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ailideex
7y ago
I really despised having to use moc for QT and I'm glad to have found this, it works quite well. Needs C++14 though.
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Verdigris: Qt Without Moc
(woboq.com)
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7y ago
I really want to use FireFox but it is simply too heavy on resources compared to chrome (running on Linux - both Fedora 31 and RHEL 8). In general I like FireFox more and prefer features like multi-account-containers so I'm quite sad t
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ailideex
7y ago
I actually prefer the multi-account containers to chrome's profile approach.
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ailideex
7y ago
This is nothing new - I have seen similar things since I was about 8.
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ailideex
7y ago
eh, ..., I mean all of this ... stuff ... is one massive landmine that is best navigated by not saying anything ... so I don't blame SE - they are probably defecating bricks just thinking what may happen if they make the wrong move and
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ailideex
7y ago
> Let's be honest most major states are doing this Maybe if you exclude most western states/countries - not sure I have noticed a pattern of US media talking it up - quite the contrary - and I have not really gotten the impress
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ailideex
7y ago
> The general bloat of linux distros (due to gnome/systemd and others) I would say categorizing systemd as "general bloat" is not entirely fair - I would say it is far more stable and easier to debug and fix (with the prov
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7y ago
> The only site I know with a worse UX than Netflix is Amazon Prime Video. Amazon Prime Video has exceptionally bad UX. But then again Amazon shopping experience is also rather abysmal.
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7y ago
And well off westerners will praise him for it ... see this thread - just an announcement and everyone is practically falling over themselves to pile on the praise.
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ailideex
7y ago
> 7000000 country could probably produce more engineering talent than it can utilize. South Africa has more than 50,000,000 - still can't build coal power plants without mucking it up. So ... not sure why you think what you think.
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7y ago
> That's because they're buying growth. That is the idea I guess. > Their last quarter revenue was almost $4 billion, you can definitely serve millions of daily rides for way less than that. How do you calculate this? Sure i
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ailideex
7y ago
Sure, but my point stands - 35-40% is not enough to turn a profit for them.
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ailideex
7y ago
> Without children, there wouldn't be any parents by definition. Good point - the phrasing is rather unfortunate.
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ailideex
7y ago
And yet with taking 30-40% of revenue (as you claim) Uber is still running at a loss.
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ailideex
7y ago
> And this is why Debian exists. I would say you have that a bit backwards, Ubuntu exists because of Debian - not the other way around. This would be like saying children are the reason parents exist. Ubuntu has given me PTSD for anythin
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ailideex
7y ago
Ubuntu != Linux && Ubuntu != TheInternet
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ailideex
7y ago
> People have been calling police since the first ones, the Bow Street Runners. Now: > There's a citation to this usage in the OED back to 1811 that is specifically as I stated. The Bow Street Runners were founded in 1749[1]
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ailideex
7y ago
New POSIX standards are released quite frequently and participation is quite open, so ... have at it :)
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ailideex
7y ago
Some more resources: - https://kfg.mit.edu/pub/ul-cluster - https://github.com/underlay
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The Underlay
(underlay.mit.edu)
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7y ago
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ailideex
7y ago
> The DNT header is yet another way for sites to track you. I am glad it failed. And clicking decline on cookie banners or your unique combination on the multiple choice cookie disclaimers wont allow sites to track you?
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ailideex
7y ago
> Are you really going to be sad if Facebook can't survive CCPA? Most people I know would be.
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ailideex
7y ago
Just for interest sake, do you ever read news on the internet, and if so how do you pay for it? I personally read a lot of news online, most of it is such utter trash that I would not want to pay for it. I have paid for some specific sites
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7y ago
So if I run an online shop - and someone does not accept cookies - I still have to make it work for them somehow without cookies (or any equivalent technology)? Or am I misreading this? And if I'm not misreading this - how would you ap
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7y ago
I'm pretty sure most sites that asked me to allow cookies in the past week were not "companies built on surveillance capitalism". Youtube rarely asks me about this and to be quite frank I don't mind adds on youtube nor t
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7y ago
> Because browsers make it an all or nothing setting (all, 1st party, none) and there are many more combinations. Browsers can be changed, but instead of picking a reasonable well thought through solution the governments crammed a quite
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7y ago
Look, I get the sentiment, and it is nice, the thing is though that the advice is not really applicable to most people on the planet and even if everybody that had those options available (i.e. were doing what is on the left and could do wh
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7y ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/counterfactual > Contrary to the facts; untrue. Your claim: "the first [police were] the Bow Street Runners". Not your claim: "the first police force in an English speak
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7y ago
> Install solar + battery Do you have battery and solar installed? You must be one privileged person. I have never once lived anywhere where I could even if I had the money to. Most people in the world do not live in free standing houses
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