metadata enc
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> Lemme see exactly the card.... Radeon RX 5500 XT. Not exactly cutting-edge even when I bought it—I usually shop bang-for-buck, plus deliberately went a little out-of-date since I was buying for a planned Linux machine. AMD Navi cards h
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Vaporwave is a different genre from synthwave. Synthwave is based off synth-heavy 80s music, especially action and thriller/noir movie soundtracks. If you watched Stranger Things that has a very synthwave sound track. Vaporwave is more
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It's already been posted to the TWIM room so it should be in it.
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Threading is on the roadmap and should be coming Soonish (prototypes of it are already implemented in Dendrite, matrix.org's beta server). Until then, it does support Reply messages similar to Discords.
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> Except XMPP uses DNS for message routing from a human readable handle, user@host.com, but Matrix uses a central database "identity server" operated by Matrix.org and federation fails if this service goes down. This statement
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Is the current out-of-the-box multiplayer support[0] missing something? [0] https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_multipl...
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>Do Signal, Wire, or Matrix do this transcript consistency thing, or is there some other way by which they prevent message reordering? Rooms in Matrix are directed graphs[0], so if I'm understanding right, transcript consistency sho
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Angampora is a fascinating martial art, but while British colonialism is/was a scourge across the world there's little evidence that they actually banned the martial art. While I generally don't like to use reddit posts as so
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Exurb1a is great, and if you haven't yet you should check out his youtube channel[0] as well. He doesn't talk that much about this sort of systems thinking but he does talk about many other interesting things. [0] https:/&#x

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