qbasic_forever

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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
git-annex is something to consider too. It's kind of like git LFS in that it doesn't directly store files in the git repo (so the files can be enormous or change frequently without all the overhead of commits in git), but it&#x27
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
Mine has learned exactly what corners to yell into such that their cry/meow echoes and reverberates everywhere so it can't be ignored. It's kind of impressive how smart and adaptable cats are, lol.
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
Hang a freaking painting or photo.
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
Is there some kind of bug or issue with HN comments? Maybe a bug in a client people are using? I've noticed over the last couple days what appear to be comments like this one above that are completely unrelated to the post. It almos
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
I was trying to play it on Android devices and can't mount it unfortunately.
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
I've also noticed playback of DVDs is terrible these days too. Long ago I ripped my DVD collection to iso files so I could preserve the full experience of the menus, etc. But almost nothing these days supports DVD iso playback and me
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
There's mention of it in the DMCA if I remember correctly. It says DRM can be cracked if something isn't available to be sold anymore or something similar: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/dmca-game-preservati
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
You definitely should, I know some folks that keep their huge TV on 24/7 because they like the pretty screensaver and photos it shows when idle. These same folks take a lot of other steps in their life to try to help the environment
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
Totally agree, so many things people get strong feelings about customizing workflows--note taking, todo lists, personal document management, inventory of goods, etc.--are really just a sqlite database with some nice custom views and interfa
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
I think of it more like MS Access but a sane backend of sqlite and python. There are thousands and thousands of critical business processes cludged together in Excel and Access--datasette could be a much better choice for those use cases.
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
WTF is with your account? Are you trying to impersonate dang, the official moderator?
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
Yeah I wish more modern retro games would embrace the mostly flat shaded polygon aesthetic of mech 2 and similar games. There's a certain 80's future cool to early polygon graphics before it all became texture-mapped hyper realis
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
I didn't say anything either way. I think everyone can agree that losing a huge record of how it happened is a big loss.
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
Wow I wonder how much record of the arab spring protests and uprising are now lost forever. Those protests were all around 2010 to 2012 or so and was in my mind what really pushed Twitter into the public consciousness. I hope the Library
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
Nope, I'm saying pharmaceutical companies don't need to be capitalist and profit driven.
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
I agree, and to solve this problem I say we nationalize and socialize healthcare to provide it to all citizens free of cost just as they do in many African and other countries. This will remove the need to have any healthcare CEOs entirely
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
Distributed RPC, i.e. dbus over the network, is an incredibly complex and still basically unsolved problem. To really do it right and guarantee correctness across systems (which may be in different states of working or failed!) you need a
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
Systemd doesn't remove any control, and in fact gives a lot of extra control over things like process dependencies, environment, etc. The big complaint people had/have really just boils down to someone moved the cheese--your besp
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
Unix domain sockets or FIFOs could be an alternative, but you'd have to do all kinds of complexity to support pub/sub style many to many communication over them (which is what dbus effectively does for you).
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
Yes systemd can use dbus, but plenty of non-systemd systems use and used dbus.
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
Dbus doesn't have anything to do with systemd FYI. It's a communication bus for processes to talk to each other through structured RPC messages.
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
Just run a web terminal like ttyd: https://tsl0922.github.io/ttyd
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
I dunno, looking at dell.com now all I see are bad CGI mockups of products and "AI" boldly slapped everywhere. It looks like trash and nothing like the Dell I used to use and own 20 years ago. I almost think the company is entir
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
Moka pots don't make espresso, they don't get up to the pressure required for espresso-level extraction. They're still quite good and I prefer them over drip brew for most coffees.
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
It can extract more flavor. The most fruity and sweet brews I've ever had were good espresso shots. The same beans in a pour over are still fantastic, but it's all amplified and more pronounced when made as an espresso shot. Th
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
Yeah hiring in January is the real tell of what's going on. The layoffs winding down now were all planned and executed early at the start of the year. If next year rolls around and companies are still doing rounds of layoffs then eve
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
IIRC hydrogen fuel cells are loaded with expensive precious metals like platinum.
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
Congrats. I will be very curious to see how this (and other companies that are built around an open source frontend/web library) work on monetizing themselves. Are there any successful businesses in that space? I worry it will be trul
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
One of the articles about this past weekend's Cruise traffic jams mentioned the company blamed a flakey cell phone signal as the root cause. Now why would having perfect access to cell networks be required to keep the car driving... I
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
Absolute garbage comment. Go listen to some 60s rock and it's nothing but the same themes. Jim Morrison and the Doors wrote songs about explicitly killing your father, doing drugs, etc.

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