smlavine

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sama: "man the early days of the internet were so special"(twitter.com)
3 points by smlavine 3mo ago|0 comments
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by smlavine 4mo ago
It would indicate that the parties are actually independent and not just controlled opposition.
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by smlavine 4mo ago
And how often do they vote against each other?
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by smlavine 4mo ago
An enterprise shop I co-op'd at was porting one of their apps from Xamarin to MAUI when I worked there, but certainly it doesn't have much mindshare (if any) amongst SE undergrads at my university.
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by smlavine 4mo ago
All dependency management is speculative. You've got to hedge your bets that the dependency is reliable and fit for purpose. It is reasonable to view Bun's recent choices as increasing the risk associated with depending on it.
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by smlavine 4mo ago
I just graduated this weekend and my school gave us our cap and gown for free. Seems fair with how much we're paying...
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by smlavine 5mo ago
Finally won a game against the Easy bot on the 9x9 board after around 10 tries. Seems like if you want to force a win, you have to think about how to put your opponent in "Zugzwang" (to borrow a Chess term).
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by smlavine 5mo ago
Very fun game! Has this been released before? This is the only place I can find that mentions it.
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by smlavine 7mo ago
I like mine. the moto g line of phones are like $200, unlocked. They're fast enough for anything I do with a phone. It runs android. It's fine. I've thought about GrapheneOS before but I a) don't want to give Google mone
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by smlavine 7mo ago
Ever heard of the Constitution?
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by smlavine 7mo ago
Or, larger districts of ~5 or so representatives. In the US, Representatives are already barely "local" -- 700k+ people to a single district.
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by smlavine 7mo ago
> LibreOffice is eating Microsoft 365 lunch This one misses the point entirely, I'm sorry to say. Microsoft 365's "lunch" is that a majority of US businesses, schools, and governments are reliant on 365 for anything i
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by smlavine 7mo ago
It's a Half-Life 2 reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJshjMyg6no
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by smlavine 7mo ago
I thought so too at first, coming from a language (Hare) where they are very easy and common, but the Diagnostics pattern isn't that bad once you expect it. Various examples: https://ziggit.dev/search?q=Diagnostics
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by smlavine 7mo ago
"tell"?
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by smlavine 7mo ago
When talking in terms of software parallelism, "parallel" and "sequential" are more common to describe, for example, multi-threaded vs. single-threaded implementations.
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by smlavine 8mo ago
No, it is a protocol that allows a user to create their own social network within their Messaging app.
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by smlavine 9mo ago
(2009)
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by smlavine 9mo ago
It says the first half of the advance would be paid on approval of the first third of the book. It also says that the first third of the book was never submitted. So I don't think the advance was ever paid out.
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by smlavine 9mo ago
QDirStat is a Linux equivalent: https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
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by smlavine 9mo ago
The Pentagram at the top of the page does not load without JS enabled.
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by smlavine 9mo ago
I use Firefox on Android perhaps entirely because it supports uBlock Origin and my other extensions. I would guess that of people that would ever go out of their way to use a non-Chrome browser on Android , the fraction who care about exte
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by smlavine 9mo ago
This is terrifying. Truth is dead.
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by smlavine 9mo ago
Related: a cool blog from a year or two ago from a participant in this program: https://brr.fyi
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by smlavine 10mo ago
> They're all using it. Not really. Go talk to anyone who uses the internet for Facebook, Whatsapp, and not much else. Lots of people have typed in chatgpt.com or had Google's AI shoved in their face, but the vast majority of &
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by smlavine 10mo ago
Because then you'd have to do that.
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by smlavine 11mo ago
It means that every now and then, the Glance weather widget will pop up. I'll click on it, then it will bring up the full UI and ask me if I actually want to use it. I click "Disable Smart Lock Screen" instead, then it goes a
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by smlavine 11mo ago
On my Moto G, Glance keeps getting re-enabled every month or so even after I disable it every time. Annoying.
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by smlavine 11mo ago
Says God, would say the framers.
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by smlavine 11mo ago
I think it's fine. Better than purple on dark-grey that I've seen posted here.

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