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by jorvi 1y ago
Haha, don't get me wrong, I am not asking for official days to be anything but 24 hours. I guess I am arguing that "morning" "midday" "evening" and "night" should hold no official definition, sin
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by jorvi 1y ago
> because what is the early morning of Wednesday if not just Tuesday night prolonged? This is what really grinds my gears with the official definition of "night" and "morning". Tuesday 21:00-23:59 is considered "
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by jorvi 1y ago
It's pretty ironic that he first laudes macOS so much, disparages Linux for having strong NIH, but then hates on systemd which is heavily heavily inspired on macOS. And yeah, I don't understand his hate on Flatpak unless he means
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by jorvi 1y ago
> Assuming you mean Neil Postman? Yes, my bad. Edited! > I just want to remove my compulsive internet usage. Even if I'm reading The New Yorker, it's still because I've defaulted to consuming media on the internet in an
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by jorvi 1y ago
You should read 'Amusing Ourselves to Death' by Neal Postman. It's painful how apt it is for current times. For what it's worth, I've started to reintroduce friction in my life where it makes sense. My phone default
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by jorvi 1y ago
Because Microsoft isn't a software company anymore, and never was a hardware company. They're services-first now. They make the majority of their money from businesses with lucrative support contracts, Azure, Active Directory + Of
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by jorvi 1y ago
I mean.. once you have to start to buy specialized cables anyway, you might as well have specified in the PoE++[0] standard that only specialized PoE++ cables are accepted, verified by device handshake. And then you can engineer the whole t
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by jorvi 1y ago
> what would be in it for a potential monopolist to tank the value of bitcoin in that way? Shorting BTC. But you'd have to gather a humongous mining farm / pool in secret, wait until right after the recalibration and then turn
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by jorvi 1y ago
I can virtually guarantee that the amount of people getting annoyed at being flashbanged by HN is larger than the amount of people that would complain about a dark mode. For users without an account you just stick to prefers-color-scheme.
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by jorvi 1y ago
And how would you propose running Greasemonkey on a mobile browser?
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by jorvi 1y ago
> The University is a student-factory In The Netherlands, we have a three-tier tertiary system: MBO (practical job education / trades), HBO (college job education / applied college) and WO (scientific education / universit
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by jorvi 1y ago
Dark mode. Sure, Dark Reader exists but many mobile browsers don't support it. Annoyingly enough it's been talked about for years but it never gets implemented, despite only three colors really needing a swap: background to dark s
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by jorvi 1y ago
Brave uses Forgetful Browsing, nuking all stateful site data after a tab close. I have Firefox configured to do the same via the Cookie Autodelete extension.
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by jorvi 1y ago
I see so many people in these threads always complain about Cloudflare or Google CAPTCHA loops.. but even when using Private Internet Access (one of the most abused VPNs), I rarely if ever got on a full-on loop. Maybe Google CAPTCHA made me
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by jorvi 1y ago
The EU is also looking into creating a digital euro ("eurocoin", so to speak). The basic idea being to break the power and thus risk of systemic banks. You'd have an account at the ECB that you can keep your digital euros in
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by jorvi 1y ago
It is normal in the sense of for example seeing your friend accidentally slap themselves in the face with a plank, or have forgot to flush right when they're lucky enough to take a girl home. It's called schadenfreude. Additionall
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by jorvi 1y ago
With software engineering, every single thing in the 2010s had "syntactic sugar" and "sane defaults". I still get a slight blood pressure spike whenever someone uses either of those terms.
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by jorvi 1y ago
Was this "be clever" stuck, or "bad game design" stuck? As an example for the latter: at a certain point in the game Okami, you have to get an item from a crying boy you are friends with. You get rather obvious hints the
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by jorvi 1y ago
Small models will get really hot once they start hitting good accuracy & speed on 16GB phones and laptops.
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by jorvi 1y ago
Oh, I misunderstood. I thought Kobo added the Google Pay (Wallet Pay? Google Wallet? God knows with the constant name changes) button / system to the app in addition to their own payment flow. Damn.
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by jorvi 1y ago
Why not add your payment method to Kobo's app? It's very little effort for doing your part in fighting the oligopoly.
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by jorvi 1y ago
Why did you omit (self-hosted) gitlab..?
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by jorvi 1y ago
It's crazy to me how people are completely blind to inferring things. YouTube is no longer using ads to pay the bills. They're using them to be user hostile. Normally I would say "just use a different service". But You
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by jorvi 1y ago
I hate the penny-wise pound-foolish attitude both in embedded and Android phone development. For years now, Samsung has used a 'virtual proximity sensor' in everything but their premium stuff. Sensors like that are a few cents. De
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by jorvi 1y ago
Honestly, I feel like people are subconsciously aware that Google is trying to bludgeon them into getting YouTube premium, and they're simply sticking it to Google rather than giving in. Google's gone through: - one skippable 5s a
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by jorvi 1y ago
Right. But taking the combined $140 billion net worth of Bill and Melinda, about 30% (or whatever 'fair' rate you want to assume) shouldn't have been theirs to give away. Let them spend the other part however they want. What
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by jorvi 1y ago
I am still hoping that one day we get an open source image editing application to the level of Photoshop (and for Darktable to become as good as Aperture / Lightroom). One of the things that Blender did right is adhering to industry st
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by jorvi 1y ago
That is not their argument. You lowering your tax rate and giving that money to charity isn't magicking more money into the world, it is just a different allocation. The government's tax income is allocated by the masses (in theor
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by jorvi 1y ago
It is a drug that suppresses addictive behavior. Developing discipline is developing the ability to delay gratification for greater reward. Taking away the (need for) gratification means not having to learn the ability to delay.
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by jorvi 1y ago
That is my point though. Gemini got it wrong for me. Which means it is inconsistent. Say you and I ask Gemini what the perfect internal temperature for a medium-rare steak is. It tells me 72c, and it tells you 55c. Even if it tells 990 peop

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