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by pampa 1y ago
I didn't think that there was something wrong with my git workflow, or that git was complicated. I switched from darcs as my primary VCS to git around 2007. I was skeptical about jj at first but gave it a try. Did not look back ever si
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by pampa 2y ago
I think there was a prop 65 warning on a box of kreg pocket screws (or was it the jig?).
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by pampa 2y ago
> "they don't help us because they are racists" That is not what i meant when posting the poem. When someone asks "Why is every western government not warning Pakistan...", he is basically rephrasing Kipling and
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by pampa 2y ago
Take up the White Man's burden— Send forth the best ye breed— Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need; To wait in heavy harness On fluttered folk and wild— Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
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by pampa 3y ago
There is some life in Rails, but new greenfield rails projects are rare. It is mostly legacy stuff now. The ecosystem is slowly fading away. Big industrial libs are still good, but a lot of smaller projects are abandonware, last updated in
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by pampa 3y ago
Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper? I mean 180+ commits, 3 month old, bold claims and already 8 releases on rubygems? There ought to be a vetting/voting process for packages, before they are accepted into a public repo a
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by pampa 4y ago
All fungi are edible! Tho some you can eat only once.
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by pampa 4y ago
Once i had an idea: instead of styrofoam or packing peanuts just use pop corn or puff rice. Thermal insulation, shock absorbent and biodegradable! Not sure about flame resistant. Also reusable. Make a mash, add some amylase and yeast and yo
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by pampa 5y ago
Just licked mario + rabbids I got yesterday. Tastes ok.
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by pampa 5y ago
A chapon is a castrated cock. That might offend animal rights activists!
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by pampa 5y ago
We can always switch to Qeng Ho time units, since we all kind of already using them now anyway.
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by pampa 6y ago
>> You used a lot of words to make a mundane, unsupported assertion sound profound. Well, that's the game, isn't it? Btw, like some of your music. Do you have finished tracks online?
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by pampa 6y ago
One of my favorite zen koans is "Fire-poker Zen": "Hakuin used to tell his pupils about an old woman who had a teashop, praising her understanding of Zen. The pupils refused to believe what he told them and would go to the te
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by pampa 6y ago
I have been cooking for 20+ years, and i had to read that chicken parm recipe several times to make sense of it. I have been entertaining the idea of writing a cookbook, that is not based on recipes, but defines some king of framework, desc
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by pampa 6y ago
"Mal." is likely Malayalam, a dravidic language from the indian subcontinent, not Malay (Austronesian language). My Latin is quite rusty, its been a long time since i studied it. But from what i remember there were several flavors
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by pampa 6y ago
> is an ancient text where I can't even readily parse what language it is in. It is Hortus Malabaricus, it is in latin and its not really ancient, it was published in late 17-th century.
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by pampa 6y ago
For everybody using sqlite cli from a terminal window, check out litecli [1]. It has some nice features like syntax color, better completion and query editing etc. It is part of the dbcli [2] family of database terminal clients. There are c
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by pampa 6y ago
Why wait? Buld your own from old and discarded tech. Get a 2008-era intel atom netbook, discard case, mod it, run OpenBSD. Strap to you wrist, run a powercable up your arm to the car battery or a ducktaped brick of D cells in your bagpack.
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by pampa 6y ago
That is exactly my experience with imperial in woodworking! I had no previous experience with imperial measurements, my country is metric for over a hundred years, but the majority of information on woodworking on the internet or in print c
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by pampa 6y ago
You are right, I never used Matrix. I guess i have to check it out. Missed it. Usable client apps for martix are what, 1.5 years old? Signal seems to have been around for ages. OTP even longer
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by pampa 6y ago
Paid app is the new perl script! I wonder why there are paid apps an NO, ZERO information on how to do it with a text editor, some copyaste and javac/xcode. Like DeCSS, from a more civilized age
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by pampa 6y ago
> Thoughts? Pick your adversaries and scale your opsec accordingly. Unless you are a person of interest in national security matters, just the fact that you communicated with somebody does not incriminate you.
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by pampa 6y ago
And he is right. If you want e2e use signal, threema, or OTR/OMEMO. The majority of telegram users want convenient messaging, group chats, news channels and voice group calls. Think slack with a fast native app.
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by pampa 6y ago
> and WhatsApp makes this as easy as one click during setup. unless you switch platforms. then you lose it all
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by pampa 6y ago
e2e does not prohibit it. But makes it hard or impossible even for an advanced user (i tried moving my whatsapp data from iphone to android once, not sure of the current status with signal). Telegram is all about convenience, security is ju
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by pampa 6y ago
O have a favourite zen koan. "Hakuin used to tell his pupils about an old woman who had a teashop, praising her understanding of Zen. The pupils refused to believe what he told them and would go to the teashop to find out for themselve
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by pampa 6y ago
If you put a rotten egg by accident into an 20 egg omlett, it is still spoiled. If you dilute a brand name with controversial actions or products, it drags the whole brand down. And it does not matter of parts of it are still good.
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by pampa 6y ago
Some people already consider it a sham, after a certain peace prize attribution.
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by pampa 6y ago
I had an IBM PC XT in early 90-es, just like in the picture. Green monochrome monitor, dual 5 inch floppies, 20mb hard drive. Some company was throwing them out and my father brought one home. At one point the hard drive failed and the PC b
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by pampa 6y ago
That is almost like the decription from "The Three Body Problem" how the aliens in the three star system handled winter. I wonder if there is an asian folk tale that might be the basis for both.

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