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by Pxtl 3y ago
I mean MS is selling Arm based Windows machines now and I assume they're going to have to offer some kind of compatibility framework for legacy software.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
We need both. The deep analysis that news is supposed to provide is an important service. Some things are important for reasons the reader does not necessarily understand, and providing it only in bite-sized form is not good enough. Somet
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Node.js and Python 3 came out at around the same time. Python had their chance to tell all the "mission critical legacy code" that it was time to make hard changes.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Which is why I'm shocked that Python's big "we're breaking backwards compatibility" release (Python 3) was mostly just for Unicode strings. It seems like the C API and the various __builtins__ introspection API thi
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I still don't get why they didn't reduce API of the interpreter internals in Python 3 so that things like this would be more achievable. If you're going to break backwards compatibility, it's not like Unicode was the on
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Yeah, I'm always surprised that Google doesn't offer a way to change your account address. Like there's no way to say "this is my new Gmail address and all email to the old address will be forwarded to the new one and t
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Iirc even Kevorkian would have the patient execute the final button-press. But either way, I think everybody overestimates the cosmic importance of death to people whose careers are waist deep in it.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Hah, I had a similar experience crossing New Brunswick, my old Garmin GPS tried to send us through logging roads. Those roads shift like sand, of course, as the loggers' needs change. It was kind of a disaster in a minivan. Eventuall
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by Pxtl 3y ago
This is a good point: The problem isnt that long lasting, durable products no longer exist. It's that they're no longer marketed for home use. You can get stuff just as good as back in the '60s, for comparable after-inflation
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I remember whent the DMCA was being proposed, there were arguments that the anti-circumvention protections would basically allow copyright holders to rewrite copyright law however they saw fit, with no regards to fair use. With or without t
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by Pxtl 3y ago
It's possible he's working very hard... at a different job.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
So much crab-bucket thinking. 90% of the right of way is dedicated to automobile traffic but because rental scooters occasionally get left on the remaining 10%, the problem is clearly the scooters and not the cars.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
You can't take an e-bike on many transit systems. You can't go meet somebody and go walk with them to another location. Rental micromobility is very convenient for those kinds of things. They don't replace a car or a bike,
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Bummer. I used the Bird scooters a few times in my city - I found them overpriced and anemically powered, but still useful.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38699204
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by Pxtl 3y ago
When did I say I expected it to be free? Obviously, it's paywalled because that's their only economically viable option now that advertising revenues have lowered too far for them. I'm just stating reality: reputable news so
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Actually all 4 gas giants have rings, they're just much smaller and less visible than Saturn's. Jupiter and Neptune's rings are very slight, compared to Uranus' substantial ones and of course Saturn's gaudy decor
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Gorgeous... But I've always been curious, I've heard it both ways: If I were on a space ship exploring the outer planets looking out a regular-ass glass window, would the rings of Jupiter, Neptune, and Uranus even be visible to t
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by Pxtl 3y ago
The paywall on the article is ironic since the collapse of free reputable news is likely another aspect of that. I keep hoping the Fediverse will win. After what's happened to Twitter and Reddit and Facebook, it seems self-evident tha
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Occasionally I go back to FB to see if any friends and family have posted and like 90% of the feed is "recommended for you" shovelfulls of garbage for infinite scrolling. Worst off, there's a kind of anxiety about even pausi
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by Pxtl 3y ago
FFS, they bought up and ruined Stelco here in Hamilton (Canada's Pittsburgh) just to loot its customer-list and they still failed anyways?
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Doesnt' that apply to peer-to-peer support forums? Like, if I create a Hotmail Account and use it to post to https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us to reply to every comment "I'm an official Microsoft represent
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I assume they lost something that's timely, like a transactional DB, where the "backup" would mean accepting the loss of some important transactions.
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SW Airlines flight attendants rerun contract vote; unsecured R/W database site(paddleyourownkanoo.com)
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by Pxtl 3y ago
He also screwed up the 4th and 5th image - one of the ones labeled "85% jpeg lossy" links to the webp.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
In general I've found that this shift to .webp breaks all the nice interoperability and composability we used to have with audio and video image files since there seems to be zero interest in making sure that simple familiar features l
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Because it's a substantial amount of effort to upgrade to the "new" tech, and he's showing that the "new" tech is actually worse than the "old" tech of reliable old jpeg. > Bandwidth is cheap. Labo
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by Pxtl 3y ago
> The examples are just bad. If you want to show something, screenshot and enlarge it to show the artifacts. Yes! Where's the red underlines and diffs? I can see the background banding, but the foreground looks the same at a glanc
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Still, the author could do more to highlight the differences using zooms and annotations. The banding in the background is particularly strong and would help their point to highlight visually to the reader.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Can anybody recommend a good solution for automated synching of photos and files between my Google Drive and my Pi NAS? Something that makes mirroring a deletion possible but not accidental, so that if the Drive loses data it won't get

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