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by flukus 6y ago
> I really think people need to think long and hard before they take a side on opening the Pandora's box. The box was opened 40 years ago at least, as a fetus I was screened due to a down syndrome older sister. > This is far from
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by flukus 6y ago
> Do people really use OSM for POI data on any meaningful scale? I've tried but IME this is where OSM isn't great and I find myself using google maps. I hope it improves but I wonder if this is the sort of thing that goes to th
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by flukus 6y ago
It's not "this is the way it's done", it's "this is how it should be done". Shipping information is much like the rest of the order information, you want a de-normalized price on the order and each line it
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by flukus 6y ago
I think betting markets past the night of the election reflect it even better. Trump bottomed out at 8c but grew again to 15c as the result was becoming ever more obvious and indisputable: https://www.predictit.org/markets&#
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by flukus 6y ago
Better yet, pick 0 and 8GB is fine.
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by flukus 6y ago
> There is no doubt in my mind that decriminalization will make these types of drugs easier to obtain. I think you're vastly under estimating how easy they are to obtain now. You're probably only a few degrees away and know som
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by flukus 6y ago
> Immigration to a new country is a whole lot more onerous than just moving to a different state. Not within the EU. It's not quite as easy as moving between US states but it's not far off.
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by flukus 6y ago
With android the tracking is baked into the OS, I'd worry about that before worrying about apps with less permissions.
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by flukus 6y ago
> I like checked exceptions. Yes, sometimes (especially in the oldest APIs when they were still figuring this stuff out), they were overused but mostly I think they encourage developers to really think about what happens in the failure c
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by flukus 6y ago
Another one I've been partial too lately is recutils ( https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ ), it's similar to sqlite but has the benefits of being minimalist and plain text. Generally I prefer actual co
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by flukus 6y ago
Then there would be a thousand timezones and no one would agree what normal business hours are.
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by flukus 6y ago
"European" style cities could give you the best of both. Where I'm living in Melbourne the area is mostly 2-4 story apartment buildings with common garden areas that get little to no love. If you wanted to do some garden main
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by flukus 6y ago
Various beach side towns down the east coast of Australia, they built with the kind of density I'm after mostly for the holiday rental market. Something like that without the beach side premium prices would be great.
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by flukus 6y ago
This is it for me. I get culture shock every year visiting family in suburbia where walking down to the shop to pick up milk is an hour long affair. When the reverse happens there's a lot of whinging from the kids having to walk instea
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by flukus 6y ago
Not sure about purchase but you can build them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornsdale_Power_Reserve Not only was it quick and cheap to build but it turns a good profit.
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by flukus 6y ago
Punishing slow complicated sites and sites with annoying newsletter or cookie notifications would be nice too. Promote simple, fast readable sites with no dark patterns. There's plenty of room for improvement in search. DDG is already
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by flukus 6y ago
I use zz, it's similarly rare and compliments ZZ (save and quit) well.
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by flukus 6y ago
Vim is just one piece of the puzzle, it's the editor in the IDE that is unix. Tools like VSCode and IDE's take over too many responsibilities and usually do an inferior job. VSCode will do the window management for instance, openi
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by flukus 6y ago
Now that I think about it, this might actually explain some bugs I've seen when copying multiple files. Copying one file seems to work but then copying a second the progress sits at 0%, it's probably waiting for the first transfer
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by flukus 6y ago
> All of your endpoints must now return an html snippet, which is specific to the design of the page. So you have a lot of page specific endpoints. This is ok, adding an endpoint to spit out html is super simple, it's just printf st
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by flukus 6y ago
Which distro/desktop? My standard ubuntu 18.04 with gnome and mounted through the file manager doesn't do this and copying to a slow USB drive is as glacial as it should be, but copying between internal drives is instant and hidde
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by flukus 6y ago
You would have to spray the surface every day, plants need watering much less, close to never if they're native to the region.
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by flukus 6y ago
Wireless frequencies are a limited resources and bandwidth will always be metered, more so if lazy devs ignore efficiency.
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by flukus 6y ago
> Personally I wouldn't run potentially expensive commands like building the project My above example wasn't running the command, just defining it to be run manually. The .env becomes a dumping ground for all sorts of project s
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by flukus 6y ago
I've got a hand rolled direnv that's quite simple: function lenv { path=$PWD while [[ ! -f "$path/.env" && "$path" != '/' ]]; do path=$(dirname "$path")
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by flukus 6y ago
Some of the "toy" pi laptops like the CrowPi2 ( https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elecrow/crowpi2-steam-e... ) are getting really close to being usable as a daily driver for me. I'd love something
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by flukus 6y ago
Debian will probably require someone making dotnetcorium that removes the telemetry.
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by flukus 6y ago
> Anyone else find the constant badgering of dings and vibrations Aside from the obvious issues with the annoying by default clients this is an unfortunate regression in desktop/mobile environments, they offer very little in the way
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by flukus 6y ago
That's where email/mailing lists shine.
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by flukus 6y ago
Surely this will be illegal in Europe thanks to the GDPR? At the same time it demonstrates why laws like the GDPR are needed.

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