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by dvdkon 3y ago
You'd need to either have drivers in the kernel for everything, with no common fallback ("the ARM approach"), or have standards at the hardware/HW firmware level. Having a firmware-level abstraction layer that papers ove
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by dvdkon 3y ago
If Apple can't run the App Store just on developer fees, then I'm sure somebody else could. But that's conveniently not allowed.
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by dvdkon 3y ago
Nice! Another FLOSS GUI debugger is always welcome. A historical capture of this page provides some more context: http://web.archive.org/web/20230923095510/http://www.radgame... It's rather open, wh
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by dvdkon 3y ago
No, but a 15-minute city would offer no opportunities for this to happen, except on hard town borders. Any plot of land this big in a dense city would be much more lucratively used for houses.
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by dvdkon 3y ago
It's a common insight, yet you see slogans like "zero tolerance" or "our overriding priority is security" everywhere. You can choose to believe people championing them are just oversimplifying or actually encouragin
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by dvdkon 3y ago
That's what IPP and IPP Everywhere does, and as far as I know, most modern printers support it, even using it over USB. IIRC it only specifies a common set of print options, so you might need a driver for anything more, but basic print
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by dvdkon 3y ago
It's just as much software engineering as it is "politics". Baseband vendors could put in as much effort as aviation manufacturers, but they won't. The status quo of overcomplicated, insecure, buggy software is hard to c
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by dvdkon 3y ago
You'd do good to expect a threatened group (or individual) to lash out, but that's precisely why we have anti-retaliation laws. Think of them not as telling people they shouldn't try to destroy opponents, but that the society
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by dvdkon 3y ago
I won't suggest specific products (local availability is patchy), so I'm going to be more generic: The main thing is that there are non-visual receptors in our eyes that are used for determining the level of "daylight",
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by dvdkon 3y ago
It's not just screens, common lights produce too much melanopic light for evening use. It's definitely not trivial to pick light sources that are safe to use in the evening without interfering with our circadian rhythm, but it&#x2
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by dvdkon 3y ago
Why naptime at school? If parents are having trouble with their kids not falling asleep in the evening, wouldn't that either hurt (less tired kids) or be ineffective (kids can't fall asleep at school either)?
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by dvdkon 3y ago
I don't know about any such EU-wide store. The small local hardware store near me is great for common things like M3+ screws, but understandably doesn't stock slightly exotic items like M1.6 threaded inserts. There's larger e
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by dvdkon 3y ago
In support of anti- CSAM efforts, please. I might think they're horrible people, but they don't support child porn.
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by dvdkon 3y ago
I think both viewpoints (contemporary civilisation is good and we should let "uncivilised" people live without interference) are reconcilable: I can believe that modern bureaucratic liberal democracy is the best system we have,
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by dvdkon 3y ago
I'm disappointed this uses the "90s" imperative GUI building paradigm, with manual state updates. QML, Slint and most web toolkits in the last 10 years gave this important topic more attention and are much better GUI framewor
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by dvdkon 3y ago
I think people who prefer and use GUI builders (generally "old-school" native devs) and those who write GUIs in code (generally web devs) design GUIs in different ways. GUI-as-code makes dynamic layout easier, so those GUIs have m
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by dvdkon 3y ago
I wouldn't have expected a course I'm attending to get to HN. I suppose the non-conventional name paid off :) I can recommend it to CUNI students interested in programming languages. It should run again in 2025/26 (at least a
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by dvdkon 3y ago
I have one, and flipping it from "laptop mode" to "tablet mode" adds noticeable friction, especially if you have e.g. a dock connected. Then again, so does having to carry around a tablet. For an office job I'd take
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by dvdkon 3y ago
That same uselessness for long-term identification of users is what makes this approach compliant with laws regulating use of PII, since what you have after a small time window isn't actually PII (unless correlated with another dataset
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by dvdkon 3y ago
The bigger alternative is the status quo: A big button saying "I am at least 18 years old" and some web-filtering technologies that parent could use but probably don't. Nobody's dying over this, so I'd be wary of ar
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by dvdkon 3y ago
That's certainly not great, but if it can be read with any microscope, it might not be a problem for its durability.
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by dvdkon 3y ago
I have to say, Seattle seems to have some very cooperative clerks. Here requests for large datasets (or extracts thereof) are more likely to be denied based on various phony reasons or the copying valued at ridiculous prices nobody's b
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by dvdkon 3y ago
I think you misread the parent comment, I'd say they are blaming the government for not covering their "investments" legally, same as you.
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by dvdkon 3y ago
Imagine a world where only one company can make cutting-edge semiconductors. A competitor could easily undercut their prices, but only after years of research and billions of dollars, which nobody is willing to invest. You can say "not
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by dvdkon 3y ago
Thanks for the link, but I still think there's enough nuance in the court system (in any country) to recognise that a manufacturer shouldn't always be held liable for a system just because their logo is on it. There's no law
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by dvdkon 3y ago
Do you have any references for the equipment manufacturer's liability? I find it hard to believe your point as written.
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by dvdkon 3y ago
This looks nice, especially the small runtime. One nitpick: Why not "if" expressions, or even "for" expressions? Ternary operators aren't something any new language should copy. It might even reduce parser code.
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by dvdkon 3y ago
I download plenty of files from sites I don't know and wouldn't consider trustworthy, visiting only the Microsoft.coms of the web is really restrictive. Domain-based reputation is useful, especially if I'm actively interactin
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by dvdkon 3y ago
Unless you're also afraid of clicking links on the web, you should be fine with torrents. Maybe you could not seed by default and turn it on only after verifying the data is authentic, that way you're actually only downloading and
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by dvdkon 3y ago
The average is computed from platforms that offer one-time "purchases" and also those that pay per play, so that figure is misleading. It's interesting data nonetheless, just to compare the absolute values for services in the

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