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by dylan-m 6y ago
That one was a great feature! I'm really hoping someone will figure out landmarks for mapping directions at some point. Or has someone done that and I haven't noticed? :) There's so much data about buildings now, it wouldn&#x
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by dylan-m 7y ago
I made one of these. We generally expected users to be offline for at least a week. Probably using the app regularly on their respective devices (but possibly not), and syncing data again when they had a good internet connection. Uses Dexie
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by dylan-m 7y ago
Seriously what the hell is this, can someone please explain? I don't understand why there is this smear campaign against the WHO in which people keep saying this. They do important shit, especially now, and it isn't their freaking
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by dylan-m 7y ago
That's a good rule of thumb there :) More pedantically, credit card numbers _aren't_ numbers in the first place. They are identifiers that happen to use numerical digits. Same as phone numbers. Treating them as numbers at any poin
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by dylan-m 7y ago
More than that, you need a grand conspiracy that is so obscure third party observers can't see it happening. Relatively easy with software, because software is obscure almost by definition. Difficult with something tactile like paper b
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by dylan-m 7y ago
So I figured I'd try Evo again after choosing to ignore them basically because their app is terrible, and I managed to count three issues in my first few minutes: It either takes way too long to populate the map with cars, or it just d
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by dylan-m 7y ago
Sandboxing your build is good practice anyway, for this and many other reasons :) For bonus points, build each major component in its own sandbox and integrate them later. That allows you to tightly control your dependencies (which makes yo
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by dylan-m 7y ago
I've been having a happy time putting together a BuildStream project ( https://buildstream.build/ ). It's meant for integrating packages into a larger system, for instance Flatpak runtimes and Linux system images, b
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by dylan-m 7y ago
One of my favourite things with Django has been their mature approach to changes. Want to be guaranteed a stable upgrade? Step 1: Fix deprecation notices. Step 2: Upgrade. (If you're upgrading over a few releases, return to step 1). Co
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by dylan-m 7y ago
This is, to some extent, what Feedly did. They started off as a really nice, somewhat niche magazine-style news reader built on Google Reader. When Google Reader shut down, it was in their best interest to implement the API themselves. They
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by dylan-m 7y ago
I think it's a bit of a stretch to point at particular cultural backgrounds, since unique individuals in all of these cultures tend to soften the boundaries we like to create in our heads, but there could be some overlapping reasons. O
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by dylan-m 7y ago
For me this has had the side-effect that their warehouse deals thing will ship literally anything back out :b It's worth it if you're okay processing returns for them, but when they started to send me broken cameras full of sand,
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by dylan-m 7y ago
It is depressing, but I'll tell you which of those options is actually actively interested in developers and enthusiasts: Linux. Give it the effort that people spend buying exactly the hardware Apple says to buy and then installing (or
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by dylan-m 7y ago
In the same way, I'd also recommend Last Chance To See for a slightly different flavour of Douglas Adams. His whimsical style is remarkably well-suited to a non-fiction nature and travel book. I can't say I completely get his sc
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by dylan-m 7y ago
This author is the same idiot behind boycottnovell ( https://web.archive.org/web/20070711171212/http://boycottnov... ), a campaign against Miguel Icaza, Mono developers, and Novell, for developing Mono (a
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by dylan-m 7y ago
Someone pointed out that the patent became active _today_. I wonder if they filed other lawsuits based on this patent as well? Would make sense that they target a bunch of small software developers who can't defend themselves in hopes
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by dylan-m 7y ago
Nope! Current GNOME foundation board has one RedHat employee, out of six people. RedHat contributes a lot to the project, because they are one of few companies making a desktop distro with serious resources behind it. (That, and RedHat unde
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by dylan-m 7y ago
The worst thing here is there are genuinely people who are afraid of 2FA because they see headlines about how 2FA over SMS is dangerous, and they (as well as the writers in some cases, to be fair) don't understand that the "over S
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by dylan-m 7y ago
More cynically, they can survive it as long as their competitors die first :b
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by dylan-m 7y ago
This was also a huge problem for Android. At some point Android started using MTP instead of appearing as a mass storage device, which made for several technical wins. Most importantly, internal memory could be one contiguous block formatte
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by dylan-m 7y ago
This is cute :) One nitpick: the buttons grow slightly when they're being clicked. This is happening because of the style adding a dotted border around the nested .btn-text element: .btn:not(:disabled):not(.disabled):active .btn-
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by dylan-m 7y ago
I'm surprised that making sure noise output is sane isn't a standard part of certifying stuff for human consumption, but then I guess that's the whole "free market will sort it out" idea not working as expected. Nic
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by dylan-m 7y ago
Someone even made an unofficial flatpak for Steam, too. It's on Flathub and it works great for my needs. Makes perfect sense with the way Valve packages Steam already, since they try really hard to provide the same environment on every
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by dylan-m 7y ago
The important part there would be chain of trust. You should be able to see, given a video, "oh, that was recorded by some guy who lives in a basement; I can figure out he was never even /near/ Washington" (or "that
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by dylan-m 7y ago
Indeed, none of these cameras need to be super crisp, although DCAM-3 (the deployable camera) is both a navigational tool and expected to provide some scientific insight. It was used to monitor the impact from the crater they created for th
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by dylan-m 7y ago
That's OpenMedia in a nutshell. They definitely aren't alone in this category, but I find them very frustrating. They mean well and I largely agree with them, but by agreeing with them I also seem to be agreeing with their nuance-
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by dylan-m 8y ago
A couple inches to the left and that dialog would have been comedy gold :b (Although more seriously, I'll speculate that it looks larger than it is because it's reflecting a lot of light).
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by dylan-m 8y ago
I got a surprisingly comprehensible (and similarly recursive) ListView question: https://stackroboflow.com/#!/question/15327 .
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by dylan-m 8y ago
I'd be willing to bet the next version is USB4 2.0.
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by dylan-m 8y ago
I was doing my own, much lighter de-Googling, (also last week). I've been really impressed by the amount of control you get with Fastmail. You can add all the domains and aliases you want, including ones that forward to multiple addres

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