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by spanhandler 6y ago
This thread is a prime example of how one can troll or shitpost on HN, no problem, so long as the trolling and shitposting is sufficiently HN-flavored. By which I don't mean to imply that the moderation or community are systemically or
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by spanhandler 6y ago
"First, you'll want to set up a server" and you're already down to well under 1% of the population that'll be interested in reading any further, let alone following through and actually doing it.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I read the post before it had any responses and based on how it read to me then I'd say milofeynman's post is responding to the strongest plausible interpretation, as that's one of the HNest posts I've ever seen, which
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Guess that hasn't made it to their "download for linux" page on the main site yet. It still offers the plugins, with an alternate option for the command line tools.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
> (from what I've heard 1Password only recently even added a Linux-compatible client). Just plugins for Firefox and Chrome, AFAIK, actually. And a command line client that's just a wrapper for the website. No full-featured clie
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Yep, all those exact reasons are why I noted it's unfair (issue a group of people are facing, not an individual) and would be untenable as soon as it became any kind of system or recurring practice on any scale whatsoever ("there
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by spanhandler 6y ago
> although the circumstances they allow you to help with might not be the exact ones that first attracted your interest and concern. Yeah, well, I'm human enough to have those impulses but also know it's good to help anyone, re
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Heh, think the guy has Venmo? That'd be handy. Yeah maybe I'll try an email tomorrow.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I know it's an idea that would kind of... eat itself, were it reality. And maybe this is some shitty first-world take and I'm an asshole for thinking it or whatever. It's even a pretty unfair idea, really. But every time I re
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Low- or zero-prep junk food is also incredibly cheap. When I see comparisons done it's usually ingredient costs of healthy food to full-price junk food costs, but that's not how poor people shop for junk food. They go to Taco Be
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by spanhandler 6y ago
> And look at any developing nation: everyone is hooked to Coca-Cola. Everyone (more or less) is outside a few liberal, urban, health-focused pockets of the US, too. Or to sweet tea, or some other sugary caffeine drink. Unless you intend
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by spanhandler 6y ago
There are several decent ways to keep oneself in good shape for a few months while gyms are closed. Insisting this is a big, important problem for you while also (apparently) not taking advantage of those options means the way you're p
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Yep. Dairy Queen, for instance, had lines of cars wrapping around the building and lining up in the street during the height of our "lockdown". Tons of things were still open in-person, too, like grocery stores, and there was no m
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by spanhandler 6y ago
> - A successful life often feels like day-to-day failure. So do unsuccessful lives. And moderately successful lives. This is just a characteristic of most lives, unless measures are taken to overcome the tendency to experience life this
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Google probably don't want that happening because they use the data to inform decisions for all kinds of other things (search, ad sales, filling in gaps in their creepy profiles of people, maybe even metrics-driven machine-learning-for
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by spanhandler 6y ago
That's a damn fine looking list. I cannot understand why people like King Crimson no matter how hard I try, let alone well enough for In the Court... to place at #5, but otherwise, looks great to me. For anyone starting from nearly-s
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I found Wii Sports gave me nasty RSI in a way I'd never experienced before if I tried to play it "seriously" for any length of time. All that vigorous motion but with no weight or resistance was really, really bad. It also
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Everyone likes parks and plazas and the occasional wide boulevard, it's when there's a bunch of "green space" of indefinite purpose strewn about, and wide streets with big setbacks everywhere because they "look gran
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by spanhandler 6y ago
IIRC it used to work a lot better (like, a whole lot better) but modern X apps mostly end up sending bitmaps over the wire, rather than native X rendering instructions. Agree that it works better than other remote desktop options on Linux
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by spanhandler 6y ago
The Beatles — Sgt. Pepper David Bowie... a different one practically every album.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
That seems to be a mistake in a lot of "city of the future" concept art. All that empty space, tons of long strips of green and trees, very wide streets, huge squares everywhere, looks nice on a drawing or a render but is miserabl
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by spanhandler 6y ago
The first time I heard of it was the wave of articles a couple weeks back about how it was failing and would probably shut down soon. Suddenly it was everywhere but it was all coverage of how it'd already failed.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
There was a Russian travel-photoblogger obsessed with street signs and fire hydrants whose blog I read a lot of a few years back, out of whose very extensive travels a few patterns and interesting observations emerged, one of which was: p
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Not the only comic that puts a bonus in the img tag alt text—I think Wondermark does, and I wanna say that at one time SMBC did that and had the red-button extra panel, both, and it may still. I always check for it when I find a new webco
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by spanhandler 6y ago
If you want support from an app for piano and especially if you already have a keyboard or digital piano with MIDI out, I would strongly recommend Simply Piano on the iPad. I'm not affiliated, just a very, very happy user with a youn
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by spanhandler 6y ago
> From what I've seen after talking to hundreds of secular homeschoolers and the minimal research done on this topic, kids with 1-2 hours a day of study facilitated by a parent do far better academically than the typical kid in scho
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by spanhandler 6y ago
> What is clear but you probably don't want to admit is Apple is not fighting here for your safety but for extracting mroe money, if they were not that greedy Epic,Spotify would not have started this wars and you would have been saf
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by spanhandler 6y ago
> That's not how free market works. It... isn't? How not? > Imagine being unable of refueling because your car does not work with standard oil pumps and you had to go to Apple licensed gas station whom Apple charges 30% to.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Maybe they could form a company for this purpose, and then sell a product that fills that need?
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Age was it, in part, for me. I used to do lots of hardware and OS tinkering. Now the last goddamn thing I want to do is troubleshoot graphical glitches in x-windows, or try to get my audio to handle changing outputs correctly, or cross my

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