sethish

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by sethish 3y ago
And society doesn't have to keep paying artists. It's a terrible, distopian future, but there's nothing to say we can't.
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by sethish 4y ago
Oh we're team public domain. But this repo is only an index and we don't control the upstream licensing. Check out gitenberg or unglue.it and reach out to @gluejar if you want to talk about free ebook metadata.
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by sethish 5y ago
I don't see a question in the parent's comment? Nothing in particular on the 055 page isn't canonical. But any other page on the wiki might contradict anything on any other page. For instance, there are a number of other SC
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by sethish 5y ago
The release was moved back to September 7th. The book ended up being 2x the length, and extra weird to typeset and translate to audiobook. I quite like the existing audiobooks. The narrator seems to be good with languages, and is familiar w
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by sethish 5y ago
I can't recommend the author's novels highly enough. Terra Ignota, the first book being Too Like the Lightning.
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by sethish 6y ago
Debatable. Venture capital in the technology market hasn't shown consistent return on investment in terms of revenue. Contrawise, the interstate system and the CCC were effective government investments.
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by sethish 6y ago
I'm not sure who I would trust, but I don't generally trust university research departments to produce high quality, reusable software. Not that industry projects produce consistent quality software either, but fewer of those proj
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by sethish 6y ago
An old roommate of mine had the opposite system that he called spite-driven development. He and a collaborator would always try to be the one with the latest commit in their shared project, out of spite.
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by sethish 6y ago
Except that edge, safari and chrome are all derived from the codebase that Google controls
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by sethish 6y ago
There are about 400 GITenberg books that have CC-by licensed covers provided by Recovering the Classics. If you're interested in using that art for your PDFs I can find you the index!
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by sethish 6y ago
It's not so much about just adding git to books, but git to the transcriptions of books from printed materials. There are errors in the transcriptions, many books are lacking formatting, and many books pre-date Unicode and are in asci
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by sethish 6y ago
Now I remember, that was the reason I wasn't more clear about the connection to PG when I wrote the website https://github.com/gitenberg-dev/giten_site/ . Since then my co-founder Eric Hellman has been doing
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by sethish 6y ago
Gitenberg was one of the alternate spellings of Gutenberg in the 1400s.
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by sethish 6y ago
You might be more familiar with another project the Free Ebook Foundation maintains: https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books/ Which is one of the top-10 repos on github by number of stars.
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by sethish 6y ago
[Standard Ebooks]( https://standardebooks.org/ ) has accomplished a lot in producing better ebooks of public domain texts.
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by sethish 6y ago
Yes, absolutely. Apologies if that's not clear from the website. GITenberg started as an experimental fork of PG, but due to the work of Eric Hellman at the Free Ebook Foundation, much of the infrastructure such as metadata formats,
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by sethish 6y ago
I'm a big fan of standardebooks! They're doing fantastic work producing better ebooks from Project Gutenberg sources.
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by sethish 6y ago
Unlike Safari and Chrome, Firefox doesn't have a financial incentive to prevent ad-blockers. In fact, they did extra work to their Firefox Preview (mobile) app to integrate an ad blocking plugin as early as possible.
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by sethish 7y ago
Angband is 1990, Nethack is 1987
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by sethish 7y ago
They also live underground!
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by sethish 7y ago
Agreed. I run into Ned every 3-4 years, he always remembers me, and he's super nice and helpful.
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by sethish 7y ago
Can someone link the list of packages that needed to be ported? I get the impression from this thread that newly ported packages won't be included in the next testing release, but hey, there's always unstable.
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by sethish 7y ago
This would be more suitable to large json files if used with the `--stream` flag. Here's my take on it: jq -c --stream ' . as $in | select(length == 2) | ( $in[0] | map( if type == "number&quo
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by sethish 7y ago
It was removed because it wasn't going to generate enough power without cranking it constantly. And the ergonomics weren't great for kids. They did end up making an add-on crank at one point, but I don't think it ever was wid
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by sethish 7y ago
Yep. The SATA hat takes in 12v, converts it to 5v power for the nanopi and has a molex connector for powering the hdds.
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by sethish 7y ago
Agreed. Walrus ivory is legal in the US provided it goes through a native Alaskan.
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by sethish 7y ago
I see Zarf around Cambridge from time to time. Either on the red line or at PorchFest. He's a recognizable dude. I feel like I'm one of the few people to fanboy at him in the real world. He's really nice!
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by sethish 8y ago
I got a mechanical keyboard without a trackpoint after requiring one for many years. I was worried about using a trackpad or mouse, but I tried out mousekeys and am very happy with the result.
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by sethish 8y ago
I am a long time trackpoint user. I'd been using the Lenovo Bluetooth keyboard for several years but wanted to upgrade to a nice split mechanical. I looked into several models of mechanical keyboards that had trackpoints, but none of t
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by sethish 8y ago
https://github.com/pytroll/satpy/blob/master/LICENSE.txt

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