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by verandaguy 2y ago
Fortunately, the current US president has a long and storied history of going out of his way to pay people mutually agreed-upon sums from prior contracts.
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by verandaguy 2y ago
Same way he's getting the executive to (apparently) dismantle federal departments. With no legal precedent supporting him but absolutely no resistance from the branches of government meant to keep him in check.
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by verandaguy 2y ago
A single-payer system is literally designed for this.
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by verandaguy 2y ago
Eh, yes and no. Git porcelain stuff's plenty good for probably 95% of users. `rebase -i` comes with a guide on which commands do what, and you could write a couple of paragraphs about how to format `git log`'s output with your own
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by verandaguy 2y ago
I think there's two kinds of "knows how to drive." - There's the people you're talking about, who treat public roads like their own playgrounds with little regard for public safety or road laws. - There's also
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by verandaguy 2y ago
Thank you!
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by verandaguy 2y ago
I haven't heard of Ghostty before today. I'm reading the docs; but what are the main selling points? Personally, I've used Terminal.app (for a bit), iTerm (for a long while), Konsole (in the past, on Linux) and more recently
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by verandaguy 2y ago
Mac might be a word, but MAC, MAC, and MAC are all acronyms, to say nothing of the cosmetics brand MAC (styled as M•A•C, though not M.A.C., and remains a word, not an acronym or initialism).
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by verandaguy 2y ago
To be fair, this means that solar panels are unlikely to be the source of any issues.
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by verandaguy 2y ago
Depends on the border. In most democracies, and at most borders, and in most LE cases, there is a line between “destruction of my own property/data” and “destruction of evidence,” where the latter usually needs a court document notifyi
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by verandaguy 2y ago
> it's on you to make sensible choices Statistically speaking, you aren't well-equipped to make sensible medical choices. That's why we have medical professions — pharmacology, virology, internal medicine, and hu
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by verandaguy 2y ago
> what do you have to lose ... Honestly? A lot. Your symptoms could get worse. You could turn a condition that's got treatable (if not currently curable) symptoms, into one with ones that aren't, or ones that are more
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by verandaguy 2y ago
Out of curiosity, what browser are you using?
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by verandaguy 2y ago
> Wow, so just like my phone! My point is, the viewfinder is _still_ electronic. It doesn't really provide much advantage compared to just showing an image on the screen. That's why some of the mirrorless cameras don&#x2
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by verandaguy 2y ago
Is the 6 years old point relevant to you?
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by verandaguy 2y ago
> Most mirrorless cameras have electronic viewfinders. They are _worse_ than a phone screen. And they still show you only an approximation of the final image, filtered through an underexposed sensor and whatever processing steps t
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by verandaguy 2y ago
Asking honestly since I've seen Nix and NixOS show up on the front page here a bunch over the years, but never used it: my impression of it is that it fills the same kind of niche as the Zig or Nim languages: conceptually pretty cool,
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by verandaguy 2y ago
I recommend Olympus for that. They're reasonably priced, generally more technologically progressive than bigger brands like Nikon, Canon, or Sony, have a small form factor owing to their Micro Four Thirds sensor, have GPS, and still ha
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by verandaguy 2y ago
You must not have checked very thoroughly, because these cameras absolutely exist, they're just not popular because of the limited utility of GPS in a camera compared to the battery drain and time it can take to resync an outdated alma
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by verandaguy 2y ago
> And ultra-professional $6k cameras from Zeiss miss the mark entirely, you need to target a prosumer market (i.e. me). Zeiss is generally not a camera maker, at least not these days; the ZX1 is more of a halo product than anything. They
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by verandaguy 2y ago
> Why? You're looking at the screen to track the target anyway Not necessarily. You might be looking through the viewfinder, which will almost always have better contrast in bright sunlight than even a sunlight-readable sc
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by verandaguy 2y ago
It sounds like what you want is a smartphone. > Give me a large sunlight-readable touchscreen, with multitouch. Also GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, and 5G/LTE for connectivity and geotagging. Add automatic uploads to Google Photos, iPhoto, W
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by verandaguy 2y ago
I think this comment ignores a lot of context. Cathedrals were the result of centuries of research into materials science, physics, and geometry -- and that's just considering the buildings themselves, not even the often-intricate reli
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by verandaguy 2y ago
"Don't anthropomorphise the lawnmower[0]" — Brian Cantrill on Larry Ellison, USENIX 2011 [0] https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?feature=shared&t=2115
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by verandaguy 2y ago
My mental framework has been: - Curly quotes are a typographic sugar that's easier on the human eye when reading normal, human-language text. It's reasonable for them to be automatically inserted into your typing in something like
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by verandaguy 2y ago
Wouldn't that be quite brittle, though?
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by verandaguy 2y ago
I say this having read the mailing list and specifically the part that mentions the mirror is made of fused silica: What the hell is that mirror made of? Is this kind of behaviour a well-documented/practical property of silica? I wou
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by verandaguy 2y ago
This... is a Rocket League clone, yeah, in the loosest sense of the word. I don't think the author's deeply involved in political wheelings and dealings around Epic's past actions and trying to whitewash something they did. P
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by verandaguy 2y ago
Right, but who’s trying to mitigate Epic’s actions? This is just a fun side project for someone.
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by verandaguy 2y ago
Why on earth would an open source Rocket League made by an unrelated-to-Epic author be responsible for mitigating some bad actions by Epic?

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