xenomachina

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by xenomachina 8y ago
I used GEOS, and later GEOS 128, to do a lot of my homework in high school. GeoWrite was much better than an other word processor I'd used in the 64 or 128, and it used proportional fonts rather than the printer's built-in monospa
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by xenomachina 8y ago
From the description, it sounds like it works with words, not characters, so 牛肉 would be one multi-character word. The screenshot even shows an example: 燃烧 That said, I wonder if it also creates cards for the individual characters when they
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by xenomachina 8y ago
There are uses for this besides ads. When I worked on Google Reader, something like this would have been incredibly useful. At the time, the only truly safe way to handle embed/object/iframe in post content was to completely filte
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by xenomachina 8y ago
My ISP is exercising administrative control over the systems that deliver all packets to me. Should they be held responsible for filtering out forbidden content?
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by xenomachina 8y ago
That's a good question. Relatedly, assuming it's wrong for Facebook to host this content, where should the line be drawn when it comes to systems that are already decentralized? Is it wrong for email systems to transport emails wi
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by xenomachina 8y ago
I am actually considering attaching it using double-sided tape, or maybe Velcro.
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by xenomachina 8y ago
I have a NUC which came with s VESA mount, and would love to attach it to the back of its monitor, but the monitor (and actually, every monitor I own with a VESA wall mount) uses the wall mount as the attachment point for the stand.
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by xenomachina 8y ago
Did it ask for the tip amount before you got your service? Doordash does this, which I always find kind of backwards. Just the point of a tip to reward better service?
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by xenomachina 8y ago
Microsoft wanted to kill of upstart Netscape so they changed the Windows NT license and pricing. NT Workstation became limited by the license to a very small number of clients, regardless of what server software you wanted to run on it. For
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by xenomachina 8y ago
Another place a railway analogy is used in CS is railroad diagrams for representing context-free grammars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax_diagram
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by xenomachina 8y ago
As much as people like to hate Java's checked exceptions, this is one thing I feel they really help with. They force you to think about the failure cases at least enough to either declare that you percolate them up, or handle them. I&#
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by xenomachina 8y ago
Ah, I thought you were talking about Blender itself, not the UI system.
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by xenomachina 8y ago
> Blender has the worlds most flexible UI system. If I could use it in personal projects, I would. Why can't you use it in personal projects?
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by xenomachina 8y ago
Yes, I fell into the trap of assuming a brand name actually has a fixed meaning. Still, that's an epoxy, and if it's like the epoxy putties I've used, I bet it cures to a hard and rigid plastic, rather than the soft and flexi
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by xenomachina 8y ago
I've used two part putties that should like what you're describing, though I think the ones I'd used weren't JB Weld brand. I'm pretty sure they were all epoxies as well. When the JB Weld putties you're talking
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by xenomachina 8y ago
JB Weld is an epoxy. It starts out as a (2-part) liquid, and sets to a hard solid. It's good for fixing cracks or breaks in rigid objects. You want to avoid getting it on your skin. Sugru is a putty. It's squishy, kind of like cla
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by xenomachina 8y ago
> People pay big money for nice photos of products and then somebody just comes and takes it as their own This raises an interesting question: if someone had a product on Amazon and had product photos they took, does Amazon still allow o
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by xenomachina 8y ago
"Why don't you just tell me the name of the movie you've just selected?" But seriously, it's the same reason so many sites won't accept a credit card number with spaces in it. Someone writing from scratch the s
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by xenomachina 8y ago
> Let's not blame the (l)users. I don't think stating that "people get confused" is placing blame on one party or the other. That they get confused is a fact. I said nothing about whose fault that is. > For example
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by xenomachina 8y ago
Interesting. I kind of paused when I wrote "never" because it's of course possible for a terminal to bind control-keys to arbitrary actions, but every terminal I've ever used on *nix (including Mac and Linux) just passes
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by xenomachina 8y ago
Or even just "there are certain companies I don't trust enough to let them see what's in my private repos".
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by xenomachina 8y ago
Your headphone crackle and screen flicker issues both sound like hardware problems. I've never experienced anything like that on any Linux machine I've ever used. I did have an old HP laptop (running Windows) where the screen hing
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by xenomachina 8y ago
This is actually an X11 thing - it predates Linux. Instead of "the clipboard" X has multiple clipboard-like things. In X terminology they are called "selections". There's an arbitrary number of them, but there are o
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by xenomachina 8y ago
There's a difference between going deep into the results, and progressively refining a query. The former is pretty indicative of bot behavior -- humans rarely go past even the first page of results. I do the latter all the time, and th
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by xenomachina 8y ago
And then the wheel is threatened when a actual root (ie: the plant) shows up.
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by xenomachina 8y ago
Perhaps you should take your own advice.
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by xenomachina 8y ago
> No, no-one can force you legally to forget something, and I think this brings up the main problem with your argument, which is that we're not talking about Alice and Bob, we're talking about Alice and Bob's Widgets INC.
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by xenomachina 8y ago
First, let me say that, I'm not the person you're replying to, I haven't read through the entire GDPR (yet), and I think that stronger privacy laws are a very good thing. (Part of the reason I regularly donate to the EFF.)
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by xenomachina 8y ago
> but because it is required Just to confirm, but you meant "because it is not required", right?
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by xenomachina 8y ago
I had a similar experience, and for a few minutes I thought the demo was buggy. The original sound sounds like "yanni" to me, but if I moved it to "laurel" and back to the middle, the middle sound would sound like "

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