ivanhoe

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by ivanhoe 7y ago
yeah, like there was anything wrong with having 6 levels of nested tables and dozens of placeholder gifs all over the page...
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
All you've said is 100% true, but in addition I'd argue that a big part of reason why no-code tools don't get more traction is also just the simple power of habit and the lack of motivation to invest time into learning it. We
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
> as most people are loyal to their local manufacturers. This is perhaps true for a few countries making good cars. The rest of EU is more than happy to drive German and French cars (if they can afford it, of course).
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Is it? What cleaned up my country's rivers of plastic after many failed projects was a government program of paying for returned plastic bottles. In poor countries (and that's where the most of plastic comes from) you don't r
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
> Nobody at the traffic light made & makes fun of a Tesla so consumers feel safe to buy a Tesla Certain psychological profile of consumers. I personally couldn't care less about it and would never pay more to impress random stra
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Same goes the other way, the idea of getting superb freedom and empowerment by running your own company is equally self-delusional. There's cons and pros to both, and they depend on many variables, especially the age and a particular m
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
It's the standard requirement for all wrist devices, with arm-band you can hold your hand in any relaxed position
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Since I own an Omron wrist BP monitor and it, as a dedicated medical device, is nowhere near the precision of mercury sphygmomanometers that doctors use, I seriously doubt their claims of "clinical accuracy" for a watch... it&#x27
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
> In air, changing the distance doesn't change the color appeareance Actually it does, it works similar to the water, just the effect is weaker in the air. That's why sky and distant mountains look blue, the atmosphere scatters
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Normal not, but widespread and tolerated by society at large yes. Pinching, grabbing, hugging, making lascivious comments and cat calling had the same treatment as swearing, it was considered rude, but nothing more than that...
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
On the subject of Alesia: https://www.pipelinecomics.com/asterix-v11-asterix-and-the-c...
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
indeed, missed that sentence on first reading...
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
The environmental problems don't come from cattle or pork or palm trees themselves, they're caused by massive industrial levels of production that modern civilization needs. To truly substitute pork this industry will have to beco
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
And don't clean fallen leaves in the autumn...
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
In my view any form of political advertising is in fact propaganda. If it sells ideas and world views as a prepackaged product, it's an attempt at indoctrination, and thus propaganda. > or using loaded language to produce an emotio
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
As a contrast to having the site full of fake photos on other sites?
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Food and especially snacks packaging is more of a problem, t-shirt plastic wrap is in most countries very likely to end-up properly recycled.
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
I'm very much DIY guy and hate it when companies block users from doing whatever they want with their equipment, but this is a special case. User gets the discount from Sonos for recycling the old equipment, and thus user doesn't
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
> What are their language and reasoning abilities? Apparently no animals ask questions, even after being “asked”. I might misunderstood your statement here, but e.g. dogs can understand a lot of things people say, not just purely pre-lea
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Reminds me of that joke that pessimist is just an optimist with a real life experience.
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
It does give you a (perhaps false?) sense of having some level of control over what is stored where and how much tracking happens. Also, as an unintended side-effect, it helped boost my productivity a bit, as when I open some link and the p
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
In those days "real programmers" were doing C and ASM, and they anyway considered all other languages as a joke :P
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Common good and individual freedoms are often opposed, as it's very unlikely for us to succeed in taming just the destructive sides of human passions, without taking away a bit of creative and positive passions and freedoms too. Societ
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
OK, imprecision on my side, under "any classic painting" (note "classic", not "classical") I really meant just "a painting" in a usual sense of it, not some post-modern "thing" or performanc
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
It sounds a bit like saying that any classic painting was 90% created from materials provided by other companies: canvas, oil colors, various chemicals, and painter just used those, but then took all the credits. The thing is that the value
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
It depends a lot on a type of app, business users usually don't care much about color palettes and having a dark themes available, and worry much more about how streamlined is the workflow for their particular needs. > but our tools
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
As a kid I loved watching hooded crows breaking snails' shells by picking up a snail, flying a 10 or so feet up into the air and then throwing the snail against a narrow stone path in the park. I've never seen even one crow making
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
That's a misconception by people not used to reading subtitles. It's like a logo of the TV channel, after some time your brain just filters it out and it doesn't steal your attention at all. I grew up reading subtitles and I&
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
There's a counter argument here that "ordinary people" represent a much more realistic source of danger than some super-criminals/high-level terrorists. Depressed dude who's read too much bullshit on some forum, so
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
It's true that even the sophisticated bad guys will accidentally leak info and leave a trail that can help police, but it's also true that mass surveillance significantly increases chances for false positives. The idea of all law

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