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by theobeers 4y ago
Re: your last point, bingo. It’s almost impossible to have a real debate on this issue because people—esp. those who favor censorship and think highly of themselves for understanding what Section 230 does and does not say—refuse to go to th
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by theobeers 4y ago
I love cooking with cast iron and have built up a decent collection over the years. More recently, I’ve also gotten into carbon steel cookware. However… I always keep one nonstick pan in the kitchen, and it sees a fair bit of use. My practi
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by theobeers 4y ago
Murakami is also often mentioned in this connection. Fingers crossed for Rushdie to see another day—forget about the Nobel…
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by theobeers 4y ago
I’ve been dealing with an example of just what you described: Unicode normalization and collation. There’s a good normalization library in Rust—in terms of the quality of the code, standards conformance, how comfortable I am depending on it
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by theobeers 4y ago
This is one of a few lightweight, reliable sites where any problem makes me assume that my internet connection must somehow have gone awry.
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by theobeers 4y ago
It's in the FAQ. Scroll to the bottom of this page: https://github.com/features/copilot/ "What can I do to reduce GitHub Copilot's suggestion of code that matches public code? "We built a filte
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by theobeers 4y ago
Does eigenrobot—a pseudonymous influencer, as far as I know; I have no clue who s/he is—have an earned doctorate? Comparisons of the academy and industry are better made by people who actually have experience in both realms. This post
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by theobeers 4y ago
This blog post is two years old. In 2019–20, I think I could get a decent Döner for €3,50 in Berlin (depending heavily on the neighborhood, specific location, etc.). Prices have come up a fair bit since then. But yeah, €2 is eyebrow-raising
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by theobeers 4y ago
Those frame/ring locks are no joke. We had to have one cut off of one of our bikes after losing the keys.[0] It took the guy longer than I expected with an angle grinder, made a lot of noise, sparks flying, etc. Swapfiets rental bikes
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by theobeers 4y ago
They go through a little timeline at the end of the article, re: the 15-year-old girl, G. - She spends over a week in the emergency dept. at Boston Children's. - A bed opens up in the hospital proper; she spends another ~3 weeks there.
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by theobeers 4y ago
This is a famous case. I can almost understand why they got rid of the extended synopsis. For anyone who wants to read it, here's a copy on Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/4z3u55/wiki
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Why companies don't do GPL enforcement (2017)(lwn.net)
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by theobeers 4y ago
This is a great search engine. I entered "Persian transliteration," since that's what I was working on today. It sent me to the readme for a program written in 1996,[0] which takes a Latin-script transliteration of some Persi
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by theobeers 4y ago
This is still sometimes done. The newest section of the Freie Universität Berlin campus (the “Holzlaube”) was built so that the inside remains comfortable with no A/C and minimal heating. Thick walls, as you said. I don’t know how appl
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by theobeers 4y ago
Egregious cases of patent trolling often involve NPEs that are also not the original applicants. i.e., they buy patents just to use them for trolling. It might be possible, and would make a real difference, to target such actors. Once a pat
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by theobeers 4y ago
I don’t know—I still have a Facebook account, grudgingly, but I long ago removed the app from my phone. And I hear more and more people say that they’ve done the same. Facebook has a deeper problem than slowing user base growth. A lot of ex
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by theobeers 4y ago
I have some good memories of using Twitter in the pre-IPO days. Of course we can’t say that the former private ownership was necessary to create an open platform, but I don’t think it was a hindrance in that regard, either. (Would it be d
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by theobeers 4y ago
Afaik, he views Twitter as the closest thing we have to a genuine public square on the web, and he thinks it’s poorly managed and ideologically captured. Musk also uses Twitter a lot, so it’s believable that he wants it to be something bett
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by theobeers 4y ago
I think they were referring to their own startup ideas. (I was also momentarily confused because "downgrade" tends to be used in the context of investments.)
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by theobeers 5y ago
Keep in mind, this service appears to be focused on India, where the kind of loaf bread pictured is also not the most traditional. (When I lived in Afghanistan and would occasionally buy loaves of sandwich bread at groceries catering to exp
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by theobeers 5y ago
Don't forget WezTerm, which is imo the best of the recent crop of GPU-accelerated terminal emulators implemented in Rust (with built-in multiplexing!): https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/ Having now tried Warp, I thin
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by theobeers 5y ago
I think it makes sense. Modders get a kind of obsessive testing from their communities (including themselves) that devs in most commercial contexts couldn’t dream of. Skyrim mods are, if anything, correcting for bugs in the game.
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by theobeers 5y ago
This does come up in the story of Cliff Judkins, a Marine Corps pilot who, in 1963, survived a fall of 15,000 feet into the Pacific Ocean. He had had his spleen removed a few years earlier, and a doctor told him that was probably a factor i
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by theobeers 5y ago
The struggle to maintain a grounded perspective, through the Trump era, through the pandemic, has been too much for most people. I still think Brand's heart is in the right place… probably. Fisher stayed true to the end, but I have to
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by theobeers 5y ago
The seriousness of the problem didn't hit me until more like 2014–15. I've had a lot of conversations about this with like-minded friends, wondering what went wrong, and when it got really bad. One of the factors that I've co
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by theobeers 5y ago
Fisher is the best. See also his classic essay on the toxicity of (what passes for) left-wing social media culture, “Exiting the Vampire Castle.” I host a mirror: https://www.theobeers.com/favorites/vampire-castle/
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by theobeers 5y ago
Phoning home doesn't sound right, but maybe a bunch of FOSS developers can get together at some point and form something analogous to ASCAP.[0] i.e., monitor the public and commercial use of members' FOSS projects; shake down the
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by theobeers 5y ago
“Feature branch hosted in a separate repository” is a very good way of putting it.
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by theobeers 5y ago
I happen to be visiting Stockholm this week. I don't know much about their snow-clearing practices, but I've been surprised by the amount of ice that is allowed to remain on roads and walkways. The sidewalks are in fair condition—
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by theobeers 5y ago
Keep in mind, this story is also about the hypocrisy and deeply compromised status of some activist groups that claim to be on the anti-imperialist left. It's not the same as corporations' cynically doing what they think is necess

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