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by veidr 3y ago
Right, that was the original point that I was trying to make (but botched). The 80s Mac solved this near-perfectly, but then regressed to the current "just add a dot and some gibberish to the filename (and perhaps, or perhaps not, hide
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by veidr 3y ago
My recollection is that Russian troops/mercenaries/gunmen/whatever stole washing machines and dishwashers, but it was (presumably) just for regular theft/looting/pillagine purposes. Separately, during the pandemic,
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by veidr 3y ago
Yeah, I envision a future 1995 where not only does the GUI icon indicate what type of file it is, but the CLI tools also do (e.g. right before/after the "drwxr-xr-x@" or whatev)
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by veidr 3y ago
Oops, yeah, you are right. The type/creator codes were indeed FS-level properties. I'll update my comment.
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by veidr 3y ago
I know. I'm getting close to 50 years old, and I have lots of *COMPLAINTS!!!* about how various tech (Atari 2600 ~ iPhone 15 Pro Max) worked out. But filesystems seem like the biggest species-level fuckup. Windows had their shit, Mac h
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by veidr 3y ago
AI will control the launch codes and start firing nonsensically/idiotically
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by veidr 3y ago
wh... what extension do you use now then
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by veidr 3y ago
No, just an explicitly-defined metadata field. Inference would be worse than filename extensions (which are awful). I think the original Mac OS fucked us all by implementing this pretty much perfectly in the 1980s, but using their weird HFS
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by veidr 3y ago
I don't want to be rude; I understand where you are coming from (at least in terms of single-minded risk mitigation from a theoretical and unconstrained viewpoint), but this reads like Mike Huckabee's 'just keep an aspirin pi
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by veidr 3y ago
"AI Godfather" is... pretty fucking ludicrous. Prominent figure, notable researcher? Sure. But it's like calling Neil deGrasse Tyson (who I enjoy a lot; Astrophysics for People In A Hurry was great) the "Godfather of P
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by veidr 3y ago
Playwright is great, phantom.js was great back in the day. But this is interesting to me, because Deno is a much more ergonomic, quick-to-start environment for simple tasks like "go to this website and scrape this data once an hour, an
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by veidr 3y ago
They are both great, so I keep using both. There is a lot of overlap in terms of what they can do but they each have unique capabilities that the other can't do. I don't personally know all the differences. But for instance I use
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by veidr 3y ago
You're right, and I just now realized the crux of why I was so miffed by that change. It indeed helped me better understand (while skimming)... but only for those topics that I don't enough about to make my own judgements. I under
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by veidr 3y ago
so what?
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by veidr 3y ago
I'm just commenting so I can find this again, as it pithily exemplifies a certain type of argument (prevalent here, but also elsewhere) that is also performed unconsciously: the meaningless application of some kind of principle in favo
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by veidr 3y ago
I think "cleared" is the key word missing from the HN title, that is in the actual headline. "Activision cleared to be bought by Microsoft" But actually that English is still weirdly tortured... "Microsoft's re
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by veidr 3y ago
I think Cypress.io is a tool in its death throes. So like, wildly out-of-touch responses like this, and wacky new pricing/lock-in monetization schemes should be expected. Think Myspace or AOL near the end. Where I work, there was a guy
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by veidr 3y ago
Yes, definitely — or I mean, hopefully. I was hoping to find "I 'upgraded' to Incus and nothing is different AFAICT and everything works." Barring that, I wanted to see "I switched from LXD to Incus and vague gestu
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by veidr 3y ago
Aw man, my pulse quickened when I saw this headline, then went back to normal when I saw there were zero comments. (I was hoping for some initial "I tried it and blah blah blah" takes, but I guess I will have to kick the tires mys
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by veidr 3y ago
(v_o) Curious why the posts "denzlwashington" on this topic are flagged and dead — they just note that this is something you can use usefully use with chatGPT. Is there some kind of IP-address-correlation link to other
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by veidr 3y ago
> OP probably did/said all sorts of things that would have justified it. Why do you think this? Misguided/buggy/flawed algorithmic bans seem quite commonplace these days, and increasingly companies have too few humans to e
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by veidr 3y ago
Note: you don't have to keep them in the dock. That might not be obvious. They do get added to the macOS dock when they are created, but they are store in ~/Applications, so you can remove the icon from the dock and still launch t
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by veidr 3y ago
Yes, and that is a HUGE difference. For my use cases, Chrome's implementation is worthless, and I have used tools like WebCatalog, Coherence X, Unity, and previously Epichrome, to achieve this. The problem with these tools is they are
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by veidr 3y ago
Meta-meta-comment, but "horrible" is your value judgement, which isn't shared by everybody. The comic-book bold style is useful in a certain way ("these sections would be emphasized if this was being read to you out loud
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by veidr 3y ago
It's not just a GNOME issue; it happens with KDE, and I think basically any common desktop environment (although my own experience over the past several years is mainly with those two). There are workarounds, but they are "not rec
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by veidr 3y ago
To me the more important point would be if it can connect to an existing session (like Windows can). AFAIK XRDP on all current major linux distros only work with X11 (not Wayland) and if you try to log in using an account that is already lo
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by veidr 3y ago
Agree, it's a pretty good OS. But you should just call it "Pop OS". Just like if Microsoft renamed Windows 11 "Win!! Win(ners ONLY) OS whooOOO!!" you would still just call it "Windows".
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by veidr 3y ago
Well-meaning adults based what they gave kids on the food pyramid.
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by veidr 3y ago
I know what you mean. I feel like the term "execution environment" better describes it, but "runtime" has historical momentum in the JS world (I think), so changing it might cause other confusion. I think (probably) you&
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by veidr 3y ago
I forget even who the competitors were, but FAUGUEBOGGEZ (as we called it then) was wildly popular for being less shitty than the #1 at that time. (Maybe it was JIRA, or maybe my memories of having to use JIRA have overwritten every other s

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