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by nyx_ 5y ago
Yeah, absolutely. I've become so accustomed to the instant gratification loop of "how do I do this -> internet for 2 minutes -> okay got it" that having to actually read papers or docs on something to build an understan
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by nyx_ 5y ago
I fed it a Mailinator address and it was happy to let me keep reading.
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by nyx_ 5y ago
This seems like a phenomenon beneath the same umbrella as the NEETs and incels of the western world. A difference, though, is that in all the presentations of hikikomori I've seen, they lack the same toxicity and anger at the outside w
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by nyx_ 5y ago
Eco-friendly stuff aside, this post makes me feel kind of nauseous. Things like indoor AR directions or having the weather integrated into a maps app are obvious applications of existing technology, but hardly anyone but Google has the reso
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by nyx_ 5y ago
I'm inclined to think that someone who needs hours of time just to write an email in which they don't sound like a big jerk is likely to be a fountain of workplace interpersonal problems. If spending a few seconds to be a little m
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by nyx_ 6y ago
Don't even get me started. :( It gives me pangs of cognitive dissonance every time I use my Android phone to type up a rant about how creepy Google is. I'd love to walk the talk, but my impression is that FOSS Linux phones aren&#x
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by nyx_ 6y ago
I use a couple of Aqara sensors to report temperature back to my Home Assistant instance via a HUSBZB-1 USB Zigbee dongle[0]. They work pretty well, although they report data pretty infrequently absent any large temperature swings, so not g
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by nyx_ 6y ago
I've had ISP DNS servers that redirect NXDOMAIN responses to spammy "search" pages full of sponsored crap and banner ads. There's always OpenNIC, DNS.watch, or Quad9 if you're after something that isn't operate
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by nyx_ 6y ago
Next earnings call: "Alright guys, I know it doesn't look good, what with our process technology still stuck in 2015, but picture this: TSMC's fab gets annihilated by a giant meteor."
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by nyx_ 6y ago
Like the original post says, they are in fact a useful tool to promote wakefulness, and if you have a problem with wakefulness or attentiveness, you can go to a doctor, get diagnosed, and be prescribed with amphetamines perfectly legally if
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by nyx_ 6y ago
> Supported ESXi-Arm Hardware: > * Far Edge: Raspberry Pi 4b - 4GB or 8GB Model (8GB is HIGHLY recommended... Yeah, no shit.
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by nyx_ 6y ago
You can read the post at https://github.com/samyk/slipstream
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by nyx_ 6y ago
You know the toys you're shopping for are the coolest when the webpage says their sale is restricted to US citizens and residents only. Is that an ITAR thing?
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by nyx_ 6y ago
"The software doesn't perform well with your use case, huh? Have you tried getting a different use case?" :)
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by nyx_ 6y ago
I looked at the cited paper[0], and I'm not sure the article author has correctly summarized its findings. As I understand it, the paper says "cyclical climate change probably caused this pattern of extinction->re-evolution (va
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by nyx_ 6y ago
"Can't Pay? We'll Take It Away", it's some of the most egregious poverty porn out there. These High Court bailiffs (who are employees of a private company, because of course) show up at people's doorsteps; if i
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by nyx_ 6y ago
Could you source or back up your claim that there are generational differences at work here? I don't really follow.
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by nyx_ 6y ago
Somewhere between 5 minutes and a month.
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by nyx_ 6y ago
Agree. Getting good at vim isn't something I do for my boss or my company, it's something I do for me. Using something like "ci(" to blank the parentheses under my cursor and immediately start typing a replacement saves
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by nyx_ 6y ago
You called it "taking something you know you're not supposed to take", and the thread has been responding to the "taking something" part alone. Whether or not I believe it's the right thing to do seems like it&
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by nyx_ 6y ago
These aren't new arguments, really... but when I steal a cookie from the cookie jar, there's one less cookie in the cookie jar. When I steal a movie on a torrent site, the copyright owner didn't lose a copy of the movie. One
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by nyx_ 6y ago
I like to run fail2ban in conjunction with a non-standard SSH port on which only public key auth is available. This way, most of the junkware that does rude things to port 22 is banging on a closed door; the slightly more effective junkware
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by nyx_ 6y ago
Interesting... maybe I haven't taken enough Ubers to notice, but I generally can't tell the difference between a 4.9 driver and a 4.7 driver. Would you pay more to guarantee getting the highest rated driver near you?
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by nyx_ 6y ago
A little over a decade ago now, back when the Sony PSP was current, there was a neat little homebrew IM client called AFKIM. It used bitlbee to connect to various IM services (AIM, GTalk, MSN, etc.) and worked pretty well for something runn
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by nyx_ 6y ago
550km, actually, or 340 miles. Still a couple orders of magnitude closer to Earth than satellites in GSO.
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by nyx_ 6y ago
Of course not. If you don't like paying the monopoly prices, you can just, uh... you can just start your own backyard wireless telecommunications service provider.
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by nyx_ 6y ago
Also has DJ Qualls as Rat, one of the dumbest computer hacker stereotypes to ever be committed to film. After the FBI knocks to raid his apartment, he rushes into his computer room and starts microwaving CDs and shoving floppies down the ga
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by nyx_ 6y ago
On today's edition of "Things You Shouldn't Be Able To Do From a Browser"... Seriously though, sending PJL commands directly to printers on port 9100 is such a neat hack. Back when I was working help desk in college, muc
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by nyx_ 6y ago
As far as dockless last-mile transport goes, I'm actually a big fan of those electric kick scooters... but I acknowledge I'm an imbecile and they're really dangerous. One issue I have with that model in general is that for ma
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by nyx_ 6y ago
You can get surprisingly good results with throwaway hardware. A few years ago I did an all-night time lapse of a night-blooming cereus opening up its once-yearly flower. $10 throwaway 480p webcam on a cheap tripod, old laptop running a scr

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