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by detuur 4y ago
I find it a bit untrustworthy when someone frames a language design issue as representative of the way the project is run. List comprehension is a feature that comparatively few languages have, and I can easily imagine that the GDScript tea
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by detuur 4y ago
That's entropy for you. On a cosmic scale, we are currently living in the universe's First Age. Maybe even Second Age. Stars are still being born, we still have supernovas, the light of distant galaxies still reaches us. On the ot
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by detuur 4y ago
It's a "ponzi scheme" in the sense that you need to buy in early, find suckers to join the scheme after you, and only make a profit because the suckers you pulled in are pulling suckers in turn. If you don't get too gree
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by detuur 4y ago
IMHO, the obvious takeaway for me here is that pretty printing debug data should not be part of the originator system. It's a-okay to dump a 1GB binary log. The pretty-printing logic should be located in whatever dedicated application
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by detuur 4y ago
To back up this argument: the redesigned settings app looks a lot like the one in Windows 10 and that one is a nightmare, specifically because it uses a phone-inspired design. A valid complaint about the System Preferences app is that it is
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by detuur 4y ago
Lightning only ever managed to coast by because of its slim form-factor and because Apple mandated its use. It's capable of USB2.0 at most (480Mbps), whereas USB-C can do 20Gbps today and 40Gbps when using Thunderbolt. MagSafe on phone
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by detuur 4y ago
How do EXR and JXL compare to each other, feature-wise?
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by detuur 4y ago
I absolutely recommend JXL. It is developed by the JPEG Group as a successor to JPEG2000 and performs better in nearly every metric (big exception currently being encoder speed). JPEG2000 isn't really widely supported, but does have ma
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by detuur 5y ago
From what I can see from the outside as a man, even successful female professionals are expected to _look_ like a successful female professional, which is thin, elegant, classy, with a good amount of make-up. A huge part of the perception
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by detuur 5y ago
Most of the recent takedowns from Roskomnadzor seem to be aimed at illegal gambling sites using github for hosting. Almost all of the rest are for deleted gists, so there's no telling what used to be there. I found one surviving gist a
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by detuur 5y ago
I had a discussion with my (natively French-speaking) in-laws about this some time ago! Essentially, native speakers rely heavily on short pauses in the pronunciation of numbers, causing 3420 to be pronounced "trente quatre vingt"
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by detuur 5y ago
The square USB plug is intentional. USB-C is not always the best plug. Take a look at USB channel loss budgets[1]. This is a very simple read, even for people who are not at home in electronics and signals. To summarise the document, the
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by detuur 5y ago
The wrong call, because you can only reasonably develop drivers for uncrippled GPUs. The FSF was so caught up in maintaining a freedom from being _tempted_ to use proprietary software, that their solution would've taken away the freedo
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by detuur 5y ago
This might be true in the USA, but the EU has a thing called database rights[0]. Essentially, any collection of data can under certain circumstances be protected under database rights, which prevents other parties from copying (parts of) it
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by detuur 5y ago
It provides regulatory pressure to make unsubscribing as easy as possible. Those costs are entirely absent if customers can click a button. Otherwise, if the regulation merely prescribes that there has to be a button, there is little conseq
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by detuur 5y ago
Then that's too bad for anyone who tries to use non-standard shells. It's one thing to violate a vague, rarely used standard. It's quite another to violate what is most likely the most broadly supported standard on *nix syste
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by detuur 5y ago
Regardless, their monthly (annual actually) fees are the same for 25G/25G as for 1G/1G. Only the setup fees are higher, which they attribute to more expensive optics. 10G/10G is completely identically priced to 1G/1G.
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by detuur 6y ago
Nintendo as a company is 120 years old. Nintendo as a video game company is 50 years old, more or less. The reason why it's held on for so long is not its brand , it's their properties. Nintendo is essentially the Disney of the vi
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by detuur 6y ago
This must be the first time I've ever seen Germany implicated in this. I consider it 100 times more likely that the UK was involved than Germany.
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by detuur 6y ago
If you want to get an idea of what exactly these mods use their powers for, here's a website that preserved the comments on that page before they got deleted by the mods: https://removeddit.com/r/interestingasfuck&
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by detuur 7y ago
Please don't use code blocks for quotes. They are illegible on narrow screens such as mobile.
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by detuur 7y ago
> We need something to remind us that we should be civil and grateful for FOSS contributions. Sort of ironic that the entire commotion started when the Actix maintainer dismissed a contributor's code as boring after they wrote a POC
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by detuur 7y ago
I mean, why wouldn't they? With all the people out there using it without complaints.
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by detuur 7y ago
I have been wondering this for ages. Just last week I had to manually set up KeePass, VSCode, IntelliJ, Guitar (git ui) by manually unpacking tarballs (luckily already built) into ~/bin. Guitar luckily had an AppImage which worked beau
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by detuur 7y ago
This reminds me of a friend of mine, who used to work at a company that supplied financial analytics software. The "software" was MS Excel workbooks. C-level execs love Excel, and they love interactive worksheets even more. The wo
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by detuur 7y ago
As someone who had a prolog class last year and who really had a hard time understanding cut, this clears up a lot. Essentially, we were taught to write predicates without cut, and if they didn't yield proper results to introduce cut h
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by detuur 7y ago
The scariest dystopias are the ones that make life comfortable for you.
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by detuur 7y ago
> binary source format Easily the single most diabolical thing I've heard all week.
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by detuur 7y ago
Or just stick with a lightweight init like OpenRC. It's used in Alpine and as such also in Docker containers. It stands out in how little, really, it does. Also, you can use /etc/passwd to set the shell for every user. If you
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by detuur 7y ago
I can't be the only one who literally can't stand the sound of radio advertising. They make a point of using as many annoying and attention-grabbing sounds as possible, not to mention the cheap and cheesy jingles. I'll often

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