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by flavor8 6y ago
Not commenting on the content specifically, but that scrolling table of contents is horrific. Aside from the useless animation, it's impossible to click on items at the bottom of the list.
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by flavor8 6y ago
> the Pixel line of phones isn't known for having long lasting battery Anecdote: I still have a 2XL and it can get me through 24 hours. It's gotten a _little_ worse recently which I attribute to hardware age. The camera is fan
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by flavor8 6y ago
> Also requiring a .edu email is a good start. Not really, unless the intent is to discriminate against immigrants to the US / people outside the US / people who went straight into a career from high school.
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by flavor8 6y ago
To truly compete with Amazon, they need convenience. Buying packages from mom&pop retailers to ship can yield anywhere from 1 day to 3 week delivery times. Aside from a strong anti-Amazon conviction, where's the motivation for cons
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by flavor8 6y ago
They need to solve shipping. Partner with Uber (or hey, Waymo) to pick up and drop off packages from shops to consumers. An alternate model would be to make search good enough let consumers find stores within a radius of their current locat
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by flavor8 6y ago
We use flyway to create a template. Then each test that mutates the DB automatically invokes a cleanup routine which recreates the test DB from the template. You get into hot water around the connection pooling, but it's much, much fas
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by flavor8 6y ago
I mean I get it. I don't think the defaults are right though. It could be smarter - automatic purge 7 days after user has used new version, or something along those lines. Keeping 3 versions just in case doesn't sound like anybody
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by flavor8 6y ago
> Even if you are an experienced Linux user, you fall into that negative sentiment and even if an issue is small, it is a deal-breaker for you. I don't think that's fair. Apt/deb is solid, battle tested, and works. Introd
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by flavor8 6y ago
I haven't been impressed with snap as a user. The jetbrains stuff keeps several versions around by default, which eats disk space. I'm sure there's a way to change that, but I haven't cared enough to dig. The other day I
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by flavor8 6y ago
Interesting interview; thank you for doing it. Here's a few questions. You say that for end users, ALSA just works, and you tend to encourage it for newbies. What are the tradeoffs? What kind of latency penalty am I taking by using ALS
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by flavor8 6y ago
This is great advice. > Your position is stronger than you think. A buyer will want your cooperation as a top priority. To emphasize this: as the sole developer, the buyer is going to want to retain you (at least for 6-12 months, dependi
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by flavor8 6y ago
I digitized my studio a few months ago and settled on Reaper (running on kubuntu 20.04). I'm pretty happy with it, though Linux support is "beta" and support is forum based (there's a couple bugs that I'm just livin
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by flavor8 6y ago
Yeah, one of the items was third party, one was Newegg. But I agree - you can't outcompete Amazon by trying to be Amazon. Sweetwater (who I mentioned upthread) are great because they do musical instruments (and related) and nothing els
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by flavor8 6y ago
I tried shopping Newegg recently (BC). Newegg's online customer service made Amazon's look positively erudite, and in addition Newegg's return policy is terrible by comparison. I still haven't received an item that I ord
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by flavor8 6y ago
Upgrading from 18.04 isn't supported until July, when 20.04.1 hits. The LTS->LTS upgrade path is handled more conservatively. If you're not on LTS, then you should upgrade every 6 months when the OS tells you a new distribution
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by flavor8 6y ago
> The only 'con' is the pushing of Snap packages. It looks like deb files only can be installed via the terminal. Another solution to this (aside from synaptic, command line, other clients) is to use Kubuntu (which has an apt b
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by flavor8 7y ago
I kickstarted some with some kombucha yeast that I had left over from a batch. I think it got the starter going faster, and it's been making good bread. I'm 15-20 generations in now.
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We're not going back to normal(technologyreview.com)
7 points by flavor8 7y ago|0 comments
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by flavor8 7y ago
The review system is flawed. https://www.businessinsider.com/why-airbnb-reviews-are-a-pro...
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by flavor8 7y ago
> They added a software feature in an iOS update that throttled the CPU in this condition to prevent a crash, at the expense of lower peak CPU performance. The user friendly approach would have been to pop up a warning message on next bo
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by flavor8 7y ago
Blokada seems to be very similar to DNS66, and is more actively maintained. Any reason to prefer DNS66?
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by flavor8 7y ago
Latency?
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by flavor8 7y ago
I mean making a distinction between mind/consciousness and body is one thing, and while I wouldn't, those of a religious bent might try to justify it. Making a distinction between brain and body is just sophomoric. The BBC unfortu
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by flavor8 7y ago
> Every day you stay at Google the more valuable you become. Ehhh, to a point. Straight out of college and then (e.g.) 10 or 15 years at the same company says a lot about a person.
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by flavor8 7y ago
I haven't used it, but isn't this what https://airtable.com/ is for?
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by flavor8 7y ago
That's exactly what I said in my initial comment.
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by flavor8 7y ago
OK great, that's pro bakers who are presumably selling what they're producing, and need 100% consistency. I make bread weekly, and it turns out great weekly (for our home consumption). I'm constantly experimenting with differ
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by flavor8 7y ago
That's a terrible article. Improvising is half of the fun of cooking. Once you learn some basic principles there's a lot of room for modification of what you're doing. Granted that baking is less forgiving than e.g. pan dishe
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by flavor8 7y ago
> I like positivism. Not disagreeing with your main point, but positivism doesn't mean what you think it does (you wanted "positivity" instead.) noun: positivism 1. a philosophical system that holds that every rationally j
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by flavor8 7y ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33133712 has a pretty good discussion of this question.

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