i80and

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by i80and 4mo ago
> Also it really is sad to see “Hacker” News be “World News”. More Zig and less White House, please. I have been on this website for 17 years (ugh that's scary), and people have been posting variations of this remark the entire time
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by i80and 4mo ago
I don't know the parent's policy position, but it seems like they didn't express one, and you've just assumed they support deanonymization?
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by i80and 6mo ago
"Access" is the filthy dirty word here. Can't be anything other than a stenographer because you might lose your ACCESS, with which you can do MORE stenography. It's a sickness.
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by i80and 6mo ago
Defunct? I just switched to it a couple months ago, and it seems actively developed. (Though I think this announcement is sufficiently unpleasant I'm starting to reconsider)
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by i80and 6mo ago
They are right to say it though
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by i80and 6mo ago
That's good to hear!
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by i80and 6mo ago
Maybe the technical politics have changed, but I feel like I remember there was some push in the late 2000s to rewrite libraries that were using Xlib to instead use XCB. Regardless, that's sort of my point: having a lower level fiddly
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by i80and 6mo ago
Whenever people complain about Wayland being hard to program in, I think about how Xlib was largely replaced by XCB, and OpenGL is increasingly marginalized in comparison to Vulkan. Not to draw any specific analogy, but sometimes a fussy
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by i80and 6mo ago
The absolute lack of consequences Trump faced after his first go-around all but guaranteed the crime spree we're now seeing, and will probably go down in history as the primary blunder of Biden's DOJ.
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by i80and 7mo ago
Not the parent, but products like it are strongly Protestant Evangelical-coded, so that could actually be a selling point for the intended audience
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by i80and 7mo ago
ah yes, clothes not fitting, a famously bourgeoisie problem /s As somebody with an atypical body shape, not being able to find things that fit is an endless source of irritation and discomfort
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by i80and 7mo ago
Unfortunately, the citations are generally quite low quality and have in my experience a high rate of not actually supporting the text they're attached to.
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by i80and 8mo ago
Adventure Maker and Bryce3D were an S-tier way of making very nonsensical games as a child! It would be cool to have a FOSS redux of it, to be honest.
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by i80and 8mo ago
I remember when everything was "Sign in with .NET Passport" as a yoot and just being like "what the hell are you talking about"
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by i80and 8mo ago
I really haven't found this to be true at all ; corporations are just as dysfunctional or worse. It's more that there's fewer legal protections, so private surveillance is a great way for governments to launder the illegal t
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by i80and 8mo ago
I ran xfwm's compositor back when it was first introduced on a 400 MHz Pentium II with a GeForce 2. It was fully fine. The compositing tax is just waiting for vsync; unless your machine is, like, a Pentium Classic , compositing itself
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by i80and 8mo ago
The 2026 redesign has put in a proper liquid cooling loop. (Battery heating is inexplicably an extra $300 option, and not available on the base trim AFAICS?)
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by i80and 8mo ago
They often have eSIMs I think, but (depending probably on the car) pulling the modem's fuse can be safe. That's the case for the VW ID.4 at least.
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by i80and 8mo ago
I found USB-C to be pretty unreliable up until the past several years -- I had multiple phones and laptops from multiple brands <=2020 that just had USB-C ports turn fiddly or outright stop working after a year or two. Things are better
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by i80and 8mo ago
About 0%. China really has no serious interest in Greenland, and Russia isn't going to trigger direct confrontation with NATO. At least, unless NATO splinters, which is looking somewhat likely now with this foolish US administration. R
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by i80and 8mo ago
I just cannot stomach the number of people who apparently value nothing except displays of performative cruelty and childish tantrums. There's been a significant shift of an "ow-I-touched-the-stove" variety towards sanity amo
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by i80and 8mo ago
I'm sympathetic to the position that a lot of people just didn't pay attention before voting in the '24 election and voted purely off of some incomprehensibly puerile vibes, but the complete apathy I'm still seeing is
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by i80and 8mo ago
IMDB stars are probably one of the worst SNR filters you could use for film, to be honest.
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by i80and 8mo ago
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by i80and 8mo ago
I don't want to be a doomer, but I think the FBI is highly unlikely to do an honest good-faith investigation here.
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by i80and 8mo ago
If midterms go well, and the special elections last November suggest they may, then at least we may be able to blunt some of the harm. But the underlying point that about 35% of Americans just fundamentally do not seem to value civilization
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by i80and 8mo ago
A decade ago I put this stance into my LinkedIn profile tag line, and was a little surprised how many engineers reached out to praise that decision. I think it's rapidly, finally , entering the realm of political viability.
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by i80and 8mo ago
The author is right that AI video is being used to propagandize and rot minds at scale in a way sort of unthinkable a couple years ago. Short-form video content wasn't good for us beforehand, but any balance has been fully upturned
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by i80and 9mo ago
If a startup were able to truly solve the first two issues alone , they would not be burning those world-changing engineering solutions on flying taxis . I don't know if a silent, fail-safe , and efficient method of flight is physic
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by i80and 9mo ago
You're bandwidth-limited on a sparse serialized landing site map no matter what, and you need far higher distance margins that will eat up basically all of the dimensional advantages. If ground vehicles side-swipe, it's just an in

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