WA9ACE

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by WA9ACE 9mo ago
Unless such anti-aging style immortality solution was widely available, you would much more likely end up with a situation similar to In Time (2011). The poor fighting for continued survival, while the wealthy live forever.
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by WA9ACE 9mo ago
"The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish." -- The Great Dictator by Charlie Chaplin
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Coinbase to reincorporate in Texas, exit Delaware(reuters.com)
9 points by WA9ACE 10mo ago|6 comments
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Hosting SQLite Databases on GitHub Pages (2021)(phiresky.github.io)
86 points by WA9ACE 11mo ago|19 comments
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by WA9ACE 1y ago
Stripe, AirBnB, Instacart, Zendesk, Kickstarter, Mastodon, and if I remember right Coinbase was originally Rails as well.
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by WA9ACE 1y ago
Yes
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by WA9ACE 2y ago
It's quite fitting as a vim using HAM (with a callsign username), that the top comment on that thread is also a HAM saying how you can also do this in emacs. The world changes all around us, and yet it's always the same.
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Understanding DNS in Kubernetes(povilasv.me)
3 points by WA9ACE 2y ago|0 comments
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Shopify acquires Threads (no, not that one)(techcrunch.com)
12 points by WA9ACE 2y ago|2 comments
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Distraction Driven Development(chipcullen.com)
2 points by WA9ACE 2y ago|0 comments
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by WA9ACE 2y ago
Old style interface on a development focused lemmy instance has completely replaced reddit usage for me This is the equivalent of /r/all across the lemmy world https://old.programming.dev/?sort=Active&listingTy
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Knee Deep in tree-sitter Queries(parsiya.net)
2 points by WA9ACE 2y ago|0 comments
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Roku disables TVs and streaming devices until users consent to new terms(techcrunch.com)
3 points by WA9ACE 3y ago|0 comments
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Roku's Ultimatum: Surrender Jury Trial Rights or Lose Access to Your TVs(community.roku.com)
59 points by WA9ACE 3y ago|17 comments
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by WA9ACE 3y ago
While I agree with most of this statement, there is one example I can think of that caused actual change. I would say Emmett Till's mother's decision to have an open casket funeral and refusal to have his remains touched up by the
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by WA9ACE 4y ago
I do believe you are correct and that it would end up with a humongous outcry from the public in support of the workers.
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by WA9ACE 4y ago
I'd like to introduce you to what has happened historically when labor was met with the national guard. Whether or not this would happen in the modern era I cannot say. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair
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by WA9ACE 4y ago
I very much enjoyed Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman.
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by WA9ACE 4y ago
Tangentially https://lite.pbs.org/ also launched this year.
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We Built Shopify Party(shopify.engineering)
1 points by WA9ACE 4y ago|0 comments
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NSDrawer still works on macOS Ventura(twitter.com)
1 points by WA9ACE 4y ago|0 comments
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How I Start(howistart.org)
2 points by WA9ACE 4y ago|0 comments
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PBS Lite(lite.pbs.org)
7 points by WA9ACE 4y ago|0 comments
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by WA9ACE 5y ago
I feel like I'm obligated to share this almost 20 year old Spolsky post that gave me my understanding of characters. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minim...
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by WA9ACE 5y ago
They already de-google the entire codebase. You can see which parts are removed here https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-... and they keep up quite well.
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by WA9ACE 5y ago
It's all anecdotal, but having been full time RVing for several months now after selling our house time has slowed to a crawl. Before we sold our house the days flew past at 100mph. It's amazing how little control we can exert on
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by WA9ACE 5y ago
Thank you for linking me to this this, it's a wonderful write up that I had not seen before!
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by WA9ACE 5y ago
Yes, it's incredibly frustrating to hear people assume everyone has high speed home connections. I operate entirely off cellular. 150 MB is not chump change and it certainly does not download in 2 seconds. If it's not a problem th
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by WA9ACE 5y ago
It doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere else so I'd like to bring up that the USPS used to offer a sort of banking service before from 1911 to 1967. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Savings_
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by WA9ACE 5y ago
You have to tell it how many of the top sites you want removed from the results. For instance you can remove the top 1000 sites and it will remove that foodnetwork.com result.

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