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by greatgib 1y ago
From my reading of the article, what is interesting is that the copilot accidentally messed with commands during the time that he fainted or his crisis but the autopilot compensated for that.
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by greatgib 1y ago
Something that annoys me a lot with recent versions of HA is that it does not play well anymore with yaml file configs. Your are mostly forced to configure things through the interface, that is ok but might be annoying and painful to do whe
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by greatgib 1y ago
Just to quote the article itself: Why did all these apps look so similar? Because of material design already lol
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by greatgib 1y ago
It's a lie in plain sight, because for most Google apps, including this one, a lot of background processing is not done by the app itself but by the Google play services app that is all powerful.
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by greatgib 1y ago
So scary that I don't know how billions of people in the world manage to have the right to use whatever software they want to access "all" the files in the file system of their computers (PC/mac) and that the civilisatio
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by greatgib 1y ago
I don't see how they can buy the good parts of a company, like it's customer base but not the liabilities. If the company has to go bankrupt because of that, so be it, but there is no way that you can magically make liabilities di
577.
by greatgib 1y ago
Sadly, HN top becomes more and more occupied with general news instead of content relevant to the hacker mind. I guess that people give like to mainstream news when they support the background topic instead of liking what is worth a read on
578.
by greatgib 1y ago
I'm wondering if it will not make the apps overall memory usage explode a little bit more by having a lot of objects bound to a single page with more empty space unused inside most pages for common cases.
579.
by greatgib 1y ago
As having been through consulting a little bit, I can confirm that most of the times you pay a very expensive price for inexperienced and incompetent consulting work most of the time. It is not malevolence but more a deficiency by design. F
580.
by greatgib 1y ago
But is it fair that a foreigner can buy the state and profit of rules different than the country own citizens? Let's push the concept further, if I'm a rich american citizen, that I leave the country and give up my nationality and
581.
by greatgib 1y ago
So, they got $200M and only then realized that: Yet as the company dug into the requirements—extreme-UV lithography, sub-10 nm process nodes, global supply-chain partnerships—it realized that building a modern fab is an order of magnitud
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by greatgib 1y ago
In my opinion, for computers, wireless mouse (and eventually keyboards) was one of the killer app that showed pushed for Bluetooth to be common in computers and laptops. "Not needing a dongle" was a huge added value compared to th
583.
by greatgib 1y ago
From what I understand, the problem is not really from scrapers that would "pound" the service by being thousands of requesting the same things multiple times, but that they are scraping the whole of Wikipedia including heavy cont
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by greatgib 1y ago
I don't think that inflation is at stake here but more probably greed and corporate inefficiency. Inflation should impact most fast foods or restaurant in a relative same way. But McDo used to be the cheapest option to eat, now it is o
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by greatgib 1y ago
Exactly, I happened to have long running apps, in the store, I didn't update them for some time but they were simple and working as designed, good for their job. Suddenly there was this weird obligation to declare a company or disclose
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by greatgib 1y ago
A tangential note, but after fighting for weeks with office365 and outlook to have basic features working for a small business, I would advise anyone sane of mind to avoid like hell using office365 or exchange for emails/calendar. On t
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by greatgib 2y ago
If maintainers/contributors are in Europe, in don't see how this takedown is legal as you have the right to circumvent such things to ensure interoperability...
588.
by greatgib 2y ago
There was a legal fight a decade ago in France to have the right to buy any laptop without Windows. Because Windows is like "force sold" in combination with buying the hardware, where the hardware is a general purpose computer and
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by greatgib 2y ago
These persons could be doing so many things to really make America great and improve the world, but no, they will use their government funding to build SS / Stasi level shit...
590.
by greatgib 2y ago
What is it? Can someone provide any context about that? Even the main page of the 9front website just provide an image but no context...
591.
by greatgib 2y ago
Any one has an idea of what represent an "image token" for the pricing? Is it a block of an image from a given fixed size?
592.
by greatgib 2y ago
I have mixed feeling about this. On one side, it is good to have consumer friendly regulation like manufacturers to be forced to support right to repair. But on the opposite side, lots of bullshit requirements again like the energy labellin
593.
by greatgib 2y ago
If you want my personal opinion, it is too a niche for being a successful "startup" business. Like imagine if I add to your pitch "trips for people that like ... And to have a bottle of ketchup on lunch tables and that like h
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by greatgib 2y ago
Indeed, on the bad side it is a little large (like the biggest iphone I guess but can still dit in a jean pocket), a little heavy, battery life average, and not perfect, like with the expectable rough edges that makes it a developer/te
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by greatgib 2y ago
Terrible auto complete, thanks for the notification, I was able to correct still. So furiphone (fxl1) and hopefully nothing related to "iphone".
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by greatgib 2y ago
It is not that you have to "interact" with Google the problem, in the sense of interacting like downloading an app. You can use the Aurora store, but once you try to use the app, the app itself will redirect you to an oauth2 login
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by greatgib 2y ago
If you want a Linux phone that could be your daily driver, I would highly recommend the furiphone of furilabs ( https://furilabs.com/ ). I got one from the Fosdem and it is truly amazing! Contrary to previous things I tried,
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by greatgib 2y ago
The crazy thing is more that multiple versions of the same package could be installed as dependencies of dependencies... They were thinking to be the cool kids supporting multiple versions and that the old way to do packaging, like debian a
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by greatgib 2y ago
Here is what I do for credit card, I guess you can do the same for tap to pay with the same efficiency. When the call the waiter to ask for the bill, or when you ask directly when he comes to take out your dishes or ask for dessert, just sa
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by greatgib 2y ago
To be noted, a lot of PR agency discreetly push advertisement for companies as contributors to infomercial articles on their domain.

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