doug-moen

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by doug-moen 20d ago
I have 3 kinds of mental vision. One, which some people call "phosphenes", is the ability to paint mental images on the field of vision that corresponds mentally to the signals I get from my retina. I can only see these kinds of i
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by doug-moen 2mo ago
You are asking if a partnership with Fairphone would bring in revenue for GrapheneOS. Fairphone would need to design a new phone with hardware that meets the security requirements of GrapheneOS, which is what Motorola is doing in the announ
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by doug-moen 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipping_points_in_the_climate_...
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by doug-moen 2mo ago
One of the routing options in CoMaps is "avoid stairs". Not enabled by default. See ≡ → Settings → Routing Options. (CoMaps is the open-source, non-profit community fork of Organic Maps.)
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by doug-moen 5mo ago
GrapheneOS already has their own attestation API that verifies the app is running on GrapheneOS. Since GrapheneOS is more secure than stock Android, security conscious apps like banking apps have a solid technical reason to use the API and
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by doug-moen 7mo ago
The ability to fake the location on a per-app basis is called "location scopes". It is being worked on, as mentioned here: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/27926-per-profile-location-... Currently there is a
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by doug-moen 7mo ago
Zed already had terms of use that forbid "reverse engineering" (ie looking at the GPL source code). Gram is a hard fork that removes the TOS, telemetry and AI, and turns Zed into just a text editor. https://gram.liten.a
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by doug-moen 7mo ago
GNOME OS and KDE Linux are both specialized distros that primarily exist to test GNOME and KDE. They aren't for general users, and both web sites warn you not to rely on them. And they impose limitations on your ability to install arbi
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by doug-moen 8mo ago
I think that what you are calling "immutable pass by reference" is what the OP is calling "pass by value". See, when used abstractly, "pass by value" means that the argument is passed as a value, hence it is im
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by doug-moen 8mo ago
I am unable to extract any meaning from your post. You appear to be making a general claim: it is impossible to design a programming language where everything is a value. You at least admit that "data thingies" can be values. Are
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by doug-moen 8mo ago
This is Trump's MAGA diet, a replacement for the lame liberal DEI diet of the Biden administration. Not hyperbole, the web site states all this explicitly if you click through to this link: < https://cdn.realfood.gov/
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by doug-moen 9mo ago
Yah, I read that and thought "this seems like gibberish: maybe I am reading LLM slop".
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by doug-moen 9mo ago
Yes, it was vibe-coded, and the author says they still haven't learned Prolog yet. < https://www.reddit.com/r/livecoding/comments/1pmabwv/dogalog... >
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by doug-moen 10mo ago
Lisp has had arbitrary precision arithmetic since the early 1970s. So did dc on Unix, also in the early 1970s. ABC didn't arrive until 1987.
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by doug-moen 10mo ago
no, they are talking about high performance desktops, mostly. They link to the Framework desktop, which has 256 GB/s memory bandwith. For comparison, the Apple Mac Pro has 800 GB/s memory bandwidth. Neither manufacturer is able to
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by doug-moen 1y ago
what ginger bill actually said was > I’d argue that actual closures which are unified everywhere as a single procedure type with non-capturing procedure values require some form of automatic-memory-management. That does not necessarily g
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by doug-moen 1y ago
This song and video, Ice Resurfacing Machine, is popular with a young boy I know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqci9VCugLs
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by doug-moen 1y ago
The long correspondence that you describe (from the 40's to the 60's) was with Gordon Mosley of the BBC, and not with Oswald. The only letters that Russell personally wrote to Oswald were sent in January 1961.
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by doug-moen 1y ago
from the grammar: > pointer_type = "^" type.
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by doug-moen 1y ago
Didn't Lisp solve this problem in the 1980's with generic functions and multiple dispatch? I'm referring to the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS), and its predecessors, New Flavors and CommonLoops. I see no mention of this pri
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by doug-moen 1y ago
> Netherlands-based Elsevier bans the use of such tools, citing the "risk that the technology will generate incorrect, incomplete or biased conclusions." That's for peer reviewers, who aren't paid. Elsevier is also re
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by doug-moen 1y ago
If the coyotes breed, then attacks on humans will begin as the coyotes will instinctively defend their cubs from humans who get too close to the den, even unwittingly. It would be better to remove the coyotes before this happens.
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by doug-moen 1y ago
The quality of your water varies with the district you live in. My municipal water provider puts chloramine in the water to kill bacteria. Occasionally we get high levels of chloramine, which is disgusting (smell and taste), but the water f
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by doug-moen 1y ago
Advertising was originally illegal on the internet. It was for non-profit activities only (university and industrial research and educational activities). When the world wide web first deployed in 1989, web advertising was illegal. The rule
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by doug-moen 1y ago
The page is archived, and it is a fun read: https://web.archive.org/web/20111229065146/http://www.latera...
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by doug-moen 2y ago
It's true, there is no absolute direction for which way a wheel spins. It's relative to the observer. If you are standing on the side of a road, and a bicycle goes by, then you may observe the wheels to rotate clockwise, while an
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by doug-moen 2y ago
> You surely aren't advocating that hardware predating PDP-11 for a decade are more powerful. That's correct. The PDP-11 used for the first Unix system had 24KBytes of memory, and no virtual memory. The kernel and the current r
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by doug-moen 2y ago
I knew that Venus mostly moves in one direction across the sky, but occasionally has "retrograde" movement where it temporarily moves "backwards". This spirograph model is a wonderful explanation of why that happens.
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by doug-moen 2y ago
I get my apps from F-Droid, which guarantees that the apps are open source, free of most "unwanted features" (ie, not malware), and don't depend on google play APIs. Apps written to the F-Droid standard don't use Google
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by doug-moen 2y ago
You can buy a Pixel 9 with GrapheneOS preinstalled from here: https://shop.nitrokey.com/shop/nitrophone-5-723 I have no relationship with Nitrokey but they seem to be a legit open-source company in Germany, with a gith

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