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by ilyt 3y ago
I think that describes aptly why no paradigm is fitting for everyone... > 1) The WM must remember where my windows were and put them back when reopened. Never mind how X apps took on this responsibility, under Wayland the app should not
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by ilyt 3y ago
> I honestly don't know how someone could do much of anything in a "single window" on a 27" iMac screen. (Anything beyond, say, watching a movie or the like.) Well, IDE windows have sub-components while still techncia
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by ilyt 3y ago
> I miss the days when chat apps had separate windows for each chat, and a buddy list you could pin to the side of the screen. It's weird that ability to see 2 chats at once is now both more arcane and complex than when the chat a
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by ilyt 3y ago
That's the thing I like about self-contained binaries (Of Go or any other sort). Just FROM scratch COPY this-or-that LABEL prometheus.port=9100 LABEL prometheus.path=/metrics EXPOSE 3001 EXPOSE 9100 an
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by ilyt 3y ago
Well there is one unarguable one, although with consequences. Instead of keeping some old machine with old dependencies because project is on life support and doing update to latest version of language/tools is unviable, you can just k
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by ilyt 3y ago
How you inform your backup system where to get backups ? How you set pg_hba and other configs? Few other "how?" and you're doing what you'd be doing on VM anyway
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by ilyt 3y ago
Well, if you're currently writing one unit test, and want to test that test...
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by ilyt 3y ago
> Apps and frameworks should work with the lowest-common denominator of SQL. Pointless limitation that will make your app slower and SQL code worse. > I get physically ill when I walk into yet another Rails shop to find that they have
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by ilyt 3y ago
Which is not how wordpress install is set up to work, because of both webhost and wordpress developers incompetence
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by ilyt 3y ago
> Backups will also be easier: a simple rsync call will do, no need to call the specific mysql command anymore (of course it's automated but that's one less thing that can fail, less moving parts) Technically, that's incor
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by ilyt 3y ago
Coz that's a lot of work to make and someone needs to pay for it. In world when people would rather throw another $5/mo on another single service doing the thing. I do think it might've been pretty popular if the experience w
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by ilyt 3y ago
> I'm also intrigued by how many very wealthy people are unwilling to pay $10/mo to stream music/video and/or share passwords, when I recall paying $20/CD at the record store in 1998 dollars. You can listen to ba
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by ilyt 3y ago
When Saas software dies, your files die. When Boxed software dies, you run it on your emulator and your files can be read. > Content constantly changed delivery mechanisms and people had to buy new media/devices every 5-10 years VHS
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by ilyt 3y ago
> But many people would just keep using the original version indefinitely. Paying $800 once is a lot less than paying $150/year until you die. It also lets you choose whether you want to pay more for the new features or save money b
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by ilyt 3y ago
Saas is a model that looks great for some cases but overall leads to shittification of many apps as the way it is often done, to make 100% sure nobody can just use a copy of a program they have, is by putting it in the cloud, which means hi
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by ilyt 3y ago
> I think you shouldn't discount the idea that in a societal structure that's different from ours you'd remove some of the social stigma that comes from such a job. I can see you haven't done any of jobs like that eve
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by ilyt 3y ago
Sure, ask someone to shovel shit for 8h/day 5 days a week and see where your thanks will get you. You might find one sucker, but not nearly enough
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by ilyt 3y ago
I get the point that some jobs are boring and need actual materialistic motivation to be done but... I'm absolutely sure someone would design one out of sheer annoyance with existing solution (if existing solution would be bad). It wou
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by ilyt 3y ago
Well, there is some blame to be put on education system for not going open, but chromebooks are significantly less IT maintenance than average linux laptop. In ideal world it would be non-profit partnering with hardware vendors to produce &
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by ilyt 3y ago
Yeah I should probably write "does not produce anymore" Stuff can be on sale for a long time after it stops production (and it isn't necessarily google or even manufacturer selling those)
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by ilyt 3y ago
This is not planned obsolescence tho, this is just "well, we don't sell it anymore so we don't support it". Someone have to pay for the ongoing support. I think the most that should be required from manufacturer is openi
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by ilyt 3y ago
This is not planned obsolescence tho, this is just "well, we don't sell it anymore so we don't support it". Someone have to pay for the ongoing support. I think the most that should be required from manufacturer is openi
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by ilyt 3y ago
So basically like drifting the car but in 3D
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by ilyt 3y ago
I'm guessing 200% to 400% margin on those ? PCBs are cheap and I'd imagine adding a bit of paint to on those isn't all that expensive in bulk. Atari is a terrible shell of a company that should die already
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by ilyt 3y ago
Completely moot point. They are not selling a device. They are selling chip. It's on the device manufacturer to prevent it and it doesn't need to be in baseband chip.
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by ilyt 3y ago
I don't think the source of stereotype matters.
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> Lots of people contribute to walled gardens to produce the food you eat. Heck, the constructor of your roof literally contributed to your walled garden... I don't think you know what walled garden means in software context.
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The education system failed
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> “Crypto is hopefully a label that will get dropped over the coming years anyways, and it’s just essentially the technology that you use to build certain products,” "We don't like our scam to be put with other scams under comm
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by ilyt 3y ago
Assembler optimizations without fallback to pure C for other architectures for example.

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