tomcooks

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by tomcooks 6y ago
Remembering a tool that killed useful technology, for what reason? If there's one thing that should be remembered is RSS itself, and shouldn't RIP but come back to life. Google is not your friend, don't praise gigacorps - esp
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by tomcooks 6y ago
Reddit is hardly a place for people who don't like talking about themselves~
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by tomcooks 6y ago
Would be interesting to also see top causes of those deaths
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by tomcooks 6y ago
(Jornalista is Portuguese, you're looking for periodista)
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by tomcooks 6y ago
> For example, in some contexts, Roma ‘Rome’ will be pronounced Rroma in Neapolitan; to go ‘to Rome’ is to go a Rroma, with a doubled or ‘geminated’ consonant. I believe it's to phonetically make it separate from "aroma".
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by tomcooks 6y ago
Hardware switches, and (total?) control on the device. This is what I think people like about this.
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by tomcooks 6y ago
I think the mistakes could have been intentional traps, to make code breaking more difficult and waste more resources. Once you solved it you can understand the message (good propaganda), but using misspelled words could throw off some atte
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by tomcooks 6y ago
I wish there was a way to automate wildcard certs, at the moment I'm building a python script that logins to my domain registrar's panel and updates DNS records
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by tomcooks 6y ago
Perfect time to radicalize the underground (say by beginning to experiment with Gemini or other protocols), the mainstream as usual only knows how to follow
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by tomcooks 6y ago
Indeed, problem is when you don't have internet because your infrastructure is gone and you're the sysadmin. And most importantly, use what you prefer
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by tomcooks 6y ago
Manpages give you the precise info you need. Info manuals (mentioned in most manpages, usually triggered by info <command>) are precisely what you're looking for.
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by tomcooks 6y ago
If you check at the end of the man page, you'll see that usually an info page is mentioned. Have an online example which illustrates all possible file finding examples you could ever need: https://www.gnu.org/software&#
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by tomcooks 6y ago
How do you think me and a bunch of *nix beards learned how to survive without Wikipedia, stack overflow, nice IRC volounteers, or functioning search engines? Btw, assuming you meant a gzipped tar, it's tar xvfz (mnemonic: XaVier FugaZi
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by tomcooks 6y ago
If 200$ is in impulse purchase territory I need to do a reality check with my wallet and humanity
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by tomcooks 6y ago
Pity it deteriorates with ultraviolet rays
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by tomcooks 6y ago
Let people use a usb or bluetooth keyboard/touch surface
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by tomcooks 6y ago
A suggestion: keep stuff boring. When one is stuck on a problem, maybe with the deadline or angry boss axe pending on her head, last thing she needs is fancy stuff, emojis, gifa or having to sort through marketing crap (not your case but I&
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by tomcooks 6y ago
It would be great if anything closed source was barred from using the word "privacy" in marketing.
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by tomcooks 6y ago
If sox could show you the waveform you're cutting.
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by tomcooks 6y ago
I used to wake up at 0500 to workout and language training, then do programming until 0800, grab my bike and go work in a warehouse till 1700 and do some more programming till 2000. Late night work is nice but it tends to overflow as you ge
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by tomcooks 6y ago
And unlike other sports, in chess you're always at risk of losing your points even when you're a world famous GM
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by tomcooks 6y ago
OT: Why do you remove curses from music?
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by tomcooks 6y ago
An ultrafast, pipe-able, set of Unix philosophy audio tools with a CLI interface would be great
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by tomcooks 6y ago
And then when there's no internet in the studio you're stuck? Ehh
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by tomcooks 6y ago
Exactly, a lot of pro users depend on this swiss army knife and they had to get used to work around it's peculiar UI. Maybe a custom config profile that is very easy to tune, import and export would allow redesign to get radical withou
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by tomcooks 6y ago
Hot take: why the duck would you need all that info? Stick to the ducking results and show clearly marked ducking sponsored results based on search keyword, not the shadow avatar of me you're creating one "harmless" bs at a t
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by tomcooks 6y ago
The only problem with Walden is that said cabin was far from detached from civilization
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by tomcooks 6y ago
They remove PWA use on FF? More information?
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by tomcooks 6y ago
Things tend to go that way when your major sponsor is also the owner of your main competing product.
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by tomcooks 6y ago
Here are some sources, but any Amnesty International, United Nations or Israel boycott association will be happy to give you plenty more official data about this. https://www.timesofisrael.com/state-funding-settler-institut.

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