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by bad_user 2y ago
I'm an European and I get zero spam calls. I used to get a couple of cold calls per year for surveys, but I got unlisted via GDPR requests and now its down to zero. Companies do try collecting your phone number, but then I answer NO to
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by bad_user 2y ago
When comparing VS Code with Atom, vim, Emacs, others, an underappreciated fact is that extensions just work, and are very easy to install and configure, which has much to do with its model. Atom was unusable for me, because, as you installe
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by bad_user 2y ago
The samples you gave make no sense. Firstly, a person suffering from ADHD can do the dishes, despite the odds being against them. And a paralyzed person can raise their hand, given advances in technology. And these are bad examples, as bein
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by bad_user 3y ago
> Pensions in Romania are a joke, ask your relatives that recently retired. Both my parents have decent pensions. It's directly proportional to your contributions. Small lifetime contributions, small pension. Nowadays, a part of t
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by bad_user 3y ago
Not having a progressive tax is a feature, not a bug. If a progressive tax would be introduced, I'd either start avoid taxes in any way possible, or I'd seriously think about emigration. Because yes, the rich always finds ways to
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by bad_user 3y ago
What do you understand by capitalism? Is it people delivering products and services, asking for whatever price the market is willing to give, such that they can make ends meet? I'm from Romania and I've always been fascinated by p
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by bad_user 3y ago
What "immutable" means in Rust is very different from Java or any FP language for thar matter. In Rust you can take any data structure and mutate it. There are hardly any invariants that you can force, unlike in Java. For example,
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by bad_user 3y ago
This article is decent, because at least it tries giving some technical pros of Firefox. Activism doesn't work folks. To contribute, here's what Firefox does well, from my perspective: + History sync actually works — most Ch
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by bad_user 3y ago
I switched from Firefox to Brave. For me, at this point, there's no better option. I occasionally try Firefox, but it has several issues that annoy me and that have been unfixed for years. They're doing good work, and I hope they&
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by bad_user 3y ago
While I understand why that's a problem, at this point: 1. Firefox's marketshare is completely irrelevant for preventing Chrome's monopoly; 2. Activism doesn't work; 3. Firefox is funded almost entirely by Google's
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by bad_user 3y ago
> Brave last I tried didn't support it. Not sure what you mean, but you can click the URL, then click on Share, then select "Send to devices". In a way, it works better than Firefox, because the list of active devices is
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by bad_user 3y ago
I use Brave. It's a fine browser. The ad-blocking is almost on par with uBlock Origin. And I like its built-in Tor, BTW. I don't have any issues with Spotify.com, and it doesn't crash on me. I'm on a Macbook Pro M2 Max,
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by bad_user 3y ago
Dark mode produces the halation effect in many people that have astigmatism. This varies between individuals, much like the severity scale for astigmatism. I said that dark mode is not a neutral/inclusive choice, especially for people
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by bad_user 3y ago
That's not true. UIs became light when CRT monitors became capable enough to display bright light colors, which people preferred due to resembling printed paper. Before that it was all white/gray/green text on black/dark
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by bad_user 3y ago
You're not getting it. People don't make fun, they complain about images using light theme, supposedly because it's hard on their eyes, dark mode now considered by many the neutral/inclusive choice. Which is bullshit, es
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by bad_user 3y ago
I think that people get too used to their environment. You mentioned build tools. Ruby's build tools are still inferior to Java's Maven. Granted, few build tools are as good as Maven. This is coupled with something you haven&#x27
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by bad_user 3y ago
Ah yes, the check your privilege argument. I'm guessing you believe speech is violence, too.
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by bad_user 3y ago
I follow many websites with my feed reader, the web is still very active if you're willing to go out of your social media bubble. People still publish on the web, the problem is that the noise is unbearable due to the SEO crap. I predi
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by bad_user 3y ago
If you enable synchronization, even with encryption enabled, by default Chrome shares your browsing history with the purpose of "improving search". The opt-out option is right there in Chrome's settings, which is really creep
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by bad_user 3y ago
I can't speak for the couples you know, although you're trying a generalization that seems wrong, so it's worth saying that having a spouse to call family, to share your life with, in its fullness, transcends any short term h
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by bad_user 3y ago
The definition of life is based on what we observe, on empirical observations, which is the best kind of knowledge. The current definition may not be perfect, but it's useful enough to predict phenomena, such as how life on other plane
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by bad_user 3y ago
I get what you're saying, but why hasn't a better search engine emerged yet? Bing's AI shows some promise, but I can't find anything better than Google. DuckDuckGo is shit. Classic Bing is shit. Brave Search showed prom
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by bad_user 3y ago
Google's Ads (in search) are more profitable for them than AdSense, their RTB platform ;-)
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by bad_user 3y ago
Mastodon feeds do have embedded media, not sure what you mean.
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by bad_user 3y ago
Mutexes, semaphore, CAS, threads are fundamental and this doesn't change when you embrace monadic effect systems or continuations, even if some of the details change (e.g., obviously, if a computation can jump threads, then you need im
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by bad_user 3y ago
“Microsoft changed” indeed.
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by bad_user 3y ago
> I wish Richard Stallman hadn't duped a generation into thinking that they have to use licenses that make Amazon richer instead of just using proprietary licenses to protect yourself, as the licenses were designed to do, so that p
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by bad_user 3y ago
This is the dream for many of us, but I hope she comes up with a good business model that doesn't rely on the goodwill of people (e.g., open core) because FOSS is terrible for earning money. The reason is that FOSS is essentially part
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by bad_user 3y ago
> Controlled by Google with Chromium, right? No. We may speak about a hypothetical future, but right now, that's false. You don't need to pay the 30% tax on all sales, you don't need permission to publish a web app, you
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by bad_user 3y ago
> And what makes you think Safari R&D is solely funded by the search provider deal they have with google? Google paying them 20 billion per year is more than enough to fund several browsers and still make a profit, that being Safar

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