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by zem 8mo ago
I'm in my 50s and I've been hearing about the benefits of fibre pretty much all my life. I doubt it's some sort of diet fad.
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by zem 8mo ago
I will admit I lost interest after it was revealed that the letters had been replaced several times and that the original was most likely correct. "frank lloyd wright messed up the orientation of an H" has a bit of interest to it;
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by zem 8mo ago
I'm not a fan of EULAs, I think if you acquire some software anonymously and run it on your own systems you should be able to do whatever you want. however if you want software hosted on someone else's machines, or want to enter i
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by zem 8mo ago
french toast was dismissed far too lightly, it's exactly what goes into the gap. also savoury bread pudding.
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by zem 8mo ago
back when stackoverflow was still good and useful, I asked about some stderr manipulation[0] and learnt a lot from the replies [0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3618078/pipe-only-stderr...
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by zem 8mo ago
will this play well with jj?
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by zem 8mo ago
sure, point me to the fdroid page for it
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by zem 8mo ago
think of it as axe sharpening rather than yak shaving
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by zem 8mo ago
they tried swift, it didn't work, and they figured rust was the best remaining option. that's not "flip-flopping" (by which I assume you mean random indecisiveness that leads to them changing their mind for no reason)
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Large US company came after me for releasing a free open-source alternative(old.reddit.com)
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by zem 8mo ago
i could swear i've read about prototypes of glass storage all the way back in the 80s. been waiting patiently for it to become an actual product.
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by zem 8mo ago
if only the opposite were true!
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by zem 8mo ago
yeah I'm not saying the blog is right or wrong; I'm just saying that describing bsky's features and asking "what's the issue?" means you aren't engaging with what it's actually saying.
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by zem 8mo ago
whether you agree or not, asking "what's the issue" misses the point very badly, since the article is almost entirely about what the issue is (i.e. that most people will not change defaults and the default is to centralise on
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by zem 8mo ago
I've always thought it sad that lush died; in many ways it was a spiritual predecessor to julia. here's a nice blog post about it: https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2024/11/19/lush-my-favori...
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by zem 8mo ago
I was excited about julia as an application development language when it first came out, but the language and ecosystem seem to be targeting long-running processes. there was just a ton of latency in build time and startup time for things l
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by zem 8mo ago
if we trim a regex down to literal character matches is it still a regex?
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by zem 8mo ago
I would love to read more about the pros and cons of using a single database, if anyone has pointers to articles
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by zem 8mo ago
sure, it's a dsl for generating formatted output
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by zem 8mo ago
one of the very first text adventures I played as a kid [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Kingdom_Valley ] had static illustrations; I've always thought of it as a nice touch to add to a text adventure. they key
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by zem 8mo ago
rescript [ https://rescript-lang.org/ ] would make a nice middle ground between rust and typescript
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by zem 8mo ago
agreed, it's a hill i am very willing to die on too.
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by zem 8mo ago
that is not what makes a julius though. there are lots of good, competent workers who don't really give a damn about the job, and are just in it for the money, but they know their stuff and are genuinely working and delivering value fo
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by zem 8mo ago
thanks, that steve yegge piece was a very good read.
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by zem 8mo ago
that it has millions of users while pleasing approximately none of them
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by zem 8mo ago
that kind of ties in with the article's thesis; deming's approach is more scientific in the classic sense of taking observations and using those to build up your mental models, whereas drucker proposes a one size fits all recipe f
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by zem 8mo ago
> Impact: > Users are losing access to their Google accounts permanently > No clear path to account restoration > Affects both personal and work accounts honestly, this is why I would not trust gemini for anything. I have a lot
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by zem 8mo ago
they don't want you to realise that you're not watching it much and cancel your subscription
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by zem 8mo ago
there's always fennel for a lispy layer over lua
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by zem 8mo ago
I think they meant it had taken a huge hit and was in the process of building up again

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