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by Kwpolska 1y ago
[citation needed] If video rendering used overlays, then YouTube could not put the toolbar or subtitles on top of the video, and they’ve been doing so for a long time.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
The example with lambdas should be written on multiple lines, too. At the same time, you can leverage the => syntax to avoid braces and end up with five lines: List<Product> GetExclusiveProducts(List<Product> source)
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Last paragraph above the about blurb: > Apple TV+ is now simply Apple TV, with a vibrant new identity. Ahead of its global streaming debut on Apple TV, the film continues to be available for purchase on participating digital platforms, i
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
(Downvotes do not affect the downvoters’ karma.)
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
It’s a classic marketing “trick”: name-drop multiple related-ish companies, even if the product applies only to one of them.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
The production app setup section should probably be replaced by Docker. Much more repeatable and easier to configure these days.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Probably none needed it to be an integer. At the same time, if the API contract says {id: integer, name: string}, then you are likely to have developers, especially in statically-typed languages, that will create a class with an int32 field
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
If the existing code was using int32, a switch to anything larger would cause integer overflows or JSON parsing errors in languages with strongly-typed fixed-width integer types.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Those changes affect the .NET runtime, designed for real computers. This does not preclude the existence of a special runtime designed for Wasm with WasmGC support. The .NET team appears to be aware of WasmGC [0], and they have provided the
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
From a Windows end-user perspective, the entity to blame for apps breaking after a Windows upgrade is Microsoft, even if the app was doing something it should not have [0]. [0] Search for "return policy" on https://www.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Too many Apple users consider Apple to be holy and will blame app vendors for OS bugs.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
I don't think it's going to be a list of things, but rather a list of vendor types (grocery stores, pharmacies, gas stations) that have to accept offline payments, and that banks must accept offline payments from. You can live wit
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
On one of my recent Ryanair flights, the transaction reached my bank about 30 minutes after landing. On another, it took two days.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Samsung's store contains virtually no original third-party software, anything that's worth installing and is not from Samsung is available on the Play Store.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
> on a 4g network in a third world country Such as the US? Even in first-world countries, there are places with terrible coverage, where only 2G/3G service is available. The modern Web is pretty much unusable in those conditions, be
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
IIRC, Safari has this limitation with rendering only system fonts and it cannot be disabled.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
It may come at a cost in some SaaS RSS readers (which may allow a limited number of feeds on the free plan, for example).
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
How many people are using Ruby, Lua, Clojure, Julia, etc.?
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
> [gettext] also doesn’t solve the 2 hard problems. I would still have to write code to extract strings from source code and build a way to allow users to translate them easily. The first problem is solved by the xgettext tool. The seco
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Normal people have accounts.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Haribo specializes in making candy, not electronics. Branded swag tends to be bottom-of-the-barrel.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Or you can just send a SEPA transfer, probably for free.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
> Linux phone that actually works Then why do all photos of this phone show the logo, not the actual OS it’s running? If it’s running something that is not Android, I would expect a page how the OS actually looks and works before conside
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
No, it doesn't. OP meant that the Rust support on Cygwin is bad; it is better with the native Windows API.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Is it really that important or significant? This is the board: https://archive.org/about/bios
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
An LLM repeating the exact same response feels very staged to me.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Using a recipe = being told how to make something.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Google Glass launched too early, when people cared more about privacy.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
They didn’t just “ship a bug”, they broke millions of computers worldwide because their scareware injects itself into the Windows kernel.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Tech bros want the exact opposite, so that they can sell their AI crap and replace human developers with AI bots.

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