zephyr9

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by zephyr9 5y ago
Just think of BSD as a much better version of Linux.
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by zephyr9 5y ago
Heck yes. Whenever I find myself saying "sorry I can't do that with my phone" and I pull out the Nokia to illustrate, people swoon over it.
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by zephyr9 5y ago
I'm in Australia and I think there's a law that carriers need to keep an amount of 3G coverage. So we will likely lose 4G coverage before 3G. Regulation FTW!
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by zephyr9 5y ago
You'd be surprised how capable your brain is when you just trust it to remember directions. A couple of times when going to a place I've not been before I've drawn a little map, but you can always ask someone for directions t
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by zephyr9 5y ago
My feeling is that tools should be transparent in their use, as in, when you use a hammer to hit a nail, the hammer essentially disappears. And while I think the iPhone of Steve Jobs was like this, I'm pretty sure that Apple intends th
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by zephyr9 5y ago
I switched from an iPhone to Nokia 515 two years ago and vowed never to go back. If I wrote a blog post like this it would probably just be, "Living smartphone-free in the 2020's is like having a superpower, it's utter joy an
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by zephyr9 5y ago
omg it's like I'm Nostradamus!
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by zephyr9 5y ago
Is there a good string-manipulation C library?
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by zephyr9 5y ago
The Dunning-Kruger effect is stronger in people who spend a lot of time alone, e.g. programmers, which we will now see unfold below.
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by zephyr9 5y ago
Techbros: we don't ask permission, we don't play by the rules, we move fast and break things, the world is our libertarian playground. Also Techbros: pls look in ur heart and do the right thing for us pls.
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by zephyr9 5y ago
Just to be clear, you're throwing your hat in on the side of those who aided the genocide here? Okay.
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by zephyr9 5y ago
Hate to nitpick but #!/bin/bash is not actually zero-dependency, as bash is not installed on BSD by default, and if installed won't be located at /bin/bash. You could probably just change to #!/bin/sh with
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by zephyr9 5y ago
Why is it that tech people see the villain in sci-fi films and think "it would be great to have that in my home"?
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by zephyr9 5y ago
I see a large box that simply has two buttons: "Accept" and "Decline". What am I accepting or declining? Does it even matter at this point?
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by zephyr9 5y ago
>> That 30-40 year lifespan is also a myth. High mortality brings down the average, but people's lifespan has been around 70 throughout history. > Yeah, mortality tends to bring down the lifespan average. I don't see how
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by zephyr9 5y ago
It's actually a myth that agrarian lifestyle was all that difficult. We have the enduring image of the farmer up at dawn, but the reality was that people completed the day's work in a few hours and didn't do much for the rest
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by zephyr9 5y ago
> To be happy you must deal with negative emotions. Learn to recognize these in yourself, and deal with them. Anger, self-pity, jealousy, fear, hate, loneliness… set them aside, and let happiness take their place. And here I was just no
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by zephyr9 5y ago
I'm glad to learn this. It explains why my Pomera DM30 (which uses shift-JIS) displays '¥' instead of '\'. I'd thought it was a bug.
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by zephyr9 5y ago
> how do you deal with the seeming need for a phone with secure chip for the endless banking and two factor apps? I've been without a smartphone for about two years now and would not go back (although sometimes tempted by the false
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by zephyr9 5y ago
But did you write it in Emacs, using Texinfo? ;)
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by zephyr9 5y ago
I don't see it as either/or. I just set `custom-file` to something else to keep options settings out of the way, while I still have plenty (too much) of my own init code.
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by zephyr9 5y ago
No! Emacs does not require the user to learn any code in order to use it. Unfortunately this is a persistent false narrative to which many new users fall victim (as I believe you have). I maintain several packages aimed at non-coding wri
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by zephyr9 5y ago
I was under the impression Wayland on FreeBSD required a lot of patching on their end, but this has been merged upstream? If so that's pretty good news. Also good news re colour management. The last I heard about this was Drew DeVault
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by zephyr9 5y ago
Does upstream Wayland work on any platform except for Linux? Does this display server have any form of colour management for, you know, the stuff it's displaying? Wayland is taking off like the Spruce Moose...
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by zephyr9 5y ago
> enough smart people are sufficiently excited by this new media > Large swathes of smart people who see unrealised possibilities You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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by zephyr9 5y ago
Once you see there is no connection between money and work it's like seeing the code of The Matrix.
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by zephyr9 5y ago
> I use Photoshop for art. Unfortunately, all other desktop software just isn't good I see this "I've tried one solution and I'm all out of ideas" approach a lot. I used Photoshop for many years. Pixelmator is ha
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by zephyr9 5y ago
I guess if you really want to know how you'll die.
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by zephyr9 5y ago
For generations the people of the artwork have been at war with the people of the song.
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by zephyr9 5y ago
> If purchased via debt, Wall St: "hold my beer"

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