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by zeveb 6y ago
Not key, just not an impediment.
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by zeveb 6y ago
> I always thought they were the ugliest earbuds since earbuds became small. Ditto. Whenever I see someone wearing them I make a point of locking eyes, then smirking. AirPods and similar headphones are an upscale version of a face tatt
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Emacs in Odd Places(eigenbahn.com)
2 points by zeveb 6y ago|0 comments
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by zeveb 6y ago
You're right, of course: I should have written 'discovered.'
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by zeveb 6y ago
That's some awesome detective work and … wow, it sure would be nice if IPv6's extended address space allowed for less IP address reuse.
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by zeveb 6y ago
> Engineering anything in inches seems impossible. And yet that is how the Wright brothers invented flight … and a few decades later we made it to the moon!
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by zeveb 6y ago
> It’s not like “the industry” just wants to make things complicated for the fun of it. Doesn't it? I think that there are plenty of folks who want to make things more complicated, because complicated things are fun, while just m
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by zeveb 6y ago
I forget where I first saw the idea, but I have adopted it as my own: the really sane thing for the French revolutionaries to have done would have been to switch to a duodecimal ('dozenal') counting system, not to base things on t
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by zeveb 6y ago
When I opened up YT Music today, almost the entire scree was taken up by a link to a political playlist. I don't want to participate in politics — I just want to listen to some background music while I work. Why is Googling silencing
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by zeveb 6y ago
> There is no way to say in /etc/resolv.conf that you want to use a DNS-over-HTTPS server. Sure there is: nameserver 127.0.0.1 where I choose to run a nameserver which uses DNS-over-HTTPS on 127.0.0.1:53.
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by zeveb 6y ago
> If you'd like to standardise a way to require DNS-over-HTTPS in supporting software, and convince operating system distributors to generally ship it, I'm fairly sure Firefox would be up for using that rather than its current
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by zeveb 6y ago
> I can't think of a plausible reason to suspect that developers specifically might prefer traditional mice. I imagine that developers would prefer mice if people who use computers intensively and knowledgeably prefer mice, and I su
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by zeveb 6y ago
> In 2011, Apple released Mac OS X Lion which introduced an enhanced scrollbar behavior that made scrollbars hidden by default. I don't think hiding scrollbars can really be termed an enhancement; 'mistake' at best or &#x2
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The Illusion of Control in Web Design (2018)(alistapart.com)
19 points by zeveb 6y ago|8 comments
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Creating a Common Lisp implementation, part 1 [video](youtube.com)
127 points by zeveb 6y ago|35 comments
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by zeveb 6y ago
> I have a set of both - China and Silverware. I've never used either … I want the practical stuff they used every day. Many china patterns may be used every day (not all: some are not dishwasher safe), and almost all silverware is
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by zeveb 6y ago
> I never understood the appeal of china or any of these antiques. I think they just look terrible. It depends. Surely some styles are not wonderful, but others are quite beautiful. Some styles are very of their time (and look horrible
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by zeveb 6y ago
As a counterpoint, I really enjoy all the family heirlooms I have inherited; I love that I get to honour those distant, barely-remembered or unremembered family members by enjoying the items I have inherited. I don't look at taking ca
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by zeveb 6y ago
> At its core, "meritocracy" is eugenics: the belief that some people are just intrinsically better than others (that's why you often hear plutocrats boasting of their "good blood" – think of Trump here). > As
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by zeveb 6y ago
I don't mind 'ping me': that one has a clear reference to submarines and networks. What bothers me are 'ask' and 'lift' used as nouns. They add nothing to the language, and are just ugly. Maybe my father
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by zeveb 6y ago
It is excellent and easy-to-follow … right up until the denotational semantics piece, which I found very difficult to understand. Maybe someday!
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by zeveb 6y ago
> What prevents you from writing a patch for Firefox then? 'I never, never want to write C++.' Seriously, I can't say how much I want not to write C or C++. Life is too short to use unsafe languages.
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by zeveb 6y ago
That's exactly what I want: an Emacs for the web. Or enough web-browsing capability built into Emacs to just browse every site in Emacs. Seriously, though, I want the software I run to obey me , not someone else: not Microsoft, not A
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by zeveb 6y ago
My issue is simply that I want an extension mechanism which I can use to do anything to my browser. For me, 'extension security' means 'I must write C++ to add the functionality I want,' and I never, never want to w
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by zeveb 6y ago
> Outrageous is the entitlement of the current generations for not paying for their tools. Sure, but in the case of an open-source developer working on macOS, he has already paid for his operating system; if he is using GCC, he has alrea
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by zeveb 6y ago
> I think that most people throughout the developed world believe that ensuring the general welfare of a country's citizens is an essential function of government. State governments are sovereign, too, and have far fewer constitut
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by zeveb 6y ago
And why is Reddit so obsessed with its redesign? I cannot think that more than single-digit percentages prefer the slow, ugly, comment-hiding redesign over the fast, attractive, useful old design. Just write the redesign off as a failed
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by zeveb 6y ago
The 'common defence and welfare' provide the reasons for taxation, and are enumerated in the following items. Note that James Madison — who wrote much of the Constitution — vetoed a federal works bill because he found it unconsti
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by zeveb 6y ago
Because a military is one of the few things that the United States government has the constitutional authority to do (the list is extremely limited: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_Stat... ).
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by zeveb 6y ago
> When you already have another 145 billion? More than you could possibly spend in your lifetime? Allstate's market cap is currently $30 billion. Maybe Mr. Bezos would want to buy it, and still have the rest of the money he current

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