bionoid

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by bionoid 2y ago
I use Video Background Play Fix [1] (along with uBlock of course). "Firefox for Android can continue playing video even if you switch to another tab or app. However, sites can detect these user actions with the Page Visibility API and
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by bionoid 5y ago
I'm not sure if I picked it up from a documentary or book, but worth noting that the photographer Frank Hurley dived into the ice water and chopped through a wood wall to rescue the glass plate negatives from the sinking ship. I'm
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by bionoid 5y ago
I didn't get past the pricing page to be honest. Podio costs $20/seat for premium, your product costs $48 for pro (with enterprise price not even listed)
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by bionoid 5y ago
> 1080p at 240hz with a fancy graphics card On manufacturer's website [0], both the 15" and 17" Stellaris are listed with WQHD IPS-Panel (2560 x 1440 pixels) - I was looking at them just a few days ago.. The article lists
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by bionoid 5y ago
I have seen it a lot of code over the years, sometimes referred to as "shorthand ternary" or the "and-or-trick". In Python and/or do not return a boolean, but one of its input arguments. So I am going to say it is
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by bionoid 5y ago
Python also has "shorthand ternary" which uses and/or: a = bar and foo # "or None" is implied b = bar and foo or baz It does almost the same but not quite. In the latter example, if foo is falsey, it
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by bionoid 5y ago
I cut my teeth on Perl back in the day, and while I have stopped using it completely by now, I am no hater. But this article does not contain the word "bless", and I wonder why it was left out. If I had to guess, it's not as
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by bionoid 5y ago
In case anyone is interested, the $N-Protractor algorithm was ported to Python for use in the Kivy framework [0]. Unfortunately it's tied to kivy's clock among other things, but easy to rip it out should you need it in a different
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by bionoid 5y ago
My interpretation is $1 reads as "unistroke"/"singlestroke" while $N = "multistroke"
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by bionoid 5y ago
The FAQ suggests that NFS is problematic for concurrent access: > But use caution: this locking mechanism might not work correctly if the database file is kept on an NFS filesystem. This is because fcntl() file locking is broken on many
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by bionoid 6y ago
The subreddit is /r/Random_Acts_Of_Pizza and still in operation. /r/RandomActsOfPizza was a copycat started with the explicit purpose of bartering nudes for pizza (forbidden in the original). It was later shut down when
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by bionoid 6y ago
"Ministry of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment" - it was candidly named, if nothing else. > Indeed, Goebbels initially opposed the term propaganda, recognizing that in popular usage, both in Germany and abroad, it was associa
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by bionoid 6y ago
I like the idea and the execution, nice job!
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by bionoid 6y ago
> Nobody's speed-reading code. That doesn't make sense. Well, I speed-read code all the time.. it's a necessity in my role as independent consultant. Clients have a lot of half-baked/unfinished projects, and I'm
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by bionoid 6y ago
There was a lot of issues with the "new" Yahoo Groups web frontend. A feedback system was set up, but virtually all the reports were ignored. They removed it altogether at some point, so you couldn't even see reports or vote
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by bionoid 6y ago
I assume that's total, including apps? Or are you saying that between old, mobile web and new, 75% of hits are from new? If so that's quite different from my traffic stats, copying a comment from older thread: According to my traf
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by bionoid 6y ago
> The question is whether or not the abuses that might occur as the result of analyzing publicly available information are worse than the harms that might come from not doing so. How many criminals announce their plans on Twitter in a wa
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by bionoid 6y ago
Nice work! Please add a LICENSE file
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by bionoid 6y ago
> I'm actually amazed that they still bother to maintain this legacy versions. According to my traffic stats (moderating ~400k subscribers), old + mobile web frontends make up about twice the traffic of new frontend. Apps are by far
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by bionoid 6y ago
I came across Tauthon [0] a while back, it seems quite active. I have a codebase that has proven difficult to port, so this is the backup plan.. "Tauthon is a backwards-compatible fork of the Python 2.7.18 interpreter with new syntax,
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by bionoid 6y ago
> very few companies will pay for their source code to be audited, because it's expensive and time-consuming, and most only do it if they're required to. And even when they do, in my experience, they usually end up buying an ex
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by bionoid 6y ago
> So I create a local repo with dolt, and now I want someone else to collaborate on this dataset with me, without using dolthub. How I do this? The best I could find is utils/remotesrv in the repository [0], which seems to enable co
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by bionoid 6y ago
> My battery is still strong. Probably around 10-12 hours of use. Mum bought new last year because pads were worn, I got her old set - uses a single AAA battery and lasts across the globe and back (~30 hours). Unfortunately she didn&#x27
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by bionoid 6y ago
Ahem well, random story time, I also used VNC about 10+ years ago. I was visiting a friend, and somehow we ended up wondering how many open VNC servers were still out on the Internet. Fast forward some hours, we had put together a scanner (
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by bionoid 7y ago
Well in that case you are using a cloud-based service, it makes sense that you have to authenticate. But I was writing and building C++ code just fine locally, and I could have continued doing that if it wasn't for the dark pattern.
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by bionoid 7y ago
> I'm not installing a stupid app so Microsoft can collect data on me. This is going far off topic, but I am currently consulting with a client that requested using Visual Studio Community Edition [2019] for the project. I was a mon
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by bionoid 7y ago
At least around here, it's very common to keep union activity outside work e-mail, so management can't simply read it all. I would not be surprised if "externally" means "a coworkers private e-mail address".
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by bionoid 7y ago
I had not heard about this, but the title reminded me of a 90s UK travel show based on a similar concept, "The Dice Man" [0]. The host asks strangers for alternatives and throws the dice to decide what to do / where to go [0]
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by bionoid 7y ago
[2] is available here: https://www.removeddit.com/r/awk/comments/4omosp/differences... Archive for posterity: http://archive.is/btGky
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by bionoid 7y ago
I suggest studying "A Regular Expression Matcher" by Rob Pike: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr09/cos333/be...

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