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by wzdd 5y ago
I had thought that too, but, interestingly enough, this doesn't seem to be the case. ~/.local/share/fish/fish_history does not include the cwd. In fact it seems like Fish does something better: when adding to the hi
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by wzdd 5y ago
> if it is to extend that ban to other countries the author should say so The article explicitly states this in no uncertain terms as the final sentence in the paragraph you are talking about: "I see no good reason that [animal test
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by wzdd 5y ago
Just the Pixel Qi. In indirect light, the contrast ratio is much lower than, say, a Kindle, which is itself much lower than paper. So unless the sun is directly on it, it's harder for sun-adjusted eyes to read than a Kindle, or than it
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by wzdd 5y ago
I have an old Acer Aspire One netbook which I modded with a Pixel Qi display. It is definitely usable for programming in direct sunlight, though the display is physically too small to get comfortable doing a lot of programming on it. Funnil
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by wzdd 5y ago
For the Chromium-relevant configuration changes applied automatically by Ungoogled Chromium: I would never have discovered them all by myself, and, now that I know about this article, I'm not convinced that I would be able to stay on t
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by wzdd 5y ago
This statement does not address the parent's comment.
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by wzdd 5y ago
> Paywalls. You pay with your money. > Ads. You pay with your attention. Pretty disingenuous. Ads: You pay with your attention, and, ultimately, either your money or the money of someone who trusts you. This is only not the case to th
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by wzdd 5y ago
> this is the kind of app that would never have been legal at all on any version of iOS. Pythonista is a complete Python programming environment which provides access to camera, music, contacts, the network, and so on, and has been avail
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by wzdd 6y ago
I've had both Sophos and Windows Defender pick up innocuous Pyinstaller-based packages as malware, presumably because packaging malware with Pyinstaller is such a common technique. It's quite frustrating if you intend to release t
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by wzdd 6y ago
Really liked the description of the thought processes behind finding the relevant bits of code through memory inspection in this write-up.
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by wzdd 6y ago
> I don't see any problem with eating meat, given that I'm an animal and some animals eat other animals' meat. Some animals rape other animals in packs, have territorial wars resulting in killing for nonfood reasons, and
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by wzdd 6y ago
> This is definitely a true statement. The vast majority of small businesses who advertise on FB will be hurt by this change. I don't think I've ever seen a source for this. Could you post one, ideally one which is not subject
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by wzdd 6y ago
> Dr. DiAngelo was not the creator or facilitator of the LinkedIn Learning course “Confronting Racism, with Robin DiAngelo.” She was unaware that her name, image, and work were being presented in this way and did not participate in or ag
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by wzdd 6y ago
AT&T, as Bell Labs, was a phone company that created the first working version of the transistor, a concept invented and patented by Julius Lilienfeld twenty years earlier.
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by wzdd 6y ago
This looks a lot like LINQ to SQL. Is it the same? I'm surprised the article doesn't mention LINQ.
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by wzdd 6y ago
1. Choose the wrong religion or no religion and you may suffer a fate worse than simple nonexistence. Not so with cryopreservation. 2. Many religions logically exclude other religions, i.e. if they are correct then other religions are not.
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by wzdd 6y ago
Ten years ago Google News was excellent because it was easy to read multiple perspectives on a story by clicking multiple articles. I ended up visiting more news sites than I would have otherwise simply to get a better picture. Nowadays it&
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by wzdd 6y ago
It's nice to get the textual description, but pretty much every specific detail of the extended explanation teased out at the end includes things which are more or less incorrect but which nonetheless sound very believable. In essence,
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by wzdd 6y ago
FYI, the political scientist Frank Wilhoit didn't write this, although he has written similar things. The quote was made by a different Frank Wilhoit on the Crooked Timber blog / community. Investigative work here: https:/&#
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by wzdd 6y ago
It's fine to object to the increasing size, but the comment claimed that a BMW designer said that the big grilles are because Chinese customers want the driver in front "to feel intimidated, as if the car and driver behind wanted
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by wzdd 6y ago
I'm no fan of the design, but BMW has considered their "kidney grille" to be an iconic design element since 1933. https://www.bmw.com/en/design/the-bmw-kidney-grille-through-... In general, sentence
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by wzdd 6y ago
The article goes on to point out that their theory about copy-on-read being the problem didn't pan out, because when they disabled refcounting on code objects shared memory usage didn't change. It then goes on to identify the real
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by wzdd 6y ago
Brave is absolutely dependent on Google, now and in the future, continuing to release their millions of dollars of engineering effort on Chromium to the public for free. If Google were to stop updating Chromium, Brave could re-architect ont
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by wzdd 6y ago
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1332398754331303939.html
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by wzdd 6y ago
The site controls all parts of the URL. Your example would much more likely show "paypal-accounts.info" or similar.
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by wzdd 6y ago
> so much of what annoys us about advertising is ads that are not relevant to us What makes you think this? That's not what annoys me about advertising.
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by wzdd 6y ago
There are a significant number of missing steps, in terms of moral justifiability, between "scraping information from the web for academic research purposes" and "using the scraped information to add value to our primary gene
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by wzdd 6y ago
Interesting analogy given how it's possible to recover data from RAM for a short period after power is removed, and significantly longer if you freeze it. https://www.zdnet.com/article/cryogenically-frozen-ram-bypa
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by wzdd 6y ago
Indeed. Even his first example of library computers seems off. In 1998, my library was part of a small network of libraries in my city, searching the catalogue involved making network requests over ISDN, and, while impressive for the time,
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by wzdd 7y ago
> in your children, and their children after them, you will live on forever. Just as your ancestors do in you. No you won't, and no they don't. Most people will be forgotten within a couple of generations -- or are you well-ver

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