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by fifticon 5y ago
It was probably Steve Jobs who did that.
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by fifticon 5y ago
This does not work in Denmark. Banks know officially whether your bank account is your "living wage" bank account or not. If you have a bank account that is not the 'wage deposit' account, banks have started charging a
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by fifticon 5y ago
On this off-topic, learning shortcuts for menus: I wish applications allowed you to enable 'show-me' menus. It would be a browsable GUI menu as you know them, but it would not RUN any commands! Only let you see the keyboard shortc
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by fifticon 5y ago
I agree you don't know me, but I use SMS in Europe. Precisely because I can use it on a phone with no bigbrother-FAANG installed.
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by fifticon 5y ago
I had this too. I found and fixed the setting in the registry. They seem to have arrived at an UI design that cannot correctly represent the possible states of the underlying "real" model. Their current GUI for managing installe
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by fifticon 5y ago
Maybe I misread him, but I read it as "it is better to have just the right, critical set of features", instead of "adding more bells and whistles will always makes it better!" I know from my own code, that whenever I int
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by fifticon 5y ago
With regards to the US, there was a probably a high risk rich people were involved, and they constitute one of those minorities that America has had some degree of success in protecting the rights of.
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by fifticon 5y ago
A long time ago I encountered a group of jokes based on a Poland stereotype (I haven't seen any in decades), where they would represent an 'unlucky' people. My favorite was: Q: "Who won the man-of-the-year award in Polan
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by fifticon 5y ago
No worry, I did not intend any criticism of 'dark matter'. I understand it as a placeholder concept for 'something we know amazingly little about, except that it appears to be in conflict with the naive version of our observ
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by fifticon 5y ago
I am aware I have almost no knowledge about dark matter in physics, but whenever it's mentioned, I can't help but think that our modern 'dark matter', is the 'ether of the 21st century'. That is, an interrim sc
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by fifticon 6y ago
I agree. Obviously too much NIMBY is possible, but in general I appreciate that local people get a say in, how their own local environment should or shouldn't be transformed. The alternative, where some nebulous central agency or autho
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by fifticon 6y ago
Dane here. A piece is missing. Interest rates may be 0%, but there is also an annual bank fee on the loans. As the interest rates have gone down, these fees have risen, and I believe the banks increasingly make their money on those. It&#x27
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by fifticon 6y ago
It is funny if this was not intended as funny. An instance of "now draw the rest of the owl" meme. I can see the need to teach a bit of the surroundings of C, but it ended up having very little to do with C.
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by fifticon 6y ago
Such systems help you get the structure of things up into YOUR head, so it becomes a mental ladder for YOU. The main shared network folder for my company is organised like this, it makes it easy to figure out "do we have X/anyth
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by fifticon 6y ago
To be honest, whenever I put up a new table in our house to get some fresh cleared working surface, within a matter of months, said table has accumulated a lot of clutter, spurring me to soon put up another table to get some cleared working
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by fifticon 6y ago
Men and women experience dating sites very differently. Women get annoyed/numbed being bombarded with low-effort pings. Men get annoyed with low response ratio. This causes a negative feedback loop. And dating sites earn more money by
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by fifticon 6y ago
I believe it is a variation of their embrace-extend strategy. If you can tempt linux applications into cross-calling services on a present window side, suddenly you have a justification to keep a windows license running where a linux licens
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by fifticon 6y ago
My company has mixed experiences with Teams. For us it works OK for video conferencing. But for shared control over a desktop, it 50-50 doesn't work (ie you can't INTERACT with the desktop..). In practice we then leave Teams and s
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by fifticon 6y ago
I know hackernews is not the place for this, but my mobile browser truncated studies to stud, and the headline about a successfully replicating social-science stud had me stumped for a moment.
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by fifticon 6y ago
But that is actually very useful problem solving. Identifying a problem in your hand as identical to a different problem you know solutions for, allows you to solve it effortlessly like one of those impossible smith puzzles with knots and
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by fifticon 6y ago
I misread, that cloudflare would champion the fight against the common cold. I was disappointed.
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by fifticon 6y ago
It saddens me, that one of Pythons strengths - its C extensions - appear as a weakness in this context. The culprit is, that we perceive python as 'what you can DO through python' - which is a very reasonable perspective. But
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by fifticon 6y ago
Apart from its strange provenance, I thought it is a beautiful typeface. Something ugly gave birth to something beautiful.
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by fifticon 6y ago
I seriously doubt we have seen the last of nuclear bombs. We just haven't re-triggered the case where someone somewhere concludes they'll solve their local problem.
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by fifticon 6y ago
My uninformed guess is that the unemployment is a contributing factor. Consider the act of huge workforce reductions just before a shareholder earnings call. The math shows huge revenue (built with the workforce you had until recently), off
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by fifticon 6y ago
To put this in perspective: even responded to, covid has the capacity to double the amount of deaths per year, compared to normal. That is rather higher than alcohol.
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by fifticon 7y ago
"Shirts without stripes" was meant to illustrate the point. The general query issue it represents cannot be solved by adding "plain".
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by fifticon 7y ago
After my rant day, here examples from my work day: I need to lay out two data-tables in a dialog, with 50% to each. I also need label headers above each section. The tables must grow and share available space, the labels stay put. In WPF, t
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by fifticon 7y ago
Amen bro. What I lament the most, is that navigation guidelines that seemed set in stone between 1987 and 2005, are starting to slip. Things like how to navigate with keyboard, or that typing in a list will incrementally-search to what you
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by fifticon 7y ago
Can you promise that it's good? When I try to read up on it, it just seems to be some 'android clone' intended for playing-card-stack-navigation? (IE UI's where you keep flipping back and forth between full-page layouts)

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