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by fifticon 12d ago
The worse part is whatever competent hoodlums will arrive after him, to enjoy the gates he has crashed
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by fifticon 16d ago
I know HN is not that kind of site, but I have a hard time suppressing the knowledge that "step 3 is profit", and now we arguably know what step 2 is.
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by fifticon 18d ago
switzerland is not currently at risk of a US invasion
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by fifticon 19d ago
this is another data point in my "year of the linux desktop"; linux is slowly becoming a decent option, not so much because of linux improving leaps and bounds, so much as what happens on the windows side collapsing on its own. 1
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by fifticon 2mo ago
It makes sense to ask WHY this is hard. People can disagree endlessly on why. But a big part is, that antitrust/monopoly legislation has been almost completely dismantled and detoothed within the last 35 years, starting back with Reaga
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by fifticon 3mo ago
I'm not sure you can blame the GNOME people for not trying. Personally, I feel like they are actively trying to make it worse, ie they are not passive. Their approach to file system dialogs (open file/folder, save file), was wha
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by fifticon 3mo ago
I concur, I would say evolution is more like "adaption" than improvement.
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by fifticon 4mo ago
This reminds me of trying to use File Explorer in Windows 11. I wish I could turn all their electron-app "improvements" off, to make it useful again, like it once was.. Case in point: Explorer now has tabs. I don't need tabs,
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by fifticon 5mo ago
or bombings
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by fifticon 5mo ago
hmm, I have no iphone.
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by fifticon 5mo ago
Apparently he did not belong to the social class who are allowed to do this.
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by fifticon 5mo ago
I don't really think you like it, but maybe you will like this.
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by fifticon 5mo ago
May the bridges I burn light the hills I die on.
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by fifticon 6mo ago
They will not go back to anything resembling the old normal :-/. Trump & his cronies have obliterated the Overton Window so hard you cannot even tell which side of the house the window used to be in. The successors for Trump will
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by fifticon 6mo ago
the comment section for this post is a shit show, most of the main comments have been downvoted to gray-land.
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by fifticon 6mo ago
did they mention that you can cheat this when e.g. singing, by changing pitch dynamically to fit the chords you are working with? In theory, a synthesizer or sound card could do the same. Of course, this could have other undesirable side
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by fifticon 7mo ago
I am glad this essay was on the right side of the fence, otherwise I would have written it myself in response.. Our company is currently one of countless, where we just had a "get with the program" meeting with our PMs, where th
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by fifticon 7mo ago
file sizes in explorer is my pet peeve, it should be a builtin. When I am coding and making small projects, I want to see the bytes. I hate that everything is shown as "1 or 2 k". and it is a hazzle to get access to and install
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by fifticon 7mo ago
fusion 360 is exactly "free" for that reason, to make people reason like you do. They do not want a blender moment.
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by fifticon 7mo ago
Usually, I can easily tell bad AI slop, because it is just that - sloppy - the bullet points, the 'delving' and all that. But how can you tell this article was also AI-tainted? On a second skim, I can sort of sense some of it
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by fifticon 7mo ago
traditionally, the chip goes on the shoulder, not the arm.
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by fifticon 7mo ago
It really should have been called Pi-thon, though.
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by fifticon 7mo ago
Though I did not follow the idea of chunkier fruit in those travel milkshakes, isn't that what clogs the straw, which is not ideal for a 1-hand treat.
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by fifticon 7mo ago
It is a bit sad that people have to be taught this; I am presuming the product people are a kind of humans too. But when I see their outputs, maybe this Christensen guy is right. I tried to adjust the background image on microsoft Teams vid
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by fifticon 8mo ago
Well, currently US _are_ ICE enthusiasts, lamentable as that may be.
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by fifticon 8mo ago
currently learning 3d "solid" design with blender for 3dprinter. I am aware blender is not the fit a cad app would be ( ), but it 'works' if you are careful what you do (I am not). This morning I had to clean the poor
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by fifticon 8mo ago
It is weird that the graphed increase grows steadily at presumably the same rate - there is no spike or bump or curve. I wonder if that indicates anything. Disregarding the shape of the graph, I would have guessed at a change in reporting i
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by fifticon 8mo ago
same, I do it whenever I oil the trebuchets.
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by fifticon 8mo ago
And also, it reminds me of minimalist design furniture design, where e.g. handles are hidden, and you just press a secret area to toggle e.g. a cabinet door open. I wish we could take all designers and architects, and people who encourag
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by fifticon 8mo ago
Funnily, all this weirdness was already solved with the original titlebars, which did not try to be both a drag handle and a menu. Apparently, only peasants use windows that are not maximised. Which reminds me, it has now been 2 years or

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