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by fransje26 6mo ago
Just use AI to explain the code to you. /s
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by fransje26 6mo ago
Ah yes.. The country of plofkip disappearing into water and steam as you cook it, of south-american chicken re-labeled as a dutch product, and the country of absolutely tasteless, hard-as-rock tomatoes as a great export product. A quick cyc
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by fransje26 6mo ago
Did you know: By replacing your morning coffee with herbal tea, you can remove up to 87% of the little joy you still have left in your life. /s Keep the coffee buddy.
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by fransje26 6mo ago
> I also buy from Italians at a farmers market here in Switzerland rotten anchovies packed in salt and ground peppercorns. Does this condiment have a specific name?
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by fransje26 6mo ago
Hope dies last, as they say. Then again, after many, many years of claims that the following year would be the year of the Linux Desktop, there seems to be more and more of a push into that direction. Or at least into a significant increase
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by fransje26 6mo ago
I laughed.
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by fransje26 7mo ago
Watch and learn.
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by fransje26 7mo ago
> Iran has 90,000,000 people. [..] More than 2x Germany. TIL: Germany has less than 45m inhabitants. Less than Spain! /s
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by fransje26 7mo ago
Where "very rarely" should be read as "None". And even if such an insignificant technicality could pop up from time to time, there is no actual debate on what is "better", when the counterpoint is literally thi
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by fransje26 7mo ago
There is nothing complicated about installing an adblocker. If you are able to install a browser on your machine, or an app on your phone, you can use an adblocker. Step 1: Download Firefox. Step 2: Got to the official Firefox add-on page,
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by fransje26 7mo ago
If I understood your point correctly, I believe that Meld can do that. And then you get a windows as [1]. You can configure git to choose which version goes where. Something like: [mergetool "meld"]
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by fransje26 7mo ago
In this day and age, who on HN browses the web without an ad-blocker??
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by fransje26 7mo ago
I would argue that double m_D{}; [...] if (m_D == 0) somethingNeedsInstantiation(); can avoid having to carry around, set and check some extra m_HasValueBeenSet booleans. Of course, it might not be something you want to overlo
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by fransje26 7mo ago
Regarding organized religion, a quote attributed to Diderot [0] goes as follows: Le genere humain ne sera heureux et libre que quand on aura étranglé le dernier roi avec les boyaux du dernier prêtre. Or, in plain English: Man
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by fransje26 8mo ago
Heck, if the pay is reasonable, count me in!
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by fransje26 8mo ago
No worries, the team Literal is alive and well on HN..
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by fransje26 8mo ago
Man, I only understood half of what you were describing, but it sounds fascinating. I you happen to find the time to do a write-up or share your workflow, I would love to read more about it.
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by fransje26 8mo ago
As I explained elsewhere in this post, I got to this installer page by clicking on "Check device compatibility" on the https://e.foundation/e-os/ page. So I was actually expecting a device listing page, not a
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by fransje26 8mo ago
The fun part is that I got to this installer page by clicking on "Check device compatibility" on the https://e.foundation/e-os/ page.. So I was actually expecting a device page, not a WebUSB program..
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by fransje26 8mo ago
The irony of advertising a privacy-enabled de-googled system, and then telling me that my Firefox browser is not support, and that I should use Edge, Opera or Chrome instead.... Browsing: https://e.foundation/installer/
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by fransje26 8mo ago
The irony of this is that when using Firefox to browse to /e/OS url to check for compatible devices: https://e.foundation/installer/ I get a pop-up telling me that my browser is not compatible, and I should u
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by fransje26 8mo ago
Just allow me to doubt that one (1) programmer is all AMD would need to close up the software gap to NVIDIA...
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by fransje26 8mo ago
Just out of curiosity (not knowing anything about the complexity of adding new devices) what makes the support of a Xiaomi pad 5 and pad 6 possible, while there is not support for the pad 7 and 8? Are these devices so different that none of
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by fransje26 8mo ago
It can rub a reader the wrong way because it is written in a sarcastic tone to self-reflect on things the author did wrong or didn't do. Every piece of "advice" and patronizing questioning, such as "You did that, right?
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by fransje26 8mo ago
> The proper safe answer to driving in snow is top quality snow tires, not chains. Chains is the worst possible idea. The chain laws are laws created by politicians who live in sunny Sacramento and have never seen snow and have no clue.
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by fransje26 8mo ago
That's a pointless comparison. 1) The Michelin is 120 euro tire, vs the 60 euro Barum 2) The test page says nothing about the test conditions in which the tires were tested. 3) The Michelin tire test explicitly states: The teste
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by fransje26 8mo ago
From what I've heard from people driving them, AWD is better than FWD going uphill, but a lot worse going downhill.
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by fransje26 8mo ago
> In contrast, my American business bank just sends unprompted e-mails sometimes asking if I would like to borrow a bunch of money. > American trust is based on rationality and intuition Just remind us where the 2008 subprime crisis
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by fransje26 8mo ago
Nice... /s I thought Carte Bleue no longer existed?
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by fransje26 8mo ago
Which is why bank to bank transfers are so easy in the US.

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