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by wwalexander 2y ago
The people actually working on X11 decided it was worth starting from scratch.
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by wwalexander 3y ago
So true. I feel like I used StackOverflow so much when I started programming, and now it’s rarely even the most useful result on Google for the question I’m trying to answer. I struggle to imagine a scenario now where I’d want to rely on fo
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by wwalexander 3y ago
What do you mean? Safari also supports regular WebExtensions for advanced blocking. I truly don’t know what you’re referring to.
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by wwalexander 3y ago
Safari on visionOS supports Content Blockers and extensions just like on every other platform. In what sense is visionOS any different from iOS or macOS in this regard? EDIT: I suppose the developer of the content blocker needs to already h
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by wwalexander 3y ago
That’s a good point. I suppose I was imagining something like internal-only operators that could be defined within the scope of a single module but not exported; though I suppose with any sufficiently large module with enough orthogonal pie
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by wwalexander 3y ago
Perhaps operators could only be overloaded, without any defined by the language itself. Then projects could define useful operators for their specific case to make things more terse/infix/etc. while still requiring awareness of
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by wwalexander 3y ago
You might be interested in Adobe’s “Content Credentials” [1] which seemingly aim to clarify exactly what processing has applied to an image. I don’t like the idea of Adobe being the gatekeepers of image-fidelity-verification but the idea is
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by wwalexander 3y ago
s/homeowners/\0, landlords/
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by wwalexander 3y ago
In the category of “command line representations of graphs” see also ffmpeg’s filtergraphs [1]. [1] https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#Filtering-Introductio...
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by wwalexander 3y ago
Reducing things to basically the interface you laid out is the point of 9p [1], and is what Plan 9’s UNIX-but-distributed design was built on top of. Same inventor as Go! If you haven’t dived down the Plan 9 rabbit hole yet, it’s a beautifu
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by wwalexander 3y ago
https://archive.ph/cEzct
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by wwalexander 3y ago
The other day I found myself logged out of iMessage for Mac and had to reboot to get it to work; wonder if it was related to this. (Never used Beeper)
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by wwalexander 3y ago
I’m a bit of a stickler for trying to stick to default apps and tools wherever possible, and Xcode is so close to being serviceable as a general text editor with its vim mode and “External Build System” (Makefile) support, but has a prett
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by wwalexander 3y ago
Yep. The entire game is like this, massive amounts of content clumsily tacked onto something that they clearly didn’t realize would become so popular. This also shows in the interface, where basically every piece of gameplay is triggered by
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by wwalexander 3y ago
The answer isn’t as clear as you think. https://www.aclu.org/documents/5-problems-national-id-cards
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by wwalexander 3y ago
Yes, they are, all these psychos are reading Nick Land. It’s not an accident. > Combine technology and markets and you get what Nick Land has termed the techno-capital machine, the engine of perpetual material creation, growth, and abund
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by wwalexander 3y ago
Snarks at Safari for often not being instantly up to date with every rushed “web standard” from Google, then gripes about “Google monkeys” and the issues with…their rushed “web standard”. Pick your poison.
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by wwalexander 3y ago
AFAIK Cheat Engine[1] is the standard approach. There are some cool tutorial videos on YouTube. [1] https://www.cheatengine.org/
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by wwalexander 3y ago
A month cannot be unambiguously represented as a length of time, as the length of a month is variable.
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by wwalexander 3y ago
The buses work great. Have you ever taken them?
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by wwalexander 3y ago
Enough ID-less cookies become a de facto ID pretty quickly. ID cookies are just the easiest method of fingerprinting users.
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by wwalexander 3y ago
Yeah, I’m big into ‘90s UK hardcore where a lot of the classics were only released on some cassette or vinyl at a show back then so being able to include the obscure stuff I’ve procured is a hard requirement for me. It makes sense that Goog
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by wwalexander 3y ago
Just FYI, Apple Music supports automatic iCloud syncing of your personal music files that you drag into your library. Most of what I listen to is on streaming, but I can have non-streaming music, bootlegs, vinyl rips, Bandcamp purchases, an
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by wwalexander 3y ago
I’ve seen a lot of use of Dice lately, which has a nice app and a decent ticket resale process. I was initially quite a big fan until I purchased “sold out” tickets to a music festival a year in advance with the assurance that I could resel
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by wwalexander 3y ago
I stand corrected!
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by wwalexander 3y ago
I don’t know what you mean by “obscure quote styles”. Did you read the link? You’ll see that it includes > Em-dash, an alternative to the quotation dash You confidently asserted the em-dash as the correct choice for quotation attribution
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by wwalexander 3y ago
> Em dashes are also used for attribution after a quote I believe the correct code point for quotation attribution is U+2015 HORIZONTAL BAR: > The Unicode standard introduced a separate character U+2015 ― HORIZONTAL BAR to be used as
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by wwalexander 3y ago
I definitely agree overall. My last job was standardized on Homebrew and used tfswitch; I personally translated to MacPorts but I do agree that tying a project to a specific package manager (and thus OS, etc.) isn’t advisable.
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by wwalexander 3y ago
It not only exists but is vastly superior to Homebrew.
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by wwalexander 3y ago
You‘re right, it‘s best managed inside of MacPorts, which allows you to install specific versions of packages and switch between them easily!

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