andrewzah

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by andrewzah 4y ago
I tried Baikal but Radicale was much easier to use and set up. It’s been solid for the last two years for me. That said I try to avoid self hosted services written in Python, especially if they use Django. I’ve had nothing but issues docker
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by andrewzah 4y ago
Yep, comes from “soyboy”, a pejorative for more feminine men. The term came about from soybeans having phytoestrogen.
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by andrewzah 4y ago
Politicians don't have the right to be on a private website. They already have official channels to communicate. Twitter has every right to ban Putin, or Trump, or Duterte, etc.
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by andrewzah 4y ago
The fact of the matter is that the US is laid out in a way that cars are necessary for most places. Even if you actually get people to vote and participate in their local politics, that does not change how things are already laid out. It&#x
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by andrewzah 4y ago
I wouldn't say it's terrible but prometheus & grafana have a learning curve for sure. It's a question of do you want a pull-based architecture (prometheus) or a push-based one (influxdb). Grafana is just a frontend that s
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by andrewzah 4y ago
I've been using apple maps for probably 3 years now and for driving it's great. Both for local navigation and driving from the east coast to ~michigan/illinois. My family still swears by Waze, though. The only thing I hate is
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by andrewzah 4y ago
Who is “we”? It’s not surprising or creepy that people focus on what they actually can control. None of us realistically can change the fact that America is built around roads. Not everyone can work from home. People drive not because they
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by andrewzah 4y ago
I can’t speak for everyone but I make enough money that messing around with e-mail spam is not worth it, when I’d rather be playing my instruments or whatever. I do my email through my registrar (gandi) so I don’t have to worry about free e
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by andrewzah 4y ago
I don't think the average router would be able to run much of anything, not to mention how insecure the average router is since people don't update them. Mastodon is very resource heavy, I couldn't get it to run on a raspberr
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by andrewzah 4y ago
To my eyes this is way harder to read than traditional notation, which really isn't hard to learn and works well for most music (and non-12TET music). It's hard to see if a note is on a line or just above/under it.
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by andrewzah 4y ago
If this concerns you so deeply then write to your representatives to enact legislation. The kid did nothing wrong as it stands now since anyone can look up that data apparently. I doubt private flying will become that frequent within the ne
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by andrewzah 4y ago
Crystal has local variables. I didn't mean to imply that ruby & crystal are 1:1 drop-in replacements, but there are a great many similarities. Enough for me as a ruby/rails dev to start on crystal projects with relatively litt
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by andrewzah 4y ago
What semantics is crystal lacking? Obviously it's not a 1:1 replacement as the ecosystem is different, gem management (shards) is different, etc. Crystal also has union types and concurrency. For people who want a syntax like ruby + pe
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by andrewzah 4y ago
There essentially already is a statically typed ruby: Crystal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_(programming_language)
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by andrewzah 4y ago
No. The parent comment’s viewpoint is fine, whereas your absolutist viewpoint is not helpful. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter are what you make of them. There’s nothing to “present” if you don’t mindlessly scroll but use them the way they were
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by andrewzah 4y ago
I find it interesting that snapchat still is used by young people and not really by older people. I remember using it about 10 years ago in highschool, and then college, before I kind of went to nothing and then instagram to keep in touch w
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by andrewzah 4y ago
"he best parts of Twitter are amongst professional circles where people use their real names" Real names don't mean anything. Facebook/Twitter/Instagram have people with real names and there's still disgusting
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by andrewzah 4y ago
Cube 2: Sauerbraten is fun and it uses very little resources. The game and engine are open source. Other than that I can’t really think of anything other than good clones like OpenTTD or crappy clones like minetest. Maybe Dwarf Fortress in
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by andrewzah 4y ago
The question here is: so what? Valve makes a lot of money from the steam store. They’re not going anywhere. There are competitors like gog games that sell them without DRM. You download the games anyways so I’m sure a solution will be figur
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by andrewzah 4y ago
It’s a pretty famous quote and he’s correct. Steam has DRM aspects but is pretty seamless. It is entirely way more work to look for cracked games and download those than to just buy it on steam.
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by andrewzah 4y ago
I assume that these projects took time and effort, but the finished results look to me like a half-baked render, like someone just forgot to finish the job. I'm not a fan of much of Le Corbusier's works, if any.
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by andrewzah 4y ago
The exterior of the Notre Dame du Haut is simplistic, not beautiful (although the slope of the roof is nice). The interior design is striking in its layout, but overall both are ugly due to the materials used. This building looks like a fir
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by andrewzah 4y ago
Yes, SMS usage is quite frequent. I use some other apps for groupchats or talking to foreign friends. It depends on your social circle, I have groupchats with SMS, GroupMe, Matrix/Element, and Kakaotalk. In Korea I never used SMS, just
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by andrewzah 4y ago
Really nice site. It (and this thread in general) is motivating me to start writing again. I used LaTeX a lot in college, and I use a similar program now called Lilypond which is the same idea but for sheet music.
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by andrewzah 4y ago
Well, that's obvious. If I had to develop software for windows (or OSX) then I'd be using those platforms to build/test those tools. But I choose not to.
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by andrewzah 4y ago
So what? Everyone has had stories about misdiagnoses or not being taken seriously by doctors, etc. I had a condition that took a long time to get a fix until I changed my doctor and got a proper evaluation done. And that wasn't even fo
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by andrewzah 4y ago
I'd say so, I find myself using it somewhat regularly. It's pretty easy in vim once you learn how to use visual block mode. That or using Sed to replace text in a selection or the entire file. http://paulrougieux.github
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by andrewzah 4y ago
Agreed, that's why I find it so difficult to leave rails/ruby. I really like Clojure+Datomic+Clojurescript but I can't justify the extra work needed compared to the extensive tooling and library support that rails has since i
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by andrewzah 4y ago
If collaboration is the angle, JetBrains and VSCode already offer that but without forcing people to use specific terminals.
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by andrewzah 4y ago
That would also now force everyone to use this proprietary product instead of whatever they're familiar with. For mac <-> linux, posix-compliant scripts mostly work in my experience but you have to account for different versions

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