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by eloisant 10mo ago
It's all a matter of compromise. I can see the difference between 60Hz and 120Hz on phone screens, and I think it's worth the impact on battery life. I can see the difference in speed between VSCode and editors like Sublime or Zed
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by eloisant 10mo ago
The website is good information, and if it came from a NPO is would be great... But the US government has so much power (and responsibility) to protect the US consumers from the food industry. - Ban some of the ingredients like they did for
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by eloisant 10mo ago
The EU rules that X was asked to comply to were not about censorship. There are plenty of articles released at that time that explain why.
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by eloisant 10mo ago
That would be Jolla, a Finnish phone company that I think was founded by ex-Nokia employees.
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by eloisant 10mo ago
If you're only getting those kind of candidates, then your job offer isn't attractive enough.
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by eloisant 10mo ago
Runtime errors are much, much worse than compilation errors and that's why it's such a concern. There is a dev cycle of local dev, CI, deploy to staging, deploy to production. The later you catch an error, the most expensive it is
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by eloisant 10mo ago
Is there any static site generator where you specify the version you use, and the launcher will simply run the old binary that you want? Like most build systems work, for example when you set a "rust-version" in Cargo.toml and onl
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by eloisant 10mo ago
It's not about the amount, but the type of people who stay when they could move to a higher paying job. And the fact that it's impossible to poach people from companies offering a higher salary than you do. Unless you give them so
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by eloisant 10mo ago
Housing makes a huge difference, but there is also the cost of groceries, dining out, etc. Basically the housing price difference can mean buying a nice house close to your job vs renting a room in a share-apartment. Best of both worlds is
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by eloisant 10mo ago
The whole discussion is US centric. In France kids are still free to roam around, or stay alone at home at 10yo (sometimes younger). In Japan kids start commuting to school, sometimes taking the train alone, at 6.
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by eloisant 10mo ago
They're selected by the board. Meaning they select each other, because they're all on each other's board.
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by eloisant 10mo ago
Brave is just one of the dozen Chromium-based browsers. It's still Chromium.
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by eloisant 10mo ago
They got there first, then as a result, they have: - a big ecosystem of themes and plugins (especially for SEO) - an army of contractors who can set it up for cheap, and don't know anything else - users who know their way through the U
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by eloisant 10mo ago
I don't think that's the argument. The argument is that comms and marketing people don't know git, but now that they can use AI they will be able to use tools they couldn't use before. Basically, if they ask for a change
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by eloisant 11mo ago
Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikachurin
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by eloisant 11mo ago
Java was originally called Oak but its creator because he could see an oak from his office, but marketing people at Sun thought Java would be more catchy. Yes it's named after coffee beans, but it has no relation whatsoever to the lang
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by eloisant 11mo ago
Add $75 (the price of this ring) to the Pebble time and you're almost at the price of a Pixel Watch 4. And you can get a PW3 for cheaper.
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by eloisant 11mo ago
I know exactly how I feel: I'll never buy a disposable electronic device.
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by eloisant 11mo ago
Pixel Watch have "raise to talk" to trigger Gemini, so you don't need your other hand. Other watches detect gestures like pinching fingers on the hand wearing the watch.
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by eloisant 11mo ago
> After the end of its life, send your ring back to us for recycling. this is ridiculous...
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by eloisant 11mo ago
That went 90% down even before AI, Rails and the other frameworks, libraries, tooling have made a big difference compared to earlier years. The number of lines of code to be written is much, much lower than in the early 2000's.
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by eloisant 11mo ago
It's also good on massive codebases that include a lot of "good practices" examples. Let's say you want to add a new functionality, for example plug to the shared user service, that already exist in another service in th
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by eloisant 11mo ago
As you say, most users probably don't bother stopping/starting subscriptions. Besides, if they make it harder to cancel some users might not subscribe in the first place in fear of being locked in. They're probably making mor
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by eloisant 11mo ago
We just need to end all exclusives. Make it like music streaming, where all services have the same catalog so you can choose on price, features, etc.
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by eloisant 11mo ago
Because a dorm is not an apartment building, it's a place with communal spaces like bathrooms and showers so you have to share some intimacy with people living at the same floor as you. And many people are not comfortable doing so with
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by eloisant 11mo ago
Admin staff or teachers of the university are not entitled to assess that. That would mean the university hiring doctors, or at least paying a doctor to do the test.
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by eloisant 11mo ago
Apple decided to have a font as close as possible to print, at the cost of a more fuzzy render on the low DPI screens of the time. Microsoft decided to have a font adapted to computer screens, with characters that match the screen grid bett
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by eloisant 11mo ago
It's the same for some non-Japanese games who don't take the time to think it through, worse case scenario is when they use Chinese fonts. Because Japanese and Chinese characters are slightly different, but Unicode decided to unif
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by eloisant 11mo ago
Because there are more than 2000 characters in Japanese, making a font is a huge work.
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by eloisant 11mo ago
Oh my god, private equity firms are such life-sucking vampires. Buy a great company, suck as much cash as they can before discarding the empty carcass.

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