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by arkh 1y ago
> people say that but they often come back to Google ;) It used to be the case. One of my laptop is setup with default DDG and the rare times I switch back to google I'm disappointed by even worse results.
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by arkh 1y ago
The hidden files >_<. The classic "edit config.yml" step with no idea where the file should be. Special bonus for RKE2 would used to not even mention you had to create a folder to put the config file in because their install
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by arkh 1y ago
> will do the minimum work that is required of them So... doing their job? When I read people wanting to have 100% uptime on their human resources I feel like I'm reading "The goal" again and how machines have to be 100% u
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by arkh 1y ago
> Characters repeating the same scripted dialog over and over again is one of the biggest immersion breakers. The real immersion breaker and the holy grail of RPG is the fact NPC have no life or goal outside of what the player does. Imag
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by arkh 1y ago
> And I can't even call any tests because I can't extend a non existant class, there's no objects in here!. I'm gonna preach for the church of "away with unit tests": so what? You don't want to test cod
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by arkh 1y ago
> The energy transition in Germany has been handled horribly for reasons I can't understand. Former East German political agents still working for Russia.
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by arkh 1y ago
> 2. in my opinion, what all these tools are missing is the ability to add a manual „corrective“ layer, meaning to be able to adjust the automatically created output by moving and resizing boxes by a certain x/y amount. Something li
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by arkh 1y ago
> Today? AAA titles that repeat the "successful" pattern, over and over again. Nope. Maybe that's what you see because you don't have the time to check for diamonds in the coal mine but there are a ton of indie games
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by arkh 1y ago
> We built out what became Day of Defeat Thank you for that. This mod was awesome in LANs.
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by arkh 1y ago
My intuition is it still exists. This "old internet" sentiment is due to the fact it was mostly academics in their world and geeks in theirs on internet at the time. Then it made it easier for everyone to use so everyone used it.
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by arkh 1y ago
Coming from the php ecosystem this kind of package manager problems feels crazy. Maybe Python and js people should just use composer too.
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by arkh 1y ago
> The company became like someone who has permanently lost the ability to form new memories. I like this. But reality is more like companies have Alzheimer's disease. They're losing memory on top of not being able to form new o
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by arkh 1y ago
What a novel concept! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_bang
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by arkh 1y ago
South Korea is cyber café country. If you open a café there, people expect some specific services. I guess the fact people come with PCs and printer is a way to demonstrate how they don't want this part of US culture and would like to
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by arkh 1y ago
Add Microsoft products to the list. Requires a "professional account" just to register. And tend to refuse gmail accounts to create said microsoft professional account. So the 30 day trial period you could use to check what's
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by arkh 1y ago
> I find it fascinating how much a pretty large group of people just hate semaglutides and seemingly need to believe that it's some kind of Faustian bargain. There have been some scandals about "miracle drugs" which bad ef
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by arkh 1y ago
And the easiest solution to reduce the use of cars? WFH. Every company implementing a RTO politic should be declined next time they try to get certified for some green-washing label. Especially when some government grants are tied to those
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by arkh 1y ago
Why even bother linking to an article or blogpost: use a shock title, maybe associate it with some specific news source. No article to read, just a title and a comment section. Harvest said comments and create a 1h, 1d, 1 week, all time dig
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by arkh 1y ago
> So do US companies which operate in the EU. Yes, but before operating in the EU those companies benefited from the fact the US market is a 300 million people one to scale up. And that's not factoring in the number of other English
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by arkh 1y ago
You'll note one common thing between those two successful examples: one language only. That's the big difference in the EU when you are a start-up and want to go from the $10-50M range to $500M+: in the US and China, you have one
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by arkh 1y ago
Wait, isn't it already part of Oauth? > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8693#name-delegatio...
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by arkh 1y ago
> Not really. There's no way to guess how many english words are pronounced based on the written form, unless you've heard it before. And of course the pronunciation may vary wildly based on region/country as well. > Th
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by arkh 1y ago
Maybe the origin is the fact not everyone uses qwerty mappings. On a french keyboard, ~#{[|\\^@]} all require the "alt gr" modifier key which is usually just right of the space key. So totally outside the realm of shift, caps lock
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by arkh 1y ago
> right or down arrow If you have to use multiple keyboards, arrows, end, home etc tend to be at different position on the keyboard. Almost no better than using a mouse. That's were old school vi / emacs shine. CTRL? Always sam
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by arkh 1y ago
> If it’s something I don’t know, I can go find out about it, and now I know more things. Do you realize how many person-hour of highly intelligent people have been spent on ORM just so people could not learn SQL? Most people don't
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by arkh 1y ago
> It makes perfect sense to believe that natural language interpreted by an LLM is the next step in this evolution. Which one? Most languages are full of imprecision and change over time. So which one would be best for giving instruction
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by arkh 1y ago
> native JS `XMLHttpRequest` was only available from IE 7 onwards, before that it was some ActiveX thing. Almost sure it was available on IE6. But even if not, you could emulate it using hidden iframes to call pages which embedded some j
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by arkh 1y ago
What I'd like to see is something for which adding capacity is plug&play: connect your machine to some network, boot it and automagically it will appear in your farm's UI to become a node. Like how pluging a USB stick in your
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by arkh 1y ago
You know the saying about OSHA rules "they're written in blood"? That's what happens with most domains. At first people don't know the dangers and can go fast and loose: surgery, radioactive material, planes, cars,
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by arkh 1y ago
> then Google used anticompetitive practices to squash it Not exactly. Apple happened. Every "web designer" had to work on a macbook to be different like every one else. And firefox had dismal performances on those macbooks so

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