boogies
Re:Twitter Blue for $8/Month
on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @05:07PM (#33442931)
Much as Nitter / LibRedirect are essential for Twitter
Re:Falcon Heavy Launch Live
on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @03:41PM (#33426403)
No sales contact, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_buildin... does enumerate nominal costs 3 orders of magnitude higher.
Re:Falcon Heavy Launch Live
on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @03:36PM (#33426324)
> TLS error [ignore]
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> Gas Works Park has a play area with a large play barn, and big hill popular for flying kites. Special park features include a sundial, and a beautiful view of Seattle. Access to Lake Union is restricted at Gas Works Park, as the lake sediment contains hazardous substances.
Appear that that description omits the lede! But the park does seem singularly interesting per the Wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_Works_Park
Re:Which emoji scissors close? (2020)
on Thursday October 27, 2022 @11:47PM (#33367424)
Re:YouTube-dl has an interpreter for a subset of JavaScript in 870 lin...
on Monday September 12, 2022 @07:41PM (#32818847)
Re:Guidance to make federally funded research freely available without...
on Monday August 29, 2022 @12:41PM (#32640315)
The DoE didn’t free that tech to the public, the US government’s using licensing to actively prevent American companies from competing with the Chinese one they allowed a sublicense to be granted to (from your link):
> Forever Energy, a Bellevue, Wash., based company, is one of several U.S. companies that have been trying to get a license from the Department of Energy to make the batteries. Joanne Skievaski, Forever Energy's chief financial officer, has been trying to get hold of a license for more than a year and called the department's decision to allow foreign manufacturing "mind boggling."
Re:Day ahead electricity prices for EU
on Saturday August 27, 2022 @07:16PM (#32624187)
In the shadow of the Earth today.¹
Re:Design the next iPhone
on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @06:48PM (#32572601)
Re:Design the next iPhone
on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @06:38PM (#32572523)
My Pinephone has all those features except the dual SIM card tray, and the battery’s capacity is rated 2,800mAh / typical 3,000mAh. The fact that it can burn through that in as little as an hour if held just right (with max brightness, volume, and load on the GPU, CPU, RAM, and separate modem CPU with the default nonfree, inefficient firmware; and not using the separately sold keyboard case with 6,000 more mAh) is a great incentive to limit its addictive effects.
Re:I love my GPD Micro PC
on Friday August 19, 2022 @12:57PM (#32523466)
xcape -e "Control_R=Insert"
Re:Are forum platforms dead?
on Thursday July 21, 2022 @12:56AM (#32175914)
Dan Grossman isn’t dang.
Re:Bill Watterson’s refusal to license Calvin and Hobbes (2016)
on Saturday July 16, 2022 @04:31PM (#32121686)
I can because LibRedirect (https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect) automatically redirected it to https://libreddit.projectsegfau.lt/r/CalvinBot/comments/bdxb...
Re:Lisp in 99 lines of C and how to write one yourself [pdf]
on Thursday July 14, 2022 @07:54PM (#32102813)
https://archive.ph/zcTJs/image
You can make one from any webpage by prepending archive.ph to the URL.
Re:The balance has shifted away from SPAs
on Saturday May 21, 2022 @09:02PM (#31463864)
> Running it on the desktop is far inferior, because a great advantage of QBO is the ability for several people, distributed worldwide, to work on the same account at the same time.
Is there any reason the desktop version couldn’t do that if Intuit wanted it to? (I imagine they just artificially limit it to encourage customers to ditch indefinite license purchases in favor of monthly SaaSS subscriptions, ie. it has little to do with technical advantages of the web and much to do with the profit advantages of software that stays on Intuit’s servers.)
Re:Gimp 3 Beta Released
on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @12:02PM (#31424405)
[Citation needed]
https://www.gimp.org/ still describes it as the GNU Image Manipulation Program in the <title>, in giant all caps letters at the top, and a third time at the center of the first screenfull of the main page ("This is the official website of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)."). https://www.gimp.org/about/ also links to the GNU Project under "Important GIMP Links."
Re:Ask HN: It's 2022. Where should I direct the youths to learn about ...
on Friday April 29, 2022 @09:23PM (#31212515)
> The built-in game browser, combined with being able to easily see the source for those games is fantastic.
TIC-80 gives you those + all four essential freedoms (seeing, sharing, modifying and using) with the source of the fantasy console itself.
There are some good examples prepackaged with it (from drawing a single sprite to a little ~½ dozen screen top-down action adventure).
