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by choward 7y ago
I just assumed it was a person from Norway. I can't believe the title hasn't been changed yet.
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by choward 7y ago
I love that the first part of the docs is a "WTF is this?" section. Unfortunately the paragraph that follows doesn't answer the question at all. And that "Colophon" section at the bottom... What? Anyway, after readi
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by choward 7y ago
Just finished the readme and I have no idea what makes this "super simple".
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by choward 7y ago
Please don't format your comments like this. Nobody is going to read it on mobile.
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by choward 7y ago
> Svelte is one of the 6 JS frameworks in the (flawed) State of JS 2019 survey — 75% have heard of it, 7% have used it, and 45% are interested in learning more Why is it flawed and why are you citing a flawed study? You mention that it&#
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by choward 7y ago
> It's just a nice default to pick. Why would it be your default?
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by choward 7y ago
> A receipt will be emailed to them for this trip. Is there any other information on what format this receipt is? Is it just an image or something that's actually useful if I want to parse it and track my own purchases? I want some
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by choward 7y ago
So we're adding another middleman to the healthcare system? It seems like we should be working toward the exact opposite of this. I view any service like this that makes money from the healthcare industry but doesn't actually prov
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by choward 7y ago
> They don't want to track everything or build a complete profile about everyone Citation needed
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by choward 7y ago
This is a good example of Goodhart's Law.
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by choward 7y ago
> that's the beauty of command line options -- unlike with a GUI, adding these options doesn't clutter up the interface GUIs provide discoverability so often times you don't need a manual. If you don't know how to use
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by choward 7y ago
Isn't organizing the notes the hard part whether or not you do it within 30 minutes?
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by choward 7y ago
Why do you trust some companies and not others? Joplin supports nextcloud and that's self hostable if you want full control.
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by choward 7y ago
Explaining "Considered Harmful" Essays Considered Harmful
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by choward 7y ago
The obvious example that comes to mind is a simple keylogger.
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by choward 7y ago
Exactly. I can't believe I'm supposed to pay for taxes for this. The government is supposed to be for the people, not control the people. I don't remember ever having voted on or agreeing to be spied on for no reason.
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by choward 7y ago
So locks are only good because they don't actually work? And encryption is only good if it doesn't work too? That logic kind of makes sense. However, locks at least delay intruders and make it harder for someone to go undetected i
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by choward 7y ago
If you pay people enough they can easily be brainwashed into believing what they are doing is right.
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by choward 7y ago
> “If you’re ramped up and having a good life, then you’re going to pay a little bit more in order to make sure that everyone else in the community can get ramped up > This attitude of "we know what's good for you" is
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by choward 7y ago
They kept sending me "do you know [person I probably don't know]" as notifications on my phone! This was the last straw that made me delete the app and my account entirely a few years ago. One of the big annoyances in life is
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by choward 7y ago
I agree. Back in the day when I used Ruby, I remember one of the arguments for Python being their belief that there should be one way to do things. Found one reference: > There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do
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by choward 7y ago
After reading this I agree that SwiftUI terrible. I still don't get why it's considered "harmful" though.
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by choward 7y ago
This is the problem with these technology companies: they either provide whatever their app does for free and do who knows what with your data or they make you pay something crazy like $20 and you still don't know what they're doi
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by choward 7y ago
Pihole with wireguard works very good but there's a little bit of effort required to set it up.
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by choward 7y ago
> The same could be said about supersonic travel. We could do it again, but enough of us are happy to not pay the premium, so that product has disappeared. That and sonic booms.
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by choward 7y ago
Sometimes when I'm reading I'm just interested enough to keep reading. Then one of these pieces of garbage pop up and I immediate close the tab.
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by choward 7y ago
> The Trump administration brief came Wednesday just as Oracle founder Larry Ellison opened a campaign fundraiser for President Donald Trump at his southern California estate. Tickets ran as much as $250,000, according to an invitation o
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by choward 7y ago
I'm sold. Link please.
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by choward 7y ago
That's because they deliberately make it terrible to convince you to install the app. They ruin the experience even more with all the nagging they do even if you have the option to be based about the app disabled. There is no reason th
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by choward 7y ago
Sorry to go off topic but one of my pet peeves is things self-described as "simple". What does that even mean? Is it simple to use? Is the implementation simple? Is it lacking features that I'm going to need and regret it lat

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