vageli

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by vageli 7y ago
> If you don't make it to Bach's level of achievement you'll be forgotten instantly. Enjoy simple things, life is beautiful without setting bs goals, play music, draw, dance, do some woodwork, who cares you'll most li
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by vageli 7y ago
> Yes, indeed. Or just... How about just someone honest who would not enslave another, I guess? > How about respecting people's private property rights? In an ideal society, we wouldn't need laws. What happens in your societ
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by vageli 7y ago
> gmail actually still supports POP if you can believe it. I hesitate to even mention it in public for fear that they'll notice and shut it off or put it behind the firewall. I can confirm that Google thinks the fact that they can&#
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by vageli 7y ago
> It's remarkable that he was able to quantify the demand for his feature: "at the time of writing only 32 out of 26,000+ requests [was for turning off Read Receipts]". A company managing customer feature requests is sudde
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by vageli 7y ago
> "I am so very sorry for this. When we built Superhuman, we focused only on the needs of our customers. We did not consider potential bad actors. I wholeheartedly apologize for not thinking through this more fully." > Rare
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by vageli 7y ago
> You're assuming a precision in their post that I wasn't (i.e. that it's actually coming from the PCB, rather than 'the collection of parts called a PC sitting in front of me'... which would include the speakers
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by vageli 7y ago
> > While running Emacs over a modem, I got into the habit of regularly typing ^A ^E to pace my cursor back and forth across the current line, to keep connection warm. > Huh. I got into that habit recently, because over the past ye
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by vageli 7y ago
> Reminds me back in the day using a file sharing/community program called Caraccho (for Mac) - similar to Hotline. Often people would queue up on someone's server (running of their desktop computer) to download a file since th
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by vageli 7y ago
> I’ll probably get downvoted for this, but a strong argument can be made that the European welfare state has only been made possible due to massive US defense subsidies and economic stimulus during the post WWII/Cold War. This does
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by vageli 7y ago
> I can't help but feel the amateur radio community could have used a rebrand for the internet age. I understand there's a lot of history but it's hard to get young people interested in being _hams_, a word that has not ag
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by vageli 7y ago
> That, or people would compose their messages separately in a notes app At least you can block paste on mobile platforms and make them write it in letter by letter :)
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by vageli 7y ago
The students are probably motivated by network-level blocking of common chat apps but not schoolwork necessities like Google docs.
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by vageli 7y ago
> If your desktop/laptop runs macos, or you use an iPad, you can send and receive SMS using iMessage. You can link as many devices as you want, they just need to login to the same iMessages account. Fradow specifically mentions the
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by vageli 7y ago
Where did you see the price listed?
915.
by vageli 7y ago
Slackware has no package manager.
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by vageli 7y ago
> It's funny how people can have opposite opinions on what constitutes an essential item. For me, the password manager is at the core of everything I do... And it's the first one I'm willing to pony up money for... Even mo
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by vageli 7y ago
It's used by America only because America made the rules. That's not a great justification for the system as it stands. Are there any examples of longstanding institutions that are _not_ beholden to the will of the many? All thing
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by vageli 7y ago
> Love the idea. One improvement: let's make this an international effort and ban them from travel to any other participating country as well. Yeah and let's make it possible to add arbitrary names to that list with minimal ove
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by vageli 7y ago
> This seems a little contradiction, I don't understand it: > The 4-wheel drive car is designed to go for long periods without cable charging. It is the long periods that are without cable charging, not that cable charging is not
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by vageli 7y ago
> Who holds them accountable? > Anyone working in their NOCs with thoughts of working elsewhere? Having a predetermination of "stupid and/or lazy" because of your workplace can't help employment prospects. Some peo
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by vageli 7y ago
> Hmm. My issue with that is a majority consensus could decide that, for instance, .gov domains should no longer be relegated to the American government. Same issue as with a crypto 51% takeover. I'm sure other countries would like
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by vageli 7y ago
> While I think that 'studying for a test' is a pretty charitable interpretation of events I think the parent has a point. While making it clear to car makers that there is a line which they can't cross is a good thing; I
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by vageli 7y ago
> Should all consumer devices also be required to ship with complete schematics and manufacturing and assembly instructions? Consumer devices _used to_ ship with schematics though...
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by vageli 7y ago
> They're bulky because there is no demand for smaller devices. Since when is demand sufficient to bring something into existence?
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by vageli 7y ago
> I mean the people who would have to pay the taxes to subsidize Amazon, so the city and state at large, yes. Interesting that you characterize the entire state as "locals" given that some parts of New York can take several hou
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by vageli 7y ago
> Backlash was certainly loud, but Amazon could have made things work even without all of the subsidies they received. This is entirely me speculating, but I wonder if Amazon feared that NYC workers might eventually organize or be organi
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by vageli 7y ago
> "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." > https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Forg
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by vageli 7y ago
A bitcoin wallet is just a collection of private keys.
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by vageli 7y ago
> > The only thing I didn't like about Suica/Pasmo when I was in Japan was that, unlike a credit card, there doesn't seem to be a way to get a statement so you can see where you spent all your money > I use Suikakeib
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by vageli 7y ago
> Maybe no more than any other chat application (Slack has been the nicest of those which we have tried though), but my workplace, which was born around office messaging, has recently started to push towards more voice communication and

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