eadmund

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by eadmund 11mo ago
> I noticed that Whatsapp is even worse than Chrome, it opens HTT PS even if I share HTTP links. Firefox does this when I type in a URL and the server is down. I absolutely hate this behaviour, because I run a bunch of services inside
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by eadmund 11mo ago
Some motherboards only support firmware updates applied from Windows. In 2025, which is just crazy to me.
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by eadmund 11mo ago
Ironically, this Google page itself fails to work without Javascript enabled!
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by eadmund 11mo ago
> I applaud the author for trying. The underlying viewpoint is valid Is it valid? I’m not really convinced. I’m not particularly a fan of copyright to begin with, and this looks like yet another abuse of it. I consider myself a creat
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by eadmund 11mo ago
Is the restriction on grantees not violating federal law a new one, or has it been around for ages?
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by eadmund 11mo ago
Reaching out only to members of certain groups rather than others is still invidious discrimination. When based on characteristics like race, sex or national origin it is probably illegal, although I am not a lawyer.
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by eadmund 11mo ago
Regardless of what others do, the best thing to do is to choose the best license for one’s own software. One which preserves the freedom of one’s users and the openness of one’s code.
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by eadmund 11mo ago
> I have never once thought Visual Studio needs some way to edit its own source code on the fly... whats [sic] the actual use case? Writing Visual Studio, for example. Debugging Visual Studio. Extending Visual Studio in more than t
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by eadmund 11mo ago
> with your logic, you can take the lisp interpreter out of emacs, stick it into say mspaint, and have an equally powerful program. Yes, that would be pretty awesome. The GIMP tries to be something like that.
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by eadmund 11mo ago
> direnv does exactly what you describe (and a lot more) using flake.nix Direnv is awesome! Note, thought, that it does not depend on Nix, just a Unix-like OS and a supported shell: https://direnv.net/#prerequisites
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by eadmund 11mo ago
I recommend direnv for that: https://direnv.net/ Its intended use case is loading environment variables (you could use this to load your virtualenv), but it works by sourcing a script — and that script can be ‘cat usage.txt
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by eadmund 11mo ago
Doh, I missed the secondary sort. Were I trying to optimise this, I would test to see if a hash table of alphabetical characters is better, or just checking (or (and (char>= c #\A) (char<= c #\Z)) (and (char>= c #\a) (char<= c #
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by eadmund 11mo ago
He’s also saying that Magit is so good that he doesn’t recognise the complaints which motivate some people to switch from Git to Jujutsu. FWIW, I agree. Jujutsu seems fine, but Magit is fine too. Maybe Magit is the Blub of version control
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by eadmund 11mo ago
> splitting a line into words is a whole project on its own Is it[1]? My version below accumulates alphabetical characters until it encounters a non-alphabetical one, then increments the count for the accumulated word and resets the acc
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by eadmund 11mo ago
Everybody wants to charge as much as he can. Workers do the same: we all want to charge as much for our labour as possible. Unions do the same thing too. Everyone also wants to pay as little as he can, too. Fortunately, as long as there
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by eadmund 1y ago
If customers keep trying to do something … let them do it? Charge them to do it? It’s crazy to me: folks quite clearly want to run Windows 11 without an account. What is it worth to Microsoft let someone do that? $12? $144? $1,728?
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by eadmund 1y ago
Sure, but those are not backwards-compatible. If Wayland let me run my existing window manager then I would be glad to try it out.
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by eadmund 1y ago
> Life-or-death care almost certainly needs to be a government-run, single-payer system. > If giving another kid their cancer meds means one less gold-leaf-covered item in the presidential ballroom, so be it. Why do you think a govern
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by eadmund 1y ago
An issue with his remote setup is that the remote VPS decrypts packets from the remote laptop, then re-encrypts them for the LAN — this means that the remote VPS can see the plaintext of all those packets. He’ll need to layer TLS or someth
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by eadmund 1y ago
Nope, while it is possible to run normal X11 apps under Wayland, there is no support for running X11 window managers. Which is a damn shame, because window managers are where some of the greatest innovation is happening.
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by eadmund 1y ago
Were there photos? All I saw was a few paragraphs of text.
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by eadmund 1y ago
> mdadm+luks+lvm still do not quite provide the same set of features that ZFS alone does even without encryption. Namely in-line compression, and data checksumming, not to mention free snapshots. Sure, but LUKS+ZFS provides all that too,
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by eadmund 1y ago
Local Org mode, local LLM, all orchestrated with Emacs, all free software. If only I were retired and had infinite time!
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by eadmund 1y ago
Of course, adjusted for inflation the dollar has done much, much worse than gold! Not that one should put all of one’s portfolio into gold. That would be pretty insane. But a certain fixed allocation within a balanced portfolio? I th
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by eadmund 1y ago
Is it possible that a fair amount of government expenditures are just a fancy way of burning money? E.g. cowboy poetry festivals.
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by eadmund 1y ago
> your dollar is worth 8x less than what it was worth in 1970. A dollar in 2025 is not worth -7 (i.e. eight times one less than one) dollars from 1970; it is worth ⅛th of a dollar from 1970. Yes, I know what you mean. But ‘×’ is multipl
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by eadmund 1y ago
> In 1992, New Jersey Senator and former basketball player Bill Bradley sponsored a Federal law called PASPA, the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act. This law banned most states from legalizing sports books: businesses that s
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by eadmund 1y ago
> 24, 4, 7, it has the upsetting feeling of a gallon being four quarts each of which is two pints. A gallon is two pottles ; a pottle is two quarts; a quart is two pints; a pint is two cups; a cup is two gills. And a gill is two jacks!
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by eadmund 1y ago
And when I visited the page with JavaScript disabled, it displayed all the text but no images. HTML has the img tag. There’s no need for JavaScript to add images to the DOM!
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by eadmund 1y ago
> > If you want to sit together, pay for that privilege > This is evil. There is no cost to the airline to put people who booked together next to another. Bin-packing is tough (look at Kubernetes!). Economically, giving folks will

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