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by msla 4d ago
Evidence it works: This was planted by some company that sells copper nostrums.
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by msla 10d ago
Similar to an old idea I had about how every programming language needs three books: 1. Basic introduction. 2. Reference tome, which has absolutely everything. 3. Cookbook with style advice for the more advanced student, which assumes you&#
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by msla 17d ago
> the misses would rather have an induction burner, microwave, and an ice chest running off a solar panel. Those would definitely be hits. Also, solar panels are old. Bell Labs demonstrated the first practical silicon solar cell in 1954.
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by msla 20d ago
Ah, sans-serif, where you can't tell the difference between "Weird Al" and "Weird AI" because who needs letters that don't collide, right?
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by msla 23d ago
OK, let's do this: It isn't a hard drive. What's being driven, your mom? It definitely isn't a hard disk in most cases, either, because SSDs are so common. It isn't a screen. What's being screened out? Is it a
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by msla 1mo ago
"Rate Limit Exceeded" Does anyone have an archive?
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by msla 2mo ago
Forgetting the infelicities of Patrick Russ is reasonable because he's both dead and his estate isn't (to my knowledge) funneling money from the sale of his books to odious causes. Would that I could say the same about other autho
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by msla 2mo ago
There's two maxims: You get what you pay for. If you're the customer, you're the product. "You get what you pay for" means if you buy proprietary software, you get software from proprietary vendors who act like mode
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by msla 2mo ago
> In 2020, Congress passed the No Surprises Act, which banned surprise balance bills for most parts of emergency care. But by necessity, it exempted ground ambulances from the law: actually restricting the practice would have rendered mu
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by msla 3mo ago
There are a couple of games like this on Android I play: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.vayunmathur.gam... https://github.com/plhosk/wordtracer They're both on FDroid
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by msla 3mo ago
Yeah, I got "TUNS" as a bonus word.
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by msla 3mo ago
> knowing the difference between lay and lie. I'm guessing you're not a linguist, and have no knowledge of academic linguistics.
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by msla 3mo ago
OK, here's my problems with space data centers. How many of them has China solved? 1. Space is terrible for heat regulation. It's a perfect insulator for everything except radiative cooling, which is the least efficient. Hot thing
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by msla 3mo ago
> Is embedding executable code into a file a security risk? Yes, which is why nobody uses PDFs.
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by msla 3mo ago
Maybe that's why it's called 'C' in the repository.
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by msla 3mo ago
Note that this isn't written in C but in 'C'. /s
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by msla 3mo ago
In addition to having to pick a size for the length counter and then, later, having to differentiate between lengths in bytes, codepoints, and glyphs, you can't subdivide a Pascal string using pointer arithmetic. To pass just the end o
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by msla 3mo ago
Technical problems give way to philosophical differences but the over-arching problem is that the people behind ATProto really want to make a social media ecosystem that attracts lots of average people who will refuse to understand that the
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by msla 3mo ago
> No but you said there was only a single reason to agree with "Neo-Nazi" propaganda as if agreeing with any propaganda is rational. There's a reason it's called propaganda after all. It's not like there weren&#x
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by msla 3mo ago
Someone named tinfoilhatter replied but that's gone now. Not one to let a response go to waste: Well. I seem to have triggered something. > Ah yes, because the only people that have ever spread propaganda are Neo-Nazis Not something
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by msla 3mo ago
> Note that I don't necessarily agree with the subject matter of these titles Y'know, there's really only one reason to be coy about whether you agree with Neo-Nazi propaganda.
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by msla 3mo ago
OK, how is manual memory management relevant to writing a program to get weather information from an Internet API and display it to the user? In that context, "relevant" is the domains of getting the data (network communications)
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by msla 3mo ago
I can, but what annoys me is people saying "Well that technically isn't champagne because it isn't from the right region of the right country" and acting like being able to quote obscure regulations makes them "tech
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by msla 3mo ago
> Food authenticity should only mean DOP or geographic identity (GI) regulation. It shouldn't even mean this much, frankly, as those things are merely protectionist trade policies meant to artificially drive up the price of certain
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by msla 3mo ago
When I'm a newbie at things, I tend to have the opposite problem: I can overthink things to Hell and gone, but since I don't know what I'm doing, I focus on the wrong things and 80% of my effort is worthless. Like trying to m
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by msla 3mo ago
"What, support Safari? Isn't that, like, less than 20%? And its standards support is abysmal! No, not worth my time, they can upgrade to a normal browser like everyone else."
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by msla 3mo ago
GUIs are almost entirely non-scriptable. Some exceptions exist, but they're few and extremely limited compared to what you can do with a CLI. (Note I said CLI. A TUI is almost always a GUI made of text, and is just as non-scriptable.)
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by msla 3mo ago
Are you even attempting to read what I wrote?
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by msla 3mo ago
> deepity https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deepity > A superficial equivocation which only seems to be profound.
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by msla 3mo ago
> amazing how you understood nothing from any of my words, how about using the clanker to vibe your understanding too? "Coding is a pseudoscience" makes sense like "plumbing is a pseudoscience" makes sense: Fluid dyna

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