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solrize

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  • Use for empty small propane tanks?

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  • Use refillable ones like Flame King. They cost about $20 and can be refilled safely for around $2 per fill. If you're near Sports Basement and are a member, they will refill them for free within some limits.

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    Why is the term "Zionist" common on Lemmy and what is the political alignment driving this?

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  • As other people have explained, basically it's a viewpoint supporting the existence of Israel. Israel itself is sometimes called "the Zionist entity" as a propaganda term by its opponents/enemies, as a way of refusing to say the name "Israel" or acknowledge it as a country. You might have heard the term used that way and picked up the undertone. It's like saying "the orange-haired figure" as a way of pointedly refusing to say the name Trump or calling him the president.

  • The Technological Poison Pill: How ATProtocol Encourages Competition, Resists Evil Billionaires, Lock-In & Enshittification

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  • Wishful thinking. Look at Wikipedia. Open everything, total content dumps available as single tarballs, "free the communities" as one of their founding tenets when it started, lots of spammy mirror sites, yet everyone is still stuck there. Main reason is the stupendous search rank makes everyone go there. This is one reason I decided to block search engines from my personal site. It's ok, no one reads it either way.

  • Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy

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  • Yeah I just mean that if you want a bullhorn, even if you don't order it from Amazon, you still donate training data to Amazon every time you use it. Obviously you might have to do that anyway, but there is a trade-off. You can't completely escape.

  • Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy

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  • Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy

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    Forums?

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  • Advice on a project idea for learning Rust!

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  • Most of the stuff you've mentioned aren't that great a match for Rust. Write something in Rust that you would otherwise write in C or C++. It would help if you said what your interests are.

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    Progresso launches Soup Drops, a hard candy that's 'soup you can suck on'

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  • Not the onion? You mean they have no French Onion Soup that way, only chicken noodle? Oh well.

  • Vistra's battery storage facility goes up in flames, spurs evacuation orders

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  • Before you can can do that, you need enough renewable generation capacity to exceed peak demand. And of course that will never happen because of the bottomless appetite of AI and bitcoin mining for electric power.

  • What's your best recommendation for an Imgur alternative, especially in terms of perceived longevity?

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  • You want someone to host your meme photos forever for free? That is sort of lol. You need paid hosting. I'm happy to recommend this (formerly buyshared.net, started by the buyvm guys) at $8/year: https://namecrane.com/store/da-shared-hosting

    You probably want your own domain name too, but I you might be able to alternatively use a subdomain of namecrane.

  • What's Better For A Project Portfolio: Build From Scratch Or Library Knowledge?

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  • Ermph, this is C specific and shouldn't be extrapolated to other languages. Since you're writing in C you are trying to show your chops as a low level programmer. Therefore, showing that you know how to implement a hash table is worthwhile, so you should do it yourself. You could add a comment to the code saying something to that effect. Again that's just for C. Implementing your own hash table in Python instead of using the built-in one would be crazy. Implementing one in C++ instead of using the stdlib or some other one would have to be carefully justified.

    I do have to wonder what you are up to in this day and age, pursuing what sounds like junior level C projects. I would say that whole approach is something of a dead end. You're more employable with higher level languages than with C these days, I would have to say. Or if you write something in Python that incorporates some C functions that you write using Python's C API, that shows you can operate at multiple levels at the same time, which is even better.

  • Looking for advice on a camera for nature photography under $600.

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  • Start out using your phone. Get enough experience taking pictures that you have a better sense of what you might want in a camera that your phone doesn't already do. Take at least a few hundred careful, thoughtful shots that way to see what it is that you can and can't do with the phone. Then come back and discuss your findings in detail and we can make more suggestions.

  • Japanese Yakuza leader admits trying to sell nuclear material to DEA agents posing as Iranian generals

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  • I want to know how they got the nuke stuff in the first place. That's potentially much more disruptive than any number of drug deals.

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  • I think it is best to have some understanding of how an OS works, and how Python works, before asking whether you can write an OS in Python.

    Python is basically a scripting wrapper around a bunch of C functions ("builtins") and there are means of installing additional C functions if you need them. Without any of the builtins, you really can't do much of anything. For example, "print(2+2)" computes the string "4" (by adding 2+2 and converting the result to decimal), then calls a builtin to actually print the string on the console.

    For an OS, you will need quite a few more C functions, mostly to control timers and task switching, the main functions of an OS. Given enough C functions though, in principle you can write an OS.

  • Japanese Yakuza leader admits trying to sell nuclear material to DEA agents posing as Iranian generals

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  • Wait, what? Article says the guy had real plutonium. That is scary. Quantity is not specified though. Also doesn't say where the plutonium came from. He also had a bunch of what sounds like non-fissionable uranium and thorium. They hype that up some, but it is less of a threat.

    Why is this on /nottheonion?

  • No Frills PCB Brings USB-C Power To The Breadboard

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  • This just isn't general interest technology news, especially since it's for a vaporware (crowdfunding) product. Might be ok on /arduino or something.

    Here's USB PD to 12 volts (other voltages available too), just wire it to the breadboard:

    https://www.adafruit.com/product/5450

  • No Frills PCB Brings USB-C Power To The Breadboard

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  • I know perfectly well what breadboards are. I even remember the Continental Specialties brand. They have power supply strips, like the ones on the edges in this pic. You connect power there.

  • No Frills PCB Brings USB-C Power To The Breadboard

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  • This is spammy and there are already plenty of USB-C power conversion gadgets, e.g. on Adafruit. No crowdfunding needed.