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by wfleming 4y ago
Calibre is an excellent ebook collection manager, and there are plugins to help strip drm from your ebooks so you can keep backups.
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by wfleming 4y ago
Even that niche has better competitors, I think. I haven't used on-prem CCI, but I used hosted CCI for several years and when my team switched to https://buildkite.com/ it was a huge breath of fresh air. I think BuildK
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by wfleming 4y ago
> Sure, you can move faster without Rust for now; but you'll pay the price later on. The flip side argument for an early stage company is that if they can’t move fast they may not survive. Not having tech debt is great, but it’s bet
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by wfleming 4y ago
Isn’t “Al” the Arabic definite article? The article keeps referring to it as “The Al Rihla”, i.e. “the the Rihla”.
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by wfleming 4y ago
Thankfully Nvidia has picked up crypto’s slack with a pretty not-sane MSRP for the 4090 :)
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by wfleming 4y ago
He can give the shares away directly. Start a charitable foundation, give the shares to the foundation, and then the foundation can liquidate slowly (over decades if need be) to access capital.
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by wfleming 4y ago
FWIW you can subscribe to Matt Levine’s column as email newsletter without being a Bloomberg subscriber. (That doesn’t help for reading already-published columns, but of course there are other ways around paywalls.)
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by wfleming 4y ago
Yeah, completely agree on reducing gift giving as adults. I long ago made it clear to my family they should just donate to charity in my name at holidays except in rare cases when I specifically say I want something. Took some convincing, b
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by wfleming 4y ago
As somebody who has been “that coffee friend” and received far too many coffee-related gifts for years (including many pounds of stale, burnt beans), I wish people wouldn’t do this. If I’m super into topic X and you’re not, there’s a good c
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by wfleming 4y ago
I'm not sure what specific issues you've had with mutt, but I have mine setup with multiple accounts & have in the past used it for a work account where I had to do IMAP/SMTP auth via oauth token rather than username&#x2F
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by wfleming 4y ago
I don't either on iOS Safari, and I am not a subscriber. So it could also be a content blocker if you use one.
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by wfleming 4y ago
Similar experience for me. I had iPhones from 2008-2018, they were rock solid - I upgraded when I felt like it, not when the phones broke. I bought a Samsung S9 in 2018. After a year the case was kind of coming apart, but I’d come to like A
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by wfleming 4y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32628381
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by wfleming 4y ago
Somewhat off topic, but I bet someone on HN that stumbles here will have relevant experience. Is OpenSearch Dashboards (their Kibana fork) any good/is AWS being a good steward and moving it forward? I ask because I’m in the process of
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by wfleming 4y ago
> He had essentially zero chance of being acquitted I think GP was referring to the fact that Japan has an over 99% conviction rate. Even if we presume that Japan has unusually high quality prosecutors and judges, that rate is so high th
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by wfleming 4y ago
Additionally, at the time the “small text files” description appeared, your average computer user was much more familiar with “files” than “data”. Everyone was still mostly using desktop apps and managing their own files in folders and flop
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by wfleming 4y ago
FWIW the editions of the Seamus Heaney translation (my favorite of the Beaowulfs I’ve read) I’m familiar with are also all published this way.
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by wfleming 4y ago
I recently setup Navidrome ( https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome ) for listening to my music collection, and it’s pretty good. Kodi/Plex work, but their apps are really built for the video use case, music is diff
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by wfleming 4y ago
The Arch wiki page for Sway is a pretty good starting point: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Sway#Configuration . FWIW I was also an i3 user for a long time (and xmonad before that), and I’m a very happy convert to Swa
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by wfleming 4y ago
From Soft games are, I think, popular with a particular niche precisely because they swim against the tide here. Even their games, though, although they are famously and genuinely difficult, do try and guide the player to success. They jus
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by wfleming 4y ago
DDG has been my default search engine for probably ~7-8 years. In the early days it wasn't that unusual for me to still do some searches on Google for better results, but nowadays that's extremely rare (probably partially because
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by wfleming 4y ago
My favorite audiophile product remains the nearly-$500 wooden volume knobs: https://boingboing.net/2005/11/07/astronomically-overp.html
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by wfleming 4y ago
The Turner Diaries is, I think, a poor choice of litmus test for this. It was never picked up by a major publisher, and was basically always self-published as far as I know. Wikipedia gives an estimate of 200k-500k copies sold, total, since
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by wfleming 5y ago
Thanks for pointing out `--force-recreate`: I'm pretty sure that didn't exist when I started using `docker-compose`. That reduces my common usage from 3 commands to 2 :). As a point of minor interest I also avoid `down` vs `stop`
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by wfleming 5y ago
Not 4, but for me at least it's often 3. docker-compose has a bad habit of re-using the existing container, i.e. `docker-compose restart <service>` won't stop the existing service container and create a new one, it restarts
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by wfleming 5y ago
I was intrigued enough to install from F-Droid and poke around. Overall it seems pretty nice, but after swiping back to my home screen I got the first frozen/unresponsive launcher I've had in several years and had to restart my ph
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by wfleming 5y ago
I don't know the technical details of how it's encoded, but digital radio stations can embed metadata in their signal that the car radio can display. That includes text, like the station name, and also images, like a logo, that&#x
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by wfleming 5y ago
Some states do an annual safety inspection of vehicles - it's usually more or less "do your turn signals, brakes, and head lights work". Nowadays some states also need to do an emissions check. Some states require it every ot
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by wfleming 5y ago
Really depends on what you mean by "simple". "Simple" is one of those descriptors that gets tossed around a lot in programming by rarely with a clear definition. Python is a "simpler" language with its preferen
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by wfleming 5y ago
I think you meant "viable", not "liable". Given the discussion, your typo is ironically amusing, though.

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