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by bflesch 1y ago
So I have to assume my DNA data was illegally sold by 23andme to Regeneron. In return, I just asked Regeneron to provide me a copy of sequenced DNA data from their CEO and founder. As Regeneron seems to be cool with buying and selling of DN
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by bflesch 1y ago
> Kids don't have a shared cultural experience like I did. You observe correctly but the conclusion is incorrect. You fail to take into account that year-, location- and interest-based cohorts of kids tend to follow the same influen
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by bflesch 1y ago
How did these clowns manage to make my mouse cursor laggy? It is incomprehensible for me to live in such a big bubble with such a big paycheck and then spend zero brainpower on systems without graphics acceleration. This is extremely bad en
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by bflesch 1y ago
iphone has been enshittified for several years now, it seems apple engineers are not using their own phones any more. I can understand it - when you're a millionaire just from your corporate job you won't be a stressed power user
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by bflesch 1y ago
Most likely the engineers at many startups only use apple computers themselves and therefore only optimize performance for those systems. It's a shame but IMO result of their incompetence and not result of some magic apple performance
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by bflesch 1y ago
Your argument makes sense. I guess now it's your time to shine and to be the change you want to see in the world.
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by bflesch 1y ago
angular
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by bflesch 1y ago
angular
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by bflesch 1y ago
a -> 1
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by bflesch 1y ago
Good idea, thanks for sharing. Happy to see fellow linux users modifying their system to improve productivity.
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by bflesch 1y ago
The main problem with antibiotic resistance is meat industry where thousands of pigs or cows or chicken are stuck in the same place and all get administered high dose antibiotics for duration of their life until some weeks before they get s
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by bflesch 1y ago
there is a reputation system already. according to hackerone reputation system, it is a credible reporter. it's really bad
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by bflesch 1y ago
This resonates
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by bflesch 1y ago
As docx / xlsx are zip files, I normally unzip them and then use some sort of XML-aware grep. But these formats are a rabbithole on their own ;)
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by bflesch 1y ago
Maybe he quit google after 6 months, I don't know. It's easy to talk about greedy capitalism once you've made it. It's a bit harder to live by these kind of ideals for the whole duration of your career.
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by bflesch 1y ago
The word "hero" is mentioned twice in the whole article. Once in the section before he talks about his own work, and once in the section directly following it. > As one of the commenters noted: "Amazing! The guy broke ever
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by bflesch 1y ago
The public was well-aware. They had stickers on shops. Your Jewish neighbors were paraded through the streets for deportation. Once they were gone, people took the furniture, the businesses, or simply moved into their apartments. On the cou
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by bflesch 1y ago
The reader can feel a glimpse of the author's ego the moment he explains his skills as a Google Site Reliabiliy Engineer and his glorious work on improving gmail post-mortems right after the section where a hospital team saves various
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by bflesch 1y ago
the trap of using indexation and a database when normal grep would work with disk-based storage
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by bflesch 1y ago
Nope, it's actually Menu -> User Interface: https://postimg.cc/sMhhFvC1 Then this dialog appears: https://postimg.cc/YhVWyQVJ
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by bflesch 1y ago
Hyperscaler is such a middle management buzzword. Who actually needs hyperscalers? Is it a whole company or just a single app of that company which needs hyperscaling along a certain requirement (storage, processing, bandwidth)? And if you
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by bflesch 1y ago
Silicon valley is able to shoehorn their Macbooks into "compliance" but somehow it'd be a problem to do the same with linux desktops? > And if by magic that function would appear tomorrow, it would disappear again the day
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by bflesch 1y ago
Correct. Thanks for the hint. I keep mixing up openoffice and libreoffice even though I only use libreoffice on my system.
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by bflesch 1y ago
They already have the "wallpaper of the day" feature with small description text to keep you busy while waiting.
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by bflesch 1y ago
Desktop linux has all standard software. It's just incompetent IT teams trying to sugarcoat the fact they keep throwing money down the Microsoft drain.
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by bflesch 1y ago
LibreOffice has several themes that makes it look like MS Office (e.g. ribbons, modern UI, etc). Select TOOLS > OPTIONS > ADVANCED > Enable experimental Options (WARNING this is experimental and may be unstable) > OK and then RE
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by bflesch 1y ago
OpenOffice/Libreoffice lets you choose between multiple UX styles, which rearranges the buttons like old office, the ribbon stuff, and many more. I was amazed when I first noticed this (kind of hidden) feature. You should check it out.
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by bflesch 1y ago
Yeah google does not steal your data and that's why companies like amazon dont even send you full details of your online shopping order so google can't crawl what you bought and what price you bought it for.
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by bflesch 1y ago
zuck already offered naming of his child to Xi Jinping and he was refused
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by bflesch 1y ago
chromium on linux with amd ryzen and 4k display, but no graphic cards drivers

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