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by nfoz 3y ago
The Amiga had support for this in circa 1985. You could play 2-player competitive lemmings which was a game like nothing I've seen since.
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by nfoz 3y ago
Are you familiar with https://pi-hole.net/ ? In my house I want DNS resolution to be performed by my own DNS resolver ( https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound ), after I block ad domains. DoH circumvents t
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by nfoz 3y ago
What? Capitalism is just fine without the artificial notion of copyright. We can pay labourers for their time producing works. We don't need pay-per-copy.
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by nfoz 3y ago
> I don't base my choice on what media to absorb on superficial criteria like the country of origin Other countries, including the USA, advertise and hype their own content. Your preferences are deeply influenced by the country of
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by nfoz 3y ago
This is the deliberate reason why this TLD exists. ICANN sold out the internet.
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by nfoz 4y ago
If my house had a pest problem, I would need to hire an expert in pest-control. I need to do that without being an expert myself. How should anyone be able to hire someone with more experience than themselves, in your view? I've som
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by nfoz 4y ago
What's the sour taste -- what's the problem? Like, what's wrong with being interviewed by someone with less experience than you?
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by nfoz 4y ago
I know, but they don't. Outside of creative tech/art spheres, most people don't know much of anything about copyright, and telling them about "works expiring into the public domain" seems to violate their preconcei
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by nfoz 4y ago
Most people I know don't have any concept that copyright does or should expire. They think if Disney makes a movie, it's Disney's movie forever.
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by nfoz 4y ago
You moved the goalpost from "in-depth conversation" to "order a cheese burger".
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by nfoz 4y ago
Adobe didn't create Flash. They bought out Macromedia.
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by nfoz 4y ago
With interface-typing, is there a right way to use the type system to declare "this function takes a (statically-certifiable) positive integer", not because it would fail to output a value for other numbers, but because its output
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by nfoz 4y ago
I'm not sure if this counts, but where I run into this sort of problem it's with conventional methods/operators, like `operator+`. I've had lots of bugs over the years from something doing string-concat or list-append i
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by nfoz 4y ago
Using synthesizer hardware is a joy of an experience.
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by nfoz 4y ago
Could you share your model for this? How well does it work? I've considered doing the same. The set of laptops I'm willing to run non-macOS on is limited by the set of laptops that have physical touchpad buttons, and that's
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by nfoz 4y ago
Love this! Unrelated, but reminds me of another story featuring Chess and a Duck, and also relevant to the HN audience, which relates to the old videogame Battle Chess: https://bwiggs.com/notebook/queens-duck/
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by nfoz 4y ago
"selfie"? Video-calls are especially normalized now, since the pandemic. My family and friends use video-calls more often than voice-only calls now.
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by nfoz 4y ago
"Do not track me" IS the reasonable default expectation of user intent, to be fair.
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by nfoz 4y ago
Is that not ego? "We're better than a cab". It would be ego-less if they called it CabApp or something.
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by nfoz 5y ago
Is it better to work at Google that has all your emails and search history?
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by nfoz 5y ago
Veering off topic but I absolutely hate that git requires you to have an "email address" (which cannot be empty and iirc must satisfy some regex criteria for a valid-looking address). A particular choice of user identifier or com
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by nfoz 5y ago
So, what are some decent alternatives?
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by nfoz 5y ago
Not the parent and not sure what s/he meant, but one could imagine software that borks when there are invalid (but nonobvious) characters in the filename, for example. Or file permissions or other extended filesystem attributes /
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by nfoz 5y ago
In case anyone hasn't seen this most excellent talk on this topic, I highly recommend: Guy Steele - Growing a Language (OOPSLA '98) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw6TaiXzHAE
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by nfoz 5y ago
Off-topic, but a bug I recently filed against Gmail: I didn't want Gmail sending my full name to spammers, so I set my "display name" to just my email address. Thus when I send mail it's as: emailaddress <emailaddre
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by nfoz 5y ago
In another light, automatic security updates also gives Apple the ability to lock you out of your computer.
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by nfoz 5y ago
Totally. I recently set up email on a few domains, backed by protonmail. Most of them work just fine. But my internationalized domain -- a .com in fact -- can't send email to Gmail, it is wholly rejected (I get a bounce-back failure
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by nfoz 5y ago
Yes, my TV is an LG 55" 4k dumb tv, and I love it. [1] As I posted in another thread [2] a few days ago: In Canada, LG's Business site has tvs branded as "Commercial Lite" that are all dumb, and work great. I have a 55&
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by nfoz 5y ago
So, why aren't these just stored in a db or some other directory of the OS? Instead of littering the userspace, and no fs-ext required. Also it sounds like these should be per-user-and-dir instead of just per-directory.
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by nfoz 5y ago
In Canada, LG's Business site has tvs branded as "Commercial Lite" that are all dumb, and work great. I have a 55" 4k and I enjoy its simple features and minimal remote-control. The only downsides IMO are that it only

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