VonGallifrey

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by VonGallifrey 13d ago
> Studies always show that you don't. You think you do, but you don't. Did those studies have any outliers that DID have a negative reaction to ads? I am 100% certain I'd react EXTREMELY negatively in a situation like that
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by VonGallifrey 14d ago
> If you have $20 to spend avoiding ads, you have $30 to spend on cool products Yes, but if you are so against ads that you spend $20 to not see ads (I am definitely in this group) and then see an ad for a "cool product" anyway
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by VonGallifrey 22d ago
> The same ambiguity can and always will exist with tim-apple.com and tim.apple.com Similarly, I recently got a scam email that linked to de-apple.com (not a domain owned by APPLE) and also used apple.com-18221.com (also not apple.com).
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by VonGallifrey 1mo ago
> HN blatantly doesn't comply What about HN doesn't comply with GDPR? It does not seem to have tracking cookies.
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by VonGallifrey 2mo ago
It reads to me like FreeInk is the e-book reader and e-Paper SDK, and CrossPoint is the firmware that uses FreeInk. I currently use CrossPoint, so I wanted to install this, but when I clicked the GitHub button, it just linked to the CrossPo
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by VonGallifrey 4mo ago
> But a company that does that is basically delegating both compliance and legal functions to IT. No sane company does that. I was a Software Dev in a small (but fully regulated and licensed) stock exchange. We used to have guidance from
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by VonGallifrey 5mo ago
> If there were a license in the US for it, I’d agree with you. Yeah, that is basically the thing in my country. You can't call yourself an engineer without passing a test, but I can't take it because there isn't one for s
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by VonGallifrey 5mo ago
His channel isn't really about 3D printing or maker projects, which is maybe why you have not heard of him. He has (or had, not sure) an electronics repair shop where he showed laptop and phone repairs on his channel. Recently he is on
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by VonGallifrey 5mo ago
You don't need a cookie banner for auth cookies. You only need consent (aka the banner) for 3rd party cookies and tracking cookies. Cookies that are strictly necessary for the functionality (auth, user preferences, shopping cart, etc..
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by VonGallifrey 6mo ago
Can you show how you would do this in jj? I know how I would do this in git, but don't really see how this would be in jj. I currently don't use it in my workflow, but if it is super easy in jj then I could see myself switching.
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by VonGallifrey 9mo ago
> turns out plenty of people say they write for others to read LLMs are not people. They don't write blogs so that a company can profit from their writing by training LLMs on it. They write for others to read their ideas.
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by VonGallifrey 1y ago
> just make a choice, run the linter automatically and be done with it. Most people probably do this. These types of discussions (probably) come up when someone else made the choice and other people also need to adhere to this choice. Th
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by VonGallifrey 1y ago
Well... Self-taught means that the person learned by their own initiative, "without formal instruction or training". Going to the library or buying and reading books is not formal instruction, and neither is watching Videos. There
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by VonGallifrey 1y ago
> Attentive CS graduates have a structured pool of information to draw from Yes, but a self-taught Developer also has their own pool of information to draw from. That could be prior experience, but it can also overlap with the CS graduat
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by VonGallifrey 1y ago
How exactly do you suggest that a country like Germany (since Germanys inaction was the topic of this thread) reach those goals? How does Germany end the blockade of Gaza? How does Germany end apartheid in the West Bank? Just because I can’
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by VonGallifrey 1y ago
It’s one thing to call the situation “nothing complex”, but there was no solution in this clip. Usually when people call something complex they mean that the solution is complex.
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by VonGallifrey 1y ago
Excuse me for the bad joke, but it seems like your context window was too small. The Tree growing comment was a reference to another comment earlier in the comment chain.
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by VonGallifrey 1y ago
> Given how many people use How many people use software like this because they have no choice? I used Paragon NTFS, but the entire time, I thought it was ridiculous that MacOS can't read NTFS on its own.
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by VonGallifrey 1y ago
Given that the commenter left another comment about having been misinformed, I don't think it was a Joke. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44008622
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by VonGallifrey 1y ago
Fixed. I should have gotten a clue when I spelled Gemälde without the extra h.
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by VonGallifrey 1y ago
From your link there: > written in a mangled form of German. If you show this to anyone who knows German, they will recognize that this was written by someone who doesn't.
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by VonGallifrey 1y ago
painting = Malen a painting = Gemälde drawing = Zeichnen a drawing = Zeichnung
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by VonGallifrey 1y ago
None of those are actual German words. For some of them, I found references that these words could potentially be used in Pennsylvania, but most of these words are not even German, even when you split them into their components.
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by VonGallifrey 2y ago
> We both guessed the censor was catching it as a false positive for the slur. There is a word for this. It is called the Scunthorpe problem. Named after the incident in which the residents of the Town Scunthorpe could not register for a
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by VonGallifrey 2y ago
> I brought over the blueprints, and the technician found the schedule of beams and columns within seconds Is that really an example of the standardization you want? It shows that the blueprint was done in a way that the technician expec
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by VonGallifrey 2y ago
> Technically, the person who distributed the file to them has violated the license by not sending the license text in-band. That person might also just send parts of a file instead of the entire file with the license at the top.
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by VonGallifrey 2y ago
> who notably said horrible things How do you objectively decide which statements are horrible and which aren't? The other stuff you listed are facts, but this one would be subjective. That isn't just providing contextual infor
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by VonGallifrey 2y ago
The way I have seen this is that single letter variables are mostly used when declaration and (all) usages are very close together. If I see a loop with i or k, v then I can be fairly confident that those are an Index or a Key Value pair. A
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by VonGallifrey 2y ago
I have never heard any native German say "Bauer" for builder. "Bauer" is definitively Farmer unless it is used as a suffix.
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by VonGallifrey 2y ago
It is white text on black background by default. Do you have some browser plugins that mess with the website content?

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