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by 1bent 1y ago
I run Firefox Nightly on Android, haven't seen anything like this. Besides the usual adblockers I run noscript, maybe that's the fix?
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by 1bent 2y ago
This sounds like the backstory for Alan Dean Foster's "Cyber Way". I enjoyed the novel, didn't realize how well rooted it was in actual history.
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by 1bent 2y ago
As long as I can avoid or disable "AI", I'll continue to ignore it. Consistent, reliable, predictable, that's what I want from my computers. Boring is good.
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by 1bent 2y ago
In case anyone else didn't know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Kafka
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by 1bent 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_%28text_editor%29#History... I found the zed website unhelpful, but if wikipedia is to be believed, it's a successor to the Atom text editor
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by 1bent 2y ago
I'd never heard of her, so I checked wikipedia. Try that.
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by 1bent 3y ago
One domain that a little OO seems to map to without too much pain is GUI libraries. The first OO-flavoured API I ever used was Sunview, the early GUI I used on Sun-3 workstations with SunOS. It was a beautiful API; I was never tempted to me
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by 1bent 3y ago
djbdns is simple, easy to understand, easy to configure; it embodies a clear understanding of how DNS works. Unlike BIND and dig, it was designed after DNS had been in use for a while. Like sendmail, BIND suffers from being designed before
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by 1bent 3y ago
OOP has always felt to me like it was inspired by writing GUI APIs; Sun's Suntools -> Sunview -> xview (if I'm remembering the names right) were early-mid 1980s C, and felt beautifully OO, and very clean to write GUI program
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by 1bent 3y ago
Thank you!
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by 1bent 3y ago
I find it tempting to try and shove this story into an origin tale for W.E.I.R.D. --- Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic. But I guess the timing is off; this is within, not before, that.
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by 1bent 3y ago
I'd heard of it from Heinlein, but never thought it might be real.
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by 1bent 3y ago
I think of audiobooks as a very different form from books; I read lots of books, but listen to almost no audiobooks, though I've bought a few, and have listened to my favourite, Spider Robinson reading a collection of Heinlein short st
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by 1bent 3y ago
I hadn't heard of this gizmo, seems to be a small e-ink display on an rpi: https://learn.pimoroni.com/article/getting-started-with-badg...
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by 1bent 3y ago
Can you buy a new car without a data plan anymore?
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by 1bent 3y ago
Footnote 7's "crypto pushers rebranding as AI influencers" is something I've noticed, not as much in specific names, as the overall tone of the sales pitch.
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by 1bent 3y ago
I think you're responding to your interpretation of the title, rather than the article. They aren't proposing increasing asymptomatic disease, they're discussing trying to reduce damage done to individuals.
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by 1bent 3y ago
I have a clear memory that, at the time, cellphone carriers were adamant about strictly controlling how their networks were used. If anything but voice or SMS crossed their network, they wanted to be bribed to permit it. The surprising coup
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by 1bent 3y ago
Are there any open source passkey implementations? My password manager of choice is open source, and cross-platform, and can export and later (or elsewhere) import an encrypted backup.
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by 1bent 3y ago
I'd forgotten all about that gizmo. Under the heading Steve Jobs in my memory, it got completely replaced by "the computer for the rest of them", with a GUI tuned to hide the computer, to prevent users from being tempted to u
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by 1bent 3y ago
weirdly broken
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by 1bent 3y ago
My favourite exploration of the potential novel applications of room temperature superconductors is Larry Niven's Ringworld.
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by 1bent 3y ago
Indeed, when I saw the headline, I thought this was going to be commenting on the various supply chain crashes triggered by the pandemic's sudden changes, after decades of cleverly squeezing slack out of shipping, ports, warehouses, an
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by 1bent 3y ago
I need to read more new books; I've not been seeing the benefits of this.
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by 1bent 3y ago
Seems like this might be worth bookmarking in case I ever want to learn Javascript; reading implementations of algorithms I've written before in other languages seems like it might be helpful.
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by 1bent 3y ago
I found this really fun, reflecting as it does the views before the acceptance and experimental confirmation that there is no lumeniferous aether, and that the speed of light is constant in all reference frames. I've enjoyed explanatio
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by 1bent 3y ago
I think this is more of a complaint that GUIs have prevented non-programmers from learning to do novel things with a computer; that's been the focus of GUIs since the Apple Lisa. I was working in a university comp center, and got to se
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by 1bent 3y ago
At the time they shut down Listen, some podcasts (e.g. Car Talk) were closing their back episodes and charging money for them; I figured that's why Google decided to stop the service.
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by 1bent 3y ago
When Google ditched Reader, they told me how to export my OPML, so I did, and vowed to never again depend on a cloud service for something I could do with a local client app. I've moved from one to another over the years. At the moment
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by 1bent 3y ago
I haven't paid attention in many years, but at least for the first few years (after it grew from a data format to a scripting language), each release of Lua was more powerful, faster, and smaller in executable size, than its predecesso

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