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by catdog 9y ago
Headphones seem to be a very strange category in general. You can get exceptional good value for money if you know what to buy and on the other hand pay a lot for utter crap.
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by catdog 9y ago
You can opt out of being careful: https://www.sqlite.org/uri.html#recognized_query_parameters
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by catdog 9y ago
I think it mainly failed because Sun basically abandoned it. Security was not the issue I think (Flash was the same, maybe worse, still widely used) but the UX was quite terrible and never really improved: You had the jvm with its long star
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by catdog 9y ago
After some time you realize: The hype train is traveling in a circle.
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by catdog 9y ago
There are non-tablet variants with IPS screen. It's also easy to swap the panel so you can buy it separately if you don't find a good offer.
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by catdog 9y ago
One must also keep in mind that the treaty about the European Convention on Human Rights in itself is very weak so ECtHR rulings can easily be ignored in practice. The EU with its very similar fundamental rights framework strong arms it in
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by catdog 9y ago
The issue is not that things break, the issue is that the WebExtensions API is missing a lot of features so a lot of addons can't be ported.
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by catdog 9y ago
They were never heavily invested in btrfs and they simply already employ a lot of XFS developers. I also don't think it's that easy to put more manpower into it. People with expertise in such such a rather complex niche field don&
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by catdog 9y ago
Simple, there is no privacy in the cloud and nobody seems to care.
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by catdog 9y ago
From the (at least somewhat) active projects Nuitka, a Python to C compiler seems missing here. [1] http://nuitka.net/
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by catdog 9y ago
> But not the software engineere! Because he/she is doing 'mind work'. This is bullshit. Why should this be bullshit? Unlike the cleaning persons work a significant portion of this work involves thinking, both consciously
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by catdog 9y ago
[1] Seems to do the trick but I don't do Android dev so I don't know any details about this. [1] https://github.com/siacs/Conversations/blob/2b9cdde558ed96c2...
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by catdog 9y ago
At least in Android 7 you can explicitly allow this for a specific app. This question can even be triggered by the app itself (e.g. Conversations and Signal ask you to do this if they can't use GCM). This is hopefully still possible. &
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by catdog 9y ago
At least there is Yalp Store now [1]. But I agree it would be nice if more oss projects would provide the apk directly (or even better prepare the project for easy F-Droid inclusion). [1] https://f-droid.org/packages/co
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by catdog 9y ago
Yes it's entirely possible to create a shell like "program glue" experience in python and somebody already has done it [1][2]. It's only the python standard library which is missing some convenient way to shell out. [1]
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by catdog 9y ago
> systemd isn't that bad, even if it did want to constantly kill my tmux server session ::shakes-fist:: You can disable this in logind.conf > Desktop Linux seems stale or abandoned all over the place. … But overall I feel like 10
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by catdog 9y ago
Most likely to generate clicks.
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by catdog 9y ago
From the article: > Though generic antibiotics are often very affordable, or even free, at pharmacies, the cost of visiting a doctor to get a proper prescription can be prohibitive for some people, particularly people who don't have
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by catdog 9y ago
Another factor is that fuel based propulsion systems are a key differentiator for them, it's complex machinery which is not simply bought from some supplier like most other components. Electric propulsion is way simpler with a lot less
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by catdog 9y ago
> Do c/c++ for 10 years, like the author, and then you're qualified to comment about the topic. If you're new to this, try to put your time into actually learning about these topics and not just blindly repeating other peo
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by catdog 9y ago
Which is a purely religious problem as libsystemd0 basically does nothing if systemd is not running. Debian is a binary distribution, a lot of stuff is linked against libs you probably never use, that's just how it is.
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by catdog 9y ago
On Windows nobody cares a bit about a consistent UI and now even Microsoft doesn't care anymore. A bare Windows 10 itself offers a happy patchwork of everything you can imagine. From the old, inflexible "gray boxes" (only not
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by catdog 9y ago
Ever tried Qt? It's cross platform but still tries it's best to feel as native as possible. It brings its own C++ IDE (Qt Creator), is well documented and nowadays you can use QML [1] to build your UI [2]. [1] https://e
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by catdog 9y ago
An open connection with no communication going on does not take away a lot of resources, it's just some values in some table maintained by the TCP stack. If you implement that slow down service event based so it can handle a lot of con
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by catdog 9y ago
> As long as majority of laptop buyers are content consumers, this is not going to change. However... That would be understandable for the consumer focused lineups but most manufactures also produce business models which are bought to cr
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by catdog 9y ago
There are some niches left even for DV like wildcard certs or longer validity periods.
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by catdog 9y ago
Browsers should also completely drop that lock icon for any type of connection as it's connotated wrongly in too many heads (even for EV because what you really need to check is that it is issued to the right company).
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by catdog 9y ago
There also are a lot of alternative [1] implementations which are less bloated, some are really small with only some hundred lines of code and few dependencies. [1] https://letsencrypt.org/docs/client-options/
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by catdog 9y ago
They don't need to deploy 0days if the vendor (willingly or unwillingly) cooperates. Also Microsoft began to heavily spy onto Windows users as part of normal operation making it difficult to impossible to fully opt out.
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by catdog 9y ago
> If they didn't benefit, if using those services were a net loss, then people wouldn't be using them. 1. They may benefit more from better services. 2. As far as I know Google operates a lot of services which are not profitabl

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