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by Tomis02 3y ago
> this must be an Australian.. It's the rejection of authority that's so characteristic Nothing really particular to Australia, the same happens in many other places.
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by Tomis02 3y ago
Blaming Google for going anti-RSS is like blaming the rack when stepping on it. What did people expect to happen? If you're looking someone to blame, blame the ones who evangelised Chrome and Google Reader when better alternatives exis
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by Tomis02 3y ago
Because VSCode is also not an IDE.
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by Tomis02 3y ago
> Oh yeah, it's because we want them to get jobs Interesting, I thought we're doing it because we don't want them to be stupid.
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by Tomis02 3y ago
As if HTML wasn't bad enough.
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by Tomis02 3y ago
> People with English as their mother tongue have some advantages - we actually recognise a huge variety of vowel sounds because various English accents contain them Not so sure about that. For example, I noticed it takes a bit of effort
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by Tomis02 3y ago
> How do emacs people deal with this? Stockholm syndrome.
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by Tomis02 3y ago
> Modern text editors do every single thing. That's an outrageously false statement. If it were true, you'd rarely need plugins. > I wonder what you'd consider an IDE nowadays. The definition of an IDE hasn't chang
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by Tomis02 3y ago
If you have to install plugins then it's not an IDE, it's just a text editor.
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by Tomis02 3y ago
It's the result of 30 years of OOP and design patterns. When your brain gets infected with them you start looking for ways to spread the infection.
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by Tomis02 3y ago
"Subtitles assume the viewer can hear but cannot understand the language or accent, or the speech is not entirely clear, so they transcribe only dialogue and some on-screen text. Captions aim to describe to the deaf and hard of hearing
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by Tomis02 3y ago
I heard the "no license" theory before but I find it hard to believe because Netflix originals suffer from the same problem.
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by Tomis02 3y ago
It is very problematic because modern actors mumble to the point you can't understand much unless the volume is high enough for your entire neighbourhood to hear. Having closed captions instead of subtitles harms immersion. Netflix can
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by Tomis02 3y ago
Slightly related. Netflix is that company that doesn't provide English subtitles in Australia (unless the movie/show's original language is not English), and possibly other native English countries as well. They do provide cl
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by Tomis02 3y ago
Your reply is in really bad faith. The person said "cheaper", not "cheap".
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by Tomis02 3y ago
> I can’t even begin to think of how long it would take to get anywhere. If you design your city properly then it would not take long at all. In fact, you may not even have to drive most of the time.
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by Tomis02 3y ago
That's a bit pedantic, no? You use acceleration to get speed.
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by Tomis02 3y ago
Los Angeles was also not designed for cars. It was demolished for cars, as the saying goes.
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by Tomis02 3y ago
> Spending 2 hours to go to the grocery store and back That usually indicates your city is a huge suburbia with a few skyscrapers in the middle. Bad city design leads to bad results, and a higher speed limit won't solve your problem
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by Tomis02 3y ago
There's physically not enough room. It's not a matter of technology.
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by Tomis02 3y ago
That's amazing. Meanwhile, in some other first world countries (allegedly): "come on bro, just one more lane, and increase the speed limit, that'll definitely fix traffic and make everything better".
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by Tomis02 3y ago
> I feel like Git is great but we could have one which is easier to use FWIW, Mercurial's been there for almost 20 years.
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by Tomis02 3y ago
I think it applies to using git as a whole. It's best to use a VCS that, instead of making you work, gets out of your way.
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by Tomis02 3y ago
> git won for good reasons, it's clearly better than what came before it. You guys keep covering your eyes and ears, pretending that Git and SVN were the only players on the VCS market. That was not the case. Sure, SVN had problems
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by Tomis02 3y ago
> Many of us went from SVN to Git without even knowing what Mercurial was. Yeah I know, that's the problem. In other words, many of us decided git is the best because many of us didn't know any better. But it's been more t
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by Tomis02 3y ago
> whose only job is to save text It's a hyperbole, a figure of speech used to make a point. I'm pretty sure everyone on HN knows what git is used for. > Maybe its because I'm old enough to remember when subversion was k
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by Tomis02 3y ago
It's been about a decade since git "won" the version control war due to the (yet another) unjustified tech hype wave, and we're still having difficulties with what should be trivial tasks. I remember reading a comment by
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by Tomis02 3y ago
> Traffic fatalities would fall nearly to 0 if we made all speed limits 25mph. You're saying it as if it's a bad thing. Nah, it would be great (with some exceptions that can be addressed). It would encourage ubiquitous and effi
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by Tomis02 3y ago
And yet plenty of Americans travel to Europe. Wouldn't hurt to pick up a few words in a foreign language, no?
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by Tomis02 3y ago
The coup overthrew the prime minister and solidified thr power of the Shah. Down the line this led to people being unhappy and the fundamentalist revolution taking place. It's probably fair to say that the actions of the Americans and

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