pinusc

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by pinusc 5mo ago
If you know the difference between em dash, en dash, and hyphen, you start seeing it everywhere—whether thet are used correctly or not. Books tend to have correct typesetting, so if you see a dash used as an em dash ought to be used, and if
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by pinusc 6mo ago
(To two-boxers) it's not half an analysis because once you walk into the room your choice is causally independent of the demon/AI/alien prediction. There's something vaguely similar to the fallacy of proposed (Cooperate,
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by pinusc 8mo ago
Units is a cool piece of software, but I have since switched to qalculate. Mostly units has some silly defaults like needing to type tempC(30) instead of 30C; and it's nice to have a full calculator. I know it's a way to specify t
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by pinusc 8mo ago
I have been using breezy weather and I like it overall. But after reading this article I can't help but be bugged off that the information density in the main page is significantly worse here than in Dark Sky. Dark Sky showed hourly fo
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by pinusc 10mo ago
Recursion would work for that, you don't need goto. The division by zero trick is pretty good too!
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by pinusc 1y ago
Although it wouldn't require a lot of work to allow side-loading apps on LineageOS and similar, LOS users would still be profoundly impacted by the death of the FOSS ecosystem. LOS/AOSP/whatever users are a VANISHINGLY small
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by pinusc 2y ago
Important to note that bamboo boards will dull your knives significantly faster than other woods. Other kinds of wood are still better than plastics at being bacteria-resistant (but still need disinfecting after cutting meat etc.—and so do
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by pinusc 2y ago
It baffles me that this isn't mentioned in the page, but a deck like this is extremely useful for testing while designing a new boardgame. They are very versatile and can likely emulate whatever wacky system you come up with for your g
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by pinusc 2y ago
In some cases one can install a de-googlified version of android, and install whatever app (.apk) they wish through alternative app stores or directly. For 99.9% of people, Android and iOS will be virtually identical in terms of freedom, as
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by pinusc 2y ago
I would say using this app to try and surprise/do nice things for your partner is, in fact, making an effort: going out of your way to think of nice things to do with them. People are all different. The idea of getting flowers for your
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by pinusc 2y ago
Also keep in mind: 32GB of RAM is more than enough for normal usage, but it's useless for (this kind of state-of-the-art-) ML unless you also have a graphics card of the kind that won't fit in a laptop. Unless of course you were t
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by pinusc 2y ago
Regardless of wanting sane defaults, this is not something superfile can do on itself: it runs in a terminal, and normally terminal programs do not get to choose what font is used. So the "best" it could do is bundle the font file
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by pinusc 2y ago
I'd say everything you described is true of vim as well, especially nowadays with LSP and tree-sitter and async capabilities in plugins. The plugin ecosystem is thriving. Neovim's lua api makes it even easier to develop plugins. I
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by pinusc 2y ago
You may be thinking of "So You Want To Abolish Timezones" [1]. It's not specifically about .beat time, but it has a pretty thorough explanation of why a universal time would be terrible (specifically, worse than timezones) fo
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by pinusc 2y ago
That's an interesting ethical question. I am tempted to agree that there generally is. You can argue that the giving of a gift is a final act, that the gifted item belongs to the recipient now, and that since you're morally free t
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by pinusc 2y ago
True, but given that cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death, I don't think that in this specific case it's negligible. By far the bigger problem IMHO is not controlling by weight (at least, the article seems
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by pinusc 3y ago
A majority/totality of my IRL friends has a problem with spending too much time in front of a screen. Regardless of the political/liberation parts of the article, it is hard to argue against social media being designed to be addic
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by pinusc 3y ago
Thank you for sharing this! I've been searching for a good open-source handwriting app with pen and pdf support on android, and this is by far the most functional I've seen. Actually good enough to start taking notes on my table
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by pinusc 3y ago
They're also effectively creating a market for linux gaming, which will encourage developers to actually officially support linux. Note that I use "will" instead of "might" based on personal anecdotal evidence of se
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by pinusc 3y ago
An involved alternative is to access whatsapp through a matrix bridge. It requires either paying for hosting or figuring out how to host a matrix server and the whatsapp bridge [1]; I do the latter and can attest it's not very hard if
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by pinusc 3y ago
Does it support increasing playback speed without affecting pitch? I'd like to get a capable mp3 player that I can use for podcasts, but I need to lidten tkm some of them at 1.5x/2x. I tried an old samsung mp3 player I had lying a
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by pinusc 3y ago
Link is broken for me (I get a "welcome to nginx" page). https://archive.is/wRdWf works
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by pinusc 3y ago
Update: it seem they fixed the page so that it reads "X+ views" instead of "+X views". Maybe they read this hackernews comment chain!
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by pinusc 3y ago
I believe you're being downvoted because you missed the point of the comment you're replying to, which is not (necessarily) trying to imply the convention is that X+ means exactly "more than X" (i.e. >X). You're
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by pinusc 3y ago
A "link to higher chance of depression" does not mean that 100% of the people with 1 hour commute develop depression. Even if it meant that 99% do, your belonging to the remaining 1% does not invalidate the study. Personal experie
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by pinusc 3y ago
Could you point me to any sources that discuss how the program "has no basis in science"? They have a section on effectiveness citing a few studies and the Cochrane review. I'm not well-equipped to determine if that's co
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by pinusc 3y ago
That's fair to point out. However, I don't think it detracts from the point: the definition is in some sense a detail, because there is a connection between "bubbles forming" and "the temperature water will not rise
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by pinusc 3y ago
Precisely. If your job is a legislator, competence (or ability to delegate it) is part of the job description and, if you believe in democracy, a moral imperative. Thus, incompetence IS malice in such cases. There is such thing as wilful ig
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by pinusc 3y ago
Do you have recommendations for modern "factorio meets Minecraft" modpacks? The more hardcore and complex the better. I am very out of the loop with Minecraft, not having played in quite a few years. Meanwhile, I have been getting
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by pinusc 3y ago
You are right to point out that in my comment I talk about bash in terms of a language rather than just a shell; but I did have its shell-nature in mind while writing it, and in fact your example is exactly what I meant when I said that pyt

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