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by burtonator 6y ago
Sort of... there are still plenty of healthy people that only didn't die due to intubation. I'm curious to see the numbers there as well. If we vaccinate the old, then resume life as normal, we're going to overwhelm intubati
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by burtonator 6y ago
One of the things that's interesting about modern languages like Java and Typescript is that they target software engineers that want things like generics, type safety, etc. A lot of data scientists DO NOT want this. They're heav
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by burtonator 6y ago
If native populations are going to come back and be sustainable we have to tear down the damns. I realize that causes other political issues but that's the only way we're going to have native populations. I'm an avid fisherma
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by burtonator 6y ago
Chrome extension developer here and I can absolutely confirm that this is true. The last few years they've gotten more and more strict about which permissions they hand out. The one I need is similar to ad blocking and every time I req
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by burtonator 6y ago
The term 'monopoly' is confusing because the pedantic definition is that there's only one player but this isn't the legal definition. It's not actually illegal to be a monopoly but to illegally abuse your market pos
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by burtonator 6y ago
> The part about whether they should have been born or not, which was the ethical thing is what tears at me. I gotta say... for me, this is close to murder. I realize these things are complicated but if it was a hybrid species, we might
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by burtonator 6y ago
The ship has sailed on Angular IMO ... React just nailed it and I say that as a person who REALLY dislikes Facebook as a company. The React team at Facebook has their act together and does a great job. The new Facebook redesign with chunks
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by burtonator 6y ago
Electron isn't any slower than any other app. Might use an extra 100MB of RAM but that's like $5... With notion it's probably the app. Not electron's fault. source: me... developer and worked with the Electron platform
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by burtonator 6y ago
Here's the thing. Apple, Google, etc are trying to lock developers into specific platforms. This is why Apple has been so hostile towards PWAs. It's totally possible to build a PWA that behaves like a native app but Apple actively
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by burtonator 6y ago
> The only thing stopping me from going all-in on paying for Polar and using it as the "hub" of my reading (mostly technical docs, long-form blogs, whitepapers, and textbooks) is the lack of tie-in with E Ink readers, which I v
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by burtonator 6y ago
> 1. How do you import flash cards into Anki? After adding the AnkiConnect add-on the documentation just says to use the "Sync Flashcards to Anki" within Tools but there is no Tools (on the Web App / MacOS versions). I can
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by burtonator 6y ago
Also, you guys were asking about Firefox support so I did a deep dive and we're ready go to but Google Firebase doesn't support the moz-extension URL scheme. Just the chrome-extension scheme. I added a feature request for them to
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by burtonator 6y ago
Cloud is required. Mobile was a big feature request and we can't support mobile without cloud. Subscription isn't required for < 1GB of documents.
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by burtonator 6y ago
Possibly in the future. Right now we just want to store it so you can sort by journal, author, etc. That and you can search for those too. The issue is some researchers have a lot of PDFs and this metadata helps them manage them. We migh
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by burtonator 6y ago
Which limit are you hitting. There's no inherent size limit but uploading 100Mb would take a minute or two.
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by burtonator 6y ago
2.1 is going to focus on Zotero integration. We're working on two main changes. One is double the ability to export your Zotero and import it, including metadata, into Polar. The other is to just open the PDFs directly but I don'
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by burtonator 6y ago
We got your back. We actually release a 1.x version that won't upgrade you if you want to stay local: https://www.reddit.com/r/PolarBookshelf/comments/j9yfbx/pola... The 2.0 upgrade won't and
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by burtonator 6y ago
I'm going to come out and risk getting downvoted but I strongly dislike it. I haven't used it in a few years so maybe some of these things have been fixed. - Type system sucks - No decent package management system or dependency sy
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by burtonator 6y ago
The problem is the intermediate timeline ... maybe some time window to limit the amount and then lower it slowly. This way the momentum from existing malware doesn't hurt one specific university or group.
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by burtonator 6y ago
Anti-trust legislation is pointless. It's only enforced selectively and for political reasons. It would be FAR FAR FAR better to just enforce proper taxation policy so that companies like google actually pay taxes. Right now FANG have
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by burtonator 6y ago
That's not the issue. The issue is that the devs who wrote this will be retired by then ;)
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by burtonator 6y ago
I'm going to get downvoted to hell but Open Source is broken. The initial egalitarian view of OSS never came to fruition. OSS is just companies like Google and Facebook throwing things on the other side of the fence to help their own b
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by burtonator 6y ago
Whatever solution the GOP wants needs to also apply to Fox (Faux) News...
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Ask HN: How would a reverse captcha work? A challenge that filtered out humans
6 points by burtonator 6y ago|4 comments
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by burtonator 6y ago
Anti-trust is a hack.. We need proper taxation. Large corporations like Google have TONS of advantages that small companies have so it's easier for big companies to get bigger. Part of this is taxes... if we just taxed them properly t
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by burtonator 6y ago
Here's the thing... anti-trust breakups are a hack to work around one core problem - taxation. The reason corporations like FANG metastasize and become uncontrollable is that they have unfair competitive advantages that can be neutrali
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by burtonator 6y ago
So if Oracle implements a proprietary API in GPL software does that mean that all Oracle software is copyleft?
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by burtonator 6y ago
This goes across other topics too.. Most people don't like being corrected or being wrong because of their ego.
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by burtonator 6y ago
F1 is just obsolete. The tech is just so mind-breaking and insanely fast that you can't actually get faster without killing people. They've already had to modify tracks as it causes physical damage to spine cords and vertebrae. W
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by burtonator 6y ago
> Which is why Silicon Valley is in California, and why attempts to create a startup culture elsewhere have mostly failed. Except Apple and Google both hate it when it's done to them which is why they illegally colluded and agreed t

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