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by disembiggen 2y ago
It refuses to open files it doesn't like the filetype of, it won't save as an arbitrary filetype, it defaults to being a variable-width font and it has a few too many bells and whistles because it's clearly meant to edit RTF
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by disembiggen 2y ago
I know Miranda who wrote this is a pretty heavyhanded US liberal, can't help but hear quite a lot of trump in the way Mikkelsen reads "Bye Bye": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMWsYJxCK4I I wonder if this so
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by disembiggen 2y ago
by body count? the soviets
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by disembiggen 2y ago
> New Bloomberg Terminal for 2 EUR / month no it isn't, good content, bad title
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by disembiggen 2y ago
while I'm hopeful google will be responsible long-term maintainers of this accessibility feature, given their "ship and drop" attitude (music, reader, podcasts, stadia...) I'm glad they've chosen to open source this
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by disembiggen 2y ago
pandoc as a service, mad times we live in, best of luck I suppose
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by disembiggen 3y ago
if there were, globally, no copyright at all in any "ai" generated images, and one confidently thought there never would be, then simply using the images, in the case that one only needed one or two images, would probably be fine.
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by disembiggen 3y ago
the thing I've found teaching is that the place scratch really shines is teaching kids who are a bit too young to "get" Python. I think it's related to their language/visual intuition but a seven year old will be ab
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by disembiggen 3y ago
I was obsessed with scratch as a child. It was my way in to computer programming, and I've taught in schools using it. It's an incredible tool and I'll hype it up any chance I get! It really is a miracle!
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by disembiggen 4y ago
this comment section is a little grim, I guess it's a bit expected that the audience for hacker news skews nerdy, single and male, but it feels worth saying that you're still likely all fairly attractive guys! hang on to a good at
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by disembiggen 4y ago
can confirm, went from being a 5/10 guy to a 5/10 trans woman, attitude changes real fast when you go from 0 matches to too many matches (and loads of guys aren't even interested in trans women!) The disparity also makes tind
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by disembiggen 4y ago
>If you say that there are only two genders I’ll drag you is my drag not free speech too? If one insults me (or says something to me I consider insulting), I should be allowed to insult them right back, right?
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by disembiggen 4y ago
Free speech is "about" whatever is in the first amendment Lol, USAian moment, how about the other 7.7 billion of us?
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by disembiggen 4y ago
I am not a liberal. Many people are not. The paradox of tolerance is the easy counterarguement to this. If you choose to never do anything in response to the things people say that's your perogative, I on the other hand can listen just
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by disembiggen 4y ago
you're almost bang on here, but don't forget "prefer not to say"! Also you only need that text box if you actually GAF (which many do but half the time you'll throw it away), otherwise some poor data-cruncher is gon
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by disembiggen 4y ago
Conflating mastodon and activitypub might fly in your title or your seo, but this is a technical comunity of technical people and we're all clickbait-averse pedants, so maybe use an honest title here?
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by disembiggen 4y ago
sam frankman-bied
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by disembiggen 4y ago
this reminds me of the compsoc cookbook( https://github.com/compsoc-edinburgh/cook-book ), a git based cookbook made by members of the university of edinburghs computing society, it tends to get some new activity when a
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by disembiggen 4y ago
it's an acronym, Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound. So if you're struggling to read books say, "Finish this book by the end of the month" is: Specific: read the book Measurable: no ambiguity as t
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by disembiggen 4y ago
> However, if you are too lazy to use your imagination to decide what alignment a character might be, then maybe role-playing isn’t for you Using your imagination around the roll of a dice is the entire point of using dice in an rpg,
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by disembiggen 4y ago
so there's not a clear "why" on this page, just a "download" digging for it yields the wiki which says: "Why Linux? More applications Linux can run many different types of applicatons. No matter what you'r
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by disembiggen 5y ago
I disagree fairly fundamentally with this, I've been a club teacher in primary schools, and scratch is such a good teaching tool for kids that to this day I marvel at it. I want to evaluate lamdatalk against scratch on the principals