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by zeveb 6y ago
The one edge case is that the bells work for all blind folks, not just those who understand the language spoken by and announcement. Of course, a blond person in that case could just count announcements …
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by zeveb 6y ago
They are trying to reduce sales of non-essential products by X% without raising prices; my suggestion is to raise prices until sales naturally reduce by X%. Since in both instances sales are reduced to the same number but in my scenario pr
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by zeveb 6y ago
Why not just raise prices on non-essential products? That will decrease sales and increase profits. Everyone wins that way: the folks who need essential products win, because the bandwidth available for their needs is increased; the seller
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by zeveb 7y ago
You must never have worked on airgapped systems then. Or had to justify non-standard software to gatekeepers.
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by zeveb 7y ago
I strongly believe that TTY compatibility is a feature which should not be discarded. But that doesn't, I think, prevent the kind of features you mention: they just need to be first-class UI features like the minibar is. Agreed that E
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by zeveb 7y ago
Sounds pretty neat. I wonder if the same is achievable with Guix, which is based on Nix. Now I am gonna have to spend some of my precious free time noodling around the Guix docs!
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by zeveb 7y ago
I think you missed the article's point: yes, over the last 20 years or so tech has been an awesomely-expanding career. But it sure didn't seem that way after the dot com bust or the Eleventh of September. I was around then, and
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by zeveb 7y ago
> internally, you can make inroads supporting stakeholders with evidence for their decisions! The problem is that this can all too easily become motivated reasoning: one provides a stakeholder with support for the decision he already mad
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by zeveb 7y ago
Maybe it's a white noise generator? Several (maybe all?) of my past offices have had white noise generators. One never notices them, but when they are off then suddenly one notices their absence. I wonder if I should get one for home
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by zeveb 7y ago
Works on Firefox on Debian 10 just fine. I had to let media & scripts through uMatrix, but that was easy enough.
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by zeveb 7y ago
I don't think so, because as lazy as people are, they still want their words read, and they excise the irrelevant quoted material to set off their own words better. From experience of the old days, other than a handful of strange peo
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by zeveb 7y ago
> What else should they do? They should do what NNTP & SMTP clients did for years: prefix each line with '> ', prepend a line like 'IshKebab writes:' and place the cursor at the end of the quoted material.
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by zeveb 7y ago
If there are no cross-platform apps which support e2e-encrypted multi-party videoconferences, then there simply is currently no solution at all for 'just works' secure videoconferencing, because part of just working is not requiri
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by zeveb 7y ago
And of course there's also Wickard v. Filburn, which held that feeding cattle in one state grain raised in the same state is somehow interstate commerce, and Baker v. Carr, Gray v. Sanders & Reynolds v. Sims which combined prevent
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by zeveb 7y ago
> Unions exist primarily to engage with employers, not government. Governments are very weary to permit any union to become politically important for historic reasons. And any wise union thinks twice before getting involved in politics.
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by zeveb 7y ago
Are we really at a point that MP3 parsing is so old-fashioned that it's not worth recommending a book which uses it for an example? Guys, this is software not Milan Fashion Week. It's okay: those are just examples. Software stil
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by zeveb 7y ago
> Am I and this one other forum poster just doing something totally bizarre yet the same? One might uncharitably suggest that using macOS and expecting standard decades-old Unix behaviour is itself bizarre … but that's also true of
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by zeveb 7y ago
But at least with a DVD you have the actual physical copy of what was installed, and you can examine it forensically after the fact, and you may even be able to use it as evidence of wrongdoing. You can't do that with some random file
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by zeveb 7y ago
> That's kind of a tautology. More specifically, it's begging the question. The actual definition of begging the question, not the mistaken usage. To beg the question is to assume the thing which is to be proven.
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by zeveb 7y ago
Computer Modern was designed to be printed with ink presses, and so it assumes a certain amount of running in the liquid. If it will be rendered solely on-screen, it needs to be thickened slightly. Fortunately this is easy with Metafont;
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by zeveb 7y ago
I think he's correct that Minecraft scratches much of the same itches that MOOs scratch(ed). It's a little sad: at least some of the creations built as MOOs are still around, but will there be any Minecraft servers left in 30 y
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The coder and the dictator: the story of Venezuela's digital coin(nytimes.com)
5 points by zeveb 7y ago|0 comments
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by zeveb 7y ago
And the new title no longer has any relationship to the title of the post. And no admin (from what I can see) even bothered to let us know why he censored this. edit: 17 minutes after posting this comment critical of moderation, I am una
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Working remotely in Common Lisp(reddit.com)
3 points by zeveb 7y ago|0 comments
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by zeveb 7y ago
Yes, that's exactly right. Sure, if it gets warmer than one place currently just right will be too warm, but might there be another place too cold which is now just right? Although maybe there aren't enough places of the right a
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by zeveb 7y ago
> That 67MB file can reportedly replace the 370MB, DRM-protected executable in the main game folder with minimal effort and no practical effect on playability. What other things is that 370MB executable doing that it needs to be over 5½
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by zeveb 7y ago
Would any acreage not now producing coffee be newly-able to support the plant due to climate change?
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by zeveb 7y ago
I can understand why people left Linux for Mac OS X: at the time, the Linux desktop really wasn't that advanced, and most folks didn't want to deal with what really could be a pain. I thought that it was worth it to stick with Li
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by zeveb 7y ago
Perhaps a more charitable explanation is that as the labour market becomes more of a buyers' than a sellers' market, the buyers can afford to be a bit pickier. All other things being equal, we all want a vendor to do things our w
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by zeveb 7y ago
I know, but folks were discussing both sorts in the full discussion. I've seen the sprayers in the wild and always wondered how they can possibly be used in a sanitary manner.

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