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by kfogel 15d ago
I will be paying the new rate, and with pleasure. LWN is great.
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by kfogel 7mo ago
Can't believe they didn't call it VouchDB.
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by kfogel 11mo ago
We are happy to be providing this public service :-). I wish the term were better known outside tech; it's useful in so many contexts.
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by kfogel 1y ago
So many stories like this about Slack. We use Zulip ( https://zulip.org/ ) for our corporate chat, and we've never looked back. It's been good, and it's fully open source. We self-host, but paid hosting is ea
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Open Source JobHub(opensourcejobhub.com)
2 points by kfogel 1y ago|0 comments
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by kfogel 1y ago
Wow. This project was the cause of a very long and intense discussion about mis-use of the term "open source". See https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/issues/40#issuecomment-5397146... for details (land
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Trump ends internet program for millions in China, worrying some in Congress(washingtonpost.com)
6 points by kfogel 1y ago|0 comments
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by kfogel 2y ago
Xlife I believe it implements Bill Gosper's hashlife quadtree algorithm (already mentioned elsewhere in the comments here). Xlife is unbelievably fast.
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by kfogel 2y ago
Most of the comments so far are about the temperature and the closeness to the sun, and, hey, I get it: those are both amazing to think about. But to me even more amazing is... 0.16% of the speed of light?? Yikes.
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Lessons from the Death and Rebirth of Thunderbird(lwn.net)
3 points by kfogel 2y ago|0 comments
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by kfogel 2y ago
That part about "...you wouldn’t want to wing it with the configuration, because allegedly you could break your monitor with a bad Monitor setting" -- strike the "allegedly"! Or at least, let me allege it from personal
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by kfogel 2y ago
Just ordered. Thank you :-).
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by kfogel 2y ago
Got it -- I appreciate the explanation.
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by kfogel 2y ago
AHHHH, that's the key thing I didn't know (I have a Raspberry Pi sitting in a drawer and have played with it embarrassingly little -- I didn't realize how important having the SPI or other special interface is in this conte
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by kfogel 2y ago
Thank you. My idea was more the opposite: do it with a normal laptop or desktop computer driving the display, rather than a tiny microcontroller. I guess I'm assuming that either the display's USB input supplies enough voltage t
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by kfogel 2y ago
Does anyone know why projects like this always seem to specify using a particular type of tiny, low-power computer (usually a Raspberry Pi or something similar) to drive the display? I already have plenty of non-tiny computers that run Debi
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by kfogel 2y ago
The most important factor in my learning Emacs was doing it in a room with experienced Emacs users. I really strongly recommend doing this if you possibly can. A few minutes of an experienced user shoulder-surfing while I worked, and givi
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Culture Change at Google(social.clawhammer.net)
573 points by kfogel 3y ago|483 comments
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by kfogel 3y ago
There are algorithms where I think "Sure, with enough time and attention given to the problem, I might have thought of that." And then there are algorithms where I think "Oh, wow. That came from another planet. I would nev
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by kfogel 3y ago
Very happy user of a System76 Lemur Pro laptop (i7, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD) for the past year, FWIW. I'm running stock Debian on it, not System76's Pop!_OS. I get the kind of battery life the review mentions if I put the laptop into
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by kfogel 3y ago
The linked page is on signalusers.org, but Signal's regular home site is https://signal.org/ . I'm looking all over signal.org for some link from there to signalusers.org, as that would make me more relaxed about t
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by kfogel 3y ago
Please consider editing the original question's headline to specify "HTML" too :-). Otherwise a reader might think (as I did) that you're asking a question the answer to which could be LibreOffice Writer or other things
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by kfogel 3y ago
If you liked this article, you might also like the book "The Edge of Memory: Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition and the Post-Glacial World" by Patrick Nunn (Bloomsbury, 2018). https://patricknunn.org/writing/bo
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by kfogel 3y ago
Just following up to say thank you, @Daeraxa and @jjgreen, for the examples. @mdwalters, good luck with the text editor, and @wmf we may not personally agree on the AGPL but we do agree on the usefulness of the OSI doing this research!
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by kfogel 3y ago
Not mixed feelings here: I wish they wouldn't do that. No doubt it was meant as respectful homage, but the effect is to flatten and obscure his particular qualities, because they have no specific connection to this product.
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by kfogel 3y ago
Po Lu's port of GNU Emacs to Android has been approved, pending a couple of minor checks, to be merged into the main Emacs tree and thereafter maintained in-project like any other supported architecture. (Editorial commentary: This is
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Android port of Emacs to be merged into the main tree(mail.gnu.org)
2 points by kfogel 3y ago|2 comments
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by kfogel 3y ago
I was also confused by the lack of mention of the author's name -- it's a very odd omission.
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by kfogel 3y ago
Did they say which Creative Commons license? I missed it if they did. Oh wait, if you click through to the repository you can see it: CC-BY-SA. Good! That's a relief. CC-BY and CC-BY-SA are effectively like open source licenses, a
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by kfogel 4y ago
WANT. Marcin Wichary has been researching everything about keyboards, everything adjacent to everything about keyboards, and everything adjacent to everything adjacent to everything about keyboards for over a year now. I've been look

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