detaro

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CDC opens probe after 35 test positive for Covid following CDC conference(washingtonpost.com)
5 points by detaro 4y ago|3 comments
902.
by detaro 4y ago
Because government agencies have such a good track record of ensuring they only ever contain good faith actors and would never hide things from oversight, and such oversight would never be done by people willing to look away if it "hit
903.
by detaro 4y ago
Because most CS degrees are about computer science , not software development (or since you compare with engineering degrees, software engineering ), and thus students aren't taught the latter (or only are if they pick certain cl
904.
by detaro 4y ago
That's how it is implemented in Germany: If you sell batteries or battery-containing devices, you have to take batteries in for recycling. (Now I wouldn't necessarily expect every tiny corner store that sells single-use vapes to d
905.
by detaro 4y ago
> They become zombies and collapse gradually, and then suddenly From an information perspective, that makes tracking it over time more relevant, not less. But of course also means it's a lot more work.
906.
by detaro 4y ago
When you say "Minetest", are you referring to the default "game" that comes with it? The game engine part is important!
907.
by detaro 4y ago
I'd hope that that's not the "unpopular" opinion.
908.
by detaro 4y ago
https://archive.is/aG3dZ
909.
by detaro 4y ago
I find it hard to make an abstract recommendation, because unless you have a strict reason you need one or the other, it really is a matter of personal taste and priorities.
910.
by detaro 4y ago
"platform that's half-pivoted half a dozen times and is mostly known for annoying nag popups and low-quality content", but for newsletters. Really, that's the pitch? But I guess starting out with a sign-up page, without
911.
by detaro 4y ago
Why? The company is clearly called Fly.io
912.
by detaro 4y ago
Also a package that was declared deprecated 3 years ago, so this shouldn't be terribly surprising.
913.
by detaro 4y ago
no, it's not "that bad", but it also constantly annoys me with things that don't feel right, even though they generally can be made to do what I want in the end. It just feels odd to me that this is the best there is giv
914.
by detaro 4y ago
what makes it a "tuple space" vs a "message queue" system?
915.
by detaro 4y ago
And even the dashboard system kinda feels like there should be something better, but somehow there isn't (or I don't know it).
916.
by detaro 4y ago
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35714347
917.
by detaro 4y ago
that is very neat, thanks for sharing!
918.
by detaro 4y ago
In Germany (like afaik all the EU), you can also freely buy and use small low-power FM transmitters for exactly the use case of sending your own music to radios...
919.
by detaro 4y ago
> Among friends though, they don't have the patience and just plow through the conversation in their excellent English. That's kinda sad. I totally get the impulse to do so, and once I've started speaking English I might
920.
by detaro 4y ago
it builds on top of it
921.
by detaro 4y ago
Doesn't seem that weird that they looked at "mobile gaming" as in "smartphone gaming", not "mobile gaming" as in "gaming on portable devices"?
922.
by detaro 4y ago
2022: "1Password with $620M Series C, now valued at $6.8B" https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/19/1password-series-c-funding... (following a $200M Series A and a $100M Series B in 2019/2021)
923.
by detaro 4y ago
Except they've made a big deal out of letting everyone know that verification isn't a thing anymore. (EDIT: or actually, by now it is a thing again, but not with a blue checkmark, but a golden one. So this is even more clearly pre
924.
by detaro 4y ago
Even if you are in the EU, 1-2 weeks notice for something like that is bonkers. And as soon as company has more than a handful of employees, this is something you want to have booked with hotel and such earlier anyways . From what I'v
925.
by detaro 4y ago
> With Qt you also have to use its own classes for non-UI stuff, like strings and lists. At least for the parts interacting with Qt components and yes, that can be an annoyance. Tricky tradeoff with compatibility and performance optimi
926.
by detaro 4y ago
Not sure I'd count that as "EEE"? I guess in a way you could see "We can't compete with AWS at running our own software" as AWS "extending" it, but I don't think it is quite that?
927.
by detaro 4y ago
> you have to wonder why someone in the management chain all the way to the publisher didn't say no. My guess: It's lowest yellow press, misleading stories based on nothing of actual relevance aren't exactly a new thing
928.
by detaro 4y ago
A longer excerpt available online here: https://www.denverpost.com/2006/05/26/the-nasty-bits-by-anth...
929.
by detaro 4y ago
You severely overestimate what "the cheapest stuff" (or maybe more accurate "the low-endest stuff") is.
930.
by detaro 4y ago
> being forced to use JS is not their idea of fun. QML is not JS. Indeed, lots of high-quality QML applications use basically zero JS inside their QML, and heavy JS use is widely (but not universally) considered an anti-pattern. If usi

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