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by forinti 10mo ago
There's very good restaurant in my neighbourhood that I order from regularly. I tried ordering directly from them after hearing about how nasty the delivery app company was. I thought they would appreciate it: they wouldn't have t
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by forinti 10mo ago
I wish people would think long term. China should be friendlier with Taiwan and maybe in 100 years there could be some sort of Chinese Union. It reminds me of the Falklands. Argentina should have invested in wooing the Falklanders who weren
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by forinti 10mo ago
The Germans follow the rules too strictly and in South America we ignore the rules too lightly. I wonder if there's a country somewhere with the right balance.
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by forinti 10mo ago
A lot of what goes on in government, for good or bad, has nothing to do with who's in power.
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by forinti 10mo ago
I don't feel it's immoral, I just don't want to use it. I find it easier to write the code and not have to convince some AI to spit out a bunch of code that I'll then have to review anyway. Plus, I'm in a position w
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by forinti 10mo ago
Probably because their CEOs are focusing on their job and not fooling around.
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by forinti 10mo ago
I really like my GLi microrouter. https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-usb150/ I bought it for my vacations, so I wouldn't have to configure my kid's gadgets, but it is really useful as a wifi adaptor too
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by forinti 10mo ago
Frameworks abide by the Hollywood Principle and the Greyhound Principle: Don't call us, we'll call you. Leave the driving to us.
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by forinti 10mo ago
I find the concept of perfective/imperfective verbs quite easy to grasp. Remembering all the verb couples, that's what takes some effort.
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by forinti 10mo ago
I manage Postgresql and the thing I really love about it is that there's not much no manage. It just works. Even setting up streaming replication is really easy.
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by forinti 10mo ago
I love Postgresql simply because it never gives me any trouble. I've been running it for decades without trouble. OTOH, Oracle takes most of my time with endless issues, bugs, unexpected feature modifications, even on OCI!
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by forinti 10mo ago
I have both. The Kindle is a better device overall, but the I like Kobo's software better. What I found disappointing was when I had to swap out the screen on the Kobo and found that it was glued and that the battery was soldered. I ma
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by forinti 10mo ago
My Roomba has many years by now, and I've swapped a few parts. But I've bought parts from China, because my local dealer sells the parts at very high prices, if he ever has them in stock.
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by forinti 10mo ago
This time of year, cinemas show Christmas commercials, such as this one, but two or three in a row. It becomes funny how hard they try to move us. And in the end it's just for a supermarket.
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by forinti 10mo ago
Most European countries did awful things during their colonial years, some late into the XX century. Some still do shady things in Africa right now. And they all welcome money siphoned off peripheral countries by crooks. Nobody can claim mo
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by forinti 10mo ago
Let's entertain that idea. Suppose they did invade most of Europe. How would they keep everyone under control? You won't find that many people eager to participate in satellite regimes or new social experiments, like you had in po
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by forinti 10mo ago
I once decided to plot my salaries corrected for inflation and found out that they only really went up a couple of times in 30 years.
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by forinti 10mo ago
I don't understand the analogy. Picassos are not mass produced artifacts.
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by forinti 10mo ago
I understand the allure, but ultimately they just represent more plastic pollution (along with vinyl). Digital media is a great chance to not collect more plastic stuff.
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by forinti 10mo ago
I was checking out some multiplication algorithms for the 6502 and felt the need for a multi-bit shift. https://github.com/TobyLobster/multiply_test Which is, I guess, the reason the folks at Acorn decided to put a bar
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by forinti 10mo ago
Many times I've seen people state that they use Windows because they know it, but they can't do trivial things such as set up a printer or connect to WiFi. Most user's Windows ability is to look for apps on the desktop or Sta
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by forinti 10mo ago
I tried a handful of small distros in order to give new life to an old laptop with an AMD C-50 and 2GB of RAM. The most responsive one, unexpectedly, was Raspberry Pi OS.
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by forinti 10mo ago
The Acorn Archimedes had the whole OS on a 512KB ROM. That said, OSs came with a lot less stuff then.
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by forinti 10mo ago
You can still get brand new generic motherboards for old CPUs. I swapped out old ASUS MBs for an i3-540 and an Athlon II X4 with brand new motherboards. They are quite cheaper than getting a new kit, so I guess that's the market they c
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by forinti 11mo ago
At supermarkets and malls they usually have guards. Lots where people park overnight are gated.
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by forinti 11mo ago
Vera Fischer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Fischer_%28actress%29
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by forinti 11mo ago
This book got a bad reputation in Brazil because a famous actress (who supposedly isn't very bright) once said it was her favourite book. When I finally decided to give it a try, I found it to be a very interesting read. So, you can be
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by forinti 11mo ago
Unfortunately he has left our presence and is now probably getting to grips with the universe being mostly hacked together with Perl.
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by forinti 11mo ago
You have to consider that South America is the most dangerous continent. You can't just leave your car charging unattended in a public space. It has to be done at home or somewhere closed (which would make it expensive) or you would ha
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by forinti 11mo ago
They are everywhere. The only limit to adoption is that many people live in buildings where chargers can't easily be installed.

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