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by dvdkon 5y ago
When reading mixed-language text we can't know if the "Tee" in the middle of an English sentence is German for "tea" or English slang for "t-shirt". We have to use imperfect context clues, so screen reader
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by dvdkon 5y ago
It is surprising to me, because I can mix Czech, English and German just fine on a single screen, even in a single text field. From that perspective having to say "this whole text is in language X" seems backwards.
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by dvdkon 5y ago
This function is certainly hairy, but its use in the codebase might very well be intuitive and simplify code that would otherwise be way less expressive. I personally think it can be worth it.
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by dvdkon 5y ago
The website also advertises running software other than a NFS/SMB/SFTP server, it's presumably for that. You might also be surprised how much CPU power something boring like Samba can use. Finally, an entry-level CM4 costs a
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by dvdkon 5y ago
Lots of other good arguments have been posted, but I'd like to say something to the teaching aspect. In high school, we had four years of Java. I already knew most of the curriculum at the start, so others would sometimes ask me for he
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by dvdkon 5y ago
That connector is really long and wouldn't fit in a number of cases (ITX PCs, servers...). For carrying lots of current, thick cables are just better than PCB traces (especially on PCBs that are mostly designed for signal integrity, no
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by dvdkon 5y ago
Well hopefully it'll show a few more people that our current PM Babiš isn't the anti-corruption people-lover he paints himself to be. Election's next week, so no time for investigations to fade away.
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by dvdkon 5y ago
Yes, it's certainly better than a Qualcomm monoculture would be. But ideally competition on CPUs would happen in the CPU market, instead of in the target product market with lots of vertical integration. In a world where all device man
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by dvdkon 5y ago
I've also had a similar experience and definitely support giving users the ability to tell genuine parts from knockoffs. Howewer this has to be done to empower users, to help get us closer to a perfect market by giving buyers accurate
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by dvdkon 5y ago
It's not as if the author of this project would have worked on touchscreen support for mainstream desktop Linux had they not started this. For many (most?), Linux is a platform to use and build upon, not something they want to contribu
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by dvdkon 5y ago
People probably don't want an unmoderated community, but a community is usually smaller than a social media behemoth/"platform". Twitter is actually the one site that doesn't try to divide its userbase into groups&#
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by dvdkon 5y ago
Exactly, it's a search engine. It probably doesn't make sense to use it as a storage engine for logs unless you need to search all of them efficiently.
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by dvdkon 5y ago
AGPL is just GPL where usage over a network requires giving users the source code of the AGPL codebase . I'll take it over a custom licence where I have to worry if I need to release the source code of everything around it (SSPL) or i
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by dvdkon 5y ago
Except there have been too many mistakes and missteps for a while now, it's three stars at best. I can respect a system that does what I need it to do in one opinionated way, but when that system doesn't do what I need or does too
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by dvdkon 5y ago
You could just use a PinePhone, you'd probably get similar performance in a much more convenient form factor.
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by dvdkon 5y ago
The goal might not be to maximise "views", but if nobody reads it, why bother? No need to be popular by whatever metrics, but with no readers you might just not publish at all. (Unless you see writing itself as valuable in itself.
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by dvdkon 5y ago
Wasnt't that Twitch? They talk about Floatplane on YT often enough.
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by dvdkon 5y ago
Perhaps point out how many non-Oracle commercial JVM vendors exist? They might not trust Oracle to be sane, but Red Hat, Microsoft, SAP and Amazon are all very big names in the industry who offer their own JDK distributions, some of them al
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by dvdkon 5y ago
From a data modelling perspective, it's nice to have them. When your input/output data has unzoned datetimes, you need to model them somehow, and it's better to have a competent implementation than something hand-rolled. I ag
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by dvdkon 5y ago
Yes, it's always been possible to get some kind of string from datetimes, but I specifically care about specifying what string, same with parsing. "Just use a locale's default" might work if you're making a web ap
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by dvdkon 5y ago
And it fills a completely different usecase to arbitrary date formats. For one, there's no parsing. And you have to make do with what the browser provides with no guarantee of stability.
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by dvdkon 5y ago
This looks great, covering about what I'd want from a modern date/time library, but threre seems to be a huge ommision: Is there seriously no way to format/parse dates and times based on arbitrary format specifications? C ha
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by dvdkon 5y ago
I have viewing history tracking disabled and 90% of videos I see are new/popular videos from channels I subscribe to. It's not so bad, definitely less clickbait.
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by dvdkon 5y ago
There are lots, it's just that many mostly advertise themselves as component libraries for particular frameworks. Oftentimes you'll find that the common core is just plain ol' CSS with a little bit of JS in the background.
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by dvdkon 5y ago
I haven't actually set up my mail server to move mail flagged as spam to a separate folder, and I've gotten roughly 4 spam emails in the year or so I've had this address. My mail server also doesn't drop anything unless
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by dvdkon 5y ago
The thing you're ignoring is that available information shapes people. Would I be a programmer if I didn't know computers existed? Definitely not. It's not like one day people wake up and think "biohacking is cool, I&#x2
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by dvdkon 5y ago
Obviously the manufacturer should compensate its customers, it's just better to have an EV with worse range than an unsafe EV or even a pile of scrap (if they all got recalled and probablt not fixed).
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by dvdkon 5y ago
That doesn't matter, since it's FLOSS with an irrevocable licence. That's the great thing about free software.
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by dvdkon 5y ago
Maybe it's a question of personal taste, but Pascal (in any of its newer forms) isn't a langauge I like working with. Up-front variable declaration, verbose flow control, next to no support for functional programming... LCL is nic
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by dvdkon 5y ago
I just fully revoked Google from keeping any data on my viewing habits and for some time now my YouTube main page has been a rehash of popular videos from my subscribed channels (and the occasional cat video). I sure don't miss the cra

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