grandchild

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by grandchild 5mo ago
You're forgetting that the 20$ are not a sustainable price point. Would your backburner personal app thingy be worth 200$?
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by grandchild 8mo ago
Brian Acton may regret it, but I sure don't, seeing that he went on to bankroll Signal, arguably with money from the sale. Thanks for that!
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by grandchild 9mo ago
SAP runs its own cloud/IaaS in addition to running its workloads on the hyperscalers. It's been doing that for years internally, and that SAP cloud is now being extended to be open for direct consumption by other companies: https
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by grandchild 9mo ago
As a kid I actually used the theme on my first hand-me-down. As the regular theme. And I remember chosing it because it was fun! It made my computer more fun. At the end of the day, usability shouldn't trump fun. If I find it's le
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by grandchild 10mo ago
Also, I'm working on AVS still, from time to time: https://github.com/grandchild/vis_avs/tree/dev
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by grandchild 1y ago
Once you know that _usually_ people use white cotton gloves when handling museum artifacts, I find it a bit distressing that the person halfway down the article is not wearing any while holding the priceless 700-year-old pages.
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by grandchild 2y ago
Funky! Round trip through Signal worked. But you can tell, because a regular single emoji gets "jumbo sized", these ones don't.
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by grandchild 2y ago
There is also `ts` from moreutils[0]. One of a few gems there. And moreutils is (probably) already in "your" distro. [0] https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/
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by grandchild 2y ago
I think you're misunderstanding what SGX is used for in the Signal context: It's only used server-side. The clients have no real use for it, because they don't have to attest the software they're running, only the keys t
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by grandchild 2y ago
It's a bit like the radio version of http://astronaut.io :)
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by grandchild 2y ago
If nothing else, do adopt f-strings. It really makes the code cleaner!
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by grandchild 2y ago
I think it's not answered in the slides. Instead they offer two hypotheses for the _characteristic_ of the observation of the declining length-of-day in the last 20 years, with all known effects removed such as the Metonic Cycle: Rando
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by grandchild 2y ago
As of a few weeks ago, you can hide your phone number on Signal, and it's even the default, even for existing accounts. You can even opt in to disable discovery by someone who already knows your number.[0] > To me Telegram is going
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by grandchild 3y ago
the interesting thing is, the device may have to be built but possibly never operated. the existence of this device would make all nuclear-bomb-holders scramble to disarm them. OTOH we'd also have to know where the bombs are pretty pre
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by grandchild 3y ago
further down the article: > if each stage were scaled up to a square meter, it would produce up to 5 liters of drinking water per hour so 1m², times the number of layers.
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by grandchild 4y ago
This stunned me a bit. Which iphone-specific "connections" can’t you replace? If the answer is messages, I can’t imagine they wouldn’t have Whatsapp or some other messenger installed. If they don’t, may I ask which country you’re
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by grandchild 4y ago
> Sleep: Jerusalem Look for "Sleep - Dopesmoker". It’s the re-release of the same thing.
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by grandchild 4y ago
maybe add https://asciiflow.com ?
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by grandchild 4y ago
`lstopo` is cool too for bigger servers
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by grandchild 4y ago
While I love the project linked here, "voice" messages allow you to do more than talk. I've sent messages where I'm singing, or also where I'm reading a book chapter. It'd be sad if those things weren't po
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by grandchild 4y ago
I recently discovered a slight mitigation on the iPad re Youtube ads: If you open a Youtube URL and the preview image looks like it's not the actual video but an ad -- wait. Wait for approximately the length of the ad, and the preview
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by grandchild 4y ago
It's an especially hard habit to break for people who are "Team Interrupt", because we learn to cling to the speaker position in normal group conversations this way. People from "Team Wait" are probably much more na
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by grandchild 4y ago
Great article, I immediately started to think back to vvvv[1], a great tool I used to use when I was still on Windows. It had many moments of "oh there’s a node for just that!" which allowed me to just go on with my initial plan i
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by grandchild 4y ago
First: in mice. The next thought that immediately comes to mind is, if it's an edible animal that's been available possibly for centuries, then probably people would have noticed something before. If _any_ well-known ingredient _s
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by grandchild 4y ago
True, but this was only a question in the grammatical sense. A discussion with only "questions" like these would be very poor indeed.
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by grandchild 4y ago
I don't know if this is true or not, but I beg you, don't post comments like this. It's a question, and you could've spent the extra minute of research to _actually find out_ and post that. This way we are left with nega
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by grandchild 4y ago
Oh hey, I didn't see your reply until just now, thanks for the explanation and trying to resolve it! I understand the technical issue now. I still don't understand the UX. Am I assuming correctly that it's core to the concept
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by grandchild 4y ago
While I absolutely enjoyed the historical research on such a miniscule mystery, I also liked how it took me two clicks from the front page of HN into an occult eBook about "khaos magick". The things people write about...
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by grandchild 4y ago
More interesting than the code itself is the history at the very bottom of the README.
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by grandchild 4y ago
I find it telling that notion managed to break the core web concept of the hyperlink by implementing their own version of the <a> tag. If I middle-click on a link to open it in a new tab, I paste-insert my clipboard content _into the

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