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by foxdev 6y ago
It's the reasonable thing to do when context collapses so easily on tweets.
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by foxdev 6y ago
Otherwise you get species popping up later to find the device one of your people left that kills you in the plane of existence you transcended to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate%3A_The_Ark_of_Truth
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by foxdev 6y ago
Needs a seizure warning. Other than that, it's a lot of fun.
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by foxdev 6y ago
Probably the same reason people used IE6 after it went stagnant. What was your choice? It's not like most YouTube channels have websites they publish stuff to as an alternative.
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by foxdev 6y ago
This is something that hit me when I found out how to translate between decimal and binary. If an A on a screen can be a grid of numbers, and those numbers can be reduced to a series of 1s and 0s and stored in a bunch of fancy wires, then w
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by foxdev 6y ago
He lets people run their mouths for hours. That means they run out of talking points, realize they're going in loops, and sometimes say something worthwhile. He has on some people who really are just awful , but even they succumb to t
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by foxdev 6y ago
Sometimes the detour is the journey.
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by foxdev 6y ago
The 2018 sci-fi/horror movie Tau showed the endgame of in-home security drones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_(film)
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We aren't after the same five dollars(devfoxes.substack.com)
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by foxdev 6y ago
Things done in the name of religion are a net negative on my life. It's not the fault of all religious people, but the people doing it are hard to avoid if I get involved, even if I were inclined to try.
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by foxdev 6y ago
Kids have to worry about money up to a point. I heard "we can't afford it" a lot growing up.
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by foxdev 6y ago
I switched to Joplin. It's completely seamless once I authenticate with the service I sync with and toggle the web clipper support in the desktop app. You can even clip those pages where the site blocks the Evernote and OneNote crawler
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by foxdev 6y ago
I'm coming around to management being a key part of Mozilla's problem. Firefox did legitimately find itself in a situation even the best turnaround artist would struggle with, but the situation calls for self-sacrifice at the top
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by foxdev 6y ago
I wish epub would catch on for more than books. An epub is just HTML and CSS in a zip file, and a large part of the world population has a device than can load it and present it cleanly.
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by foxdev 6y ago
This looks promising! I'll try it in five years, or when Google commits to keeping it alive long enough for it to have a chance.
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by foxdev 6y ago
While PDF is an open format on paper, in practice it's as proprietary as any ancient format. Supporting it in full is not trivial.
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by foxdev 6y ago
Relevant story time! The neighbor would often complain about his cable and ask if I had the same problems. I did. One day, he'd had enough, and switched to DSL and satellite. My house's connectivity issues vanished.
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by foxdev 6y ago
This stuff was always public information. These sites collected it and charged to access it in detail. They basically replaced people who did this professionally. Gumshoe as a service.
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by foxdev 6y ago
I think most people who think about it use Unsplash as lead generation. Like writing a blog in your area of knowledge.
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by foxdev 6y ago
Today I learned: Microsoft is buying Bethesda Bethesda is owned by a company called ZeniMax Media It's actually Bethesda Softworks Bethesda is a place in Maryland
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Don't shave the yak: Why I started a newsletter on Substack(devfoxes.substack.com)
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by foxdev 6y ago
There was a long time where the only way to watch ExoSquad post-cancellation, unless you taped it, was to download it from a site hosted on someone's subdomain on a university domain.
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by foxdev 6y ago
You can get a $20-40 Netgear router at Walmart.
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by foxdev 6y ago
The cackling villain style of racism is mostly dying with Lee Atwater's generation. The human systems they installed perpetuate it with such subtlety that people can train an algorithm nearly 100% on white faces and not even realize it
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by foxdev 6y ago
I could never do math in my head like this (with reasonable speed and accuracy), so I didn't lose anything. I put an estimated cost by each item on the grocery list, total it at the bottom, and note whether the real prices are higher o
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by foxdev 6y ago
This is true, but I don't think many people think of laser as anything other than "dangerous light." That's how I used it. Colloquial meanings can be frustrating when they clash with the technical meaning, but trying to
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by foxdev 6y ago
You can use the Fresnel lens in an old projection TV as a laser. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmlXR2nsis4
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by foxdev 6y ago
Latter seasons of Highlander tell me they were mostly for people to test their rivals out before a final confrontation in another part of the city in the final act.
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by foxdev 6y ago
Recommendation systems are built on k-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) algorithms. Subjective measure of quality is not a factor. A computer can see that two people like the same thing, but also that those two people like similar things each is not
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by foxdev 6y ago
Here's an attempt at making a Goodreads-like that runs on ActivityPub: https://github.com/mouse-reeve/bookwyrm

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