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by deanishe 10mo ago
> You kind of always have to go on a quest for a library on the internet Plenty of languages come with standard libraries that are more than sufficient for handling plenty of tasks.
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by deanishe 10mo ago
> Why does every discussion have to wind up with a digression thread about how "real" or, even worse, "basic" journalism Hardly surprising given the contrast to the level of journalistic integrity on display at the Be
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by deanishe 10mo ago
> We only permit pesticides for which there is undisputed evidence that the chemicals do not cause problems for humans/animals/other plants etc. This is broadly how the EU operates. If companies want to start putting new stuff
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by deanishe 10mo ago
At least 2. Being able to put language-specific shortcuts on keys that change with the keyboard layout is damn useful. Why does software have such powerful modes for Python and JavaScript, but never for French or English?
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by deanishe 10mo ago
> just to reach pihole at home, that sounds like overkill. Host AdGuard on a VPS (same one as the VPN?). Then you can use it from everywhere.
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by deanishe 11mo ago
> Even if the university is free you must pay for food and housing. A one-person apartment in the local halls of residence costs under €500/month here in DE. A room in a shared flat costs a lot less.
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by deanishe 11mo ago
Someone asked Rohloff how long their bicycle hub gears last, and the answer was, "We don't know. We've only been making them for 25 years." A lot of German SMEs still work that way, even if their big engineering companie
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by deanishe 11mo ago
On a German PC keyboard, @ is ALT+Q. That was a big problem when I switched to macOS. I kept hitting CMD+Q every time I tried to type an email address.
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by deanishe 11mo ago
> I don't think the amount of breakage per se was the problem with Python 3. The lack of u"" is just another manifestation of the complete breakage they wrought upon Python's string handling, isn't it? It was clo
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by deanishe 11mo ago
I don't think you can make management take a long-term view when shareholders have a short-term one, tbh.
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by deanishe 11mo ago
We had a board member who frequently emailed confidential documents to a security guard with the same name as another director. It was his iPad's fault, apparently.
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by deanishe 11mo ago
> The author addresses that in the article. Python can scale but then developers would have to work with unintuitive async code Python didn't cause their problems, Django did. They wanted async, but chose a framework that doesn&#x27
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by deanishe 1y ago
That's Lamborghini, isn't it? IIRC, he only got into making cars because Enzo Ferrari disrespected him.
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by deanishe 1y ago
> I am saying you have to understand the revealed preference vs what people tell you. And what they're saying is that this isn't just an indication of how awesome the US is compared to other places, but also of how averse Ameri
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by deanishe 1y ago
> whereas for em-dash you need to do something extra OPT+SHIFT+- on macOS. It's no more difficult to type than a lot of other punctuation/common symbols.
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by deanishe 1y ago
> Small businesses are fantastic drivers of prosperity and creativity That's a huge generalisation. Plenty are every bit as dodgy as the big ones.
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by deanishe 1y ago
I'm not sure that was ever realistic. It's been 20 years since Apple decided they needed a browser of their own, and even then they chose to throw their weight behind KDE's KHTML, not Gecko.
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by deanishe 1y ago
There's a certain irony in holding North Koreans or Chinese responsible for their governments' actions, but denying any responsibility for your own democratically-elected government's.
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by deanishe 1y ago
> The only reason they're not sanctioned Aren't a lot of your religious fundies Zionists because the believe Jesus isn't coming back unless there are Jews in the Levant?
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by deanishe 1y ago
He collected a literal bar of gold (with some glass stuck in it) from Tim Cook a couple of weeks ago.
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by deanishe 1y ago
The GitHub unicorn doesn't look as if it came out of a furry dev's wank bank.
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by deanishe 1y ago
Excel's behaviour is almost as annoying. It's basically impossible to produce a correctly-formatted German document on an English OS and vice-versa.
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by deanishe 1y ago
Is Apple really an ad company? I think it's reasonable to expect better from them.
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by deanishe 1y ago
> Under-explored topic perhaps. Gen-X in a nutshell, isn't it? People rarely seem. To remember that that generation even exists.
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by deanishe 1y ago
> didn't have to be ad- or surveillance-supported Which freemail service isn't ad- or surveillance-supported? > suggests that something vital has stalled Why does it have to be a technology-driven limit? I dare say Google th
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by deanishe 1y ago
The former PM's memoirs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9NifqJyDMI
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by deanishe 1y ago
Definitely. It's rather that the plucky underdog surviving on his wits is practically absent in British comedy. Brits don't do Bugs Bunny, only Wile E. Coyote.
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by deanishe 1y ago
It's not standup vs sitcom so much as winning vs losing. British comedy runs on kicking its protagonists in the nuts. Ideally, they bring it upon themselves, but cosmic irony will do in a pinch. It's practically unheard of for a B
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by deanishe 1y ago
To be fair, it was nearly 50 years before I knew what the "liquor" Cockneys put on their pie and mash is.
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by deanishe 1y ago
> Nowhere in the world is electrolysis done at scale. Not yet. I know Siemens has some pilot plants running: https://www.siemens-energy.com/global/en/home/products-servi...

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