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by haspok 2y ago
Wrt licences, these days laptops have their Windows licence burnt in their BIOS (and this has been the case for some time now). Backups and sync are great, except if someone doesn't want to upload all their data to the cloud. There cou
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by haspok 2y ago
To be fair, it is quite typical for cutting edge hardware not working in Linux for the first few months. Kernel devs have to catch up, and depending on your distro this might take a while. Best is to wait until support matures, or go with l
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by haspok 2y ago
This is how Microsoft is fighting piracy: "So you want to use our software and not pay for it, huh? Fine, but in return we need your personal data and behaviour, and we will show you unwanted ads in the Start menu and other places. Dea
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by haspok 2y ago
I don't know, but Youtube seems to have a more solid algorithm. I'm typically not subscribed to any channel, yet the content I want to watch does find me reasonably well. Of course, heavily promoted material also, but I just click
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by haspok 3y ago
Did they ask for this donation? If not, they probably should have refused this at the start, instead of accepting it and then throwing away. But I don't think they did the wrong thing by throwing old magazines away - if this was the ca
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by haspok 3y ago
> There's very little reason to choose a DB other than postgres Sure, if you are a startup, or write your own code. But for most people the choice of database(s) is a given, and they are not in a position to challenge that. At the e
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by haspok 3y ago
One notable reason is being database-agnostic. Like ORM's, if you can generate SQL you can generate database-specific SQL as well. SQL is also quite verbose in places (JOINs are the most trivial example), and lack a decent amount of ab
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by haspok 3y ago
Or take Tarkovsky: both Stalker and Solaris are based on books, but only loosely. Stalker, for example, was a short sci-fi / horror story, if I remember correctly, and in the movie this is just a remote backstory, setting the scene to
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by haspok 3y ago
I think one of the problems with your CV could be that I can't really tell who you are and what kind of a job you are really looking for, unless I read the whole thing (and even then it's a wild guess!). Sadly, "software deve
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by haspok 3y ago
Wow, this is great news indeed! I never really understood how this was not regulated right from the start. But better late than never...
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by haspok 3y ago
The Swiss don't use those super saver tickets, or at least I don't think so: they either have GA or Halbtax to start with, and apps like Fairtiq mean that they get the best price for the route(s) they take automatically, as calcul
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by haspok 3y ago
Summer 2023 was a particularly bad time for SBB. Summer in general is the worst time of the year for traffic (both car and public transport) anyway.
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by haspok 3y ago
Would love to see something similar for Switzerland. This page (referred to in another thread): https://maps.vasile.ch/transit-sbb/ is NOT a live map, just an animation based on timetable data. There were a couple of i
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by haspok 3y ago
The members of the business committee who decided that to operate the 4 windows 2 buttons are enough should be sentenced to driving a Trabant in their remaining lives. What were they thinking?... Of course, it was a desperate cost saving me
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by haspok 3y ago
Even Thunderfoot was impressed: https://www.youtube.com/live/BLlctxJnxy8?si=4NOk13foG-cIPbQL...
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by haspok 3y ago
And what kind of security do AppImages offer you? You might find this shocking, but in many parts of the world "nice computers on fast internet" is kind of a given now. So for those, even if it is "gigabytes", it is wort
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by haspok 3y ago
The really shocking part of this is that people actually pay money for this experience. This reminds me of the adblocker wars: those who play smart and cheap are better off than those who play dumb and expensive. Shouldn't it be the ot
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by haspok 3y ago
Those "autonomous" vehicles have as much to do with real autonomy as today's "AI" has in common with real self-conscious intelligence. You can only fake it so long, and it is an entirely different ballgame. I rememb
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by haspok 3y ago
Please someone show this to the Tuxedo guys, as their supplier is the same (Clevo), but apparently it IS possible to get the Lenovo-style 6-button cursor arrangement in this form factor, and as a bonus, with separate Home/End/Ins&
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by haspok 3y ago
Also targeted at Java 22: https://openjdk.org/jeps/456 (Unnamed Variables & Patterns)
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Java JEP 461: Stream Gatherers(openjdk.org)
127 points by haspok 3y ago|169 comments
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by haspok 3y ago
Thank you, very insightful.
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by haspok 3y ago
> The radio aspects are straight forward. (...) People have had Iridium satphones from even in the last century Sorry, but this whole thing is about your regular mobile phone transmitting a signal to a satellite, which was NOT designed t
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by haspok 3y ago
And your regular cell tower is within a few miles of your mobile at most. A few hundred meters in most cases. The phone is transmitting a few watts tops. I am very skeptical of them promising anything other than very-very low bandwith data,
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by haspok 3y ago
First sentence: "What if I told you that it could takeS..." You might want to correct that. Now reading on :)
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by haspok 3y ago
In some European countries you can buy beer in McDonalds - I have personal experience with Portugal and Spain. Actually, in Spain you can even get gluten-free beer if you so desire! ( https://mcdonalds.es/productos/bebid
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by haspok 3y ago
I am a bit surprised because IKEA has its own delivery service. Are you cheaper or more convenient?
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by haspok 3y ago
> reducing their power to negociate higher wages "Negociate"? > Workers being wage dumped on by cheaper more desperate workforce... "Wage dump" - that word again. So this is how people pick up policital slogans and
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by haspok 3y ago
So whose fault would it be? Let me rephrase the question: who is picking strawberries from the fields in the UK now? I recommend everyone to watch the series called "Benefits Britain: Life on the Dole" (mostly available on YT). I
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by haspok 3y ago
Switzerland no longer accepts some DB (German Rail) trains crossing the border, they are forced to terminate early, and passengers have to change trains. Reason: DB delays are so frequent that if they did not do this the Swiss rail network

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