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hossbeast··on Winning back the Internet by building our own
The piece could be made a lot more effective by acknowledging this.
hossbeast··on Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential
There was once a dream that was WSL, you could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile.
hossbeast··on Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)
> can use udp

What are you even talking about? Any unprivileged process can open a udp socket.

hossbeast··on Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)
You can't buy/use an OEM license for windows on a box you build yourself can you? The last windows machine I put together, I paid > $100 for Windows itself.
hossbeast··on An updated daily front page of The New York Times as artwork on your wall
That sounds awesome, mind linking the product?
hossbeast··on Goodbye, Twitter
> Quit Twitter, seriously. I’m not joking.

You waited until Nov 2020 to quit Twitter?

hossbeast··on Conditions of ACME's Unconditional Guarantee
Where can I learn about the software you sell?
hossbeast··on Don’t Call Yourself a Developer If You Don’t Code
And if you do code, call yourself a programmer
hossbeast··on Mystery of interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua gets trickier
But he is publishing in journals. The article cites his papers.
hossbeast··on Fed announces details of new interbank service to support instant payments
Do you have a source for this?
hossbeast··on Wireless Is a Trap
There are better and worse ways to build the UI around this information, but to say it should be completely hidden from / impossible for the end user to find, is just outright hostile to the user.

Do you think people would be happy if the wifi status icon just became a boolean "on/off"? Of course not. They are able to make differential decisions in light of the (limited) information presented.

Empower users with information!

hossbeast··on Mysterious deep-space flashes repeat every 157 days
It's a feature for the genes, it's an anti-feature for the individual organisms.
hossbeast··on Utah Data Center
Believed by whom?
hossbeast··on Linux touchpad: preliminary project funding, survey results
So are you backing the project then?
hossbeast··on Improve your walking technique
Awesome, thank you.
hossbeast··on My New Old Apple IIe Computer
I also remember Swashbuckler! Another recommendation for OP.
hossbeast··on Improve your walking technique
What did you do to fix your running posture? Any recommendations? (Trying to work on this myself)
hossbeast··on Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
Vertical tabs, Chrome. Come back to me when you have Vertical Tabs.
hossbeast··on My New Old Apple IIe Computer
Two game recommendations

Odyssey (text based adventure game), and Archon (kind of like chess).

hossbeast··on Sun's surface seen in new detail
But at one point, they jump between two airlocks, and while in space for 10 seconds they become completely covered in ice and freeze to death.
hossbeast··on A global reforestation project is how we fix climate change
Now you have worse problems.
hossbeast··on A global reforestation project is how we fix climate change
By end of time, I assume you mean entropic heat death of the universe. In which case no, planting trees will have become impossible trillions of human years previous to this, due to there not being and planets.
hossbeast··on Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore
Are you aware of the video gaming industry
hossbeast··on Tesla PowerWall 2 Hack
Trains still very much run in the US.
hossbeast··on PDC 1996 Keynote with Bob Muglia and Steve Jobs [video]
Deflated?
hossbeast··on Google T5 scores 88.9 on SuperGLUE Benchmark, approaching human baseline
Have caught a fish though
hossbeast··on Starship Update
If that were true, it would be impossible to leave the solar system, since everything is currently in the Sun's gravity well, and the Sun is larger than Jupiter. But we have sent probes outside the solar system (did they fully leave the Sun's gravity well yet though? Not sure)
hossbeast··on WeWTF, Part Deux
The content of the article?
hossbeast··on The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition
Time to start the job hunt.
hossbeast··on Another Interstellar Object Detected in the Solar System
The word you're looking for is "fiction"
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