Re:So Long Surrogates: How We Moved to UTF-8 in Haskell
on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @06:16PM (#31186519)
I just scroll to the top and use the “next” link on the top comment (added with the prev and context links around October 27–28th last year I think).
Re:Parking kills businesses, not bikes or buses
on Saturday April 09, 2022 @11:47PM (#30974330)
At least Salt Lake City’s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Lake_City#cite_ref-66
Re:I stopped advertising and nothing happened
on Thursday April 07, 2022 @11:13PM (#30952962)
> there is no Skip-button or adBlock that can make [sponsorship segments] go away quickly.
There is! https://sponsor.ajay.app/
Re:RFC 9225: Software Defects Considered Harmful
on Friday April 01, 2022 @11:43PM (#30885689)
> We're laughing at this because it's obvious satire and tongue-in-cheek, and we're laughing at ourselves. No one here that's a programmer strives to produce buggy code, quite the opposite. Frankly, your attack on programmers at large is quite offensive and unnecessary. We're fallible human beings, the same as you (unless you're a bot, but I'm assuming you're a person).
I think logicallee is a person trying to be satirical. But from your comment and its sibling, I guess that wasn’t obvious. Poe’s law strikes again (and now I’m wondering if I could be missing satire in your comment… I need more sleep).
Re:Air-purifying headphones with active noise cancelling
on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @07:32PM (#30862133)
The bathrooms with Dyson driers near me open inwards but have foot openers,¹
as well as the other bathrooms with paper towels inside and waste baskets just outside (so you can use the towel to open the door before tossing it).
¹similar to this: https://cdn.trendhunterstatic.com/thumbs/426/foot-door-handl...
Re:Chrome 100
on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @10:43PM (#30850997)
I’m writing this comment in luakit. It doesn’t support extensions from any other browser’s extension repos AFAIK, but the extensions it comes with out of the box (though they’re not all enabled by default) cover ~80% of the things I use extensions for in Firefox, and the things they do cover kind of work better.
I miss cosmetic filters from µBO and should implement something like Privacy Redirect, but vertical tabs work more easily (they don’t require hacking around user.css to disable horizontal ones, though there are no tree-style ones), there’s a simple Stylus alternative, userscript support, JS whitelisting/toggling with a modifier-free binding, and of course native vi/Pentadactyl-like bindings which make extension-provided ones feel viscerally painful (they’re not eviscerated whenever a page is in the process of loading or unloadable, and searching stays incremental).
Re:Fuchsia Workstation
on Monday March 28, 2022 @12:22PM (#30832194)
espeak-ng / espeak. But notify-send(1) mitigates the potential for scaring your coworkers.
Re:The end of the nice GTK button
on Friday March 25, 2022 @10:22PM (#30808748)
I like how sxmo lets you open/close the keyboard whenever you want by swiping up from / down to the bottom edge of the screen, regardless of what apps are open or what’s happening within them.
Re:Spotify and Google Announce User Choice Billing
on Thursday March 24, 2022 @11:34AM (#30791318)
It sounded like you were saying those platforms were justified in taking a 10× higher cut than payment companies because they provide services that developers would make fewer sales without and would have much more difficulty implementing and hosting themselves. But what makes payment companies not platforms? They seem similarly difficult to sell without, similarly difficult to reimplemement and host yourself, and just as valuable as store platforms for the same reasons you gave.
Re:Spotify and Google Announce User Choice Billing
on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @11:22PM (#30786092)
> Ask anyone what % of their game sales comes from Steam vs their own website/itch/humble/epic.
What % of payments come through payment card companies vs. cash/crypto/checks/etc. ?
Re:Ken and Roberta Williams Working on Colossal Cave Adventure Remake ...
on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @05:30PM (#30783670)
MUD = Multi-User Dungeon
IC = ?
Re:Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode d...
on Monday March 21, 2022 @01:44PM (#30757321)
Same.
echo 'set -g status-bg brightmagenta' >> ~/.tmux.conf && tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf
Re:Stripe Crypto
on Saturday March 12, 2022 @12:48PM (#30653176)
> Thiel used $10 million of his proceeds to create Clarium Capital Management…
> 57.1% return … 7.8% loss … 40.3% return
> …By 2011, after missing out on the economic rebound, many key investors pulled out, reducing the value of Clarium's assets to $350 million, two thirds of which was Thiel's money.
Sounds like it was overall somewhat profitable?