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by d4rti 2y ago
The cruelty is the point
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by d4rti 2y ago
Banning phones is the practical policy. Schools could not police the myriad of apps and websites.
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by d4rti 2y ago
There was nothing coherent to understand. A rag tag coalition mainly built on delusional positions. - we can have all the trade benefits without freedom of movement (specifically denied by EU at the time, didn't materialise) - we will
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by d4rti 2y ago
XP x64 was a lovely desktop, and was essentially 2k3 desktop. Last Windows system I enjoyed using.
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by d4rti 2y ago
What happened is that the remain side had to fight on the side of a reality that existed and the Brexiteers made up a fantasy future that has failed to materialise.
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by d4rti 2y ago
For more on how modern engines work (although the core idea of alpha-beta pruning [1] is still used) you can check out the chess programming wiki [2]. 1: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Alpha-Beta 2: https://www
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by d4rti 2y ago
I suspect the “l” parameter is for observed latency as the client displays observed latency from the server.
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by d4rti 2y ago
A strange thing is you can specifically donate to Thunderbird, but not to Firefox. I never quite understood why Mozilla seems more interested in other things vs Firefox (the browser, not the other Firefox branded things).
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by d4rti 2y ago
It's been a while but I used this with a USB to serial and a console cable for accessing Cisco switches/routers console.
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by d4rti 2y ago
Works for sure: $ file ./bin/python ./bin/python: DOS/MBR boot sector; partition 1 : ID=0x7f, active, start-CHS (0x0,0,1), end-CHS (0x3ff,255,63), startsector 0, 4294967295 sectors $ ./bin/pyth
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by d4rti 3y ago
KDP from Amazon will always take a 30% or greater cut. https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200644210
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by d4rti 3y ago
There is the vim adventures site https://vim-adventures.com/ but it doesn’t sound quite like what you are looking for.
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by d4rti 3y ago
Semi-literate programming?
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by d4rti 3y ago
This is a competitive post par excellence, for politeness, accuracy and still doing a great job of demonstrating fly.io's key competitive points vs MRSK. I'd love it if all 'vs' and competitive marketing was this good.
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by d4rti 3y ago
There’s a difficult asymmetry in that it takes much longer to build in house expertise that it does to privatise it. Privatisation also often allows a short term financial boost at long term net expense.
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by d4rti 4y ago
M1/M2 Mac or a Raspberry Pi?
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by d4rti 4y ago
One suspects that even some of the people behind this effort are skeptical, when you read between the lines. As with the rest of crypto, 99% a solution in search of a problem. Banking in the U.K. isn’t perfect but for the majority of consum
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by d4rti 4y ago
Do your own research is in this case code for it hasn’t happened. The closest you can find is: - the hostile environment denying immigrants banking services (while an obvious injustice, unrelated to their political views) [1] - seizures e
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by d4rti 4y ago
Is there a good theme for KDE that hews closely to the w2k/w2k3 look and feel? I have fond memories of using wxpx64 which was basically w2k3 desktop edition.
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by d4rti 4y ago
Tridactyl does the job for most websites pretty well as for text heavy sites like documentation it’s very good. https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl
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by d4rti 4y ago
Neither on FF or Safari on Mac.
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by d4rti 4y ago
I pressure cook with the Instant Pot, as well as using it as a rice cooker (which I consider to be worth it in itself, we eat a reasonably large amount of rice). Best sources are the pressure cooker recipes on Serious Eats [1], I especially
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by d4rti 4y ago
Gold is different to Bitcoin/Cryptocurrency in a few keys ways, not least of which: - it's a physical object - it has use value in jewelry - it has use value in electronics and other industrial applications Gold storag
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by d4rti 4y ago
I started using plex when my synology nas stopped supporting smb1 and Sonos doesn’t support anything newer. Do any of the competing solutions work with Sonos and have iOS and webOS (LG TV) apps?
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by d4rti 4y ago
How do I opt out of everything but my locally stored media?
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by d4rti 4y ago
Stuff I've used: - Prophet - seems to be the current 'standard' choice - ARIMA - Classical choice - Exponential Moving Average - dead simple to implement, works well for stuff that's a time series but not very se
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by d4rti 4y ago
I've been a big fan of the Lonely Planet travel guides, and it's cheap enough to pick one up for the city - worth it even for just a couple of meals or ideas.
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by d4rti 4y ago
Steve Yegge recommends deleting whole words and retyping instead of using backspace, this might help you. On a Mac Option-Delete will do this.
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by d4rti 4y ago
Let's also be clear the ideas were right-wing libertarian market fundamentalism, fomented through the shady 55 Tufton Street establishment, likely funded by American billionaire money. The market fundamentally rejecting the ideas of th
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by d4rti 4y ago
Consent-o-Matic [1] allows you to set your preferences once. I’d say it’s had about a 50-75% success rate. Sometimes takes a second or two. 1: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/consent-o-mat...

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