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by fuzzy2 8mo ago
Volvos are premium cars at a premium price point. Though the brand is now Chinese-owned, I would not group them together with the likes of BYD, MG, Leapmotor etc. They have no disruptive potential whatsoever from my perspective.
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by fuzzy2 8mo ago
What I've seen so far from Chinese car makers (BYD and MG, to be precise) is, to put it bluntly, the bare minimum. Build quality so-so, design is… unconventional and software is just bad. It drives, but only just. Maybe the more recent
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by fuzzy2 8mo ago
Microsoft probably has a problem with tech debt, yes. That is however not the problem. Instead, the product strategy is. And it was bad even before LLMs.
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by fuzzy2 8mo ago
Sure. Highly successful even, I would say. I can deliver to Microsoft and Google. Not sure though what the magic ingredient is. I've had the IP address for 7 years before I decided to use it for mail, after one quick mail to Cisco&#x27
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by fuzzy2 8mo ago
At least they respond quickly to such inquiries. I have given up on T-Online Mail. I refuse to follow ridiculous rules like these.
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by fuzzy2 9mo ago
fyi: DuckDuckGo has blocking now, too. I use it extensively to do away with all the clone sites of Stack Exchange, GitHub etc All without using an account, saved locally in the browser.
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by fuzzy2 9mo ago
Thank you for this article! It was way richer than others, with some actionable advice. I guess I'll finally try Claude Code, need to get a burner SIM first though… I cannot for the life of me understand why I can just sign up for the
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by fuzzy2 9mo ago
People must find it click-worthy, otherwise why would we get the amount of "we got him"-type of content we do?
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by fuzzy2 9mo ago
Yes, it is (relatively, [1]) trivial. However, even though it is the shell default (Finder, Windows Explorer, whatever Linux file manager), it is not the operating system default. If you call unlink or DeleteFile or use a utility that d
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by fuzzy2 9mo ago
Trash is a shell feature. Unless a program explicitly "moves to trash", deleting is final. Same for Word documents. So, no, there is no undo in general. There could be under certain circumstances for certain things.
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by fuzzy2 9mo ago
Doesn't matter though. Every single one of these "casual" users I know has a terribly outdated device with a broken battery that doesn't even charge anymore. And I agree: if it works, why replace it?
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by fuzzy2 9mo ago
I mean, at least on modern C#, it could be as simple as public class UserIdInvalidException(Exception innerException) : Exception("Invalid User ID", innerException); Even easier than most data objects you’d have to define
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by fuzzy2 9mo ago
Doing it like this (or preferably with a custom exception) translates the technical problem into a domain problem. Without doing this, callers can't properly handle it. FormatException or OverflowException could be thrown at multiple l
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by fuzzy2 9mo ago
The government or even courts are not involved with these blocks.
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by fuzzy2 9mo ago
At the station itself, on the other hand, you might as well play "delay bingo". Is it an earlier training running late that is now slowing down other trains? Is it yet another Stellwerksstörung? Or maybe it's urgent track rep
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by fuzzy2 10mo ago
Actually Chrome does everything. Not via command-line switches however, you need to use the DevTools protocol. For example using Playwright. You get PDFs and PNGs of any size and resolution (PPI). And I guess this is exactly what this servi
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by fuzzy2 10mo ago
No, I would certainly say it is. Checking the blog post linked in this thread, I find selecting a different version to be both hidden and also have (intentionally?) bad UX. That is exactly what a dark pattern is: making a surprising choice
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by fuzzy2 10mo ago
Yesyesyes this here. Icons need colors, the smaller the more. Otherwise, they might as well be gray blobs. Peripheral vision works with colors, but it doesn’t do finer details. rant: But in the end, user interfaces are mostly “dead” anyway.
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by fuzzy2 10mo ago
IIRC Azure DevOps was the “dead one”, all new development only takes place on GitHub. From my perspective, Azure Pipelines is largely the same as GitHub Actions. I abhor this concept of having abstract and opaque “tasks”.
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by fuzzy2 10mo ago
To all of these I can only say: in the hands of a domain-expert user, AI tools really shine. For example, artists can create incredible art, and so can AI artists. But me, I just can't do it. Whatever art I have generated will never ha
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by fuzzy2 10mo ago
Well "use it" is a bit of a stretch. I’m a bit of a device hoarder. It's one of my experimentation platforms for Linux stuff, currently running Fedora Kinoite (with Universal Blue). My daily driver (of sorts, don’t really nee
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by fuzzy2 10mo ago
And that’s about it, I’d say! I find that everything else is really, really bad. It creaks, it wobbles, it warps, and it did so from day 1. The fan is loud and kicks in quite early. Well maybe the X200 isn’t as bad, but the X220 certainly i
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by fuzzy2 11mo ago
Not a problem with data: URIs. But then, a report may not need fancy fonts if HTML is acceptable.
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by fuzzy2 11mo ago
Oh yeah, PDF. In a past project I created a monster solution: * Scriban to fill in templates (LaTeX) * Custom Angular SSR to reuse frontend components (charts etc) * Playwright to convert SSR output to PDF * LuaLaTeX to convert La
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by fuzzy2 11mo ago
We already did the slipping. Sony sued Quad9 to have them block The Pirate Bay. They only lost after a lengthy legal exchange. There's also voluntary censorship, so without any real due process, in some countries. Mostly at ISP level,
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by fuzzy2 11mo ago
What you describe is, at least from my perspective, entirely different from "full integration" (of AI in browsers). Instead, you want to replace computers entirely, with a voice assistant somewhat like Alexa, backed by SOTA STT, T
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by fuzzy2 11mo ago
I’m confused. I thought Expand and Contract was about mutating an existing schema, adding columns and tables, not creating a full replacement schema. But maybe I misunderstood? What’s in the article, I know as the Strangler Fig Pattern.
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by fuzzy2 11mo ago
They certainly do; however, we all know the game: Headlines only. Reading TFA? Meh
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by fuzzy2 11mo ago
No monopoly. Only for cable internet, which may be a possible argument. For landline internet (DSL), there's plenty of alternatives.
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by fuzzy2 11mo ago
It's important to keep in mind that Deutsche Telekom is basically doing the same, and has been… forever? I disagree with this move, but it is not without precedent.

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