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by adlpz 4y ago
Look, I know where you are coming from, but I'm sure you know it's not the same thing. It's not a culture of being cheap. Is a culture of not valuing, in particular, the Apple tax. A huge amount of people in Europe happily ov
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by adlpz 4y ago
Never argued I do. I provided anecdata which does describe a common difference between the EU and the US in this matter. I reside in the EU and I use an iPhone. This is dependent on context and social circle, but it does happen.
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by adlpz 4y ago
That's where you are wrong. The truth is that for a for a massive chunk of the population a 200€ phone straight from China like a Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 [1] is plenty enough . Not great, but not terrible camera. Not flagship, but not sl
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by adlpz 4y ago
It does, totally. My comment is very much anecdata. As an example, I've noticed this to be very common in many scenes in Berlin, while in Germany as a whole iOS has a 45% market share. So, yes, definitely. However it does show a marked
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by adlpz 4y ago
In the US. In continental Europe I've seen just the opposite. In many social contexts having an iPhone is associated with either being a mindless fanboy, a basic trend-following drone or, in general, bad with money. As in "why wou
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by adlpz 4y ago
My guess is that is not as much about the amount of available data but how accessible it is. Scraping the internet seems to be one of the preferred ways of gathering vast amounts of, in particular, text and images. Telling apart what's
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by adlpz 4y ago
I guess I'm just afraid that it might not be as good as it is that way. It's a bit like how GPT-3, Stable Diffusion and all those generative models use extensive amounts of copyrighted material in training to get as good as they d
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by adlpz 4y ago
It feels weird saying this but, for once, I hope the big evil corporation gets to keep selling their big bad product. I find the pattern matching and repetitive code generation really helpful. And the library autocomplete on steroids, too
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by adlpz 4y ago
How does this compare to Supabase? Is this easily self hostable? I'm seeing lots of movement in this space and it's getting harder to keep track.
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by adlpz 4y ago
Funnily enough in Spain mazapán is always made with almonds. I guess there were no almonds in Mexico at some point of the whole colonization thing?
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by adlpz 4y ago
I'm very invested in Supabase. When I saw the title I thought this was going to be about extending self-hosted Supabase in a similar way as you can do in PocketBase[1] with go. Still, interesting to read about how others use it. [1]:
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by adlpz 4y ago
Short answer: the Moon is just huge. It's not conceivable that we do any significant change to the mass ratios.
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by adlpz 4y ago
I've tried it all except this, including renting bare metal. Nowadays I'm in the cloud but not cloudy camp. Still, I'm intrigued. Apart from the $4-5k server, what are your running costs? Licenses? Colocation? Network?
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by adlpz 4y ago
I had this exact experience. Created the account, built a "home lab" style server over a couple of weeks, worked on several projects and experiments, all within the free tier limits. When the initial free credit expired, poof it
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by adlpz 4y ago
If you are looking for a multi platform build of a specific version of python built with an obscure libc for some niche use case it's _very_ likely none of that is an issue for you, at all. This is a non issue.
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by adlpz 4y ago
This tool saved me when I had to clone a few deeply nested bits of a site between two projects with completely different stacks. Paid full price and was very much worth it: saved me hours of untangling the horrific CMS-generated source CSS.
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by adlpz 4y ago
Thanks! Funnily enough as soon as I wrote my comment I started hacking together something myself and... it's literally the same as that :D.
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by adlpz 4y ago
A bit of an off topic: I've noticed a few older articles being posted around here lately and I must say I've enjoyed them very much. The insights, learning their original contexts, and having hindsight due to the time passed makes
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by adlpz 4y ago
Man, relax, it's not worth it getting worked up by an aside quote in a funny article about selling onions online.
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by adlpz 4y ago
Yes, to be fair, "the rest of the world" should be "the rest of the industrialized first world". Still, though...
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by adlpz 4y ago
I disgree. How hard it is to pass a class should be an absolute. It shouldn't be easier for one cohort over another just due to the first being, on average, less prepared than the second. If an exam turns out to be too hard the teacher
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by adlpz 4y ago
TBH in that case, in HN, it's clearly not the unfulfilled dream bit. More like people see that programming is a dream job for them and want their kids to have the same opportunity.
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by adlpz 4y ago
I've been using Plasma for about a year now and I find it... underwhelming. Inconsistent "feel", things like the main menu search or the alt-tab feature are not frictionless to me. Not sure what it is but I'm changing so
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by adlpz 4y ago
Is there anything out there comparable to Gmail but open source? To be honest what I look for in an email client is not how snappy it is. It's how much it helps me deal with email. Gmail does it quite well. Search is good, tags are goo
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by adlpz 4y ago
I agree, but at the same time I've lived the PHP transformation as a professional developer and I think I know the reasoning. Maintainers and supporters of a language are usually people that are professionally very invested in th
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by adlpz 4y ago
Actual question for anyone familiar with the company inner workings: What are those ~8000 people doing at Twitter?!? I guess they do sales and advertising stuff. Would that be a large chunk? The tech doesn't seem that crazy and they do
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by adlpz 5y ago
The Spanish civil war was not related at all to this issue and has no parallels whatsoever with the American civil war.
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by adlpz 5y ago
> If it takes an IDE to write your code, then it will likely take an IDE to read your code I can agree with that. However, the real world is filled with random legacy projects, massive enterprise applications where a dozen developers c
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by adlpz 5y ago
I'm not saying that yours is necessarily the case, of course I don't know, but I feel like lots of people that hold opinions like yours greatly underestimate the amount of functionality that comes with something like a Jetbrains I
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by adlpz 5y ago
Question: Would this work on an ARM server? Or are the associated container images x86-only?

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