rainingmonkey

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by rainingmonkey 1y ago
Offtopic: Anyone else noticed an explosion in this kind of comment over the last few days? Not just here but all over the web. I sure hope it's just bots...
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by rainingmonkey 1y ago
The FxTec Pro1 is the only sliding keyboard phone of the last decade. I have one, it's not perfect but it is quite good, and better than all the other recent keyboard phones!
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by rainingmonkey 1y ago
This trite comment obscures the long history of transatlantic ties on the far right, from American businesses supporting Nazi Germany[1] and Hitler drawing inspirations from America's immigration, segregation and eugenics policies[2] t
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by rainingmonkey 1y ago
That's a myth, all the breathless reporting of an "exodus of millionaires" comes from one very dodgy report. Of course, the narrative suits the wealthy owners of the media, so the story gets repeated anyway. https:/&#x2
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by rainingmonkey 1y ago
This is normal in the UK
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by rainingmonkey 1y ago
Jellyfin also has this
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by rainingmonkey 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulk_confectionery Fairly common in the UK too where it's known as "pick n' Mix". Less common these days since Woolworths, the main chain known for Pick n' Mix clo
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by rainingmonkey 1y ago
Kristall[1] is my favourite browser, Antenna[2] is my favourite aggregator. Get browser, read some capsules! [1] https://kristall.random-projects.net/ [2] gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/
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by rainingmonkey 1y ago
Many browsers will render a link to an image as an embedded image block!
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by rainingmonkey 1y ago
What a fascinating intersection of technology and human psychology! "One thing I noticed toward the end is that, even though the robot remained expressive, it started feeling less alive. Early on, its motions surprised me: I had to in
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by rainingmonkey 1y ago
Is it ready enough to share a link to your work?
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by rainingmonkey 1y ago
Exactly, Britain for the Britons! Anglo-Saxons out, and take your ugly Germanic language with you!
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by rainingmonkey 1y ago
KDE still does this quite well
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by rainingmonkey 1y ago
> The Autopian's David Tracy climbed underneath and didn't see any powertrain or proper suspension components, indicating this is a non-functional show car.
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by rainingmonkey 1y ago
Lua is like this only moreso, and there's little fear of "progress" as large parts of the community have stuck with Lua5.1. Of course, Lua is batteries-not-included so there may be the problem of "progress" in exter
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by rainingmonkey 1y ago
"As at April 2022: 8.7% of land in England is of developed use, with 91.1% of non-developed use and the remaining 0.2% being vacant. The top 3 land use groups were ‘Agriculture’ (63.1%), ‘Forestry, open land and water’ (20.1%), and ‘Re
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by rainingmonkey 2y ago
It's the opposite for me; things that are intuitive in Fish would involve inscrutable magic incantations copied from StackOverflow in Bash. If you only want to use Fish for the autocompletion though, you can! Bash is always still there
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by rainingmonkey 2y ago
"Global warming may not have caused the Arab Spring, but it may have made it come earlier... In 2010, droughts in Russia, Ukraine, China and Argentina and torrential storms in Canada, Australia and Brazil considerably diminished global
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by rainingmonkey 2y ago
Without knowing any of the individuals involve, this intuitively seems like a useful model to predict the actions of the state. I wonder how effective the technique would be for the US government and our own oligarchs?
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by rainingmonkey 2y ago
> You'd think all kiwis would be related, sharing brown fuzz and being associated with New Zealand, but actually the kiwi fruit and kiwi bird diverged 1.4 billion years ago. This got a real chuckle from me! I've hear the key to
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by rainingmonkey 2y ago
The ancient Roman calendar was before that, with 10 months of 30 or 31 days and intercalated days when it's no month at all. Sometimes priests moved these days to suit political shenanigans. Caesar ended this madness and "rational
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by rainingmonkey 2y ago
A few years back when he seemed at the height of his popularity, my colleagues built a little tool to check how many YouTube suggestions you had to click to end up with Jordan Peterson. IIRC, he was never far away from anything related to h
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by rainingmonkey 2y ago
The existence of any media organisation (or any corporation) is defined by law; a change of government could in theory completely change any organisation in the UK. But yes, "the Chairman and the non-executive members for the nations a
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by rainingmonkey 2y ago
The vibes of the early internet are still out there, you just won't be directed there by Google or any of the other "social" silos. Gemini ( https://geminiprotocol.net/ ) is almost entirely made up of personal
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by rainingmonkey 2y ago
Lua is a very simple language. If you're coming from Python, it's probably even quicker to learn vanilla Lua (and Löve) than using something like Moonscript or fennel. If you're set on Python there is PyGame. I haven't t
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by rainingmonkey 2y ago
As housing becomes more and more unaffordable while more and more commercial property rests empty, we'll see this story repeating more and more in the UK and especially in London.
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I almost added Tetris to htop(hisham.hm)
2 points by rainingmonkey 3y ago|1 comments
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by rainingmonkey 3y ago
What was your experience with Lua if it worked? What were the disadvantages that kept you looking for other extension languages?
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by rainingmonkey 4y ago
Lua originated in 1993 and ran anywhere C would. Unfortunately it still lacks meaningful marketshare though.
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by rainingmonkey 4y ago
I've found Tribune Magazine ( https://tribunemag.co.uk/ ) a good source of well-written leftist opinions without the tone and US focus of Jacobin.

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