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by rickbutton 6y ago
Who says everyone gets a second chance?
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by rickbutton 6y ago
Because Google has a financial interest in keeping these malicious "rights holders" happy and profits from the stealing of profits from YouTube creators. Until it becomes illegal, or YouTubers organize, Google will continue to ste
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by rickbutton 7y ago
Why not? Sounds like they would also be an employee under this ruling.
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by rickbutton 7y ago
thats an interesting idea. right now, configuring workspacer is a very imperative, mutable process, because you just setup instances of objects, and call functions that setup some state. some care would need to be taken to design an API tha
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by rickbutton 7y ago
fancy zones is very different conceptually from i3/xmonad or workspacer. fancy zones allows you to define a static layout, and then drag windows into the zones you create. layouts in workspacer are defined in code, and are "always
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by rickbutton 7y ago
on default config: yeah, I'm not sure what the best story is here. I would like the out of the box experience to be nice, and I want to be able to configure anything, but I also want to be able to ship nice improvements to the defaults
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by rickbutton 7y ago
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by rickbutton 7y ago
Please do! I haven't had time to work on it lately, but if there is interest in it I wouldn't mind picking it back up!
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by rickbutton 7y ago
Some applications like to reset their own position occasionally, or don't take kindly to being resized from an outside process. WinSCP is an example where workspacer tries to resize/position the window, and WinSCP itself listens f
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by rickbutton 7y ago
This seems like a good time to plug my tiling window manager for Windows, workspacer. https://www.workspacer.org/ I use xmonad on my linux machines, and wanted something similar for Window, so workspacer trys to replicate t
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by rickbutton 7y ago
There is always a person or two at the bottom of every thread like this that loves to spew hate towards people that like to share interesting side-projects, usually in a "you are wasting your time because your project has no immediate
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by rickbutton 7y ago
No one that maintains a production grade compiler is lazy. I would say that no one that maintains a compiler of any quality is lazy. Let's replace "laziness" with "carefully considered trade-offs" in this context. i
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by rickbutton 7y ago
the "nanopass" approach mentioned in the article is used in Dybvig's chez scheme (not the nanopass library, just the style of compiler construction), and chez scheme is as close to an industrial grade scheme compiler as it ge
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by rickbutton 7y ago
Some iPhone apps provide this for the time slider (I believe via the native media player control, although I could be wrong). It is very nice.
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by rickbutton 7y ago
Your definition of garbage collector excludes reference counting, which does not require scanning memory. Reference counting is a form of garbage collection. The type of garbage collection you are referring to is the sub-type of "traci
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by rickbutton 7y ago
In the US, yes, if the organization is legally considered a bank. I believe that PayPal is not considered a bank, but I'm not sure on the specifics as to why.
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by rickbutton 8y ago
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-incitement-vi... ^ videos of Trump encouraging violence
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by rickbutton 8y ago
Unpaid labor is wage theft.
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by rickbutton 8y ago
my plan is to add some GIFs of the window manager actually managing windows, but I haven't had any spare time in the last few weeks. maybe this weekend though!
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by rickbutton 8y ago
I'm working on a tiling window manager for Windows: https://workspacer.org/ In another life I worked in a mostly linux environment, and developed on linux, where I used xmonad as a window manager. Switching to windows
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by rickbutton 8y ago
right, DNS-over-HTTPS solves this particular problem.
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by rickbutton 8y ago
If the public key was stored in a TXT record and accessed via regular DNS, then someone snooping the connection could see that you made a DNS lookup for that domain, and could make the reasonable assumption that you were about to make a req