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by dvdkon 7y ago
I can't agree about poor families being at a special disadvantage here. It's true that a computer costs more than paper and pencils, but families being too poor to afford a cheap chromebook is not a problem inherent in education.
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by dvdkon 7y ago
Security here means training users to ignore yet another popup?
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by dvdkon 7y ago
I always thought "IME" was a specific name for input methods that didn't map 1-to-1 to keyboard keys (+modifiers) and required more than a new keyboard layout. Why would Esperanto require that? (Or do our definitions differ?
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by dvdkon 7y ago
As said already, hosting your own tile server isn't really an alternative to a service like Google Maps. I'd like to add that there are multiple such services listed on the "Providers" page of switch2osm, though I'd
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by dvdkon 7y ago
Importing OSM data into PostGIS is mostly painless with imposm3, probably because it's actually documented, unlike most other pieces in the tile-serving stack. The biggest hurdle is probably understanding both the OSM and SQL way of th
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by dvdkon 7y ago
I actually switched to Maps.me (F-Droid's "Maps", technically) for most uses because OsmAnd's renderer is a lot slower, what did you mean by "much faster"?
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by dvdkon 7y ago
Geocoding works perfectly fine for me, especially for simple addresses. Where did you use it?
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by dvdkon 7y ago
You're not suggesting some grand conspiracy of smart TV and computer/console manufacturers, I hope? As far as I know, PC GPUs don't support this anyway.
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by dvdkon 7y ago
Existing languages that have evolved by adding features onto a decades old base have a large technical debt. Sure, it is possible to write relatively safe code in C++ using modern features like std::unique_ptr, but you have to consciously u
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by dvdkon 7y ago
So if you didn't care about the recipient editing the document, you'd send what format? Pretty much anyone can view a PDF and see it as intended, not so much with DOC, DOCX, ODT, INDD...
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by dvdkon 7y ago
Because most displays today run at 60Hz. It's a nice metric, as it provides a useful coarseness for measuring response times.
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by dvdkon 7y ago
Are email addresses on private domains not a thing where you're from?
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by dvdkon 7y ago
The problem with paying for content for people outside of that bubble is that the prices are way too high. Consider how much money an average visitor earns a site through ads. In relation, paying 5USD a month for an ad-free subscription to
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by dvdkon 7y ago
This doesn't apply to devices which have slide-out keyboards or a clamshell design. The linked design is more "Blackberry-style" as far as I can tell, but those are not the devices I primarily had in mind.
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by dvdkon 7y ago
"Soft" keyboards on a touchscreen have a number of disadvantages, the biggest for me is that they take up a large part of the screen. I could use the terminal or edit source code just fine on my phone's screen, but only if at
736.
by dvdkon 7y ago
I really appreciate having a "lingua franca" of programming. Projects in other languages are certainly interesting to see, but I also appreciate that most authors use English, it contributes to a larger worldwide community.
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by dvdkon 7y ago
Once upon a time, I went through my logins and tried to change them to strings with weird characters. I ended up with a password of on an internal school site and couldn't change it to anything else, since the "change password&qu
738.
by dvdkon 7y ago
Being a "high school hacker" myself, I'd like to offer a slightly less dreary perspective. Some time back, I found multiple critical vulnerabilities in the most used school database system in the Czech Republic. The whole sof
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by dvdkon 7y ago
I read a lot on my computer and phone. I could see the point with TV, but I think saying that reading speed is declining and that computers are to blame is ridiculous. Anecdotally, I've found computer literacy or usage skill to strongl
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by dvdkon 7y ago
Blackhats knowing is what makes companies patch the vulnerabilities. Not enough people care about there being an undisclosed vulnerability for the company to expend resources.
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by dvdkon 8y ago
/r/piracy had a strict policy of not linking to pirate content, even. They really tried to stay on Reddit's good side.
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by dvdkon 8y ago
I could create a site promising to host all files forever and after years of operation delete everything. It would certainly be within my rights, but you'd have every reason to hate me. Having a legal right to do something doesn't
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by dvdkon 8y ago
> The Commission will also consider competent and reliable empirical evidence regarding audience composition It seems pretty clear that userbase demographics are a factor. It's the best evidence you can have.
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by dvdkon 8y ago
What would be the benefit? I really don't see the point. Employees collectively demamding something from their employer, that I understand, but why create a new directive structure above the whole industry?
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by dvdkon 8y ago
Leaving what I'd call "intuitive happiness" immediately leads you into the depths of deciding the goals of human life. If we agree that happiness is desirable, why not just induce it by drugs? Why not try to learn to be happy
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by dvdkon 8y ago
I actually tried to implement a SPA using just ES6 (in Typescript) some years back and ran into quite a few problems with data flow, which frameworks like Vue.js readily solve. I think that (for example) Vue by itself is quite light (mu Vue
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by dvdkon 8y ago
And the opposite to that argument is that making an SPA gets you an API "for free". If you want users to be able to write their own code that interacts with your platform, it might be beneficial not to write multiple server-side i
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by dvdkon 8y ago
The EU already invests in closed-source software with grants. I don't like it, but there are worse choices than ProtonMail.
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by dvdkon 8y ago
Thanks for planning on leaving a dense option in. I much prefer UIs with less whitespace and am saddened by the current trends in this area. I really like Zulip and its UI, thank you and everyone else for creating it!
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by dvdkon 8y ago
The HN headline is definitely ambiguous and, I'd say, wrong. Anything is "at risk to hackers" if you include all varieties of cracking (not just remote exploits, but physical attacks, social engineering...). The site's c

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