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by eitland 1y ago
Does it really make any difference whether they compared the death of someone who led one of the world’s largest terrorist organisations for decades - with someone who wasn’t good at debates, - or with someone who was? My point still stands
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My sense is this: one side is utterly unhinged, the other seems desperate to outdo them. I’ve left out which side is which, because I think it works both ways.
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by eitland 1y ago
I see it the exact other way around: - everyday bugs, just put a breakpoint - rare cases: add logging By definition a rare case probably will rarely show up in my dev environment if it shows up at all, so the only way to find them is to add
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by eitland 1y ago
> There's not much left to "fix" on mobile phones, and no real important features to add. I'm happy with my iPhone, but it still has a week or so shorter battery life than even a relatively cheap Nokia phone and with
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by eitland 1y ago
Only precedent I can remember right now (and this was before AI) was when Google launched Google Desktop Search and after the usual click through EULA there was a separate screen which started with something like "read this very carefu
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by eitland 1y ago
I switched to DuckDuckGo about seven years ago, added Marginalia when it became available, and then moved over to Kagi three years back. I made the change because I was utterly fed up with Google trying to be cleverer than me. Looking back,
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by eitland 1y ago
> maybe I want to be someone in one place and someone else entirely somewhere else (or at least not be easily traced between the two). One of the few things Google+ actually got right (admittedly after a good deal of pressure from the c
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by eitland 1y ago
Work computer, so I might not be able to do it. Also, why shouldn’t I be able to choose which language I use in Excel when they’re clearly all available? Why do software companies these days insist on treating me as though I can’t look afte
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by eitland 1y ago
I actively prefer Libre Office. Yes, Excel is probably a lot better if you use English setup and advanced functions. For me, - not having to use Norwegian for formulas (my work machine has Norwegian setup and Excel insists on using Norwegi
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by eitland 1y ago
I’ve just checked all three, and it appears to be rather more nuanced than you make it out to be.
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by eitland 1y ago
How long before companies start closing this "loophole"? And with the cynicism out of the way, what an insightful and refreshing article!
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by eitland 1y ago
> You’ve read your last free article. Haven't read a Wired article in months :-| And thanks to poster for adding archive link.
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by eitland 1y ago
Crying wolf implies there is no wolf. Here the wolf is clearly visible.
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by eitland 1y ago
Have my upvote. I have just learned that targeted ads might be considered direct marketing. I always thought it was limited to things that had my name and address (physical, email or other) on it, excluding online ads unless they were par
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by eitland 1y ago
Please show me where GDPR says this. I think you'll find that GDPR says the opposite and the only reason this continues to happen is because authorities don't have enough resources to go after every at the same time and also becau
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by eitland 1y ago
Not GP and I rarely get into the thousands anymore but I am clearly of the opinion that computers can remember much better than me. So many of the things I start looking into starts with a search in a single tab and then every link I ctrl-c
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by eitland 1y ago
At some point Microsoft tried to sell some automatic DRM system based on SharePoint to some company that I worked for. The sales pitch was that they could upload documents to SharePoint and when people downloaded the documents SharePoint wo
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by eitland 1y ago
If it had just been the last ten passengers who were boarding, or if this was the only hiccup along the way, I probably wouldn’t have bothered writing any of this. But as I remember it, the misery was systematic—from the moment we started b
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by eitland 1y ago
The last time I flew with Ryanair (and hopefully the last time I’ll ever have to), I made sure our hand luggage met their cabin size requirements—I didn’t fancy waiting around for it at the other end anyway. Only for it to be collected at t
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by eitland 1y ago
From the article: > Malcolm C. Smith, a control engineering professor at the University of Cambridge, first introduced inerters in a 2002 paper.[1] Smith extended the analogy between electrical and mechanical networks (the mobility anal
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by eitland 1y ago
Irony over irony I think you can include Telegram here: - yes not end-to-end encrypted by default - but I haven't seen any complaints about their end-to-end encryption, except that it isn't enabled by default - and unlike WhatsApp
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by eitland 1y ago
In 2017, I met modern frontend. In a few hectic months, I had to learn AngularJS, Gulp, Grunt, and some CSS improvement system (LESS or Sass or something). Then I moved on to Angular and worked with it for a couple of years. For the first t
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by eitland 1y ago
Kagi already behave really nicely, giving a small summary with numbered footnotes that links to where Kagi got its information from. Which IMO shows that is already possible to do this and and it has been for a while already.
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by eitland 1y ago
It could go the Piczo route—a website builder aimed at kids and teens, not for polished blogs or ecommerce, but more for one-off, personal and playful friend-to-friend sites.
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by eitland 1y ago
I haven’t had much chance to use NetBeans in recent years, as every role I’ve taken on has involved Kotlin to some extent. But back when I did use it, it felt like the Toyota Hilux of IDEs—sturdy, no-nonsense, and reliably got the job done.
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by eitland 1y ago
NetBeans was my go-to IDE until I started working with Kotlin, which more or less forced me over to IntelliJ. I’ve also tried VSCode on some pure Java/Maven projects since then, and found that it shares some of that same feel—more ligh
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by eitland 1y ago
> Now they are stuck with Kotlin being seen as an Android language for the most part Perhaps it’s different elsewhere, but here in Norway I’ve seen Kotlin used quite extensively in large backend codebases. It also comes up frequently in
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In my case it is simple: I think IntelliJ is great but I much prefer VSCode and NetBeans. Why? Two main reasons: - On the projects I tend to work on, IntelliJ has a habit of breaking its internal configuration a few times a year—not just fo
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by eitland 1y ago
Great! As much as I love Kotlin and have a great deal of respect for JetBrains, I’ve always preferred the other Java IDEs over IntelliJ. The fact that choosing Kotlin—which I genuinely do prefer—effectively locks you into IntelliJ for the f

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