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by beatgammit 7y ago
Then again, some brands have built up a reputation over decades of being durable, so even inferior, current gen products are often more reliable than most of the competition, but they command a premium for the reputation. I certainly wouldn
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by beatgammit 7y ago
Depending on how you encode names and what you define as a "letter", many Korean last names are single characters (Lee: 이, Park: 박, Kim: 김), though they're usually transliterated into multiple letters (Oh, not O). Every Korea
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by beatgammit 7y ago
I think I have spent $1000-1500 on maintenance over the last 5 years or so with ~60k miles, and that's with taking my car to a private shop for a recall fix ($300-400, wife had the car out of town), which accounts for a quarter to half
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by beatgammit 7y ago
Mine failed before I could really launch it. Basically, I wanted to do a financial app to help people get out of debt, but the company I was going to use changed their fee structure just before I launched, causing transaction costs to eat a
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by beatgammit 7y ago
I am exactly the target market for this. I don't use many apps, and my most used apps are either usable in the browser or easy to implement myself. I don't need much from my phone, just calls, texts, a browser, a PDF viewer, navig
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by beatgammit 7y ago
Why not something like GNU Taler[1]? It's a centralized digital currency with privacy for the payer at its core, but payees are always identified (very useful for taxation purposes). That sounds like exactly the use case for a governme
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by beatgammit 7y ago
Exactly. Everyone dealing with JavaScript should be taught about .toFixed(num) for rendering numbers as strings. In fact, anyone working on front end code in any language should learn that language's number formatting tools (e.g. sprin
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by beatgammit 7y ago
Yeah, nobody is going to notice or care about an error of a cent or two for something like retail, especially if it evens out in the long run. It matters for finance, not for stuff like Uber or Amazon. Just make sure you render it properly
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by beatgammit 7y ago
If you can assemble a big enough team of competent people to maintain it, you could perhaps make the argument for Canonical to include it.
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by beatgammit 7y ago
The Braveheart edition is sold out, which is intended for developers to hack on so the production version is solid. There were 3000 in the batch, with much more coming in the production phase, which will be in March or April, depending on s
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by beatgammit 7y ago
> Many password managers, the good ones anyway, store their customers’ passwords on their servers in an encrypted format. The best password manager services store them so securely that not even they can access your passwords if you forge
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by beatgammit 7y ago
MP3 is good enough for most casual uses, and not being patent encumbered makes it easier to use. I honestly don't know why I should bother using anything else for personal audio consumption.
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by beatgammit 7y ago
Yup. I wanted a T-series, but they had removed features I wanted (second battery, both RAM sticks replaceable), so I went with an E-series instead. I'm not going to pay a premium for a non-premium product.
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by beatgammit 7y ago
I wanted to buy a T495, but it didn't support dual batteries and had one of the RAM sticks soldered on, so I went for an E495 instead, which at least doesn't have the soldered RAM (still no second battery). I really don't und
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by beatgammit 7y ago
And it didn't stop Trump or Bill Clinton from winning. We'll see if it hurts Bloomberg.
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by beatgammit 7y ago
Linux phones can't come soon enough. I don't need many features, I just need calls, texts, a web browser, and an SSH utility. I'm willing to give up a lot of features just to have control over my phone. Is it too much to ask
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by beatgammit 7y ago
You can always check https://caniuse.com for browser compatibility, or the MDN article for whatever feature you're interested in.
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by beatgammit 7y ago
No, it seems their products die because there's more prestige in launching a product than maintaining one.
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by beatgammit 7y ago
I think all or at least most Linux distributions include pen testing tools in their official repositories, Kali Linux just ships them out of the box. It seems that most kids using Kali Linux do it because it's "elite" or what
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by beatgammit 7y ago
Personally, I think that if reduce is a single, reasonable length line, it's probably being used correctly. If it's a giant function, you're probably better off just using a regular loop. Use it when it's clear and elega
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by beatgammit 7y ago
Isn't the solution there to name variables well? A reduce function turns an array into a single value, passing the result of computation of each element to the next element. So, the signature is: function (accumulator, element) -> a
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by beatgammit 7y ago
Well yeah, everything should be in moderation. Figure out what macros your body needs, and get as much variety in filling those out as is reasonable. I drink mostly water, but I probably have ~1 cup of milk on average each day (e.g. no milk
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by beatgammit 7y ago
Eh, it's really not a big deal. When I first learned, I was worried about the same, but I learned to sit properly to avoid problems. Basically, I adjust myself while mounting and then I'm good to go. Other than that, it's the
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by beatgammit 7y ago
It's exactly this type of reason that I'm excited for the Librem 5 and PinePhone. I don't use many apps, and I value security updates, so using a community supported phone based on standard Linux sounds a lot more appealing t
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by beatgammit 7y ago
I live in Utah, and we're known for snow, yet the bike paths are clear most of the year. I bike most of the time, and honestly, I prefer biking in winter to the summer because it's easier to layer up than cool down. When it snows,
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by beatgammit 7y ago
They're just not a big enough market to target, and there are advantages to locking someone in to your platform.
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by beatgammit 7y ago
Yup, and at $150, I might just buy multiple. I want one to tinker with, and if it works well, I might ditch my current phone and get one for my kids as an emergency phone. I might give them a gifts. At $800, I might buy one, but it has to
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by beatgammit 7y ago
Communism is usually coercive, at least in the implementations we've seen, but there are plenty of theories that don't require coercion. That being said, the common usage of the term "communism" implies a dictatorship
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by beatgammit 7y ago
I think the problem is that "communism" has a ton of baggage that implies a lot of things that aren't actually part of communism. Communism is actually a stateless ideology, which is completely different from the common usage
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by beatgammit 7y ago
And for secrecy, the church got screwed pretty hard early on (driven from place to place, leadership beaten and murdered, forced to move west, investigated by the military, etc). It makes complete sense to only give out as much information

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