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by davb 4y ago
That’s a great point. Even if it’s not the real reason, it’s plausible and better than “we took one of the brands currently popular products”, especially when they’ve tried so hard (within reason) to get everything else just right.
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by davb 4y ago
It’s amazing how much work went into making it look like an abandoned 2003 arcade, even down to the team worrying about the color of the legs of a machine that might give it away as a more recent release. Then HBO stuff a Papermate Inkjoy R
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by davb 4y ago
Aggressively pushed snaps. Apt and MOTD ads. And now this. Look, I get it, no-one is entitled to free labour. But OSS runs on goodwill. Canonical profited obscenely from the rich open source community and diverse set of packages. And that’s
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by davb 4y ago
In a similar vein, GDS (govuk) published details of their accessibility personas a few years ago at https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2019/02/11/using-persona-p...
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by davb 4y ago
What a wonderful project to read about. It’s too easy to get into a mindset where you auto-filter your ideas based on whether or not it’ll make money, or directly help you reach some career goal (especially in the HN bubble). This is fun. T
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by davb 4y ago
It’s so slow to startup. On a laptop with 11th gen i5, 16GB ram and a fairly fast NVMe SSD running Windows 11 and I see ~10s startup time. I really hope it succeeds but for a lightweight editor it’s just too slow to start.
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by davb 4y ago
Yes. Even for domestic travel. I’m travelling to a remote island in my country for a short holiday. My network doesn’t have coverage there (only one of the “big four” has decent coverage) so I’ve picked up a prepay SIM to use for a few days
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by davb 4y ago
An honest benchmark would include the non-snap startup times for each of their test platforms. That said, the performance issues aren’t as bad as the fact that it’s unusable on machines with NFS home directories mounted with root_squash (as
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by davb 4y ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-62352502 > Hampshire Constabulary said, after initially visiting the property, officers agreed to return on Thursday. > When they returned they were prevented from
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by davb 4y ago
Perhaps the solution is for libraries or local authorities to setup their own email providers. An email address “for life” with your library card, with the necessary support and in-person reset verification that their patrons need. I’m not
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by davb 4y ago
And with runaway inflation and Paramount Plus and Disney now further diluting the streaming market.. I’m surprised by this.
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by davb 4y ago
I, too, miss the days where it was possible to understand every component, every bit, every abstraction inside a computer. It’s virtually impossible now, not least because there are so many microcontrollers and microprocessors running propr
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by davb 4y ago
Those illustrations are gorgeous.
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by davb 5y ago
I don't particularly trust my bank, but I do try to minimise (as much as possible) the number of organisations with which I share my transaction data. It's probably worth clarifying that there are no institutions that would be cat
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by davb 5y ago
Unfortunately it seems that the biggest application of open banking (beyond "see all of your accounts in one app") are these type of credit risk analysis products with opaque (to the individual) algorithms responsible for informin
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by davb 5y ago
The demo on the Gio page is badly broken for me (Chrome 99 on Windows 10) - it’s mostly black, with what appears to be a text area in the middle with black text on black background. Triple clicking text doesn’t work. There’s no right click
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by davb 5y ago
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by davb 5y ago
OT/meta, but I love those handwritten style diagrams. If the author notices this, I'd be interested to know how he made them.
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by davb 5y ago
Unless you are a young person (or look like one) and decide to have alcohol with your meal. As much an optional act as going to a restaurant in the first place.
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by davb 5y ago
Indeed. Bear in mind that that before becoming Health Secretary, Javid was very recently Chancellor of the Exchequer. Perhaps his motivations lie somewhere other than public health.
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by davb 5y ago
It would seem to be the case. lshw reports the controller on my 970 Evo Plus as "NVMe SSD Controller SM981/PM981/PM983"
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by davb 5y ago
Yeah we (a University CS department) had the same experience. We've run Mattermost for a number of years but the advisor bar was a bit of a blunt instrument. The only way to dismiss it permanently was to share your email address with t
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by davb 5y ago
I absolutely love this approach to feature inclusion and usability. User research showed that for some number of users (presumably not the majority) this is a familiar and comfortable interaction. All too often we see companies cut features
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by davb 5y ago
Ah, the Mix 'n' Mojo [0] lives on! [0] https://www.oldgames.sk/codewheel/monkey-island-2-mix-n-mojo
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by davb 5y ago
I expected scrolling to feel janky and "non-native" but it was fine. Text rendering, on the other hand... it was a bit of a blurry mess, compared to Chrome's native rendering (on Ubuntu 21.04).
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by davb 6y ago
> but internet is unbearably slow anywhere but in a few major cities There's only one city in the Highlands - Inverness.
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by davb 6y ago
Unfortunately it is indeed used for non-ad scripts. For example, Hearthstone on iOS fails to render the login page if GTM is blocked at DNS.
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by davb 6y ago
I've had a similar experience. Every time I get a glimmer of an idea of something I'd have fun building, my thoughts immediately go to my devops workflow, hosting, cross platform, updates, testing, security, tax, patents, viabilit
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by davb 6y ago
I'd probably switch to (and get friends to switch to) Signal if it supported Android Tablets and had a web app (like web.whatsapp.com). Those items might seem minor but having to always have my phone next to me, even when I'm brow
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by davb 6y ago
That tallies with the experience I had using Jira cloud a few years ago. It sounds like it's still a great case study in how not to architect an issue tracker.

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