folkrav

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by folkrav 8y ago
I really don't understand most of his arguments against switching to Linux. > I’ll keep this short: I still depend on Lightroom, writing tools (Notion, Evernote prior), a solid default desktop environment, first-party hardware suppo
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by folkrav 8y ago
> I know a lot of people dislike PHP and WordPress, but I haven't found _anything_ that comes close to it in terms of sheer extensibility and plugin ecosystem. There's a plugin for pretty much anything you might want to do with
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by folkrav 8y ago
People who are aware of how pervasive tracking is wouldn't mind much indeed. The average user would be _infuriated_ of having to login every time they open a tab.
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by folkrav 8y ago
It's a matter of storing it in plaintext or not, which any sane developer knows not to. The codebase will always have access to your plaintext password at one point or another, whether it's on signup before they hash and store it,
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by folkrav 8y ago
Duolingo by itself isn't really enough to really learn a language either. Thanks to Duolingo, I can definitely say "the woman eats the apple" in Italian, but I don't understand the language's grammar and its verb co
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by folkrav 8y ago
I've had my license for 12+ years now, but as soon as I moved into the city, I sold my car. Even with a child I get by just fine with carsharing services, Uber/taxis and public transit.
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by folkrav 8y ago
This might be the programmer in question. Pretty impressive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI
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by folkrav 8y ago
Shit software architecture/design is nothing new. There always was shit code, and always will be. The sky is blue.
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by folkrav 8y ago
Pretty much in a similar case to yours. I started playing with Photoshop with a 5.0 license my dad bought back around 1998, and used that same version for years. I pretty much still use the same features I did back then, and to me all those
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by folkrav 8y ago
There seems to have been some research around the "nocebo" effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo#References
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by folkrav 8y ago
Same thing for Composer's `vendor/` directory with PHP, or Python's virtualenv folder, depending on the way the project is setup.
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by folkrav 8y ago
Public employees over here in Quebec are unionized to hell and back, and it often ends up with protecting incompetent workers. I had a teacher back in college that was teaching extremely outdated material, didn't know anything about wh
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by folkrav 8y ago
I personally use Chromecasts, but HTPCs are still a thing, and for multiple reasons : - gaming (console "alternative", emulators, etc) - streaming a personal library of media files (e.g. through Plex) - it's way more versatil
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by folkrav 8y ago
If that's not a definition of "niche", I don't know what is.
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by folkrav 8y ago
Those "cannabis activists" are most likely a (very vocal) minority... I don't know of anyone that _seriously_ hypes pot as a safe thing, and we have a lot of smokers here in Quebec (last official numbers were ~15% in 2015, pr
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by folkrav 8y ago
VBScript is a subset of VBA IIRC
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by folkrav 8y ago
> the problem will eventually be solved Do you really think people will ever really stop smoking? I picked up smoking as a young adult cause parties and peers. My father is an MD, I fully knew the risks associated with smoking. Reducing
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by folkrav 8y ago
> do something useful Well that's bad faith if I've ever seen it. Not every industry out there has to be "useful", some are there for convenience. One could also argue that allowing people to switch from vaping to smo
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by folkrav 8y ago
> legitimate business connections which I can use to further myself professionally Legitimately curious, how do you use these connections to further your career? Other than coworkers and people interested in hiring me and/or recruit
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by folkrav 8y ago
Dual SIM could be big in some countries.
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by folkrav 8y ago
Still they do, and nobody goes after them. Treating it as a medical issue would be one way to regulate the market, then. Outright banning them but keeping cigarettes is just a plain double standards.
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by folkrav 8y ago
The amount of misinformation in this thread is worrying. Seems like your American pharmaceutical lobbies, or whoever gains in destroying the vaping industry, have succeeded in spreading the idea that vaping is somehow more damaging than smo
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by folkrav 8y ago
> The FDA can make progress on this by policies that reduce kids picking up vaping and using proven methods to stop them from picking up smoking. Thing is, these "proven methods" (gums/patches) are extremely ineffective -
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by folkrav 8y ago
Then regulate the vaping industry as well. Outright banning it because of current issues is damn short-sighted.
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https://www.gov.uk/government/news/phe-publishes-independent...
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by folkrav 8y ago
Outright banning cigarettes won't and never happened anywhere, as far as I know. I don't see why vaping should be treated differently, if you think they're similar industries (which I agree on). Regulate the market like cigar
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> Stop selling poison. Then what's the alternative for smokers that want to stop, then? These highly ineffective smoking cessation patches/gums they already had? If you want to be anywhere near consistent, cigarettes should be
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by folkrav 8y ago
Still waiting on that data, then. Super bummed about the industry going down if that happens, as it's what made it possible for me to stop smoking cigarettes. Up here in Canada, online vape stores are behind age walls, are required to
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by folkrav 8y ago
Risk reduction vs. risk elimination. Swapping from one to another means reducing risk by a huge margin, according to the huge majority of (short to mid-term) data we have for now.
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by folkrav 8y ago
Countless smokers stopped using cigarettes because of vaping. Vaping is not about eliminating risk but risk reduction. Long-term effect research is lacking by simple lack of long-term data due to how new the market is, but the overwhelming

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