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by nessunodoro 6y ago
If you search for e-ink you'll find other programmables as well
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Earthlings and astronauts chat over ham radio(phys.org)
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by nessunodoro 6y ago
> In this way, Jeffrey Katzenberg said to us, “I understand something about the world that others do not.” And yet, in saying so, he missed the essential lesson that could have been gleaned from his own industry: Popular culture is an ex
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by nessunodoro 6y ago
> if we can create a digital system which provides for code <-> data duality So.. LISP?
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by nessunodoro 6y ago
Scummy is a polite word for the advertisements. It's been fascinating to watch them evolve in waves. First wave: POV of a predator in a parking garage approaching a woman. Grave female voiceover: "Sexual predators could track your
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by nessunodoro 6y ago
If you subscribe to the newsletter, I highly recommend the non-stop confetti party.
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by nessunodoro 6y ago
Were you self-hosting, or using the free service? If self-hosting, I'm curious what resources you were devoting to your VPS, and which hosting provider?
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by nessunodoro 6y ago
Google is many different companies and products, and some of them I'm so grateful for. They provide a simple product that does something magically better than the competition, don't screw with the recipe. I give them my data becau
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by nessunodoro 6y ago
It's the only browser that gives me complete control over my session logins in containers, and it respects the cardinality of the URL - never meddles with it, conceals part of it, autocompletes it... I use Chrome only when forced to by
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by nessunodoro 6y ago
it's kind of poetic that the chief bottleneck of advancement in the field is now the physical universe -
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by nessunodoro 6y ago
Artist John Zaklikowski had a great exhibit called Hard Drive Universe in 2012 in SF https://www.flickr.com/photos/schill/albums/7215762935517133...
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by nessunodoro 6y ago
SM-J700T (June 2015), Android 7.1.1 Firefox 68.4.2, 720x1280, minimum screen zoom and font size in settings https://i.imgur.com/oJDfTOg.jpg Maybe it needs initial-scale=1 in meta viewport? Anyone else getting this render?
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by nessunodoro 6y ago
Not to stoke the flame, but I never used Twisted, where did it fail?
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by nessunodoro 6y ago
GIMP handles PSD, no?
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by nessunodoro 6y ago
Is there a way to detect such big brother firmware and flash it?
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by nessunodoro 6y ago
VcXsrv is great for bridging WSL and the Windows GUI, e.g. launching an x11 image viewer from WSL bash
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by nessunodoro 6y ago
Understanding fundamental browser behavior serves the purpose of optimizing CPU and bandwidth. Think of it as the bare metal of the browser
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by nessunodoro 6y ago
A VPN is one use of a Wireguard tunnel. Wireguard establishes a stateless encrypted connection between two peers, and exposes it to the user as a network interface. Endpoints can roam as with mosh
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by nessunodoro 6y ago
grid and flexbox are still not carved in stone, so catering to tbe lowest common denominator sometimes means e.g. nesting divs to mimic functionality in another browser
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by nessunodoro 7y ago
Shout out to one of my favorite projects, Luakit [^], the only chromeless browser that lets me resize the window to a single pixel. Best part is the vim interface, :open hacker news [ddg results] /Hack Enter :tabopen github
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by nessunodoro 7y ago
> "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." -- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood There's value to this sentiment, but I disagree. I'm the same age as
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by nessunodoro 7y ago
If you're into natural history, search the 3D models. The in-browser viewer works great. https://www.si.edu/object/3d/490b6301-3869-455a-ba71-a89f5b6...
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by nessunodoro 7y ago
OT- Neat, have you considered incorporating non-Wikimedia Commons images in your public domain-only search? Flickr in particular has a surprising amount of quality highres images that the authors have released into the PD.
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by nessunodoro 7y ago
> It looks at you coyly but blankly, as if its owner has taken half a Klonopin and is considering asking you for a private-jet ride to Coachella. Writing this good never tires me.
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by nessunodoro 7y ago
The credits transferred to terminal at what looks like 1200 baud makes me happy.
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by nessunodoro 7y ago
"Making things simple is hard work." - Rich Hickey When I think of the simple vs complex bifurcation I think of fractals, a "simple" set of rules expressed in a complex way. The complexity arises from their expression&#x
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by nessunodoro 7y ago
Travelling from the surface of Earth to Earth orbit is one of the most energy intensive steps of going anywhere else. -Don Pettit https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/exped...
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by nessunodoro 7y ago
yeah the "pod house" was like the tv dinner of houses, a novelty product with little intrinsic value. others like fuller's dymaxion home were explicit about why the odd shape was chosen: structural integrity in a natural disa
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by nessunodoro 7y ago
Hopefully its implementation is browser and OS agnostic on the client. I've had difficulty using Office 365 and OneDrive web access on Linux, which means I can't even consider using those services in a professional workflow.
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by nessunodoro 7y ago
I think it will bring them under more scrutiny and rightfully so. But this sounds like a misunderstanding, both of the GDPR and user sentiment, enforced without discussion from the top. They responded quickly, humbly, and transparently in r

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