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by boogies 6y ago
This seems to be the case in Scandinavia with broad basic health care. In at least one country median earners pay 60% tax IIRC. https://files.taxfoundation.org/legacy/docs/Progressivity%20...
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by boogies 6y ago
The more you tax them, the less they work and save, and the more they make, find, and exploit loopholes and shelters. Top tax rates have been as high as 90% (during the Eisenhower administration) and revenue has never significantly changed
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by boogies 6y ago
Not GP or French-speaking but what I got through auto-translate of the autosubs was tl;dw : When in exam mode one can access notes that it isn't supposed to allow (seemingly by performing the actions to create a new TI-BASIC “program”
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by boogies 6y ago
The article mentions Python on TI calculators and a quick web search reveals at least one Casio one ships with micro python (although as the page you linked says numworks was the first to offer it, so maybe there are other innovations that
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by boogies 6y ago
They should have an 'industry standard' keymap option on first start like Blender. But it's not nearly as weird as Blender was: there's no right click select, and eg. the cloning tool is basically the same thing as Photo
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by boogies 6y ago
Maybe easier extensions like GIMP's Python-fu, Scheme Script-fu, and G'MIC.
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by boogies 6y ago
Inkscape is focused on SVG, Illustrator's proprietary format includes a few things it doesn't, like complicated gradients (at least a while ago). Edit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Illustrator#Gradi
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by boogies 6y ago
> It's almost like comparing Notepad to VSCode or MS Word That's pretty hyperbolic. It's not like GIMP doesn't have basic layers, blend modes, etc. And Krita seems to have better non-destructive editing than GIMP. I d
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by boogies 6y ago
> create [emphasis added] FLOSS alternative to Adobe Suit [sic] like Photoshop/Other Graphic Design programs What's wrong with Krita, GIMP, Inkscape, etc.?
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by boogies 6y ago
If you squint you can see Basilisk II under “Credits” in the screenshot.
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by boogies 6y ago
So basically https://bellard.org/jslinux/ but with a macOS iso and Electron packaging?
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by boogies 6y ago
But why pay Apple tax for a Mac when you can pay $0 extra for a Thinkpad/Thinkstation that's certified tested to run multiple GNU/Linux distros well, or a Dell XPS “Developer Edition” or System76, Purism, or similar laptop wi
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by boogies 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHQL_Testing is out of date, does WHQL still exist, after Microsoft firing a testing division in favor of Windows Insiders?
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by boogies 6y ago
The pinephone recently got a 40% increase in idle battery life to ~100 hours with the modem off and ~24 with it on https://www.pine64.org/2020/07/15/july-updatepmos-ce-pre-ord... (control-f search for "c
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by boogies 6y ago
What functionality does it break? > But its crazy that you have to accept serious UI/UX changes to get security fixes too. It is sad, but it basically seems par for the course for big, semi-commercial software. I don't like Moz
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by boogies 6y ago
There technically is a “Windows package manager” https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli , though it doesn't manage installed packages yet (that seems to be planned for v1.0 sometime next year https://gi
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by boogies 6y ago
True (edit: and not my downvote), and Google Translate doesn't support all the languages Microsoft Translate supports: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23977310 . But my point was that not only is “Google translate
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by boogies 6y ago
Are you sure it's not just YouTube? Alphabet's arbitrarily changed YT's behaviour based on the browser's UA string in the past, and used deprecated APIs only implemented in Chrome.
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by boogies 6y ago
Haven't used it in a while, but when I did it was always easy to switch the behavior (for a power user, and I think the omnibar is much more appealing to non power users as it's visually simpler, big, and easier to click — unifyin
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by boogies 6y ago
Edited to remove “booking”. But as "“a partnership with Google is required” to appear in Google Flights", (and it hides the best flights, likely because of lack of such a “partnership”), I would consider the entire service an info
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by boogies 6y ago
> Any suggestions for alternative services that outperform Google’s? Yes. Which one? This page seems full of people recommending DeepL, which is one I can personally recommend for Spanish, and others can swear by for any of the languages
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by boogies 6y ago
Google puts in some effort, but if it doesn't work they just purloin others’ products. See the Yelp story in the leaked FTC documents the article linked: http://graphics.wsj.com/google-ftc-report/
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by boogies 6y ago
Absolutely, eg. the woods near my house have trails mapped out in OSM that don't exist on Google Maps.
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by boogies 6y ago
IMHO a ““related conditions” carousel leading to various new Google searches for other diseases” is an ad for a Google Search with more ads. But on “a way we could get quick curated answers like this without deemphasizing search results”, o
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by boogies 6y ago
> Google translate, maps and search has no competitors that even come close in terms of quality. This is patently false, and probably a reflection of the Google bubble you live in. DeepL is pretty objectively superior to Google, as evalu
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by boogies 6y ago
Searx https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/ is a (wrapper around | metasearch engine aggregating results from) >70 search services, including Bing and DDG, as well as Wikipedia, Reddit, etc. as configured by default whe
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by boogies 6y ago
> Our modern power of easy reckoning with decimal fractions is the almost miraculous result of the gradual discovery of a perfect notation. Great quote. I wonder if this process will continue with adoption of duodecimal numbers.
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by boogies 6y ago
The article mentions that. “For its passenger jets, though, Airbus states the tech won't replace pilots in the cockpit but will make flying safer by helping reduce workload. … "For autonomous technologies to improve flight operati
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by boogies 6y ago
The article: > Ask yourself: why is documentation of internal-facing decisions like what software licenses to use being published in a public place? The answer is straightforward: to influence the public.
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by boogies 6y ago
In this area the water seems like the least renewable resource / more of a short term concern: “So much water is now being used that ground water levels in Helmand are estimated to be falling by 3m a year. The fear is that pretty soon

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