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by flukus 6y ago
Not all food fits into the delivery model, burgers will get soggy, toasted sandwiches will get will get cold, salad will be cooked by the warm ingredients, ice cream will melt. For the most part if a food is good delivered then there were a
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by flukus 6y ago
> Backups are still offsite, so if my place burns I'm just out on uptime There are plenty of exceptions, but I generally find uptime is given way too much consideration for the value it gives. Most companies up to the national level
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by flukus 6y ago
> Rules are inflexible Most people aren't this pedantic and implicitly interpret rules as breakable, that's why we have sayings like "rules are meant to be broken" and "the exception that proves the rule". G
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by flukus 6y ago
But many companies will be on it for a lot longer and this is version 3 of WinUI. The question is "what tech stack can we use to target all current versions of windows and isn't being deprecated anytime soon?", as windows 7 d
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by flukus 6y ago
> I'm pretty sure those don't exist and if they did they'd be very large and heavy I'm clueless on these things, but what order of magnitude for "heavy" are we talking about here? If we take a 1Kg microwave
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by flukus 6y ago
Tracking has a giant cost to society, the sole reason it exists is so we can be manipulated by advertisers into spending more than we otherwise would have.
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by flukus 6y ago
So many red flags in such a quick succession. The setup page ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/get-started/get... ) says you have to download Visual Studio, enable your device for development
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by flukus 6y ago
Lots of companies do, developing exclusively for Windows 10 makes this a non-starter though, they need to back port it to at least Windows 7.
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by flukus 6y ago
> but I feel like as a society we've swung so far away from institutional trust that now nothing good can actually emerge Why do you assume we ever had that trust? Corporations and Government have never had personal data on such a s
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by flukus 6y ago
How do we reconcile this with the known spread rate and lethality? If it was spreading around late December when lot's of people are traveling, seeing family and drinking over Christmas and New Years then where are the mass casualties?
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by flukus 6y ago
> you're making the same kind of application and using technology you're comfortable with To an extent yes, most apps (the ones that need a database anyway) are data oriented at their core, just a combination if input, storage
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by flukus 6y ago
Even without the privatization there's been a big push for full-stack generalists that wear half a dozen hats and experts in many niches seem to be getting phased out. It's like a corporate version of grandma thinking you can fix
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by flukus 6y ago
Lately it seems ubuntu annoys me with updates often enough that it's starting to feel like a rolling distribution anyway, "downgrading" to debian has been on my todo list for a while. > but Debian is really not the best di
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by flukus 6y ago
It makes sense as a default because it will be the correct choice 99% of the time. Even when no-SQL is the better option it tends to be a better option for only part of the application. Picking it as the default would make us wrong less oft
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by flukus 6y ago
Usually it means you're still coding, but entering the "code" into forms and wizards instead of text. After that inevitably fails there are usually text coding fallbacks that require 10 times more code than if you'd writ
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by flukus 6y ago
This can be solved with the Idaho Stop ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop ), although in they absence of common sense you'd probably need a "really stop" sign for dangerous corners.
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by flukus 6y ago
They're getting better with reader modes, I just which they could remember what pages were in reader mode and be less picky about when it's available. Some default syntax highlighting would be nice too.
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by flukus 6y ago
If you've thought about the entire workflow, all edge cases and the spec is 100% complete then you've written code, it's just a matter of whether humans or machines will compile it.
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by flukus 6y ago
This isn't about impersonation but your copyright over your own likeness that can't be used without consent. Take a game like FIFA or Madden, they have to negotiate with the players (or their unions) in order to create realistic d
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by flukus 6y ago
Aside from an interactive map being overkill, are you sure you weren't complicating things here too? It seems like you were expecting some sort of system integration, but the customer wanted to just email an excel spreadsheet when the
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by flukus 6y ago
> If the specs are fluid, all design confidence flies out the window and the resulting system is over-engineered to cover eventualities. IMO that achieves the worst of both worlds. If the specs are fluid you have to be able to iterate qu
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by flukus 6y ago
In house tools can also offer a lot more stability than OSS/commercial equivalents that will often require you to be on their upgrade treadmill. Very few companies will plan for this kind of maintenance so it's important the devel
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by flukus 6y ago
If a package doesn't provide a stable branch that will receive security updates then it's not mature enough to be used anyway. That's the sensible middle ground between bleeding edge and security, unfortunately most packages&
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by flukus 7y ago
Before the web was in every house we had professional media often pushing crackpot theories and news agents had a whole section of monthly crackpot magazines, one of mine had them right next to the comic section to get picked up by impressi
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by flukus 7y ago
I was thinking more about the time cost. Disk is cheap but slow compared to memory.
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by flukus 7y ago
> Is there reason to think that people in the past were more selfless and less economically motivated? They were certainly less consumerist and didn't have the constant onslaught of advertising telling them to buy shiny new things.
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by flukus 7y ago
If you like this idea checkout suckless software ( https://suckless.org/ ). I've finally had the free time lately to start tweaking their "recipes".
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by flukus 7y ago
Cancer is not an elective surgery and gets treated with urgency. Across the Tasman Sea with a very similar system my father had bowel cancer removed the day after diagnosis in the public system and spent most of the recovery in no state to
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by flukus 7y ago
The problem is that when there is availability fake meat can't compete on price, even with high local meat prices (mostly due to drought) real meat is still a much cheaper option. In my area 500g of ground beef is $6-7, up from $4 a ye
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by flukus 7y ago
Surely there's a CPU/disk trade off at some point. Static pages are much larger (less likely in memory) and would cause disk reads much sooner than the same files being generated dynamically. Of course wordpress isn't known f

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