rodric

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by rodric 3mo ago
While I can appreciate this, it was not the historical point of view of the people calling themselves Americans. “What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange mixtur
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by rodric 5mo ago
> You can't have separate scroll directions for your trackpad and your external mouse. The worst. There are even separate toggles in Settings for mouse and trackpad scrolling direction, but changing one changes the other. It is trul
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by rodric 5mo ago
> Maybe the sync is fast now, but my usage would put my in a higher iCloud tier than I'd like You can use Messages on the Mac without storing messages in iCloud. iPhone, iPad and Mac can all send and receive the same account’s messa
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by rodric 2y ago
If Q is not a written source, the Q hypothesis falls apart. The point is to explain what Matthew and Luke (but not Mark) have in common, much of which is word-for-word the same. Whole sentences between them that are verbatim in the Greek po
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by rodric 2y ago
On the Farrer hypothesis, Luke used Matthew as a source, accounting for their shared material. Mark Goodacre may be the current leading academic proponent of the Farrer hypothesis. His article ‘Fatigue in the Synoptics’ ( https://
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by rodric 2y ago
Setting aside the truth value of any religious claim — I find ‘Jesus **** Christ’ to be in gratingly poor taste. Imagine going around saying ‘Prophet **** Muhammed’ or even ‘Martin **** Luther King.’ It’s gauche.
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by rodric 2y ago
Two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41328688 Probably an unrelated coincidence.
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by rodric 2y ago
> Eu, definitely a good name I see what you did there.
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by rodric 2y ago
You are right, of course. Clearly, I have been away from mathematics too long.
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by rodric 2y ago
> the set of such roots is actually closed under multiplication, addition, and subtraction, and there is even an analogue of prime factorization if you squint I did a maths undergrad, but I don’t think I ever studied algebraic integers.
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by rodric 2y ago
VLC is up to date on F-Droid, for what it’s worth
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by rodric 3y ago
> The V is gradually being dropped in Spain and in the last few decades the process seems to have accelerated I own a Spanish textbook printed (in English) in 1958 that says about «usted»: ‘It is the universal respectful address of socie
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by rodric 3y ago
> "total deathtrap" is a wild exaggeration. Sarcasm ;-)
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by rodric 3y ago
The web is, in theory, an open venue, and somebody publishing on the web is not unlike somebody performing in the street. It is not your duty, as the consumer, to ensure the producer’s income—particularly not at the expense of your privacy.
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by rodric 3y ago
> Require anyone who sells a new physical product have to accept returns of that physical product at the end of its lifetime This is the correct solution
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by rodric 3y ago
The day you turn 30 you begin your 31st year of life.
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by rodric 3y ago
How great is your wish? If you host your own instance of Whoogle, which gives Google search results, you can set one of the environment variables to block particular websites from search results.
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by rodric 3y ago
Modern French has had little influence on English. As I understand it, the -our forms are evolutions from the Norman French spellings that introduced these Latinate words into English after the Conquest. In the Renaissance, as many words ma
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by rodric 3y ago
I note that Google Toolbar had a big RSS ‘Subscribe’ button…
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by rodric 4y ago
It looks like you’re writing a complaint. Would you like help?
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by rodric 4y ago
NewsFlash: https://gitlab.com/news-flash/news_flash_gtk
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by rodric 4y ago
I am reminded of a line from G.K. Chesterton: ‘Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.’
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by rodric 4y ago
xkcd: Wisdom of the Ancients https://xkcd.com/979/
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by rodric 4y ago
An English equivalent is “idle hands are the devil’s workshop” https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/idle_hands_are_the_devil%27s_...
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by rodric 4y ago
My default browser is Librewolf with JavaScript turned off. If a page fails to load correctly, I reopen it in Firefox private browsing mode (or, if it still fails, Chrome incognito mode). If it’s a site I expect to come back to in future,
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by rodric 4y ago
Is your Mac mini serving and playing your music, or serving only? The server wouldn’t stream directly to a HomePod speaker, and your player (perhaps on an iPhone or iPad?) would stream to your speaker equally whether the server runs on ma
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by rodric 4y ago
X Lossless Decoder is a good alternative for the Mac – and perhaps the only app that runs natively on PowerPC, Intel and ARM! https://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html
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by rodric 4y ago
Shame if that is (or was?) the case, but it hasn’t been my experience at least.
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by rodric 4y ago
You should probably use an app like Aegis (Android) or Raivo (iOS) for two-factor authentication rather than your personal phone number.
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by rodric 4y ago
In case you haven’t already, you may want to create a .zshrc file in your home directory with the line alias ls='ls -la' Like you, I always want a vertical list.

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