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by emsy 5y ago
I hate when someone says „BNW is actually a better prediction“ (you also never hear it the other way around). Both works are pretty much orthogonal e.g. we can have the NSA spying on citizens AND the hedonistic complacency from BNW simultan
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by emsy 5y ago
On one hand I agree with the sentiment that involving telcos is a terrible idea, on the other hand I really dislike iMessage and the way it shuts people out if they aren’t on an iPhone so I‘d be pretty happy if this would „kill“ iMessage (d
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by emsy 5y ago
SMB3 will outshine a lot of games released today and I think that’s a good thing. Great game design is somewhat timeless.
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by emsy 5y ago
I don't want to search through all threads so I'm going to make a separate thread where everyone can add their ONE favorite episode which you think are great interviews. I start with my favorite Chuck Palahniuk on Joe Rogan (which
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by emsy 5y ago
I mean I get it. I got to know somewhere that something I’m interested in buying exists. However, there has to be a better system then tracking my every move online and then force-feeding me ads about crappy products that I don’t like or wo
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by emsy 5y ago
Something like this should be available from Apple. But I guess they only offer privacy and security if it doesn’t require transparency. Well as long as it makes for good marketing.
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by emsy 5y ago
I completely agree. It always baffles me how something so simple (yes, simple!) as version control can end up as the abomination that is git. After controlling for popularity, you don’t see nearly as much posts explaining subversion in det
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by emsy 5y ago
Man I wish I could find that post where Apple told developers not to complain about app rejections on social media. When in reality it’s often the only way for developers to successfully appeal. Anyway, I hate the App Store (and by extens
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by emsy 5y ago
Apples and oranges.
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by emsy 5y ago
> the Atmos mix of Abbey Road, which was produced for its 50th anniversary in 2019 is “a much better-functioning Atmos mix because it’s much closer to the stereo mix, sonically.” Having listened to the mix after a recommendation on HN I
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by emsy 5y ago
> This is every bit as pretentious as it seems, and literally requires a high price attached to it for it's target market... I think you’re completely right and it‘s funny reading the justifications for the price and the hype. I mea
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by emsy 5y ago
Another German here, I agree. The regulatory hurdles are insane, the sentiment among the population is anti-business and I see the chance that the Green Party will be in the Next government as another negative point for businesses.
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by emsy 5y ago
Overwriting flash with 0s. To be fair I think the iPhone should grant you that option (MacOs does). But to suggesting that leaving an encrypted block of data on the device is on the same level as leaving unencrypted blocks of data lying aro
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by emsy 5y ago
Not in the mark-and-sweep variant but certainly as ref-counting. And not only once!
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by emsy 5y ago
I doubt Apple cares about people that need to "work" on their machine anymore. Those people will buy PCs because a lot of industrial software is still Windows only and Apple shows no interest in changing that. Modern Apple product
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by emsy 5y ago
I didn’t have a SNES growing up, so the ports on the GBA were godsend for me. Other than that, developers got crazy creative with the hardware, despite its low power. Aggressive Inline had pseudo 3D and licensed soundtrack, there were cartr
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by emsy 5y ago
These days it seems Apple is begging to be regulated. So much stuff where they either let through scams or boot off legitimate apps on a whim. If anyone followed the news in the EU, Vestager is openly discussing to do so. They should rather
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by emsy 5y ago
I know exactly why you’re being downvoted: most developers identify as the average experienced developer and can’t handle the fact that they can be outperformed by an extraordinary rookie (although such people usually have a lot of experie
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by emsy 5y ago
They have tons of audio/text content with translations, but it's really hard to find. I think the UI is the worst part of Lingq.
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by emsy 5y ago
Acer not giving this customer a refund probably cost them more money than the refund would‘ve. Such pettiness rarely pays off.
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by emsy 5y ago
We already do this with libraries and frameworks in a more primitive way. The hard work is actually done by a hand full of programmers, everyone else is sticking pipes together. I don't think that's a bad thing per se, but in my e
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by emsy 5y ago
I'm learning Japanese. Of course you have to learn the grammar at some point, but you're not going to analyze a sentence were "hodo" and the negative form are used for a comparison. The best way for this pattern to stick
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by emsy 5y ago
What do you mean by limited use case?
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by emsy 5y ago
I think the issue is that Duolingo just isn’t good for learning a language at all, just for learning vocabulary. For example, we learned the English conditionals in school. Never once in my life have I actively thought about how and which c
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by emsy 5y ago
The founder (Steve Kauffmann) is a polyglot with a youtube channel where he talks about effective strategies for learning languages, sometimes even in other languages. I can’t recommend it enough.
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by emsy 5y ago
You don’t need to. Read up on the grammar if you encounter an odd construct or as a refresher, but remembering grammar rules is useless (And I say this as someone who can cite most of the grammar rules for English and German). It’s better t
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by emsy 5y ago
I’ve tried Duolingo, Babbel, Rosetta Stone, Lingq and some others I can’t even remember the name of. First of all, you won’t learn a language using only an app. And you will need a lot of intrinsic motivation and grit which an app can’t hel
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by emsy 5y ago
Thanks for the tip! Ads in Duolingo have become so obnoxious I stopped using it (I have better language apps that I pay for so the plus plan doesn’t make sense for me). This is probably the biggest risk for this IPO. You spend almost as muc
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by emsy 5y ago
As someone who has learned and is learning multiple languages this rings true to me. Duolingo is very good for getting started and acquiring the basic vocabulary. but it plateaus rapidly. After that you don’t get much from it and you should
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by emsy 5y ago
>I never met anyone who used Wickr though. I used Wickr to order Weed once. (Illegal where I live)

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