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by zeveb 6y ago
I was all set to post a comment about how I dream of an honestly fair and balanced news channel, unlike Fox, CNN or MSNBC. I was going to post some outrageous headlines from each site right now. Surprisingly, the front page of foxnews.c
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And juſt you wait until we ſtart uſing long S too!
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Ðere's no reason ðat we can't resume now! I þink ðat þeȝ look just fine!
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I would rather just have wired earbuds, period. Wireless is insecure and unreliable; wires are secure and dependable. The headphone jack is a marvel of engineering!
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What you just described is a kind of hardware service!
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Yes, hardware as a service will always be much more expensive than hardware you own. But it may be less expensive than the team you will require to run that hardware at an acceptable service level. It very likely will be less expensive th
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The article is a mixture of useful and distracting information. The ever-increasing number of federal crimes really is an issue (the example of it being a federal crime to sell jam made from more than five types of fruit is remarkable). T
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The District of Columbia is not a state; it belongs to the federal government. Federal forces there are no more an occupying force than the Georgia National Guard would be an occupying force in Georgia.
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Is this really relevant, though? Republican democracy means that the people are sovereign within the laws they themselves have set up and may change; universal suffrage means that everyone[0] may vote. But isn't the choice not to
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> how would you link notes, then? I number each slip when I create it, and when I need to reference it I just write [$NUMBER]. I started with a slip numbered 1. I add a new numeral whenever the topic is sufficiently different from any ot
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> I'm lead to believe that the sort of kid who would previously have been a bully is now the type to really stick up for someone who is differently abled. Or who enjoys bullying a different outgroup now. That does raise questions a
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> I think it must be a lot easier to be a weird misfit now than it was in 1935. I think it just depends. Some things are more accepted, others less. It might be pretty career-limiting if one admitted that the reason one never works Sund
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> I searched for hours for a viable Zettelkasten method: org-mode, vim-org, TiddlyWiki, Roam, Notion, Joplin, Notable, Obsidian, Zettlr. Org mode works well, but honestly what works the absolute best in my experience are actual slips of
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ISTR that seaweed was a folk remedy for goiter. It contains relatively high amounts of iodine, which prevents thyroid conditions. I also vaguely recall that the doctrine of signatures wasn't a complete and abject failure, but some cu
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What happened to OpenTracing?
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> If you had a human assistant and asked them “What’s the time in London?” and they honestly thought the best way to answer that question was to give you the time for the nearest London, which happened to be in Ontario or Kentucky, you’d
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by zeveb 6y ago
Maybe I should have been more explicit: the safety of my data at rest on a remote system hinges on Intel's oft-broken security code and a memorable password. Normally I use 128-bit passwords (i.e., 22 mixed-case letters and digits) f
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This really worries me: now the safety of my data hinges on Intel's remote attestation and a password I can remember.
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All I really want from the web is to get text, images and data and submit form data. I don't really want interactive applications which are almost but not quite entirely unlike proper native apps. I just want to read interesting pe
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> It seems starting around maybe 2012~13, devs in the tech industry started moving from Windows laptops to Macbooks in large scale I really doubt it has been that recent — I think the Great Migration to Macs started a decade earlier. M
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Variations on the Death of Python 2(b-list.org)
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> Is it considered safe enough? No: Mozilla have access to your passwords if you use the Sync feature. They encrypt your passwords with a key encrypted by a key generated from your Firefox Account password, and you enter that password on
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> Just set ENABLE_RESOLVE=0 when compiling and resolved is gone? From HHGTTG: "But the plans were on display …" "On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them." "That's the display depar
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> Also, never call out others as "incompetent vandals" if you think of yourself as a "serious software professional". This is the kind of toxic behavior that makes communities non-inclusive and leads to impostor syndr
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> And that was one of the sillier holy wars, since text editors have near-zero network effects and it's trivial for distros to ship both. Text editors like vi may have near-zero network effects, but operating systems like emacs and
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> No large company keeps its hands completely clean. Defense contracts, Chinese censorship, exploiting addiction, anticompetitive behaviour, sexism, the list goes on. One of these is not like the others. What in the world is dirty about
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Bringing GNU Emacs to native code [video](toobnix.org)
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I am a meat eater and huntsman, and I agree. Just say 'euthanised' or 'thrown away' or 'killed and wasted.' Treat readers like adults, not use euphemisms. For that matter, it wouldn't surprise me were th
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Argh, wish I'd got your comment in time. I meant, of course, a blind person!
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> I also use VIM because it feels like the best case of voice integration or braille integration Check out Emacsspeak: http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/ It’s written by T.V. Raman, a blind engineer at Google by way of Co

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