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by tazjin 6y ago
EXWM has been my daily driver for years and I use the same Emacs for window management, email, text editing, IRC and a few other things. This can be a problem if you choose applications (like Gnus) which are known to have slow, blocking ope
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by tazjin 6y ago
Ignoring that your comment is about the wrong company, I'd also like to point out that in the music world Spotify is just a convenient scapegoat (as a consumer-facing brand) for practices that are actually the fault of record labels. S
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> I do not like the idea that hard, easily proven facts can be overwhelmed by voluminous bullshit. In principle this sounds agreeable, in practice it is often not that easy because things get muddied fast as soon as politics are involv
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by tazjin 6y ago
It's not DO who are creating the bots. People are doing this to get free t-shirts from DO, without having to actually make meaningful contributions.
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by tazjin 6y ago
The main thing that makes me wary of relying on something like GH in particular (esp. suggestions like scraping its API for data) is that not everybody uses those. For example, almost all of my open-source contributions happen on privately
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by tazjin 6y ago
> The person obviously had written a script, that checks stuff into a "dump" repo, automatically. Or they had automation committing things into a private repository for some purpose (e.g. machine states). It doesn't have t
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by tazjin 6y ago
I've had a thought about this that I haven't articulated before, so bear with me if this sounds a little rambly: There's a large group of people who've become extremely scared as a result of what's going on at the m
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by tazjin 6y ago
Don't go to the US.
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by tazjin 6y ago
This is fairly expected and also happening in large parts of Europe. One thing I found interesting that is initially a bit counterintuitive, but makes a lot of sense in hindsight, is that the herd-immunity thresholds change based on the inf
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by tazjin 6y ago
You, uh, get to work on your habit-forming because you now have more devices to charge? I mean, practically, once they've managed to kill audio jacks we'll probably transition to HDCP-like DRM for audio so that you need Approved(t
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by tazjin 6y ago
It's quite important semantically because for people who don't stay well informed 'second wave' might imply that areas which have "gone through" the wave are benig hit again, which so far is not the case. Essen
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by tazjin 6y ago
> The second wave of COVID-19 infections has dashed all illusions of going back to the way things before I didn't read this much further, honestly. It's exhausting to keep reading authors who don't really invest time in un
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by tazjin 6y ago
> Your blood results are perfect This is if you can even get prophylactic blood tests done, which is not a guarantee in some European countries I had an awful experience with Sweden's health care system when I lived there ~6 years a
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by tazjin 6y ago
YMMV
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by tazjin 6y ago
I don't know what you'd consider "credible evidence". You can find tens of thousands of anecdotal accounts, but you're probably looking for something more formal. It's likely a futile search: Research into thes
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by tazjin 6y ago
The common miscommunication here is that people perceive the statement as saying "psychedelics are the ONLY way of learning certain things", whereas what they should perceive is "psychedelics are ONE (very efficient) way of l
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Only if you buy it already in sheet form.
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by tazjin 6y ago
These plans are more long-term than the next handful of months, so I don't think that's a consideration.
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by tazjin 6y ago
Google Meet supports noise-cancelling in outgoing audio (for business customers), but the user needs to enable it once in their settings. In my experience this last bit is already a hurdle ... (disclaimer: I work at Alphabet)
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by tazjin 6y ago
Thanks for these notes! If you have Nix installed, you can also try my script directly with this command: nix-build -E '(import (builtins.fetchGit " https://cl.tvl.fyi/depot" ) {}).tools.nsfv-setup'
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by tazjin 6y ago
I've recently built the inverse of this using NSFV ( https://github.com/werman/noise-suppression-for-voice ), i.e. suppressing noise in incoming audio. A lot of people - despite being forced to work from home - si
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by tazjin 6y ago
> It largely correlated with things like tech literacy and being open to change Honestly, this is a very patronising view. I understand that a lot of people here are strong permanent WFH advocates, but it doesn't fit everyone. My ho
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by tazjin 6y ago
I immediately recognised the Land of Lisp art style - looking forward to trying this. On a side note, this is one of the few things where I would like to be able to sign up for a newsletter.
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by tazjin 6y ago
From the link I posted: > We will not be shipping Focals 2.0, but we hope you will continue the journey with us as we start this next chapter.
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by tazjin 6y ago
Getting them now is probably not a good idea, because: > The first-gen North Focals glasses won't work after July 31, 2020, but North is issuing refunds to people who bought the smartglasses https://support.bynorth.com&#x
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by tazjin 6y ago
> Most 'installed software' doesn't depend on a whole lot else. Try this: Pick some random binaries on your system and run 'ldd' on them.
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by tazjin 6y ago
The best route I've found so far is the one on the right here: https://london.cyclestreets.net/journey/69221538/ There's some bits at the start and end that are annoying to deal with, and it's sligh
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by tazjin 6y ago
> I wonder if the people that could/cycle aren't already doing it I would prefer to cycle, but don't currently. My commute (when there isn't a pandemic on, that is) goes from Vauxhall to King's Cross, which is st
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by tazjin 6y ago
Cautiously optimistic about this! I live in London and expected a swing towards more cars as a result of this (which would be barely manageable). However, there's one caveat here: > Officials said they were working with boroughs to
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by tazjin 7y ago
> but it's super frustrating when it fails Yep, plus my phone is just one of many devices that I connect headphones to and I can't be bothered to maintain a collection of adapters. Also, did you know that the firmware on the Li

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