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by wvbdmp 1y ago
The abstract background is actually an analog clock. Nice touch.
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
Yes
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
Of course, the association between moving air and the supernatural is not constrained to latin but seems to be pretty universal. The connection between breath and life is obvious, and so we have god “breathe life into” Adam’s still lifeless
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
Sorry lol, it’s apparently a strictly German expression meaning someone who’s all show and no substance. It was late and I got confused there for a second. Anyway, the point on Gimp stands. Although to be fair, a rebrand would hardly do any
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
Honestly I find Blender much more offensive as a term, considering it actually comes up in daily life. I never hear anyone say “gimp”. But in context, neither usually bring up the wrong association for me… In general I think naming is a vas
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
One could argue that this affordance should be provided by the OS for a unified experience.
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
I agree that the mere theoretical possibility isn’t sufficient for the argument, but you’re missing the much less refutable component: that the inevitability is actively driven by universal incentives of competition. But as I alluded to ear
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
Okay, so AI isn’t exceptional, but I’m also not exceptional. I run on the same tech base as any old chimpanzee, but at one point our differences in degree turned into one of us remaining “normal” and the other burning the entire planet. Whe
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
Not much, since we’ve never really had it, but yes, I would love to consume hypertext like a stable API, have user-styles and block elements I don’t like. I do these things now, too, but in a better world they could be less of a hassle tech
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
The use cases are perfectly material, but unfortunately the ad business depends on shitty, ever-changing HTML and scripting shenanigans.
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
Okay… someone please steelman this seemingly unhinged decision. edit: Apparently that’s how they do dates in astronomy since it makes the math easier. Can’t even count on years being gregorian these days…
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
I think it’s pretty clear if you read the rest of the sentence, which you’ve omitted: “and the fourth most powerful in the world”. If she hadn’t said “in Europe”, the whole top 3 might be in Europe as well.
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
Hell yeah, keep that site up. What a marvel in this age of link rot.
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
https://x.com/davidfowl/status/849502394237038592 Mine is 15 gig, but I imagine 90% of it is outdated versions. edit: removed all but the latest version of each package, now it’s 3.3 GB. The biggest non-Microsoft
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
Not to alarm anyone, but when I ran this, the black ball eventually joined the dark side and the whole thing ended up black. I’m sure this doesn’t mean anything for the greater universe.
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
You log passwords?
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
That is 9 out of 256 who took the pledge.
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
The thing has practically never worked for me in the fiest place. Only very few inputs actually receive emojis from it. I have not once been able to use it when I tried. I usually google emojis and just copy them…
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
They’re consolidating the tech with SQL Server Management Studio, last I heard. I think they mean to get the rewrite of SSMS out this fall, but I may be misremembering. A new major version of VS is probably coming, although I must say I’m p
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
I would be surprised by any organism that can sense its environment and doesn’t change behaviour at night. The difference is pretty extreme, whether its temperature, light or just all other beings changing what they’re doing. Even if you do
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
>(The application ran as the database server's superuser-equivalent with the password hard-coded in the client I was shocked to find that this seems to be the norm, at least in B2G. Development shops “recommend” it and IT depts are
172.
by wvbdmp 1y ago
The licensing agreements just need to change accordingly such that dependencies will be available for preservation efforts. Laws can just make things happen. If you don’t want to participate in the market under these conditions, tough luck.
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
It’s not that hard to just publish your stuff when you’re done with it. I guess you could put it in escrow for, say, 10 years, in case you decide to do something with it later.
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
At least in Germany this seems to be based on a combination of market incentives, case law and “I’ll know it when I see it”. I believe theoretically, a govermnent agency could just decide to argue that e.g. Microsoft Word qualifies as a gam
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
Ignoring the different behaviours, those are both fine. What’s not fine is having this somewhere deep inside one of a dozen minified JS files: const b = document.querySelector('button'); b.addEventListener('click&#x
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
I’m more on HTMX’s side of this discourse, but even going all-in on Separation Of Concerns one can’t ignore that different concerns doesn’t mean siloing everything off from each other. There must be interfaces/contracts between concern
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
This would certainly be possible if developers/corps weren’t absolutely gaga for piling up complexity and ceaselessly changing shit for the hell of it. Facebook could and should serve stable, semantic HTML instead of javascript-ridden,
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
In a way it seems like a classic trademark violation, tricking people (or their servers) into thinking your product is someone else’s. I wonder if there are actual agreements about this these days.
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
As I understand it, radiation is more or less a non-issue here, because uranium is only very weakly radioactive. There may be some uranium pollution at the immediate sites, but nothing like clouds of radiation blowing across the land with t
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
Ah, but it isn’t a war. Just a little operation. It’s perfectly regular, everone does it, ask anyone.

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