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by catdog 8y ago
Intel did not have a lot of competition in recent years so why design for maximum yield when you can just slap a high price tag on the thing? AMD on the other hand needed to assume that they would not be able to compete in raw performance s
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by catdog 8y ago
Google does not have a very good spam filter, it's pretty average.
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by catdog 8y ago
This alarmist thing is going on for decades now ("Home Taping Is Killing Music") but the music industry still exists.
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by catdog 8y ago
> I’m very suspicious of people who say they work more than 40 hours per week. I agree. You may feel productive working longer but that doesn't mean you are. The truth often is that this thing which took you 3 hours to finish late i
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by catdog 8y ago
Not just for beginners, the proposed syntax looks horrible in general. It's moreover already possible to put this into one line: libpaths = [] if libpaths is None else libpaths.split(":")
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by catdog 8y ago
> But as long as it doesn't support federation (I miss XMPP) and as long as it does require a phone number (None of anyone's business, not required for my contacts, a baaaad way to handle identification) it is utterly broken fo
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by catdog 8y ago
They may not use the content of the message but all its metadata which may even be more valuable, alone because it's easier to process automatically.
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by catdog 8y ago
I really wouldn't count on that being the case. Even if it's the case now for a specific service I don't think they take as much care of those blacklists as they do of active accounts.
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by catdog 8y ago
Mostly spamassasin, more or less out of the box. Also postscreen (only the pregreet test) [1] to keep out the dumbest kind of spambots. Works really great and not worse than my gmail account. I don't agree that gmail is damn good at sp
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by catdog 8y ago
He clearly states who likely pays for spreading this FUD…
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by catdog 8y ago
Ironically google landed its initial success with (and maybe partly because of) an ultra minimalist website focused to the task. They seem to have forgotten that and now they have bloat everywhere. Instead of reducing it they put a lot of r
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by catdog 8y ago
Yet that doesn't prevent people from breaking it all the time.
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by catdog 8y ago
> and while I'm still a Java programmer, I can see other languages looming on the horizon. Java will become the COBOL, and while there are still COBOL programmers out there, its not something that one wants to get stuck in for anoth
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by catdog 8y ago
It was but it never made it into Bob because they did not manage to get it ready in time.
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by catdog 8y ago
> No degree put me in a rough position. My resume claimed that I had graduated, but I had not. While I did get offers, whenever I shared that I failed out of fourth year, my offer was rescinded. Do I get this right, you servery lied on y
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by catdog 8y ago
> You could argus that there is a difference between physical and mental focus ... Not only that, developing software is generally a "slow" task, not constant decision making in spans of milliseconds like in a "fast"
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by catdog 8y ago
Maybe because there is Gitea, a fork of Gogs which is AFAIK more active now.
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by catdog 8y ago
> TTRSS only gave me trouble. Threw all kinds of strange errors at unexpected times. I don't know how many times it died on me after an upgrade. Counterpoint: I never had any issues with it and updates are just git pull, maybe login
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by catdog 8y ago
And on many more you can not. It's getting increasingly difficult with that shitload of devices being on the market which while being so similar are so different. Even if you try to buy with that in mind and explicitly choose a well su
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by catdog 9y ago
Indeed, here (Germany) everyone was on ICQ.
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by catdog 9y ago
> We'll have to wait a while before we know for sure, but one loser might be technology startups, especially European ones. Or it may be a great opportunity for them to differentiate developing not privacy invading business models p
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by catdog 9y ago
For IPv6 the 128 bit has its justification. It's supposed to enable proper hierarchical routing and to reduce the number of entries inside the routing tables which is the pain point where it gets expensive. The idea is that no one, at
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by catdog 9y ago
> The main cause with the "cookie law" is that the law as written failed to implement the intent; the intent was to reduce tracking by cookies, but the actual requirement could be satisfied by those obnoxious warnings while doi
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by catdog 9y ago
> I'm assuming there's more vulnerabilities to be found. This also holds true for the alternatives.
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by catdog 9y ago
> One thing you'll never really get, in my experience, is good spam handling. Not in my experience. I'm in general very happy with the results of SpamAssassin. Occasionally sth. slips through but when I compare it to my gmail a
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by catdog 9y ago
And not to forget the most important feature: you can install uBlock Origin
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by catdog 9y ago
You also have to do an awful lot of exercise to burn a substantial amount of calories.
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by catdog 9y ago
No it's tiny on a regular display
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by catdog 9y ago
It's more like already having placed a binding order for that next dinner which is already in progress of being made but then refuse to pay.
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by catdog 9y ago
It isn't any different. In "the old days" chances were high you even could just login with that e-mail account you already had, not only with gmail but with some other larger providers as well.

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