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by jsrjenkins 3y ago
How is it nicer with Wayland? I have a high-DPI laptop and it works great with X11. What would I gain with Wayland?
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by jsrjenkins 3y ago
Can't you just set the dpi in each display with X11?
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James Webb Telescope uses JavaScript from Bankrupt company(mybroadband.co.za)
4 points by jsrjenkins 4y ago|0 comments
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by jsrjenkins 4y ago
The whole notion of equivalency of evil is actually pernicious, as it is more of a contest of victimhood: "they did worse to us, so we are better". Arguing about numbers abstracts from the reality that even one person being killed
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by jsrjenkins 4y ago
Copernicus himself was a Catholic priest and a Canon. The first opposition to his works was actually from Protestant thinkers.
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by jsrjenkins 5y ago
It is also lazy thinking to say that since it is approved by an institution it must be good.
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by jsrjenkins 5y ago
It isn't even really a theory anymore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIgi7KPl6tw
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by jsrjenkins 5y ago
There is something already in place with the 'telegra.ph' site, which is connected with Telegram I believe: https://telegra.ph https://telegra.ph/api
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by jsrjenkins 6y ago
Thank you for these. The First [0] link looks particularly interesting.
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by jsrjenkins 6y ago
Yes, the phone has to be connected to the internet for it to work. It says so in the documentation, and on the very first page "To use the Signal desktop app, Signal must first be installed on your phone."
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by jsrjenkins 6y ago
The article doesn't actually answer the question. How many kilometers and what is the depth of the sound channel? Where does the pressure/temperaure ratio cause sound to difract? After reading such an article I feel none the wiser
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by jsrjenkins 6y ago
Fool The reason why the seven stars are no more than seven is a pretty reason. KING LEAR Because they are not eight? Fool Yes, indeed: thou wouldst make a good fool. (Shakespeare, /King Lear/, I, v)
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by jsrjenkins 6y ago
Has Emacs ever been ported to Plan9 and if not how difficult would it be?
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by jsrjenkins 6y ago
Actually the Romans counted their months beginning with March: March (1) April (2) May (3) ... July (5) (named after Julius Caesar) August (6) (named after Augustus) September (7) ... etc. The reason being in the ancient world all serious a
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by jsrjenkins 6y ago
Has any witness ever been convicted? There are so many witnesses that give completely false information that is later shown to be a lie. Has there any been a case of prosecuting such lies? Without prosecution it is all just empty threats an
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by jsrjenkins 6y ago
I think it is something to do with this information: https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1328461277971288067?s=20 Josh Hawley is a US Senator for Missouri. Supposedly he will ask questions about his information.
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by jsrjenkins 6y ago
I wonder if it is something to do with this information: https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1328461277971288067?s=20 Josh Hawley is a US Senator for Missouri.
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by jsrjenkins 6y ago
There is a special mode for looking for files called "Dired". It is very powerful, especially with the extensions. This link is a good introduction to it: http://pragmaticemacs.com/emacs/dired-marking-copying-
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Time Series Analysis of the Election(threadreaderapp.com)
5 points by jsrjenkins 6y ago|3 comments
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by jsrjenkins 6y ago
An interesting article concerning the election results from a data analyst.
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by jsrjenkins 7y ago
The best I've found is emacs picture-mode. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ba... Here is a good summary: http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_ascii_di
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by jsrjenkins 8y ago
I believe it was "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping", or so the acronym was jokingly in tbose days.
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by jsrjenkins 8y ago
Looking at this from an Assembler point of view, isn't everything really just a GOTO? Instruction Register + 1 = GOTO next memory location If A then B = Branch if equal = GOTO ADDR B call function = put currebt address in stack and GOT
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by jsrjenkins 9y ago
Anyone looking for a browser project that disables these add-ons should look at the 'waterfox project'. https://www.waterfoxproject.org/ Full discloser: I use waterfox as a renderer for conkeror [ http:/&#x2F
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by jsrjenkins 9y ago
Just my humble opinion, but I think the loss of the circus will actually not be a great help to the conservation of these wonderful animals. Elephants are in the public imagination largely due to the circus and the zoo. We like elephants be
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by jsrjenkins 9y ago
It wouldn't take much to bring this to WASM: http://manuels.github.io/texlive.js/ See previous story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5083361
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by jsrjenkins 9y ago
The actually TeX binary is actually quite small - it is little more than a macro processor. The other packages could actually be loaded on demand and kept in a local cache.
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by jsrjenkins 10y ago
Probably by concentrating more on the product than on politics.
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by jsrjenkins 10y ago
Well yes it will work after booting, but you usually want your computer to do a bit more than boot. No machine works perfectly after booting, as the machine is just an instrument to do some WORK . It is the nature of the work that means I
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by jsrjenkins 10y ago
But latex and word are usually for printing a document. For something that will later be printed, you would want some sort of control over the actual look as the appearance is a large part of what is being communicated. Printing is also m

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