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by velcrovan 9mo ago
Sure, but Windows has moved a long ways since the version that they're attempting to replicate. And again, their bar for success "is able to run Windows programs" is not actually high enough to achieve a practical Windows rep
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by velcrovan 9mo ago
As far as I can tell, the nearest thing to a stated goal or mission is on their “About” page: Our main features are: * ReactOS is able to run Windows software * ReactOS is able to run Windows drivers * ReactOS looks-like
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by velcrovan 9mo ago
That just sounds like you don’t have enough polling places.
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by velcrovan 9mo ago
Minnesota has a better system. You fill in a paper ballot using a pen, and the paper ballot gets optically scanned. Besides avoiding any issues (real or imagined) with touchscreens, it makes it extremely cheap to stand up more polling place
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by velcrovan 9mo ago
HTML and CSS were also chaotic at one point and it sucked ass. Loosy goosy is fine for a hobby project but if you do anything with vanilla Markdown beyond simple links, headings and text, you quickly find yourself in a frustrating zone of i
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by velcrovan 9mo ago
"Markdown" doesn't have a specification, only a syntax description which is ambiguous in many places, and a reference implementation written in perl 22 years ago and totally neglected since. CommonMark is a comprehensive spec
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by velcrovan 9mo ago
actually, llmslave, it was a very good decision. It's better to have mild inflation than widespread unemployment. But also, the fed's actions contributed comparatively little to the inflation we experienced. Globally there was a h
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by velcrovan 9mo ago
HTML (and XMLish syntax in general) is LISP syntax (not semantics) in disguise. A tag can be viewed as function application, with the attributes as named arguments and the elements as variadic arguments. The example from the link's mai
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by velcrovan 9mo ago
Reminds me of Windows 3.11 programs that would add random "coffee stains" to your "desktop" "wallpaper"
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by velcrovan 10mo ago
I'll be interested to take a look once the site is back up!
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by velcrovan 10mo ago
Robin Sloan has called this “ventilated prose”, a phrase I love. (I seem to recall “aerated prose” having also been deployed) See, e.g., the end of https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/platform-reality/
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by velcrovan 10mo ago
For any given reality, someone will benefit. I too despise the existence of a profit motive in public health, the sane (not perfect) alternative is to nationalize medicine, not to ban it because the profit motive makes it suspect. I'd
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by velcrovan 10mo ago
Disco Elysium has been out for several years now and nothing else like it has yet been released. So I wouldn't say it's revived anything, just that it's proved that it's still possible to do something amazing in the genr
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by velcrovan 10mo ago
> It is probably reasonable to believe the mRNA vaccines were not improving mortality rates of other diseases, By now, this is not a reasonable belief. We know that COVID can cause cardiovascular damage, kidney injury, diabetes, neurolog
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by velcrovan 10mo ago
mRNA can't cause wolbachia. Wolbachia is a bacterium that actually lives inside cells and gets transmitted through eggs to offspring. it's a persistent organism that reproduces. There's not a way for mRNA to grow bacteria. mR
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by velcrovan 11mo ago
Amazing, every single dollar goes to care! Not a single dollar to overhead! Where are these insurance companies' profit margins coming from? How do they even pay their executives' salaries? Boy have I been mistaken about how ineff
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by velcrovan 11mo ago
Maybe they were though. Maybe Anthropic just wanted to bring a key piece of the stack in-house.
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by velcrovan 11mo ago
Systems can be so simple and elegant when you just assume no one will use them to send spam.
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by velcrovan 11mo ago
I still think about the person on Mastodon I saw months ago: "My deployment pipeline is to click FILE->SAVE"
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by velcrovan 11mo ago
If only the “just snow” one would have had the snow floating down (instead of, inexplicably, up)!
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by velcrovan 11mo ago
https://defn.io/page/projects/ https://joeldueck.com/projects.html
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by velcrovan 11mo ago
Also kind of like John Gruber and Markdown.pl
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by velcrovan 11mo ago
The linked article references George Bain’s book on Celtic knotwork construction methods, but his son Ian Bain actually found a much, much better method, and argues convincingly that this, not his father’s, was the method used by medieval C
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by velcrovan 11mo ago
> falling back to coal thanks mostly to AI citation needed
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by velcrovan 11mo ago
I use it on Firefox and Safari on Mac OS (mainly Safari), and it's been OK except it's started doing a thing where it blips a bit after roughly the first 1sec of video plays. I wonder if being a YouTube Premium subscriber is also
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by velcrovan 11mo ago
Whatever the total ends up being, it's basically a marketing expense that they're electing to make. Probably they do it for a year and then switch to rounding to the nearest nickel, which is what everyone else will be doing.
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by velcrovan 11mo ago
Open Desk (since the article doesn't link): https://www.opendesk.eu/en Does anyone have any experience using it?
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by velcrovan 1y ago
So your real issue here is with credential managers, but I'll bite. In most cases the vault is not protected only with your master password, but with other cryptographic info that prevents the vault from being opened on untrusted devic
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by velcrovan 1y ago
When this kind of “sliding” happens it’s usually because the base implementation was missing functionality. Turns out CLI interfaces by themselves are (from a usability perspective) incomplete for the kind of collaboration git was designed
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by velcrovan 1y ago
I think by the time Typst has been around for as long as the half-life of a major LaTeX release it will be pretty stable. (Only 12 more years to go!)

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