berkes

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by berkes 1y ago
I indeed missed that point. Still, the existence of the EU is (to bring peace by) lowering, mostly economic, barriers that traditionally exist between countries. And the comparison in this threat was "between EU and US" (in europe
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by berkes 1y ago
What you describe is an old and common problem with Microsoft Windows. Hell, even Windows applications built by microsoft itself, even within the same team, are inconsistent often. This is a problem. One that end-users may not recognize, bu
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by berkes 1y ago
Indeed. Users don't want the slack they get. They'd much rather have a slack client that integrates in their OS. The main reason I get this Slack client that's the same across OSX, Ubuntu and Windows, is because the company
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by berkes 1y ago
Not entirely. I care a lot if an app on my android suddenly opens an IOS date picker. Because I don't care about date pickers. I don't care about how it looks. All I care about is picking a date and doing that fast. But now I have
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by berkes 1y ago
> E.g. categories like "expert software" As pointed out.
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by berkes 1y ago
This is because there's no unified capital market. A texas VC can invest in a startup in Chicago and a startup in Florida can raise money from NY and so on. > If anything this would be due to Dutch regulations rather than Estonian o
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by berkes 1y ago
> Consumer protections strong, pro business not so much. That's not the reason the EU has no unified capital market. The reason is that member states are reluctant to hand over control and power to EU. Just look at e.g. Eurobonds an
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by berkes 1y ago
The root cause of that is the lack of a true Capital Market union. In the US, you can get VC across state borders and VC can invest in any US company regardless of their location. Not in the EU. Investing in an Estonian startup from, say, t
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by berkes 1y ago
> By default, Rust optimizes for execution speed, compilation speed, and ease of debugging rather than binary size, since for the vast majority of applications this is ideal. But for situations where a developer wants to optimize for bin
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by berkes 1y ago
> lose styling consistency Yes. And that is (almost always¹) a good thing. Only the designers of an app, product-owners etc. want their app to "look consistent over platforms". Your users want the file-dialog, window-chrome, me
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by berkes 1y ago
The first Indiana Jones was released in 1981. Still not 70's but it has stood the time pretty well. Maybe except for some special effects.
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by berkes 1y ago
The whole "AI revolution" feels distopian opposite from what I'd naively thought it would do. My ideal would be a world in which boring, heavy, dangerous, etc work is replaced by machines. Giving humans time and opportunity t
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by berkes 1y ago
But how can this "remote-grass-touching-arm" push the "smell" and "tactile" back to the user? Is there an open spec for this? It should certainly be P2P and E2E encrypted. Also "smells" should ensure
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by berkes 1y ago
Or just walk over to the local cat rescue? Not every problem needs a technical, internet connected solution Some problems are easily solved with "just going out of the door and spending some time" (which, I know, is not a very HN
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by berkes 1y ago
And some more variations that, in my anecdotal experience make or break the agentic experience: * strictness of the result - a personal blog entry vs a complex migration to reform a production database of a large, critical system * team con
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by berkes 1y ago
Do you have any reasoning or anything else to back this up? Edit: honest question, not a diss or a dismissal. It's an interesting take, one that I believe could be true, but it sounds more like an opinion than a thesis or even fact.
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by berkes 1y ago
Same here. The unintuitiveness has caused three separate teams/project to remove all my Makefiles and port them back to bash scripts, rake tasks or stuff like that. Simply because for most developers it was faster to just whip up a bas
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by berkes 1y ago
> occasionally wants to make a web frontend In that case I'd say the problem is exactly what you state > knows essentially no CSS The solution is quite obvious then too: learn some. It's not hard. Understanding the basics is
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by berkes 1y ago
If you have a way to "punish the misbehaving motorcycle riders" while allowing or even welcoming the rest, please share. We've researched this. It's a European wide issue that's discussed, researched, tested and so
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by berkes 1y ago
We, a group of people living on a street where we get a lot of dangerous motorbikers passing our homes, started collecting these video's recently. Our goal is to get the roads closed for motorbikes, place bike-repelling infrastructure
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by berkes 1y ago
My point was not that windows doesn't have Inotify (or the other stuff) but that it does it different to Unix. Or, if you insist, that Unix is inconsistent with how windows does it. Which is what those wrappers and abstractions do: the
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by berkes 1y ago
YouTube as a whole has a giant moat. But niches within YouTube can be disrupted. We've seen it with short form (TikTok etc), music (Spotify etc). We see it with specific niches of content creators (nebula etc). It's happened with
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by berkes 1y ago
Another main issue is how large (deep and wide) this "supply chain" is in some communities. JavaScript and python notable for their giant reliance on libs. If I compare a typical Rust project, with a same JavaScript one, JavaScrip
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by berkes 1y ago
Many of the abstractions and nextjs tools do things that my OS does better, cleaner and more predictable too. I suppose the overly complicated ENV/.env loading hierarchy is (partly) needed because Windows doesn't (didn't?) ha
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by berkes 1y ago
I've found that listening and asking questions is the key to accepting other people's architectural choices. Why do they insist on A over B? What trade offs were considered? Why are these trade offs less threatening than other tra
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by berkes 1y ago
> please keep in mind F-Droid is a volunteer-run community project. To, me, that's the worrying part. Not that it's ran by volunteers. But that all there's left between a full-on "tech monopoly" or hegemony, and
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by berkes 1y ago
Is it not a big deal? Or do customers lack the choice? If Apple had two lines of smartwatches, one for city/work crowd with the WiFi, Bright screen, NFC, powerful processor etc. but with tiny battery life. And another for hike/off
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by berkes 1y ago
Those proprietary cables are terrible. USB (abc, micro etc) are everywhere. Any house, hotel, office, glove box, has some lying around. But when I forgot my Fitbit charger, I couldn't get one anywhere. The only option was a large elect
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by berkes 1y ago
Yes, that's indeed the right place, IMO: ephemeral tooling that leverages, or simplifies OS features. Tooling such as xenv, a tiny bash script, a makefile etc. that devs can then replace with their own if they wish (A windows user may
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by berkes 1y ago
Wouldn't "simplifying" or even awareness of the existence of such OS features be a much better solution than re-building it in a runtime? If an existing feature is used too little, then I'm not sure if rebuilding it else

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