knute

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by knute 27d ago
The guy from Game Changer?
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by knute 4mo ago
Probably a repo for the Muslim affinity group within GitHub. You'll also see repos for the blacktocats, octoqueer, octogatos, christian-hubbers. Everything in GitHub has a repo.
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by knute 11mo ago
additionally with the proposal "put together a list of known corporate MDM server URLs in a public repository" I think the idea could be to only block users with an MDM server from that list. of course that would have to be quite
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by knute 11mo ago
Also a click handler on a div isn't going to do much for someone who isn't using a mouse, which would include a lot of screen reader users.
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by knute 11mo ago
Sales and/or property taxes are typically used to make up the difference. TANSTAAFL
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by knute 2y ago
There's an IBM Deathstar (sold to Hitachi, sold to WD) model that has its own section, at least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskstar#IBM_Deskstar_75GXP_fa...
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by knute 2y ago
Not only did the magnetic fuses not work, the impact fuses would collapse and fail if the torpedo made a direct hit. And the torpedoes would consistently run deeper than they were set to. US torpedoes in the early stages of the war were nea
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by knute 2y ago
I'm not an expert but I have seen Titanic (1997) and I would think a floating bridge is most vulnerable to sinking.
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by knute 2y ago
And/or they cashed out $TEXAS in stock and rode off into the sunset.
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by knute 2y ago
I'm thinking it must be tornadoes. There were 907 tornadoes across all of 1984. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tornado_events_by_year
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by knute 2y ago
It was before most of our times, but I don't think the Esso brand was "in the mud" when they rebranded to Exxon and that seems to have worked out ok for them.
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by knute 2y ago
Even at submarine depths, the oceans are poorly mapped. In 2005, the USS San Francisco collided with an uncharted (but suspected) seamount at 160m depth. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_San_Francisco_(SSN-711)#Gr.
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by knute 3y ago
I also didn't realize that this problem was common, but I switched to using an optical toslink cable to an external DAC which seems to have fixed it for me. Although now the system volume control doesn't work, but I can work aroun
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by knute 3y ago
> Twitter/X is still where everything happens It's not where the W3C happens, clearly. That statement becomes less true by the day as more and more accounts leave.
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by knute 3y ago
Not just in absolute terms, what could possibly justify a 600% increase in salary in 7 years?
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by knute 3y ago
Typically you're supposed to throw the dice far enough that they bounce off the back wall. Maybe the electronic table doesn't enforce that?
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by knute 3y ago
> the united states is primarily run by business interests since the 80s The 1880s.
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by knute 3y ago
Even if arbitration is in play, it would cost Facebook more to hire a lawyer to go to small claims court and have it moved to arbitration than it would to just settle the $300 at stake hear.
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by knute 3y ago
It's interesting that this is your perception of "the spirit of the web" whereas other people are going to say that requiring JavaScript at all is "counter to the spirit of the web".
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by knute 4y ago
There was a time when if I went to a room in a MUD with a long text description, scrolling that text would cause the MP3 I was listening to to stutter. Of course that was 25 years ago on a Pentium 133, I understand things are better now.
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by knute 4y ago
/*/tree is only for directory listings. File contents will be under a /blob/ path, e.g. https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/main/AUTHORS , and should be, AFAIK, indexable. (mandator
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by knute 4y ago
I think there's a lot more that goes into where someone chooses to eat than price, otherwise Taco Bell would be putting Chipotle out of business. As explained above, I don't take it as a given that increased employee wages require
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by knute 4y ago
I don't think that those are the only two solutions. Off the top of my head you could 1. Reduce expenses in other areas 2. Accept the reduced profit 3. Find that the cost is offset by more productive employees either through morale inc
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by knute 4y ago
There were nuclear reactors run by the military in Antarctica, Greenland, and Alaska in the late 60s and early 70s, but they were all shut down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Nuclear_Power_Program#Lis...
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by knute 4y ago
When I was DMing a D&D campaign I had an idea for using a receipt printer to print a "token" that would represent items that the players acquired and they could keep it or pass it around or turn it back in after it was used or
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by knute 5y ago
I cancelled mine in part because of the Joe Rogan kerfuffle but mostly because I made the realization that Spotify is investing more heavily in podcasts than music, but I already have a podcast player that I like and I should subscribe to a
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by knute 5y ago
An Airbus A300 was hit with a portable SAM over Baghdad in 2003. The missile struck the wing instead of the engine and caused the loss of all hydraulics. The crew was able to land by steering with the engines. So while this aircraft did sur
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by knute 5y ago
Which is why you only use `npm install` for development, and `npm ci` for production.
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by knute 5y ago
There was a mode in ICQ long ago where the person you were messaging could see everything you typed, as you typed it. A friend of mine always wanted to use it and it was mildly terrifying.
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by knute 5y ago
There are a limited number of spy satellites, and their orbits are fairly fixed. If you need to look at a site you have to wait until a satellite passes it (and the people at the site will be able to know quite far in advance when a satelli

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