zqfm

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by zqfm 2y ago
KWC is a pretty fascinating place, but all I've ever seen about it is from people on the outside looking in. Are there any accounts from the people who lived there?
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by zqfm 2y ago
I cut my teeth on HyperCard and I'd say that the web (HTML, JavaScript) is a pretty good successor. Getting an image on a page and then linking between pages is quite satisfying when you're starting out. Something like a basic web
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by zqfm 3y ago
It's pretty appalling the number of people in this thread trying to rationalize and justify slavery.
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by zqfm 3y ago
This is anecdotal, but my experience has been the opposite. I briefly switched to Chrome some years ago because everyone else was and the dev tools were genuinely better, but as a user it felt clunky and slow, so I switched back to Firefox.
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by zqfm 3y ago
I, like many others here, would love to have an EV. But in a world where people are being paid barely enough to eat, it's no wonder no one can afford premium EV prices. Make an affordable EV and people will buy it, that doesn't se
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by zqfm 3y ago
nope
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by zqfm 3y ago
> the ancient Greek thing whose name I forget with alternating directions on each line I believe the word you're looking for is "boustrophedon"
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by zqfm 5y ago
That definitely wasn't the impression I got back when I frequented it but I'm glad if they're more antiwar now.
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by zqfm 5y ago
Oh I fully agree, that's what I mean by that attitude becoming more mainstream. Just growing up I saw that expressed more fully on 4chan before I saw it being adopted elsewhere.
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by zqfm 5y ago
I used to love the 4chan-style contrarian attitude until, in high school people I knew were killed in Iraq. Then I started to realize that those kinds of nihilist attitudes have real-world consequences. Since then, that attitude has become
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by zqfm 5y ago
Cool! Anyone have resources on what has changed since then?
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by zqfm 5y ago
I highly recommend keepass + syncthing. Avoid some third party having access to your password store while keeping it backed up wherever you need it to be.
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by zqfm 5y ago
I still have this book on my shelf, it got me started programming as a youngin'. Good times!
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by zqfm 5y ago
I'm in my 30s and finally going to college and can confirm that many of my fellow students (most in their teens or early 20s) believe that .org domains are credible. I've pointed out that anyone can buy one for $10 so hopefully so
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by zqfm 6y ago
Maybe off the wall, but my first thought is certificate revocation. Could there be (or is there already) a semi-centralized database of research that should no longer be cited? With maybe a dependency graph of research that maybe needs to b
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by zqfm 6y ago
As an aside, this page is great, I was able to watch the videos and see all the images without needing to enable javascript for half a dozen 3rd party URLs!
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by zqfm 6y ago
I don't want to sound snarky or overly skeptical, but I've seen a lot of people say that the trackpad under macOS is a lot nicer than that under linux, but I don't see what they mean. I have a ~6yo linux laptop as my primary
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by zqfm 7y ago
Trap stars? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry
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by zqfm 7y ago
They're clearly vying for a place next to vi. Or maybe the v language, depending on how you pronounce it.
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by zqfm 8y ago
> mounting a massive Plato's Cave-like conspiracy to convince people they are doing something useful Maybe I'm missing something but I feel like that's what most of us are doing now anyway.
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by zqfm 9y ago
I've been doing software development in a small midwestern town for ~10 years. Most people drink coffee, but only a handful that I've known take other stimulants. In my (completely anecdotal) experience, the people who drink coffe
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by zqfm 10y ago
Is there any kind of simulator that I could run on my classical hardware to get some experience programming with this kind of thing?
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by zqfm 10y ago
The wording made me think that there had been some kind of tragedy. Glad to see that it went well!
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by zqfm 11y ago
Very cool! I had an idea some time ago to create something like hyperpolyglot.org but for philosophic / religious ideas. Any plans on doing something similar?
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by zqfm 11y ago
If the new IE any good, I'd be willing to try it on my Linux box.
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by zqfm 12y ago
My first thought is the kernel should pre-allocate some space for running a recovery/cleanup/analysis process when malloc fails. Is anything like this done already? Can it defer to the user to decide what to do when that happens?
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by zqfm 12y ago
It's a bit concerning that https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=616915051&oldid=61... would be coming from someone in congress.
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by zqfm 13y ago
Just out of curiosity, do you say "array of string" or "strings" or something else?
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by zqfm 13y ago
Perhaps I am mistaken, but I was under the impression that the LLVM IR was subject to change at a whim. That may be something to keep in mind if you intend to target it directly.
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by zqfm 13y ago
As someone who has never used X's remote access, what are its benefits over VNC?

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