yeetsfromhellL2

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by yeetsfromhellL2 4y ago
>especially FOSS. I just wanted to log in and point out that Free Software got started at MIT.
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by yeetsfromhellL2 4y ago
My wife and I listened to that on a road trip and enjoyed it as well! The part that really sticks with me is how people were trying to drop weights off of the Tower of Pizza and use classical philosophy to figure out why the balls wanted
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by yeetsfromhellL2 4y ago
If you're interested in this, read Dava Sobel's book, "Longitude". Harrison was the archetype of the stubborn, self-educated genius that stuck to his ideas, fought the system for most of his life, and then changed the wa
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by yeetsfromhellL2 4y ago
I won't go into details but I'm dealing with a somewhat similar situation. If you love your family and want them to make decisions for you when you're incapacitated instead of strangers who will likely be trying to take advan
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by yeetsfromhellL2 4y ago
Key word: ESTATE attorney. Preferably belonging to a large and well respected firm. Don't get just any attorney willing to do it, they won't be equipped for it and shit will go wrong, and things going wrong in the legal world is p
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by yeetsfromhellL2 4y ago
As a general rule of thumb, things like this are named to compensate for what they aren't. Look at the PATRIOT Act.
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by yeetsfromhellL2 4y ago
https://www.gnu.org/software/software.html It's a GNU project.
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Quantum Go Fish(arstechnica.com)
1 points by yeetsfromhellL2 4y ago|0 comments
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Pagat(pagat.com)
2 points by yeetsfromhellL2 4y ago|0 comments
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by yeetsfromhellL2 4y ago
I felt the same way trying to use ledger. Apparently there's a way to import your CC charges from online banking CSVs, but I never tried it out. I ended up giving myself a weekly allowance and plugging that into the books at the end of
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by yeetsfromhellL2 4y ago
I'm surprised to see a GNU project that not only hosts their code on GitHub, but also has an official Facebook community. What gives?
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by yeetsfromhellL2 4y ago
If you just do the date at each page header and timestamp each note to enable linking, your notes will get much easier to deal with. I actually started doing this because I'm fairly undisciplined and generally pretty disorganized.
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by yeetsfromhellL2 4y ago
The author misses Rite in the Rain, which makes my favorite notebooks, they're printed with heavy, acid-free, waterproof paper. Pairs great with a Fisher pen cartridge (waterproof, pressurized ink made for writing in almost any conditi
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by yeetsfromhellL2 4y ago
>This kind of vehicle is meant to look big and imposing to project a certain image. Actually modern trucks got so big to get around Obama-era fuel efficiency standards.
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by yeetsfromhellL2 4y ago
To protect against bit flips in car fly-by-wire systems, each signal is sent three times with the 2/3 majority making the decision. This happened after the runaway Prius fiasco that may have been caused by a gamma ray. Prior to that in
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by yeetsfromhellL2 4y ago
I came in here to mention vernier calipers, I've gotten instant respect out of more than one machinist when I pulled them out instead of the digital calipers. They're fun to use too.
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NetBSD(netbsd.org)
11 points by yeetsfromhellL2 4y ago|0 comments
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Shanghai fences up Covid-hit areas(reuters.com)
17 points by yeetsfromhellL2 4y ago|1 comments
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by yeetsfromhellL2 4y ago
Fair enough, but I think I still would have used the Al wheels. They used known defective wheels, wrecked their project, didn't cross the finish line and potentially upset a big supporter. Not the kind of thing I'd do in a startup
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by yeetsfromhellL2 4y ago
Well it very well could have if things went a little different. Bittorrent was revolutionary, but slow to adapt. Maybe if it was more user friendly, or had more browser integration earlier on, and the protocol had more development, you&#x27
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by yeetsfromhellL2 4y ago
Jesus reading this thread makes me think I should go into the courier business.
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by yeetsfromhellL2 4y ago
If somebody pulls strings like that for you, you need to use the aluminum wheels.
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by yeetsfromhellL2 4y ago
I think it was made for publishing scientific research, and you could flag the options for what you wanted checked. If you were okay without the passive voice hints, you could still make whatever you were writing very direct and concise, or
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by yeetsfromhellL2 4y ago
Yeah but think of the wealth that could have trickled down to the middle class and eventually the lower class because of that jet ferrying the rich around to distribute their money as they see fit. Any conscious working class person would h
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by yeetsfromhellL2 4y ago
I did the same thing. I used to put a lot of effort into getting a perfect FLAC rip of everything I ever listened to, having them on my devices, or setting up streaming from a home server. I threw that shit out a long time ago, partly becau
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by yeetsfromhellL2 4y ago
Actually I've seen an English linter to help you maintain a passive voice for papers, remove waffle words and unnecessary fluff, etc. I'm not sure I can find the exact one I'm thinking of, but wasn't too bad overall, it
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by yeetsfromhellL2 4y ago
I can't for the life of me understand how you can sign away your rights like that in America. Binding arbitration? Who picks the arbiter, who pays them, and how do you appeal to a neutral third party? It's in an arbiter's bes
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by yeetsfromhellL2 4y ago
Once again, politicians are trying to fix something that isn't broken and are going to make a bigger mess than whatever it is they're trying to change. This whole thing reminds me of Alice in Wonderland.
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by yeetsfromhellL2 4y ago
I know a lot of people feel more comfortable coming out now which is a good thing, but to add some anecdata to this...I know, and have heard of, a large number of people who claim to be gay or bi and by every indication are not. Not that th
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by yeetsfromhellL2 4y ago
Thanks for the reply, I like hearing about some of the more novel radio stuff being done. Modern consumer electronics really did spoil people for understanding a lot of this stuff, it's a shame. I'd like to one day build some of t

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