deanishe

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by deanishe 2y ago
> A word which I, and suspect most, have never heard before. It's a pretty normal word in British English, tbh. Maybe it's because we do French at school.
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by deanishe 2y ago
> why does it matter how many files? Because this is for scripts in ~/bin, not projects. They need to be self-contained.
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by deanishe 2y ago
You can add what you want to /etc/hosts, but you need to actually control a domain to get a real cert for it that your browser will trust. Otherwise, you need to mess about with self-signed certs, browser exceptions, etc. If you a
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by deanishe 2y ago
YT is top tier? Oof. The app is so full of click-me dark patterns, it feels more like an iffy porn site than the product of a major tech corp.
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by deanishe 2y ago
> According to reporting at the guardian [1], FBs DEI program increased black and brown employees from 8% to 12%. Seems abysmal. Abysmal based on what? What % of CS graduates are brown/black to begin with?
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by deanishe 2y ago
> but this is giving me pause about using other software by the same author Go read the article again. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
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by deanishe 2y ago
What's up with that? Why would you rather build SUVs for soccer moms than race cars?
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by deanishe 2y ago
Ah yes, the economy. Sod people . Won't somebody think of the LLCs!!! The sheer impudence of workers demanding money for their work and whining about rent. There are shareholders over here who don't even have a megayacht to sit a
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by deanishe 2y ago
But it's one that you can fix.
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by deanishe 2y ago
A tale as old as tales, then.
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by deanishe 2y ago
Differs from country to country. In DE, salaried employees still have a number of hours/week in their contract (usually ~38) and are expected to log overtime and later take time in lieu. Max. permissible work hours per week is 48. Ther
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by deanishe 2y ago
> just give tax credits On what? The EU doesn't levy any taxes and has no authority to. The reason they're paying with grants is because that's what they've got.
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by deanishe 2y ago
Solar panels don't work as well when they're hot, do they?
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by deanishe 2y ago
Four units with a combined capacity of 1.2GW. That's a far cry from 10GW.
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by deanishe 2y ago
It was in their store. How is selling fake investment apps different to selling fake sneakers?
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by deanishe 2y ago
> Apple is well known for keeping web app experience subpar compared to native app experience. Web apps are subpar compared to native apps. I'm not surprised Apple is in no hurry to further enable lowest-common-denominator shovelw
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by deanishe 2y ago
On the same note, Benny Kjær Nielsen, the developer of MailMate for macOS is absolutely amazing. He spent half a day debugging a rather trivial issue with me and even sent me a custom build. MailMate: https://freron.com/
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by deanishe 2y ago
Cool. How do I switch it to standard units? EDIT: NVM, found it. You tap the temperature. EDIT 2: It really ought to remember the units. 95% of the planet doesn't ever want to see Fahrenheit.
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by deanishe 2y ago
> opposite of their original sense, e.g. inflammable for flammable Inflammable was never the opposite of flammable. Those word have always been synonyms. The opposite was always non-flammable.
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by deanishe 2y ago
AOL was extremely successful in its day. They had 40 million customers paying $20/month 30 years ago.
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by deanishe 2y ago
> the court agreed As I understand it, the court didn't so much agree as practically force them to accept the deal. The whole thing was largely engineered by the Sacklers managing to get the case heard by probably the most Sackler-f
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by deanishe 2y ago
> It's like all these people who basically were in content distribution didn't really wise up to the next, new thing in their business even as it happened in front of their eyes. I think you ought to give them a bit more credit
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by deanishe 2y ago
> However, hobby apps will not be able to afford designers or support or long-lived servers. It's not like many professional services manage the long-lived part, either, is it? I have much more confidence in my WebDAV server still b
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by deanishe 2y ago
Go is child's play to build (and cross-compile). Simpler than having to worry about Python versions, let alone dependencies.
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by deanishe 2y ago
> One of the problems with Apple is the industry seems to mindlessly ape their good and bad decisions. That's hardly Apple's fault, but it is so annoying. Hardly any of my cables have proper reinforcement sleeves any more. Appl
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by deanishe 2y ago
I've seen one for Bean ledgers, so that's a bookkeeping LSP, I guess.
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by deanishe 2y ago
> They seem happy to continue playing catch up in this regard. Catch up with what? Does anyone else have an AI product actually worth having? Is it somehow bad that Apple hasn't also released an AI that doesn't do what it'
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by deanishe 2y ago
The problem here, I think, is the words, not the concepts. Like remembering when it's spelled "stationary" and when "stationery". "Still" and "paper" are easier to remember.
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by deanishe 2y ago
Junk mail is a lot older than the Internet.
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by deanishe 2y ago
Why the quiet room? Should you not rather train yourself not to be distracted by the noise like you train yourself not to be distracted by notifications?

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