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dasb··on Chess is taking over the online video game streaming world and it will change
The most popular streamers in any game are not necessarily the most talented, but those that are the most entertaining while still being reasonably talented.
dasb··on Modern C
King's book is really good.
dasb··on Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life
It worked well for me even without MicroG. The only proprietaty app that I need and use is Whatsapp, and it doesn't require Google Play Services.
dasb··on Hubble finds that Betelgeuse's dimming is likely due to ejection of gases
I recurrently have these types of dreams:

1. The moon is extremely close to earth, so it covers half of the sky.

2. There's another earth-like planet instead of the moon, also really close.

I love those dreams, they also come in nightmare variety:

1. Planes start falling, then there's a big explosion in the sky and fireballs fall towards the earth.

Does anyone else have these dreams?

dasb··on Factorio 1.0
AFAIK sale-based pricing is about squeezing consumer surplus, as described by Joel Spolsky [0].

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-...

dasb··on Ubuntu from 2004 to 20.04 LTS
> So how does Ubuntu differentiate itself, in 2020?

1. Using the most popular distro is an advantage

2. Polish. The little details add up over time. I tried switching to Mint and had various small problems that I didn't have on stock Ubuntu.

dasb··on Toshiba formally and finally exits laptop business
I loved my ~2008 Toshiba Satellite. Rest in peace, old friend.
dasb··on 20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tools, backdoor mentions
No one who knows what they're doing uses zip passwords as security. The passwords are probably there for other reasons.
dasb··on What is 5D chess?
Great, now I can suck at chess in 3 more dimensions.
dasb··on Show HN: UnnaturalScrollWheels – Better scroll wheel settings for macOS
I've always pictured scrolling as moving a camera or visor over a static sheet.
dasb··on Pinebook Pro longer term usage report
Slack is unusably slow on any machine, so there's nothing new about that.
dasb··on NewPipe – ad-free, open-source Android YouTube client
AFAIK you can't log into your Google account from Newpipe, or at least it's not required.
dasb··on Bringing the print statement back
So, is this just a syntax change or is this adding a new statement?

If it's the latter, does that mean that the execution environment is part of the language itself, instead of, for example, C where environmental stuff is only accesible through the standard library and the language per se is little more than a context-free grammar?

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