bashkiddie

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by bashkiddie 2mo ago
> but they tend to be one-offs that aren't worth the time Friend of mine used to retrofit CNC machines. He's left the business, because the machines that can be serviced moved to poor countries - where customers tend not to pay
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by bashkiddie 3mo ago
> because everything is a method or an object or a closure well, except for pattern matching. That is just syntax.
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by bashkiddie 4mo ago
> Imagine you run a company register for a local government. Is this data not public for some reason? I think it will not hurt if there are multiple copies spread between public offices and private companies. What really hurts is a priva
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by bashkiddie 4mo ago
Thank you for this long context!
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by bashkiddie 5mo ago
I second that. Loading the pages takes longer before the video starts playing. I also regularly run into bot detection where no video will play at all until I log in.
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by bashkiddie 5mo ago
I switched bank in 2021 and it was hard. No bank advertises "we do compliant chip tan" and no bank advertises "we do not buy an app framework that scans for customs roms". Switching banks is hard, because all of them suc
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by bashkiddie 5mo ago
> Dopamine has a half life of 2 minutes in the body. May be true. But doing "rewarding" work encourages your body to emit more dopamine. Some people call it "the flow", others "hyperfocus", but it is a const
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by bashkiddie 5mo ago
An ADHD brain may work better without stimulating caffeine, YMMV.
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by bashkiddie 5mo ago
I second this. Clownflare is agressively blocking: Fennec v149.0.2 - Germany
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by bashkiddie 6mo ago
I am guessing: There is an evolutionary "shadow". Genes for getting old and healthy are not selected for, because you get old after having children. Evolution optimizes for the survival of your children. Might be that cancer hits
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by bashkiddie 6mo ago
> wrote the defacto standard regex library in Rust What is the motivation that Rust invented its own RegEx flavor instead of sticking to PCRE or even RE2?
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by bashkiddie 6mo ago
Next years headline will be > AI accounts for 90% of accidents while only accounting for 1% of traffic
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by bashkiddie 6mo ago
When I shop for special hardware (e.g. bicycle shift gear) it is usually underspecified. If the information does not exist in the text block, a chat bot is of no use.
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by bashkiddie 6mo ago
> Why can’t you tune your guitar? You can. (1) Movable frets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZC69A8TsJ8 (2) No frets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92TxCGBNEVg (3) force the string sideways to a higher
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by bashkiddie 7mo ago
I would like to second this. In Golang if you iterate over a thousand files and defer File.close() your OS will run out of file descriptors
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by bashkiddie 8mo ago
I have heard rumors that at one point in time gentoo lost its forum - basically a catastrophic strike such as deleting Arch Linux wiki
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by bashkiddie 8mo ago
I am unhappy with python. It degrades fast. It deprecates libraries every minor release and that tends to break the applications I use. Recent examples are distutils and opsaudio.
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by bashkiddie 9mo ago
> I say let X11 die, bury it, and never let it rise again. totally awesome! And once we are done with X11, lets put pulseaudio to the grave! We can all focus on having an audio stack that does realiably stream to many sinks! And polkit..
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by bashkiddie 9mo ago
I once had to write an IPv6 stack intending to cache poison internet targets (alias resolution). I just referred to the RFC. A well behaved reference implementation would not be of help.
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by bashkiddie 9mo ago
A hull requires at minimum one shape and returns a convex shape. A minkowski sum, as far as I understand it, requires a surface and a volume and returns a volume. Example 1: apply hull() to a star shape Example 2: You want to fold a picture
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by bashkiddie 9mo ago
I did not know about phonics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonics English is my second language. I found writing and pronunciation disconnected and learned two separate languages.
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by bashkiddie 10mo ago
> Go is strong. How do you parse the puzzle input into a data structure of your choice?
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by bashkiddie 10mo ago
The web page says Private Spaces can hide an app from the user. What I want to do is hide my address book and gallery from the app.
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by bashkiddie 10mo ago
Your Pixel 8 could be about two years old. The connector performed way under spec and you should send it in for repair (assuming your are in a country with a 2 year warranty period)
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by bashkiddie 10mo ago
If I want to ask my neighbor for a cup of sugar, I can either send a text or whatsapp. I get to choose which messenger I trust more. Whatsapp provides metadata about my social profile and my active ours of the day to Facebook/Meta. Car
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by bashkiddie 10mo ago
I do not understand why your comment got downvoted: I do receive spam in Signal, because i had to register a phone number. I loose my chat history if I do not log into the desktop client for FIXNUM days. The desktop client may crash as soon
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by bashkiddie 10mo ago
raises hand I have a bunch of problems with WhatsApp. Have you tried to restore a backup? You cant, unless it is uploaded to google cloud. No google account, no backup. (including the adress book that's tied to the account, since you
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by bashkiddie 10mo ago
I do receive occasional spam on WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal. Besides the operator spam (try our shiny new AI feature!) Tying and account to a phone number is a privacy nightmare. I guess Facebook/Meta does it for easier social graph
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by bashkiddie 10mo ago
I have WeChat and WhatsApp. From a user perspective they do not differ much. There is a rumor when both companies tried to enter the Indian market: Whatsapp won. WeChat assumes there is good reception and fast data transfer anywhere so ther
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by bashkiddie 10mo ago
Could not read OP, clownflare is down. > Symbols are pseudo-strings Can guess by LISP: Symbols reside in the symbol table, which is global scope. Strings reside in the variable tables, subject to local scope. It is two different storage

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