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by benplumley 4y ago
I'm using the manjaro build, I'll try Telegram's own build, thanks.
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by benplumley 4y ago
It's one of the worst Linux desktop programs I use daily. It gets scaling a bit wrong so all the icons look blurry, scrolling in chats regularly breaks (scroll wheel just does nothing but is fine in all other programs), and the one tim
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by benplumley 4y ago
It's been pretty widely circulated due to how hilariously tone-deaf it is.
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by benplumley 4y ago
Not at all, the application of Pareto here would be something like "80% of a developer's value is contributed in 20% of their time", that 20% being the time spent in the flow state. Edit: rereading, those are actually the sam
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by benplumley 4y ago
Dining al fresco means sitting outdoors (literally "fresh").
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by benplumley 5y ago
Careful, this sounds like the 1% fallacy - just because 1% sounds like a small number doesn't make it an easy target. http://successfulsoftware.net/2013/03/11/the-1-percent-falla...
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by benplumley 5y ago
This enabled itself after an update a few years ago and I thought my headphones had broken.
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by benplumley 5y ago
> beating Go surely would mean human level intelligence With the benefit of hindsight, this just seems like a bad goalpost. Go is hard for computers, but why did anyone think the smarts required to beat a human at it would transfer to un
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by benplumley 5y ago
Or, "Prep time: 10 minutes", "Ingredients: 6 onions, finely diced; ..." where all the actual prep time is hidden in the ingredients list.
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by benplumley 5y ago
Thanks for reminding me about Aardvark, I used to use it a lot and haven't really seen anything like it since.
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by benplumley 5y ago
Just tried with my custom-domain GitHub pages, things have improved since you tried.
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by benplumley 5y ago
There are other steps involving overpaying debt, they just happen at different stages. They're in step 1, 4 and 8.
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by benplumley 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_(band)
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by benplumley 5y ago
I once replaced a Motorola Moto G5 with a Motorola Moto G 5G.
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by benplumley 5y ago
Perhaps "daily active user" is just too short an interval to measure Youtube users by. Everyone on the internet uses Youtube, but not many use it daily.
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by benplumley 5y ago
Don't forget that most of the water you sprinkle onto the roof will collect in the gutters which can feed immediately back into the tank, so you only need enough water for a few cycles plus 24 hours of evaporation loss - still a decent
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by benplumley 5y ago
> If the cost of wheat goes up, they shrink the size of the shredded wheat box. When the cost goes down, they may increase the size. More likely if the cost of wheat goes up, they shrink the size of the box, and when the cost goes back d
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by benplumley 5y ago
A bug-free version of ProfitSharingRewardPool is much more plausible than a bug-free version of WiFi, or SSL, because the former is less than 1000 lines of code and apparently had an unintended $10M bug bounty.
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by benplumley 5y ago
Because the non-luxury brands quickly follow suit once Apple has demonstrated the extra profit outweighs the backlash.
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by benplumley 5y ago
I've never seen this on the web, but I get something very similar after I put my computer to sleep with an ongoing mosh session.
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by benplumley 6y ago
Judging by the state of other metadata there, every single third-party product would have "carbon footprint <1g".
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by benplumley 6y ago
Or trademark a brand personally and rebrand your company to the trademarked brand by having your company "buy" it from you. https://www.businessinsider.com/wework-ceo-gives-back-millio...
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by benplumley 6y ago
It's not the source of that quote, but it's from the same perspective: "Tether" subheading of https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-24/the-va...
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by benplumley 6y ago
In the UK, there's normally a postbox serving a whole street that people can put letters in to send (distinct from the letterbox in each house's front door). GP's nearest postbox might have been inside their local post office
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by benplumley 6y ago
The law is that it needs to be as easy to reject cookies as it is to accept them. Ergo, "people are going to click the easiest button to make it go away" indicates a failure to enforce. I agree it'd be better handled by the b
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by benplumley 6y ago
If he'd _needed_ to test payment (arguable), he could have created a 'real' account, deleted it, squatted his own deleted account, and sent payments to it himself.
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by benplumley 6y ago
My complaint with the Windows 8 start menu wasn't that it took up the whole screen, it was that it took up the whole screen to show _the same number of items_ or fewer than the 95-style start menu. And half of them were ads. A full-scr
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by benplumley 6y ago
If you operate a fleet of trucks, battery swapping becomes a lot more viable because you don't have to worry about swapping your good, new battery for a worn-out old battery.
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by benplumley 6y ago
I'm getting 1fps in Chrome vs 20 in Firefox on Intel integrated graphics, remarkable difference!
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by benplumley 6y ago
Anyone interested in this should also check out https://standardebooks.org/ - they seem to have similar aims, and Standard Ebooks has a larger catalogue.

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