vitejose

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by vitejose 7mo ago
No, HTML was historically supposed to be a subset of SGML; XML is also an application of SGML. XHTML is the XML version of HTML. As of HTML5, HTML is no longer technically SGML or XML.
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by vitejose 2y ago
Everyone loves Racket (Lisp) but no one uses Racket (Lisp). I’ve read Beating the Averages but I still don’t get it.
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by vitejose 3y ago
I had a chance to teach wood shop at a high school while the usual teacher was on sabbatical. I declined because I decided I couldn’t deal with the possibility of some kid losing a finger on the table saw while in my class.
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by vitejose 3y ago
> Or is there some supposed medical reason you need to adjust the parameters of the device on a regular basis? Folks with cochlear implants regularly (i.e. once a year) meet with audiologists to tweak the parameters of the device that fe
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by vitejose 4y ago
What are the criteria for inclusion?
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by vitejose 4y ago
For better or worse, I think that is basically the exact opposite of the *nix community’s modus operandi. The whole point of the free software movement is to be able to control/modify your own tools. Distros exist because different peo
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by vitejose 4y ago
Interesting. Are you referring to Windex or one of the optical-grade solutions? I used to use dish soap but I found that I can just run mine under warm water for thirty seconds or so and that gets them pretty clean.
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by vitejose 4y ago
My main criterion is being able to use existing software since I can’t have folks install anything that’s not approved. This brings me to the web browser, which, for better or worse, has become the ultimate application distribution platform
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Ask HN: Deliver application as single HTML/JS file?
3 points by vitejose 4y ago|5 comments
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by vitejose 4y ago
Arrow keys and page-down don’t work either :/ There’s a set of accessibility options; maybe they could add some alternative navigation methods.
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by vitejose 5y ago
I’m sure there are real performance improvements by moving to C++, but at the same time, I cannot believe how long this list of differences is. https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Official_pages/Parity_issu... It al
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by vitejose 5y ago
Macs are the only computers I’ve used that have had close to zero issues with sleep. But I don’t even bother sleeping on the machines running Linux distros: with SSDs, powering on and off is so fast that I just shut the computer down whenev
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by vitejose 5y ago
The Monotype Library Subscription was awesome! I've been stubbornly holding onto my subscription but I'm starting to worry I might have to cancel it since finances are a bit tight for me at the moment. What a shame they stopped of
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by vitejose 5y ago
Honestly really got a kick out of reading about this. Human ingenuity! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge-notched_card
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by vitejose 5y ago
Out of curiosity, what issues did you run into with NFS on macOS? I'm looking into building a NAS for a network of macOS, Linux, and BSD machines and figured NFS would be my first choice.
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by vitejose 5y ago
But APT isn't a store, is it? I.e. it doesn't provide a buying/selling mechanism.
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by vitejose 5y ago
One of the reasons I like Hugo: it's a single executable that will basically work forever. There's no need to update to a newer version if the one you have meets your needs.
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by vitejose 6y ago
Matthew Butterick is working on a new document processor that borrows some ideas from LaTeX and is built in Racket: https://docs.racket-lang.org/quad/
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by vitejose 6y ago
The sparseness of it is funny to me. That lone <br> is beautiful.
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by vitejose 6y ago
Ha, this is a gem. The page source: Wow - I sure am procrastinating on setting up this journal... <br/> Domain registered 2008
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by vitejose 6y ago
This is basically what I was wondering: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23776045
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by vitejose 6y ago
I operate a few websites that host static content only. Is there any benefit to setting up onion services for these sites? Or are onion services more valuable for providing interactivity/logins?
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by vitejose 6y ago
> You can just... use the Internet. Register your own domain, pay for your own hosting, or buy some servers, take out come ads. It's the Internet, you can still do anything. Agreed. The infrastructure is there, and running a web ser