SiVal

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by SiVal 7y ago
why the heck, given the massive increase in productivity(?) during the last century, we have seen inflation, not deflation? Because the money supply increased even faster than the goods & services supply. Goods and services are traded
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by SiVal 7y ago
Decades ago, when doing physics and programming together, I discovered the parallel between my experiment revealing an anomaly unexplainable by the current scientific theories and my code revealing a bug in the current version of the compil
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by SiVal 7y ago
First you say you "love coding", and I'm with you, but then you say this, and I'm not with you at all, and I think the difference might be your ticket out of your predicament. There are some foods I "love" but
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by SiVal 7y ago
the market for desktop Linux applications is too small to be worth considering Yes, and the market for NeXT software was likewise until Apple decided to put it under a Mac shell. In fact, NT was the same until MS put it under a Windows sh
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by SiVal 7y ago
Yeah, I remember talking to a student over at our local college a few years back who had started doing that with a classmate. They called it Yet Another Hierarchical... something or other. Jerry, I think his name was. I probably should have
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by SiVal 7y ago
Apple apparently hates the name "progressive web apps", so how about: "offline web apps" or "installable web apps" or just "unrestricted web apps"? I'd like those names more, too. Regardless of t
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by SiVal 7y ago
Unfortunately, converting to PNG doesn't work for interactive apps that use SVG as an interactive GUI instead of just a static vector image format. Of course, the user could just install Firefox (or Chrome) to get good-quality SVG supp
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by SiVal 7y ago
The only use case for notifications and PWAs I'm coming across are clickbait news sites... I write apps for myself, my family, and my friends. I put them on MY server and make them available to OUR devices. We should be able to notif
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by SiVal 7y ago
And the worry people have complained about, where negative feedback by a renter gets traced back to the renter, resulting in a retaliatory negative rating, remains a legitimate worry.
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by SiVal 7y ago
There is a popular political perspective that rules on campus these days that treats wealth as something that just magically exists and is simply "redistributed" by one means or another like, say, a phase change in physics where n
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by SiVal 7y ago
Next up is Apple TVX. "It's called 'tee-five-ten'. Yes, that's what it's called. Say it that way. Because we said so."
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by SiVal 7y ago
Yes, I'm referring to a few people I've known who switched to marketing and sales jobs at software companies. Technical credentials (such as work experience, not just school) always make candidates more attractive to sales/ma
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by SiVal 7y ago
This is why I want a hardware switch on my microphone, camera, and radio (wifi, etc.) as a standard part of every product that includes them. No matter what features, "bugs" ("oops, did we accidentally bug your house?"),
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by SiVal 7y ago
Is it ok to stay in web development if you generally loathe the process and are only in it for the end result? "Ok to stay"? It depends on what you're really asking, but I'm going to assume you mean, "If you were
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by SiVal 7y ago
The one who's travelling has the weakest odds of all. The traveler will be in a foreign place with no place to stay. In contrast, the host has no losing cards except some income. No, the one being scammed has the weakest odds. The &q
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by SiVal 7y ago
For decades I've been saying that all text input should go through OS-level IMEs (input method editors). For more complex scripts, the need is obvious, but even writing in English, we can get great benefits from a system that expands
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by SiVal 7y ago
Well, a successor to JPEG called JPEG XL[1] that adds lossless compression, better lossy compression, the ability to further compress and then losslessly restore a traditional JPEG, HDR, animation, alpha channel, lots of other technical imp
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by SiVal 7y ago
Yes, the second should be, "The enemy downed several of our aircraft." Landed can be used to mean "bagged," as in, "We finally landed the Smith account," (it's a fishing term), but it should not be used in
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by SiVal 7y ago
I'm pretty sure the GP meant that Windows would become much more attractive to current Mac users , and I agree. A lot of serious computer work is done on Macs, because the Mac client has so much in common with the Linux server. If MS
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by SiVal 7y ago
I'm always astonished (slow learner or beginner's mind, you decide) at the Q&A Amazon section Amazon offers for its products when I see how many "I don't know" answers there are. Someone posts a question, "
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by SiVal 7y ago
I think there is something to this idea that Apple's products are for the young. Older folks like me learned to use computers as toolboxes of specialized tools that we could use in combination to create customized solutions to whatever
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by SiVal 7y ago
It's back on top in the 2019 XPS 15
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by SiVal 7y ago
The problem I see is that tech is doing the market-savvy thing of moving from features to solutions. We had enabling technologies that people were expected to learn to use in combination, like tools in a toolbox. Files were generic containe
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by SiVal 7y ago
What I keep hoping for is for Microsoft to announce a new Windows with a Windows desktop & API on top of Linux--a gradual, parallel transition like the decade-long DOS- to NT-based Windows transition. Since MS seems to have grown tired
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by SiVal 7y ago
I can only hope that you'll take this story and evidence to a nearby research university/hospital/med school and convince someone that they could win fame and fabulous prizes if they found out you were correct and pursued the
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by SiVal 7y ago
No point in debating the details of which tech is more secure or what is encrypted or adulterated or whatever. Apple has made it clear that they will make sure the Chinese gov't gets what it wants. Even in a supposedly "autonomous
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by SiVal 7y ago
EXIF info is often missing or wrong. Photos that have been passed around, going through various services, apps, scanners, screenshots, etc. along the way, frequently have their EXIF info stripped (e.g., for privacy when exported or uploaded
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by SiVal 7y ago
Stripe is vulnerable, because there are always scammers working every angle they can. But a legitimate Stripe customer is even more vulnerable, because Stripe has many customers, but each customer probably has one payment processor. Strip
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by SiVal 7y ago
(I'm asking because I don't know. It's not advocacy. I have NONE of this equipment currently.) So, if I get gigabit cable internet and want to buy a 4K tv and plug it in for streaming Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube, etc. (no
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by SiVal 7y ago
Thanks, Anthony. I'll take a look at these.

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