yepguy

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by yepguy 6y ago
I think I remember Emacs 27 will include some improvements in that regard, even without native code compilation.
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by yepguy 6y ago
> Most of my utilities are console command line utilities instead of full GUI. As a result, I have a bunch of command-line utilities that are very cumbersome to use. That's because I prioritized the dev experience over the UX. Same
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by yepguy 6y ago
That infuriated me last year when I finally tried to create a Twitter account. During registration I was given a choice between providing an email address or a phone number. I provided an email address, only to immediately have my account l
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by yepguy 7y ago
I don't really like hidden files myself, but my point was more to get you to see the lack of clean hierarchy in just dumping things in $HOME.
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by yepguy 7y ago
Yes, I usually start my shell sessions in $HOME. I also have shell aliases set up so I always see hidden files, and it would drive me crazy if I weren't able to tuck most config files into another directory.
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by yepguy 7y ago
I'm assuming that you accidentally got that statement backwards, because otherwise it doesn't make sense to me. Would you still feel like dropping things in HOME was tidy if hidden files weren't a thing? You can also back up
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by yepguy 7y ago
This is something else. What will happen to the origins of sound after all the sounds have sounded?
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by yepguy 7y ago
I think the secret actually consists of having a good set of aesthetic judgments and emotional reactions. The power of these things is precisely that they're involuntary reactions which push or pull you to do the right thing. Thus they
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by yepguy 7y ago
You just took Socrates out of the conversation, though. I think the point is that you can only call Socrates a nihilist by refusing to treat him seriously. From the article: > Thrasymachus’s cynicism is so compelling that Socrates spends
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by yepguy 7y ago
I think it could potentially happen by way of a fork, similar to the history of GCC and EGCS, but it would take a dedicated group of hackers to make it happen. Not one guy doing all the work and a bunch of Guile fans on the sidelines cheeri
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by yepguy 7y ago
https://conventionofstates.com/
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by yepguy 7y ago
https://discourse.pijul.org/t/is-this-project-still-active-y...
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by yepguy 7y ago
They switched to ath10k-ct[1], a patched version of the ath10k driver and firmware. If you run into issues I think you can use the package manager to switch back. [1]: https://github.com/greearb/ath10k-ct
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by yepguy 7y ago
GNS from the GNUnet project is the most interesting alternative to DNS that I've come across, and is orthogonal to projects like IPFS and Scuttlebutt (although I don't know much about Dat). It's basically DNS with DHT and som
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by yepguy 7y ago
I just finished setting up Ansible to manage a bunch of Windows laptops. I basically just followed the example of Dag Wieers here[1][2], except that additionally every laptop is roaming with unstable IP addresses. So I used PageKite[3] to d
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by yepguy 7y ago
FFI is slow because the main Go compiler uses a different calling convention than everything else. I couldn't tell you if or how that's related to its concurrency features.
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by yepguy 7y ago
Maybe the Software Freedom Conservancy[1] or Software in the Public Interest[2] could help open source Android apps take donations. [1]: https://sfconservancy.org/ [2]: https://www.spi-inc.org/
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by yepguy 7y ago
I think humans who didn't find fiction compelling would be incredibly uninspired. How could it be compelling unless the brain mostly reacted to it like it were real? Would science exist without alchemy? Or cell phones without Star Trek
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by yepguy 7y ago
Looking at the man page, it also seems like you won't be able to share work trees between git and got. If you want to use both to operate on a repository you need a separate checkout for each tool.
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by yepguy 7y ago
There's no need to reinvent the concept of natural law. The idea traces at least as far back as Ancient Greece.
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by yepguy 7y ago
I was responding to the possibility of YouTube just embedding ads directly into the video to thwart current ad-blocking techniques. If that happens the audio would already be playing before an advertisement started. Something like Adblock R
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by yepguy 7y ago
If that happens, projects like Adblock Radio will hopefully step in to make "unblockable" ads more tolerable, by automatically turning the volume down for example. https://www.adblockradio.com/en/
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by yepguy 7y ago
Do platforms have the right to collude with each other to deny service to a particular individual? Even if you think Alex Jones is a crazy person (and he is), you should still condemn Apple, Facebook, Spotify, and YouTube for attempting to
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by yepguy 7y ago
Like many developers I have a strong desire to work with more exciting technology, even when there's no business case for it. Strangely enough, I've found the best outlet for that energy (other than personal projects when I get fr
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by yepguy 7y ago
Yep. My Emacs workflow is a lot like my old terminal workflow, but now it's Emacs+packages instead of terminal+ncurses apps. If you try to do a lot of terminal emulation inside Emacs you'll probably have a bad time.
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by yepguy 7y ago
I don't think it's exactly fair to call AV1 "technically poor". Even if HEVC is better (and I don't know enough to say if it is or not), that would be a bit like calling gzip technically poor because zstd exists.
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by yepguy 7y ago
Needing better regulation in this area doesn't seem to me to conflict with making government smaller. If the government is wasting resources (and it is), then it can do both.
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by yepguy 7y ago
Pay no mind to the sinister undertones.
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by yepguy 7y ago
Wouldn't increased monitoring also increase their liability when something does go terribly wrong?
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by yepguy 7y ago
To fight this, I don't think we should be talking about privacy or rights. That's all very important, but society is already fairly desensitized to that language, and the pro-surveillance side can literally point to the dead bodie

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