iakov

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by iakov 3y ago
This is a very bold claim. Do you have reliable sources to back it?
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by iakov 3y ago
Where do you live where the government does not have your basic information - name & date of birth? You're being unreasonably paranoid IMO.
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by iakov 3y ago
A government API / website to do the verification can work similar to OpenID - the end application doesn't know any PII, receiving a JWT with some basic info (name, age email) instead. Just something on top of my head, I'm su
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by iakov 3y ago
I guess the market isn't there because most of the devices kinda suck. They are bulky and ugly, glasses compatibility is not 100%, some people still get vertigo. Those devices are not attractive to the buyers at all IMO. I'm kinda
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by iakov 3y ago
I've paid with my card though. It's possible to refund those, and PayPal. It's a very sudden move on the Mullvad part that impacts a lot of their customers. If the torrent speed drops down as much as I think it will I won&#x2
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by iakov 3y ago
I agree with you! The new logo looks outright predatory. I liked the old one more.
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by iakov 3y ago
It's still quite bizzare to me. The theme park employees are working for the employer too, just like the waiters and barmen working for the establishment. Going out for drinks with friends or for a dinner date is an experience, how co
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by iakov 3y ago
Are you comparing dining at a restaurant to grocery shopping? The tips are an american issue as far as I can tell. The rest of the world has no mandatory tips and manages just fine.
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by iakov 3y ago
Why is this downvoted? Telegram is IMO the best alternative to WhatsApp. It has a much better UX than Signal, more desirable features, not to mention more users and channels. There is an on-demand E2E encryption for those who want it. Pavel
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by iakov 3y ago
This looks kinda cool, but feels half-baked. The demo components on the main page don't work well in Safari - the color picker has troubles with detecting mouse coordinates, and the slider does not work at all. Not sure what the "
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by iakov 3y ago
Hard disagree. Answers to real life problems from real human beings will be much more valuable in the age of generative “ai”. No hallucinations, no dubious sources, no bullshit. Just humans helping other humans. I am looking forward to the
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by iakov 3y ago
If this convention can be used in React, what is the "no-framework framework"? What's the point? React is not "just one extra param". One thing it does and your "no-framework framework" does not is figurin
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by iakov 3y ago
This is not serious, right? It's a no-framework framework (what?) to build purely-functional UIs using pure-ish (what?) components. The "why" section doesn't answer the question of "why" though - it briefly men
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by iakov 3y ago
Um, what? User switching in Windows 10 works exactly like it worked in 7, where it worked exactly like it worked in XP. Start -> Log Out -> Select another user and log in. Am I misremembering?
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by iakov 3y ago
Does Privacy Policy even matter? It feels like those walls of texts are a kind of "privacy theater" to show users that the company has their shit together. I'm wondering how many Privacy Policies are read by at least on emplo
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by iakov 3y ago
How do the devices negotiate who gives the charge and who gets charged? I’ve never tried it - I imagined it wont work at all!
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by iakov 3y ago
A have a 2016 Mazda3. The infotainment is useless, so I just leave it on the home page usually. I've ordered a CarPlay retrofit that uses the stock screen, wondering if the enabling/disabling behaviour will be the same it CarPlay.
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by iakov 3y ago
The only saving grace of those is the ease of cleaning spills. Otherwise I completely agree with you and GP - how annoying it is that every physical button is now a clunky touch surface!
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by iakov 4y ago
It's different because of it's a aprils fools joke I guess? Feels off to me - the password-protected playbooks, the empty git repo, and the timing is suspicious. If so, it's a weird prank. Where's the punchline?
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by iakov 4y ago
Do they really change though? The car example from the article feels stale, yet every single new car looks exactly like the cars on the picture. The stupid instagram face has been a thing since before covid. The movie posters go back to 200
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by iakov 4y ago
"You are wrong. I don't have time to explain how exactly you are wrong, but you are wrong. Everybody who reads this know - he is wrong! Wroooong!" I am not denying climate change. I look out of my window on Christmas and see
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by iakov 4y ago
That is nasty, but does not sound like a very bad behaviour. Annoying - yes, tricking user into doing something they had no intention to do - hardly.
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by iakov 4y ago
I use spotify daily to listen to my playlists and find new music regularly. I have not noticed any dark patterns, apart from search on desktop being weird sometimes. What are they?
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by iakov 4y ago
Don't even get me started on the "Upload" dialog that can't remember that I want it to show dates and sort by them. It resets every time to the worst possible view - list, sorted alphabetically. So annoying. All other de
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by iakov 4y ago
The FUD is spread by climate activists so often that nobody takes them seriously anymore. Look, this [0] is the latest example - I've heard about it from my friends. They were mocking the poster child of climate change activists and he
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by iakov 4y ago
I think you are right. Many people in tech, and especially americans, sneer at the thought of regulation, but I don't see any other way to un-fuck the most popular personal computer OS in the market. If not for GDPR, my email and phone
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by iakov 4y ago
Why? Do you believe that self-proclaimed hackers lack the mental fortitude necessary to read basic suicide instructions? It's not even "buy this and this off Amazon and build an exit bag", it's literally "there&#x27
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by iakov 4y ago
But how do you know if it's true information? ChatGPT has been shown time and time to mix up facts, censor information, and make shit up. It's not an "AI", it's a glorified autocomplete box. I struggle to see how it
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by iakov 4y ago
It feels like a myth to me as well. We, tech nerds, value "optimized" solutions, "beautiful" code. We buy top-notch hardware, remove bloatware, because we really care about our tools and craft. 90% of the users use shitt
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by iakov 4y ago
Interesting. I've switched from Win10 to Mac for work last summer and it's been great so far. IMO Finder and Explorer are both garbage with different colored glitter mixed in, but general experience of working on MacOs is so much

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