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by dvdkon 2y ago
As a counterpoint, Prague is building new trolleybus lines at a somewhat regular pace after having abandoned them in the 70s. Granted, these trolleybuses also have batteries and only spend about 1/2 of their journey under wires.
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by dvdkon 2y ago
It only allows bellard.org, not www.bellard.org. Changing the domain loads the same webpage, but with CORS working as intended.
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by dvdkon 2y ago
I don't think that's true for my bank or Czech government services. Plenty others do practice "security by email", though.
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by dvdkon 2y ago
Thanks for making this! I hadn't even heard of this keyboard layout prototype until now. I have a few friends that use gesture-based keyboards similar to this, and I myself use gestures to type diacritics and punctuation. So this idea
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by dvdkon 2y ago
Every time I thought about buying a font, I've been put off by the terms. A few tens of euro for desktop use? Sure. But when that font's supposed to be part of an organisation's identity, I'll need it for web use as well
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by dvdkon 2y ago
The four kingdoms system is taught because it is useful; not for science, but for everyday communication. We use a similarly flawed model every day: fruit and vegetables. What's in one group or the other is based on vague similarities
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by dvdkon 2y ago
In addition to the problems other people have pointed out, it just doesn't have comparable specs to something like Ampere's Altra or AMD's Epyc. 24 CPU cores and 192 GB of memory might be enough for a small company's sin
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by dvdkon 2y ago
I personally don't see the value in that. I'd rather spend time fixing something than getting people to fix it for me, and having someone just to point fingers at them after a failure feels cowardly. But maybe I'm just not a
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by dvdkon 2y ago
I've never run a non-profit, but what's stopping the Foundation from releasing a raw dump of expenses? Where I live, all government contracts/invoices need to be published before they come into effect. This obviously required
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by dvdkon 2y ago
The downside of this approach is that the publishers don't want to remake their business model, so they make the subscription fee so high that they couldn't possibly ever lose money on people they don't track. Then even the s
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by dvdkon 2y ago
They could use non-tracking ads, though I understand serving ads without spying on people is much less profitable. Or they could mandate a subscription or per-article payments, maybe only on certain long-form articles? Maybe keeping news ar
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by dvdkon 2y ago
The empty set, I presume. As a computer science student, I have to juggle O, o, 0, and ∅. (capital/lowercase letter, zero, empty set. Fun!
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by dvdkon 2y ago
Same here, switching from i3 to sway resulted in a noticeably more responsive experience on my aging hardware. Of course, this is just an anecdote, and I could probably get the same results on X with some fiddling, but I do think the value
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by dvdkon 2y ago
Yeah, people seem to ignore the ePrivacy directive. I frankly don't know why it needs to be revised or replaced by something new, it seems like the GDPR handles it all and more.
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by dvdkon 2y ago
Is the USA driven by abstract economic argumenents instead of the decisions of elected representatives? I thougt the US had a fairly standard "town council" arrangement, with the councilors having large autonomy and being beholden
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by dvdkon 2y ago
If road infrastructure is designed solely to move goods quickly, it's only because people made a choice to prioritise that. Not The People, but indivial bureaucrats. At least here in the Czech Republic, moving goods isn't on anyon
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by dvdkon 2y ago
"Car-centrism" isn't some immutable property given to the US at the dawn of time. Infrastructure is built according to people's opinions, and in a democracy you change those people's opinions (or replace them altoge
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by dvdkon 2y ago
The main problem I see with "just files in folders" is thumbnails. You need some thumbnail cache, ideally pregenerated, for speedy browsing. And once you've got that, you've lost the simplicity of "just files"
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by dvdkon 2y ago
A "consent or pay" model is sadly widely used, but it's at least very controversial and probably illegal. No data protection agency has gone on record to say it's definitely illegal and no fines have been given out IIRC,
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by dvdkon 2y ago
Unless I'm missing something, Apple only has to provide these new requested APIs to users in the EU. I presume Apple will keep everything as-is in other countries, just like with app sideloading.
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by dvdkon 2y ago
Thankfully the EU also has legislation that makes "share data to use" tactics illegal, so this shouldn't be a problem.
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by dvdkon 2y ago
If you've changed your career to support some goal, here the public good, isn't it natural to be strongly convinced that your work is advancing that goal?
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by dvdkon 2y ago
You don't even need it afterward, unless you want a file to be both an importable module and an executable script. Arguably you could be a happy Python programmer without this capability.
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by dvdkon 2y ago
For a lot of people the modulo approach isn't a "trick", it's just the intuitive way to split items into residue classes. And it's likely a little more cache-efficient.
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by dvdkon 2y ago
I know this debate is about the US banking system, but I feel the need to point out that in most of the EU, cheques basically aren't used, and business purchases are generally made by wire transfers. Without a chequebook or credit card
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by dvdkon 2y ago
It is already scary, many governments mandate that large purchases are only made through the banking system. Not to mention the private-sector pressure (how do you get paid for work?).
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by dvdkon 2y ago
That seems draconian. Is that a US federal/US state/other country law?
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by dvdkon 2y ago
Eurostat [0] would have you believe that you want 3 rooms for a family of 2 adults and 1 child. That's fine as an aspirational goal, but I feel that parents with a toddler living in a signle-room flat is good enough, especially for the
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by dvdkon 2y ago
This looks neat, but I think requiring declaration files makes interop with Go code tedious enough that nobody will bother (along with all the usual maturity arguments). I'd prefer it if this was using the Go compiler as a library to g
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by dvdkon 2y ago
QGIS can do this. It's a large dependency and loads Mapbox/Maplibre styles by converting them to internal ones, so it might look a little different than the standard Maplibre renderer, but you get the benefit of easily editing tho

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