tarkin2

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by tarkin2 5y ago
With your IRC system, how did you deal with channel history, i.e. seeing messages that were delivered to the channel while the user wasn't there, something that slack and teams does well?
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by tarkin2 5y ago
The hatred for Systemd seems to come from those who see the unix philosophy of small, single use programs being thrown away in favour of a monolith. Back when I had linux as a desktop (around the day of slackware 10) there were plenty of pr
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by tarkin2 5y ago
The "a website for buying and selling JPEGS with your debit card" part simultaneously made me realise how ridiculous NFTs are and, nevertheless, how popular they are, and how that popularity fuels the value of bitcoin. Essentially
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by tarkin2 5y ago
I liked Cousurfing, and paid them money for the service, but then they locked me out asking for a subscription. I'd happily use another application now, especially since their application was rather buggy and servers slow.
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by tarkin2 5y ago
The 3d rotation on the map is really unsettling. Surely you'd only need to span and scale it?
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by tarkin2 5y ago
Why do people use NASM? Faster binaries? When is it needed? Where do the binaries run?
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by tarkin2 5y ago
Build something! All this talking makes me suspect this just to increase the hype around and price of various crypto currencies.
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by tarkin2 5y ago
This "playing golf with government minister" should be called out for what it is: a probable or possible bribe. It won't be money in a brown paper bag but the result will be the same. It's endemic. We like to think bribe
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by tarkin2 5y ago
Aye. If someone offers me a way to block them, I'll happily use it.
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by tarkin2 5y ago
When physical ads track me, and harass me in a shop, then I'll consider it.
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by tarkin2 5y ago
There's not one method, because there's not one type of brain, not one type of learner.
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by tarkin2 5y ago
Psychologically, the most important part of txt files, and lists in particular, is writing `* DONE Whatever the task was` when it's finished. Even if you end up deleting the line later on, it still feels great and helps you continue wi
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by tarkin2 5y ago
I wonder if "thee" comes from "thou". Definitely distinctly Yorkshire. I wouldn't use it as I think people would accuse me of taking on a false Yorkshire accent.
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by tarkin2 5y ago
The English don’t notice their English accent. England is a country of a new accent every 40 miles or so. We understand each other nonetheless; we’re habituated to it from birth. We rarely realise others don’t experience the same.
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by tarkin2 5y ago
Can't connect to the websocket, for me Websocket based websites seem to suffer for this massively. I wonder if there's a better way or a better way of doing websockets. How many websocket connections can a single host reasonable h
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by tarkin2 5y ago
Crypto, in its current form, is a brainstorm of half-thought-out, half-spec'd and soon-to-be-replaced-with-something-better implementations that has stumbled upon the web in its never ending task of enticing more converts to invest in
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by tarkin2 5y ago
* The elements of computer systems * The little schemer * The c programming language (k&r)
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by tarkin2 5y ago
Signal’s gone blockchain crazy. Now Square’s gone the same way. It makes me a little less confident in Square. Hopefully this won’t affect their core products. Did Jack jump from Twitter onto the end of the Blockchain train? So more money a
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by tarkin2 5y ago
I like the idea. I wonder how much "return" financial contributors would want. I'd suggest allowing financial contributors to split a set sum between recipients. I've often liked the idea "I'll contribute x amo
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by tarkin2 5y ago
A robot flanneur will save us from the protestant work ethic. It is written.
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by tarkin2 5y ago
How To Be Idle and the Idler magazine might tickle your fancy if you like this theme. I enjoyed both greatly. The Protestant worker ethic, work hard and be closer to God, has a lot to answer for, both good and bad. We’ve linked our worth to
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by tarkin2 5y ago
I’ve only read the bit on ad hoc shells but so far this is the best nix resource I’ve seen. Thanks for the hard work.
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by tarkin2 5y ago
I’m waiting for other distros to steal ideas from nix. Guix might be a good candidate but I didn’t manage to get quickly started with it looking the docs (although they looked useful if you wanted to sit down for a couple of hours).
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by tarkin2 5y ago
This makes me feel old. But also glad. I'm glad I experienced web dev before the current pile of abstractions, painful convenience tools and frameworks were lumped upon us. It was fun back then. Now it's a pain.
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by tarkin2 5y ago
So the crypto-hype train is now claiming it's the new web. The article is wishy-washy language that leaves you excited and unclear. I wonder how much of a dollar boost this will give crypto currencies before the next thing shifts atten
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by tarkin2 5y ago
Did AMP achieve anything? (Aside from the whole everything in hosted by google thing) Wasn't the promise to make pages more responsive and lighter? I'm personally happy I dodged that bullet along with various other front-end fads.
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A good engineer uses Object Orientated Design/Design Patterns/Inversion of Control/Functional Types/Algebraic Types/Clean Code/New Buzzword Coming Off The Tech Press Soon. All of these ideas have good value but
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by tarkin2 5y ago
> I think people are correctly stating that Linux problems are not correctly addressed For example?
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by tarkin2 5y ago
What do they mean by Desktop? File manager and other tools? How will Rust help in this specific case? Or is it a case of the developers like Rust?
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You're not making anything alone. You do it in a team. And the team needs to work together well to perform the task. The skills to "work together well" are friendliness and trustworthiness. The equivalent is having excellent

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