bashinator

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   by bashinator 5y ago

   The internet is what enables Eve to spread the formerly private message to literally anyone on Earth in a matter of seconds. That’s a qualitative difference from pre-Internet times.
2. 212.▲
   by bashinator 5y ago

   Almost all click-through terms of service are, IMO, designed to prevent people from reading them. https://www.eff.org/wp/clicks-bind-ways-users-agree-online-t... and many many others if you search for "click throu
3. 213.▲
   by bashinator 5y ago

   Could be as simple as spring-loaded extra feet that lock into place.
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   by bashinator 5y ago

   Well now I’m curious. Do you suppose if the app instead of “donation”, said “I’m giving you the gift of this software. If you’d like to return the favor, click here” it would fall within Google’s TOS? I personally kinda doubt it; I think
5. 215.▲
   by bashinator 5y ago

   You seem to have an exclusively legalistic interpretation of language that doesn’t necessarily account for casual, real-life use of speech and writing.
6. 216.▲
   by bashinator 5y ago

   As someone who’s lost most of my proprioceptic sense of balance[0], I use a cane for two things. The main one is as replacement sense of balance; having the cane resting even very lightly on the ground fills in some gaps left by my feet and
7. 217.▲
   by bashinator 5y ago

   I’d argue that to the contrary, loot boxes have demonstrated that having a cash-value payout isn’t necessary to elicit gambling behavior in people.
8. 218.▲
   by bashinator 5y ago

   Yeah, Helm and K8s are not great in that regard, but the overwrought metaphors do end pretty quickly in favor of naming things for what the actually are.
9. 219.▲
   by bashinator 6y ago

   I use apps like this to manage my health care. Email would be a significantly worse experience than notifications.
10. 220.▲
    by bashinator 6y ago

    Serious question - does Google Analytics tell you if I abruptly close your page only a few seconds after it's started loading?
11. 221.▲
    by bashinator 6y ago

    You realize you just quoted state of the art for the 1700s (WRT nomenclature)?
12. 222.▲
    by bashinator 6y ago

    Would you feel better if I had said, "a variety of humans"?
13. 223.▲
    by bashinator 6y ago

    > Humans are specifically and exclusively the species Homo Sapiens. Says who? I wasn't aware of "human" being a term of art in evolutionary biology. Though I do seem to recall all sorts of hominids being called "earl
14. 224.▲
    by bashinator 6y ago

    Neanderthals were humans. Sex with them would maybe have been weird, but certainly not bestiality. I don't understand why you're comparing it with that - please elaborate?
15. 225.▲
    by bashinator 6y ago

    I think /dev/md raid would have made that failure more noticeable, more quickly. Hardware RAID cards don’t always pass on disk errors to the kernel.
16. 226.▲
    by bashinator 6y ago

    Hardware RAID falls into the "never again" category for me.
17. 227.▲
    by bashinator 6y ago

    Didn’t Canonical try to do something like this?
18. 228.▲
    by bashinator 6y ago

    This would have been a dealbreaker for me, but now that my company has permanent WFH, live traffic is much more of a would-be-nice.
19. 229.▲
    by bashinator 6y ago

    Arch is neat, and their documentation and forums are amazingly great. However, I have zero desire to be my laptop's sysadmin. Pop! OS runs great on my Thinkpad.
20. 230.▲
    by bashinator 6y ago

    I haven't used scp in years, in favor of rsync.
21. 231.▲
    by bashinator 6y ago

    Their best interests are not aligned with those of their customers, and from the perspective of people using their products, are irrational.
22. 232.▲
    by bashinator 6y ago

    I wonder how difficult it would be to use machine vision to identify and block advertising elements.
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    by bashinator 6y ago

    > In shell scripts, if one branch exits with a nonzero exit code, the other branch is taken. > 0 exit code is reported for all processes, no matter how they terminate. These two things are mutually exclusive - shell script branching i
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    by bashinator 6y ago

    I'm extremely happy with my HiSense - it runs Roku, so the "smart" stuff is actually maintained by a company that does a pretty good job of it. The only thing you could call ads are promos for shows. I think their revenue i
25. 235.▲
    by bashinator 6y ago

    You're confusing antimatter with virtual particle pairs.
26. 236.▲
    by bashinator 6y ago

    Specifically, HSBC was laundering money for drug cartels. IMO this made them complicit in mass murder.
27. 237.▲
    by bashinator 6y ago

    Do you have a text link for the linux option?
28. 238.▲
    by bashinator 6y ago

    So, four selector dials?
29. 239.▲
    by bashinator 6y ago

    Here's another account in the form of an extended interview with one of the commanders of US Cyber Command at the time. https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/50/
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    by bashinator 6y ago

    I wonder how difficult it would be to re-purpose a modular analog audio synthesizer for this. Since they're direct descendants of analog computers in the first place.