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by _abox 4y ago
> Ireland is the only EU country with English as its primary language. Speaking of politically correct, I can imagine some people from the gaeltacht would not approve of the description of English as the primary language in Ireland. Th
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by _abox 4y ago
Apple hates offering choices. But yes this would be the obvious option. Though in this particular case I don't really care but I can imagine some people would. It's also not really nice to change this in a point-update. UI changes
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by _abox 4y ago
> In terms of the UI/UX use old.reddit.com - I honestly don't understand how anyone uses the new default version. Comments are hidden, there are ads and other threads content on the page. It's literally impossible to use.
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by _abox 4y ago
Well, obviously cyclists are more vulnerable. Considering that the numbers are pretty low IMO. The Netherlands have 16 million people, most of which use bicycles for daily travel. 200 died in a year, especially elderly who are exceptionally
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by _abox 4y ago
In the Netherlands we're doing fine without them though. Nobody wears one on a regular bike. I've had a few times where I slipped so fast I didn't even remember what happened but every time my arm was there protecting my head
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by _abox 4y ago
Well, Canonical does, to be fair. They just seem to be unsuccessful at gaining adoption. Part of this is my suspicion that they just do it to get their IP on the map (like with the snap store that only they can manage). But I would imagine
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by _abox 4y ago
> This forced greater changes in the UI compared to the other ports, because a lot of things which are easy to implement with character mode terminals are essentially impossible in 3270. Couldn't they just render everything to a loc
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by _abox 4y ago
The lock-in makes it impossible for me to use most of their services though. I need to access all my stuff on Mac but also on Windows and Linux. I wish there was a good privacy-embracing cloud platform that I could just pay for directly ins
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by _abox 4y ago
I always thought it was written with the surveillance tendencies of the Soviet union and their vassal states in mind, in particular the DDR. After all, animal farm was also targeted at communism and how it corrupts itself.
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by _abox 4y ago
Even with thread reader this looks still really ranty and choppy. All the isolated sentences, the all-caps parts etc. But it's ok, not everyone likes every type of content. It sounds like a pain having ADHD though.
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by _abox 4y ago
Thanks, I thought I knew all the major mesh VPN options (tinc, nebula, tailscale, zero tier, hamachi) and yet I never heard of yggdrasil. This is the kind of comment I love HN for!
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by _abox 4y ago
XML and its associated formats were just so complex. I remember considering getting a book on XML and it was 4 inches thick. Just for a text-based data storage format... This is just prohibitively complex. Formats like JSON and YAML thrive
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by _abox 4y ago
Can confirm in Europe. We don't even get taught much spin recovery, just spin avoidance, seeing that a spin can't be recovered from within final altitudes anyway
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by _abox 4y ago
Homebrew for Mac is super popular among developers: https://brew.sh/ And yeah they should know better. On the other hand, modern programming languages also pull libraries from all over the place without any serious vetting.
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by _abox 4y ago
This is the #1 thing they teach you in lockpicking class anyway. If you want to burgle, buy a crowbar or in this case a drill. It even doubles as a weapon, they will say jokingly. Though I imagine burglars will actually think that way. Lock
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by _abox 4y ago
The pins would have to be fairly far apart to not be affected by each others' magnets I think. Also, this would be pretty easy to 'brute force' with a special key with some electromagnet coils. With physical tumblers this is
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by _abox 4y ago
I was considering 100k including everything :) Here in Spain (which is a first-world country :) a good dev would make about 50k or so.. I think the Silicon Valley area has really skewed expectations of salary (and of course living expenses!
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by _abox 4y ago
Looking at the reviews this has been a running joke for a while. Wonder what started it? Was the location featured in one of those "hunting Hitler" documentaries or something?
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by _abox 4y ago
Which reinforces the idea that the decision to let it spread here was a good one I think. We have more than enough vaccines and it looks like the exposure helps too. China's policy may work against them if that's the case.
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by _abox 4y ago
True, I got covid 2 weeks after getting my booster (3rd mRNA dose). At a point where protection should have been optimal. However it only gave me slight sniffles for 2 days. The vaccine made me more sick :) so IMO the vaccine did its job. I
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by _abox 4y ago
I wish there was a good high density client for matrix. Like an IRC client. All the ones I've seen emulate Whatsapp and signal. Big avatars, lots of spacing everywhere. This doesn't work well if you bridge lots of other networks w
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by _abox 4y ago
Yeah I know Rhide! I didn't know it was still maintained, I thought it was deprecated in 2002. It used to peg my cpu to 100% though back in the day when I used it. Hope they fixed that. But I'd love something more modern.
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by _abox 5y ago
Well, or you can use the tools they give you to do your job :) I agree the focus isn't there. I was managing everything "not Windows" as an endpoint architect and it was very difficult to get other teams to consider them. Mak
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by _abox 5y ago
Yes that's how it works now. That can be changed of course. They can make it work just like on Android where the user has to give permission for things like filesystem access. The point of the law is to bring more control away from App
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by _abox 5y ago
That would really defeat the whole purpose... I'm sure this is not the intention of this law. However it is indeed possible that Apple would weasel such a requirement through the loopholes, yes.
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by _abox 5y ago
How can they? If you can sideload they have no way to enforce this.
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by _abox 5y ago
They still control the OS so they can probably still do a lot to avoid privacy issues. Just by locking down their APIs and sandboxing properly. The EU is not asking for a jailbreak/root. Just side loading. Also it could lead to a much
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by _abox 5y ago
Not a fan of adwaita at all, I think everything GTK is too wasteful in terms of screen space. I think Qt is much more efficient. But that's why we have Linux. Everyone can make their own choices
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by _abox 5y ago
At least in the windows 2000 time every app was using the same UI toolkit. That helped a lot What made some stuff hard was that there were not many pixels available for icons due to the more resolutions in those days, which made icons hard
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by _abox 5y ago
> It's emblematic of Mozilla turning into “just another digital lifestyle brand” and losing the ideology that made Mozilla what it was, radically user-empowering. It's pathetic, in the classical sense that I pity Mozilla for ho

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