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by Semaphor 2y ago
I had never heard of that, but Wikipedia has similar examples in "Euro English" [0], though there it is because similar words exist with s in other languages. I wonder if something like "advices" exists in another langua
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by Semaphor 2y ago
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1843702724090835178.html
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by Semaphor 2y ago
Depending on your genre preferences, Bandcamp.com might be for you. I buy 4-10 albums every month there, downloaded as FLAC for archival purposes, streamable on all my devices via jellyfin
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by Semaphor 2y ago
Try V with the Vox Populi mod. While it's also changing tons of mechanics, it vastly improves the AI by a ton.
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by Semaphor 2y ago
I tried a bunch of things, and their local line-completion is so far the only AI that didn’t quickly annoy me enough to turn it off again.
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by Semaphor 2y ago
I’d say it’s the opposite. But you are probably talking about depth of combat skill, while I’m talking about depth of writing and story.
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by Semaphor 2y ago
I played MP when I was younger (even MMOs, played WoW in the first year), but nowadays, it’s all single player. Stellaris, Civ V, and the two Owlcat Pathfinder Games (Wrath of the Righteous, which I was playing when I saw the link, and King
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by Semaphor 2y ago
It had more comments than upvote-points, HN automatically buries high comment to point ratio threads to avoid incitement. Not sure if that applies here, just throwing that out as a possible explanation.
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by Semaphor 2y ago
That was many years ago, there was a bit of a public complaint.
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by Semaphor 2y ago
No, the normal version blocks (at least permanent) installs. You need the developer version to install unsigned extensions.
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by Semaphor 2y ago
> their most popular addons It’s the lite version. It’s not popular at all.
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by Semaphor 2y ago
> There were not many such apps. Probably I used the same app about 10+ years ago. Funnily enough, I still use one with that feature, though I don’t think I’ve ever used that feature with it. It’s Gentle Alarm (originally a paid app), wh
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by Semaphor 2y ago
Nah, I also love them, and was always annoyed when I got one of the old bottles. The attached caps are far more convenient. My (unsubstantiated) thought is that the people complaining drink too much soda, as the complaints I saw didn’t chan
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by Semaphor 2y ago
It’s also used by other software. My music player MusicBee (RIP MediaMonkey) and the CD ripper ExactAudioCopy [1] both use MusicBrainz for lookup. I have also occasionally entered albums there myself when the CD was still too new. [0]: ht
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by Semaphor 2y ago
I used to have issues walking up during university, leaving my phone on the other side of the room, taking it and turning it off and falling asleep again without memory if it. I got an alarm app that required solving math questions to do mo
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by Semaphor 2y ago
Related: "Holy Hell, the Social Web Did Not Begin in 2008" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41644267
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by Semaphor 2y ago
> Your dishwasher uses dramatically less power and water than you would use, if washing them by hand. Only if used optimally, or the handwashing is very wasteful. There is one study I know of, it was paid for by washing machine manufactu
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by Semaphor 2y ago
> It's also why violins don't really go with rock music. As a lover of violins in metal, I disagree, heavily. They are very common in folk metal (e.g. Isenmor with 2 violinists [0]), but also many other genres, including more u
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by Semaphor 2y ago
My default PW gen rule is only alphanumerics, far too many websites have issues with special characters. It’s also 24 in length because that tends to fit most, while 32 gives me frequent errors.
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by Semaphor 2y ago
Huh, I thought the regulation that cancelling has to be possible the same way as signing up was EU-wide, but apparently it’s only in Germany then.
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by Semaphor 2y ago
Depending on your application, you can very accurately estimate it. And in a case I had yesterday, it involved stringy numbers because of a third party system, so I could indeed add a computed persisted column that converts our number to
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by Semaphor 2y ago
Relevant for applications as well, when a table only has a few thousand entries, a scan is not the end of the world and not even an outage in waiting. I agree with you that one should seek when possible as part of normal query optimization,
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by Semaphor 2y ago
> Any query that's not a one-off should not perform any table scans. A table scan today can mean an outage tomorrow. That very much depends on your data.
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by Semaphor 2y ago
Regarding "Comment your code!": At least for MSSQL, it’s often recommended not to use -- for comments but instead /**/, because many features like the query store save queries without line breaks, so if you get the query
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by Semaphor 2y ago
Yeah, I was a bit confused there. In all my testing, (NOT) EXISTS was generating either a better plan or the same one as (LEFT) JOIN/(NOT) IN. In addition, it’s also clearer what the intent is.
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by Semaphor 2y ago
As I didn’t get that, it seems like the dev honors prefers-reduced-motion, and doesn’t display it in that case. Excellent of them, give joy to those who want it, prevent annoyances for those who hate them.
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by Semaphor 2y ago
This explains why I was confused by this. I moved to LT many, many years ago, and didn’t know about those new Grammarly features. So I really wasn’t clear how rewriting a specific text had anything to do with Grammarly.
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by Semaphor 2y ago
And who is to say how it should be? You? And what does it even mean, is the great thing about humanity the last few decades? There last few years? Surely humanity as recent as a few hundred years ago was not already as it should be?
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by Semaphor 2y ago
Funnily enough, the article had too many headings for me. I’m scared of Wall of Texts as much as the next netizen, but I need… text fences? Something a bit more than Heading-Paragraph repeated.
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by Semaphor 2y ago
Germany is not exactly known for cheap plans, but apparently it’s worse in the US and you can only get comparable plans if you pay yearly, which I guess might just barely make a $5 parking contract worth it.

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