Tharkun

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by Tharkun 7y ago
Maybe Mozilla has such an agreement, but I don't. I have a contract with my ISP, and thr GDPR applies to that contract. CF? Not so much.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
I use Goodreads the way I use IMDB. To keep track of what I've read and what I want to read. I can't say I'm missing any features in that department. Not everything has to fancy. Search generally works well, and they have a p
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Sure. But many users of git don't know (or care) about the workflow of the git team. They know github. Maybe gitlab. Or bitbucket. They could go their entire development careers without ever sending a patch as an email, instead relying
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by Tharkun 7y ago
I suspect you're overestimating the number of developers who know or use Linux. Many developers use Git on Windows and don't know anything about Linux, let alone about the workflow of the kernel team.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Indeed. But sadly that's not how plane tickets are currently priced.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Europe's train network isn't quite as wonderful as many would have you believe. Connections in cities like Paris are terrible and slow (they sometimes require crossing the entire city, which can take a very long time, especially w
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Thanks for these. I've rolled my own implementation of many of these over the last 20 odd year, most of them living in ugly shell scripts embedded as aliases in my env. This will make my life easier!
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Car crashes are a major cause of death. Actively making cars harder to see should be a crime instead of a stupid marketing gimmick.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
I wish I had. Been looking for that holy grail for some time.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
A subset of engineers hate Jira. A lot of us love it. It's orders of magnitude better than any other issue tracker out there. It's an absolute powerhouse with its "Jira Query Language" query support. It scales from tiny
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Ah thanks for clarifying that. That does seem like a useful feature. If there isn't an option or plugin for this already, it sounds like relatively low hanging fruit. Might even be a good first project for someone who's interested
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Undo send? That always struck me as a silly feature. It just sends another email, one politely requesting the removal of the first. Also, TBird does have a unified inbox. I've been using it that way for years. As for search, I have 20+
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by Tharkun 7y ago
This argument doesn't hold much water. Sure, it might be technically correct for Balinese ecomomy. But lots of people fly lots of places for very capricious reasons. If vacation is the goal, then everyone can go on a trip a bit closer
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by Tharkun 7y ago
I'm seeing some broad generalizations in this thread, and some downvotes in disagreement. Please remember that Europe is a big place, and is not necessarily homogeneous. There are large differences between countries, and sometimes betw
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Belgium does, in fact, not have electric heating in most houses. The most popular heate sources are gas and oil (diesel, often incorrectly referred to as mazout). Electricity is very expensive in Belgium. Air source electric heat pumps are
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Belgian French uses septante/nonante. Huitante would be a great addition.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
The popularity of freerunning/parkour makes me doubt their usefulness as a security device, unless they're made significantly wider & deeper than the wikipedia examples.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
It's a common misconception that a good kitchen knife will last forever. It won't. Repeated sharpening will make the knife smaller and smaller. Here's a picture of a sushi chef's knives: the knife on the bottom right was
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by Tharkun 7y ago
I also remember reading about the heat of the coils causing "nano" copper particles to be released/inhaled, might be a contributing factor.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
There's a battle sequence in Frank Herbert's Dune (probably Chapterhouse, maybe Heretics) where a commander (Miles Teg) directs the battle by giving real time commands to individual soldiers, where the deepmind you mentioned resid
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Belgium allegedly had an 85+% recycling rate, though I have no idea what all this stuff gets recycled to, and I suspect it gets downcycled to useless garbage.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
The Custom Movement sounded really interesting for a moment. I was already having fantasies about getting a pair of sneakers with thin soles, wide toe boxes, plenty of air holes and one the left shoe one size larger than the right. Alas. It
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Thanks for clearing that up!
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by Tharkun 7y ago
The docs also seem to indicate that 3mx3m is the smallest grid they can address, but at the same they use addressing in slums as a use case...who has that much real estate in the slums?
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by Tharkun 7y ago
> we need something better than IMAP/POP to have a fighting chance in challenging google How's that? I don't see how messing with IMAP/POP/JMAP will make a difference there. Mail delivery , over SMTP, is what th
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Give it time. Compulsory Latin education was very common for a very long time in large parts of Europe. In parts because the catholic church had a lot of influence. Now people barely even remember it. Many schools now offer Latin as an elec
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by Tharkun 7y ago
The real positive thing that needs to happen to email, is putting an end to near-monopoly of gmail. Email is great. It's decentralized. You can simply roll your own. You can use whatever client you like. Apparently even using HTTP&#x2F
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by Tharkun 7y ago
> every programming language in existence has easy to use HTTP and JSON parsing libraries That argument doesn't hold much water. Every programming language in existence also has easy to use socket libraries. Are you implying that HT
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by Tharkun 7y ago
The good news is that this is a problem that's solving itself. Kanji, especially complex kanji, are dying out in favour of katakana. An anecdotal example, as little as 20 years ago, all the fish markets had signs for each fish, in kanj
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by Tharkun 7y ago
I can't speak for meditation apps in general, but Headspace managed to introduce millions to meditation. They have a bunch of guided meditations for beginners, but as you progress the amount of guidance is gradually reduced. Headspace

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