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by dmz73 3y ago
I am guessing that people complaining about Wayland do not care that technically it is just a specification that is "much better" or "more lightweight" than X11. What they do care about is that Wayland is being forced on
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by dmz73 3y ago
I am getting images of Steve Jobs frustratingly jumping around yelling "You are holding it wrong!!!"
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by dmz73 3y ago
At the same time Mexican imports from China seem to be increasing significantly according to this: https://tradingeconomics.com/mexico/imports/china So is US just importing from China via Mexico or is Mexico subst
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by dmz73 3y ago
Since anyone could travel to EU at any time and then the EU rules apply, either Apple must allow all their phones to follow the EU rules if user says they are in EU jurisdiction, or Apple should get a fine for non compliance.
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by dmz73 3y ago
Mexican government is suing US companies, not US government. US government can sue Mexican cartels in return if they wish.
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by dmz73 3y ago
You cannot argue with Apple users on any topic that is critical of Apple. For them, Apple can do no wrong. If Apple hardware breaks due to manufacturing fault, they will criticize the person for not buying Apple-care and then suggest just b
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by dmz73 3y ago
and what is int in Linux?
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by dmz73 3y ago
I have no love for Microsoft but they do provide value that most businesses rely on. If they disappeared tomorrow, everyone would feel the pain. Apple provides just a veneer of convenience. If Apple disappeared tomorrow, only Apple users wo
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by dmz73 3y ago
(Ab)use of any paradigm (I'll need a shower for using that word) can result in nightmares. Inheritance has its place and it is definitely useful in more than "few specialised cases". It can get out of hand and it can become a
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by dmz73 3y ago
That's crazy talk! You must be holding it wrong :)
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by dmz73 3y ago
The problem with hjkl as cursor movement in vi is that it cannot be used in all modes so you still have to have and use actual cursor keys. Switching modes just to add a single character before last is annoying. Fixing a typo in filename w
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by dmz73 3y ago
It is called Structured Query Language, it allows for complex logic that can be processed close to the data to speed up operations and reduce complexity and increase reliability of client applications. Sure, if you require Google scale of c
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by dmz73 3y ago
That statement does not make sense. Container ships are transporting manufactured goods from China to other countries - US, EU, ROW. If there are no shortage of container ships that means that those regions are experiencing economic downtu
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by dmz73 3y ago
Apple hardware is mediocre at best. 2020 MacBook Air with i5 is unbearably slow. I have Samsung ATIV 700T with i5 from 2014 and it feels much faster than 2020 i5 MacBook. You can now say that it is the problem with Intel and that M1-2-3 are
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by dmz73 3y ago
Well, for one, they had to take that phone out of my pocket and they didn't because it is still in my pocket :) They also had to take the phone out of their pocket otherwise all we would see if dark and pocket sand. Then of course to m
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by dmz73 3y ago
Apple claims they make things easier but that is not actually the case. They may make a few things easier than Microsoft or Google but they make a lot of things harder too. All their hardware is harder to repair than what is available from
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by dmz73 3y ago
To solve famine we can just tell starving people to eat more. It is that simple. To solve expensive rent we can just tell people to pay/charge less for housing. It is that simple. To solve climate change we can just tell people to emit
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by dmz73 3y ago
Counterpoint to SMB on Windows being great: SMB usually works well in a domain environment between client and server machines if they are all on the same domain. SMB often and randomly does not work between two client computers on a domain
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by dmz73 3y ago
The main problem with devices like Apple's Mx series laptops is that everything works fine...until it doesn't. This device is non-repairable and non-upgradeable as far as CPU, RAM and disk are concerned. Now people may claim that
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by dmz73 3y ago
That's the myth. From personal experience helping iPhone users, they seem to tolerate bad interface and hardware a lot more than other people and blame themselves when they can't get something to work.
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by dmz73 3y ago
Mac trackpad keeps getting mentioned as something that is leagues above the rest. I recently had to use MacBook air M2 and the trackpad was horrible. It was big but hard to use and it couldn't handle simple click and drag style of gest
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by dmz73 3y ago
It is a little worse that that for Linux - you have conquered the whole world except for the place where you were born - where you are still a nobody. You can't just forget about that place either because you wake up there every day to
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by dmz73 3y ago
The rest of the (developed) world manages to operate by paying living wages and displaying and charging the final price. US is the only one that needs to underpay staff (and charge 10 to 100 times more for health and education while we men
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by dmz73 3y ago
I wanted to like Python. Every time I tried to use/learn it, the "program" I wanted to use had some issue. The very first one (some 15 years ago) depended on mutually incompatible libraries so I had to spend time not only lea
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by dmz73 3y ago
How often do people change their watch straps? I changed my strap exactly once, from original to easy adjustable magnetic. The quick change straps are 100% marketing ploy to sell more straps. Talking about 1st world problems...
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by dmz73 3y ago
Oh, come on...is that really true or have you stopped reading all the worse ones before finishing...in which case you have to admit that BE was at least entertaining enough to finish, which is a quality that many many of the "great&quo
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by dmz73 4y ago
LLMs are just programs that can produce human-like language output based on human-like language input and that calling them AI of any kind is greatly overstating their capabilities. There is no "reasoning" or "understanding&q
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by dmz73 4y ago
Best response to the current "AI" fad driven fear I've seen so far (not my words): These AI tools cannot do things. They create text (or images or code or what-have-you) in response to prompts. And that's it! It is imp
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by dmz73 4y ago
SQL does have faults but PRQL is not fixing any of those and instead is just a python-esque version that retains all the SQL faults and introduces additional complexity without providing much in return. Main complaints about SQL are that SE
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by dmz73 4y ago
C programmers claim some things that are simply not true: 1) simplicity - C is not a simple language, it is a language lacking advanced features which does not make it simple to use but it might be easier to create incomplete non-performant

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