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by arendtio 6y ago
I have no statistics at hand but the Android ecosystem is known for having a lot of old phones. Since the corona apps are not about reaching the wealthiest, but about reaching as many people as possible it might be worth the effort.
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by arendtio 6y ago
Why not use the OS APIs when available and provide a hack/fallback for old Phones which don't have those APIs?
723.
by arendtio 6y ago
Well, not entirely. The problem I have is that this old version has serious bugs. So you write a bash script, test it with a modern bash and everything looks fine. But then you start the same script on a fresh macOS and it doesn't run.
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by arendtio 6y ago
AFAIK, mktemp is not part of POSIX. I use the POSIX documentation as my primary source of documentation when writing scripts. Most of the time, I have seen that the differences between the implementations are in the additions but not in the
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by arendtio 6y ago
While I appreciate the existence of POSIX as a standard, I wonder how we could come to a place where it would be actually good. Don't get me wrong, there are many positive things about POSIX shells, but in my opinion, the language itse
726.
by arendtio 6y ago
> Hire people who understand the difference between a job and a hobby. This line is critical and I think I disagree with the message. I myself have rarely been paid to code, but still do it in my spare time. So I think I understand what
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by arendtio 6y ago
What I am really missing is some kind of real-time AI. A decade ago, I have coded some bot for an ego-shooter with RTS elements and have learnt so much from it (while having a lot of fun). It starts with basic things like waypoint systems v
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by arendtio 6y ago
Also just used it a few hours ago, to resize and convert a video in order to send it via e-mail :-)
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by arendtio 6y ago
AFAIK, it doesn't object against (tracking, add, etc.) cookie usage and some pages assume, that when you use the page that you have agreed to tracking and the like. Even though I doubt that it is legal, you might end up being tracked e
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by arendtio 6y ago
I think it is just a problem between theory and practice. In theory it is possible, but in practice it has proven to be so hard, that I am not sure if there ever was or will be a secure computer that is connected to the internet. Another pr
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by arendtio 6y ago
By the way, is there a report on how many foreign governments are being hacked per year by the US (or Russia/China/etc.)? This report reads like 'Russia attacked the US in cyberspace' when there is no transparency about
732.
by arendtio 6y ago
> Unfortunately, Vim’s default configurations lack several important usability features compared to popular alternative text editors, such as VSCode. I find it odd, to compare Vim with VSCode and pretend that those 5 lines close the gap
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by arendtio 6y ago
This is the line that makes the difference: https://github.com/n7olkachev/imgdiff/blob/master/pkg/imgdif...
734.
by arendtio 6y ago
You probably mean 'Windows equivalent'. Many people don't care, but it really is a bad habit to use 'Windows' and 'PC' ambivalently. Yes, Windows is the dominant OS for the PC, but there are others as well
735.
by arendtio 6y ago
Some time ago, I read, that the usage of :x is discouraged, as the typo :X is easy to make and leads to encrypting the file accidentally.
736.
by arendtio 6y ago
Another option is 'the way in which vim spreads'
737.
by arendtio 6y ago
While it definitely is not a 'Show HN', I think it is pretty much on topic. The last sentence even references a real story: > And if you'd like to read a true, but much more boring story about getting MRR, go here. Not eve
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by arendtio 6y ago
Added the blog to my Thunderbird RSS-Feeds :-)
739.
by arendtio 6y ago
My self-hosted XMPP-Server seems to work without problems ;-)
740.
by arendtio 6y ago
The moment when business beats ethics... The mentioned article has some more details: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294/google-a...
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by arendtio 6y ago
Did you make a similar poll before you decided to change Polar to being cloud-only? While I hate that move, I am genuinely interested into the answer ;-)
742.
by arendtio 6y ago
Actually, now I wonder how big the difference between the official and her numbers is. I looks like someone really want to silence her.
743.
by arendtio 6y ago
Well, just two weeks ago I was searching for a quick intro on how Raft works, because I heard it several times over the years, but never took the time to see how it actually works. I didn't really find something to digest quickly until
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by arendtio 6y ago
I do similar things, but a few weeks ago I had to learn, that many of the issues I had with the online Spotify Player (slow loading times, incomplete pages, not playing music) were caused by the included ServiceWorker. Gladly I could disabl
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by arendtio 6y ago
The minimal amount of CSS lines is a feature. So the idea is to create an appealing website with the minimal amount of simple CSS. The motivation comes from other CSS frameworks which have thousands of lines and due to the inheriting struct
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by arendtio 6y ago
Short Story: A few weeks ago, I had trouble to connect my Sennheiser Headphones to a bluetooth splitter. So I downloaded the manual and after some time I found what I was doing wrong. To let me find the critical part faster next time, I wan
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by arendtio 6y ago
It still bothers me when people talk about dynamic HTML these days. Just two weeks ago some team lead said it and I thought 'dude, that is so 90s'.
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by arendtio 6y ago
I wonder how many people rue that day (especially in the HN community) ;-)
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by arendtio 6y ago
I find it funny that the author chose 'Thinking, Fast and Slow' as the title image as that is one of the books I read and I am 100% certain there is so much more to learn from that book than what I have learned. How do I know? Aft
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by arendtio 6y ago
What the author means, is that many people read a lot of books, but don't internalize and adapt their actions accordingly in a truly meaningful way (count me in). So his argument is, to better take one good book and truly learn from it

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