Akronymus

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by Akronymus 4d ago
I have a few scripts that interact with wl-copy. Like one that just cats all the files in a directory and pipes it into wl-copy so I can paste it somewhere else. Something like that would've been immensly useful when I was still on win
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by Akronymus 8d ago
reminds me of the DMCA which was essentially forced to be approved https://youtu.be/O0-j89LJysY
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by Akronymus 9d ago
That was the maliciously compliant way that companies chose to do to a reasonable law.
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by Akronymus 11d ago
Thanks for that tip. Works like a charm.
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by Akronymus 14d ago
They claim no ads on steamdb, but they also claim "show what games have a thriving modding community" or something like that. Which implies linking to modding hubs, which implies linking to nexusmods, which I'd 100% deem as b
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by Akronymus 14d ago
you can send an email to dang to get it fixed
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by Akronymus 22d ago
I went to a sauna plenty of times as a child, with my parents. Still, quite a bit different from a nude beach though
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Do Pumps Create Pressure or Flow?(practical.engineering)
4 points by Akronymus 1mo ago|1 comments
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by Akronymus 1mo ago
I've legitimately seen one project that basically says to do that, but with "your ai agent". At least piping to sh is deterministic and, you can pipe to a filw and check the script https://github.com/0xeb&#x2F
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by Akronymus 1mo ago
It's a fallacy when there is no cause and effect for each step. This, however states the steps.
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by Akronymus 2mo ago
AFAICT, actually manipulating the AST, which then in turn allows you to implement your own language features, inserting additional debugging info, memoizing a function by just wrapping it in a macro, or optimizations based on domain knowled
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by Akronymus 2mo ago
A bit off-topic: I occasionally see that triple ^H on HN posts: what does that actually indicate?
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by Akronymus 2mo ago
I appear to have misread some things. I'll have to re-research the stuff.
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by Akronymus 2mo ago
AFAICT, municipalities get paid to put up the cameras, which isn't federal, so flock can then use those cameras to freely gather data and sell it to police
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by Akronymus 2mo ago
This one [0] by chance? [0] https://youtube.com/@theguardrailguy
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by Akronymus 2mo ago
I personally find old reddit on mobile more usable than both new and the app version.
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by Akronymus 2mo ago
> this isn't a one-off use, I don't want an app to pay parking meter once and never use it again Just today I ran into a parkingmeter that was covered up in favor of ONLY allowing to pay via app. Which I find horrendous. (austr
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by Akronymus 2mo ago
> To most modern users, web browsers kinda suck if they don't know URLs. For example, if they want to find an item they saw on Amazon, searching it in browser history just sucks compared to the in-service search. And, more and more,
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by Akronymus 2mo ago
> This is why I don't like Reddit pushing an app and breaking/limiting the mobile website. It's just not how I want to use it at all. As with many reddit problems, old.reddit.com is a pretty universal fix.
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by Akronymus 2mo ago
> - I can see when it gets updated (versus a website that gets updated every time I load it). For security reasons it's better, I can even verify my app with other people online and make sure we run the same thing. in many cases thi
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by Akronymus 2mo ago
Wait, so in america you can literally just click one button on a product and instantly have it paid for and set for delivery? That seems rather accident prone.
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by Akronymus 2mo ago
On private/community hosted/moderated servers my experience was that cheating was mostly a non-issue. Only with the advent of forced matchmaking/only official servers and such has it become a real problem.
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by Akronymus 3mo ago
If the donations were to the opposite end of the political spectrum, do you think there would be a similar amount of backlash?
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by Akronymus 3mo ago
Kiwifarms did something like that, where you have to send an email to confirm your signup.
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by Akronymus 3mo ago
or: 1: the media has a vested interest in only reporting a certain slant, because it involves criticizing the media 2: because the media is the only source deemed reliable, that slant becomes the truth
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by Akronymus 3mo ago
Mostly by looking at the calling site where the code is already used and the calling site where I want to reuse it. If both of those mean the same (calculate the tax on x products, for the purpose of applying to the shopping cart, vs for ap
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by Akronymus 3mo ago
My metric for that is "does that code MEAN the same thing" or "does it just look the same". Has worked quite well for me so far. I frequently find myself making a copy of some code rather than adding a parameter (most co
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by Akronymus 3mo ago
I assume to split the overall behaviour (loop through all elements, transform some value, etc) and the specific one (apply this function to all elements, transform it in this way, etc) into multiple functions and combine those to achieve th
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by Akronymus 3mo ago
To be more specific, incidental complexity. Many problems have tons of inherent complexity already.
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by Akronymus 3mo ago
Id assume "a fun challenge" could be enough of a reason

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