wander_homer

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by wander_homer 5y ago
By far the majority of all cows on farms have a miserable life. The female ones were made to give ridiculous amounts of milk, they get forcibly impregnated every year so they constantly produce milk, their offspring is taken away from them
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by wander_homer 5y ago
> From my subjective (user) point of view, flatpak is pretty fine. Yes, I do get annoyed whenever I run flatpak update and see 5-10 updates to drivers or runtimes in the range of ~100MB each. But I also want applications to be "just
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by wander_homer 5y ago
First of all I'm wondering where you got the two seconds from? The numbers I find online are usually around 30 seconds or more for a lobster to die in boiling water. Since I never had to kill a lobster I obviously never had to make tha
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by wander_homer 5y ago
> Wait, so unless I can come up with an exactly perfect list that flawlessly prioritizes every possible action that humanity could ever undertake, then I'm not allowed to have any opinion whatsoever about whether any given action is
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by wander_homer 5y ago
> Let's think for a second about what would happen if we did this. Massive amounts of people start dying in the developed world because they get no medical treatment. Most of the productive capacity of the world in terms of creating
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by wander_homer 5y ago
> It's not a fallacy at all, it's a concept called opportunity cost. Resources are not infinite, so we should spend them where they can have the most and best impact. By this logic we should for example stop most of the medical
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by wander_homer 5y ago
> We can afford to feed everyone and give everyone a decent life without killing each other. Also saving people gives us a bigger pool of talented people and diverse genetics. We can also afford to feed everyone without harming so many a
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by wander_homer 5y ago
>Humanity survived on hunting for tens of thousands of years. So the only reason we survived is because we were "speciesists"? If that's the case, then I am okay with being a speciesist. Humanity also probably only survive
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by wander_homer 5y ago
> Digging into method, then: more-frequently-occurring tags are presumed to be more general than less-frequently-appearing tags? No, all tags are handled in the same way by the player. It's completely up to the user to specify the h
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by wander_homer 5y ago
> In the genre/title example, how would it be clear that title is a subclass of genre rather than the other way 'round? It's not clear and it can be the other way around. You can also ask the player to list the genre as a
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by wander_homer 5y ago
I'm not sure why you think there's magic involved. Say you have songs with three sort of tags, album, genre and title. I.e.: song_1: genre_1, album_1, title_1 song_2: genre_2, album_2, title_2 song_3: genre_1, album_3, tit
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by wander_homer 5y ago
You don't need to define relationships between tags. Like in my audio player the songs have certain tags which don't have anything to do with each other and yet the player can create tree like structures from them. For example whe
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by wander_homer 5y ago
Have the option to view the tagged items in a tree, which is dynamically created from the tags. For example my audio player does just that, e.g. `%artist%/(%year%) %album%/%tracknumber%.%title%`
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by wander_homer 5y ago
And this works perfectly fine already with X11. You only encounter issues when you add an additional display with different DPI. But dual monitor setups are the exception, and mixed DPI setups are even less common.
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by wander_homer 5y ago
How would this work? For example there was an update in libXYZ and the office suite, browser, audio player and some system services need to be restarted to use the new version. Obviously the system can't just quit those applications, a
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by wander_homer 5y ago
Because our brain stops working when we die.
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by wander_homer 5y ago
> The best way I can engage with this is asking a question in return: is someone who crosses the street safely "smarter" than someone who wanders into traffic and dies? Well, given that wandering into traffic likely causes some
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Show HN: FSearch 0.1 released (A fast graphical file search utility)(github.com)
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by wander_homer 5y ago
Yeah, yesterday I watched Star Trek Beyond and I hated all those foreshadowing events and almost everything else. Spoilers: There's a supposedly useless artifact, which gets a big camera zoom when getting archived and oh surprise, it t
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by wander_homer 5y ago
What kind of attitude is that? Why shouldn't someone be proud of themselves, when they manage to implement a crypto library? It's not like they're asking you or anyone else to use it with sensitive data and they're not p
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by wander_homer 5y ago
FSearch is intended to be an alternative to Everything. However it doesn't have feature parity (and probably won't ever have due to some platform limitations on Linux). Disclaimer: I'm the author of FSearch. I also like to us
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by wander_homer 5y ago
I don't have a Mac to try it, so would you care to explain how the hidden scrollbar works? Like when you open a dialog, do the scrollbars of its scrollable elements always appear and then slowly fade out, or do how do you know somethin
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by wander_homer 5y ago
> I don't think I missed it, did I? You were talking about sandboxing, I was talking about building and distributing software. Sandboxing is an optional thing flatpak provides at runtime, so I'm not sure how it's supposed
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by wander_homer 5y ago
You're missing one major benefit of Flatpak: With on small build manifest and by using flathub you can ship your application to a couple dozen distributions. Everything else is just more work for application developers and distributors
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by wander_homer 5y ago
Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think htop can do things like: list every process which opened a certain file for read, how much bytes have been read at which offset in each case and how the threads stack frames locked like at the ti
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by wander_homer 5y ago
> That’s called not having a taskbar Or a dock, the one GNOME already implements in its Activities screen. > and has been the case since Gnome 3 (without extensions), so I don’t see how is it relevant under gnome 40. The author never
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by wander_homer 5y ago
I don't need a screenshot, I have it running here. By default GNOME does not display all running applications on the desktop, you always have to do an extra step (mouse click, hot corner, key press, swipe) and activate the Activities s
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by wander_homer 5y ago
That's precisely what the author wrote, you just replaced "an extra mouse click" with "press Super or swipe 3 fingers up", hence the additional step to display all running applications still remains with your soluti
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by wander_homer 5y ago
We got two ceramic coated pans 6 years ago and they're almost as good as new even though we used one of them for almost every cooked meal and the other like at least once every week. They're a pleasure to work with and I wouldn&#x
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by wander_homer 6y ago
That's an application specific feature. For example Firefox or Gimp implement this preview and add it to the file chooser, but most applications don't.

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