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by kbart 9y ago
Don't forget that 8h workday actually lasts 9h if you count in a lunch break. Sure, you don't work technically, but depending on a situation (which is the case more often than not from my personal experience), this hour still migh
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by kbart 9y ago
DRM isn't even worst for me, I can always use a fresh virtual machine for a game and wipe it out afterwards, but constant Internet connection requirement totally kills it, as I don't have time for games often and these rare moment
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by kbart 9y ago
It doesn't in current, cosmopolitan world, but for centuries different cultures had original dishes not seen elsewhere. We still call such dishes that originated during these times "national". What's wrong with that? It
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by kbart 9y ago
Yes, GOG is the only place I buy games from. I don't want to have spyware installed on my PC in a form of DRM or be able to play games only while connected to Internet, so I don't use Steam at all.
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by kbart 9y ago
Subway!=ground rail. The former is vastly more expensive. Brand new, two line high-speed ground rail costs 10-30 millions €/km[0], while the cost of underground kilometer typically is 200-300 millions €/km in Europe and sometime
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by kbart 9y ago
Exactly. My father is one of such people, and believe me, I've tried everything: I explained him rationally, I talked to him nicely, I showed him examples, I even threatened him -- nothing helped. Finally I gave up, he went bankrupt an
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by kbart 9y ago
That's my "secret" strategy too. I gradually lower hours I actually work and spend remaining times learning new things so I can get a better job. Never had complains too, so I see this as win-win situation -- employee get the
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by kbart 9y ago
"Are there any errors? No (0) there are no errors." Not necessarily. It's just a (mostly POSIX and Linux kernel) convention to use 0 as "no error" result, but there are plenty of code that returns 0 as an error an
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by kbart 9y ago
I'd argue that government gets more and more power with technological advance. Just few decades ago regimes could only dream about total surveillance, now Chinese government are putting this in practice and I'm sure many will foll
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by kbart 9y ago
Yeah, let's better create another abstraction layer and release several frameworks each year to make things simpler. /s Make has its use. It's a great tool for building small/medium projects that don't have many dep
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by kbart 9y ago
This site is either a good joke or poor attempt to go viral with mixed technical and socio buzzwords. Either way, I don't see how that actually might work and hold in court ("oh, I thought it was just a joke", "I pressed
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by kbart 9y ago
"An evil plan" might be a bit of an exaggeration, but I think he might have expected more (read more private data or ad push) from WhatsApp users than he currently can get. Of course, that's just speculation, but as you'
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by kbart 9y ago
Another possibility is that Zuckerberg's plans were destroyed (or at least delayed) by EU ruling[0], so he didn't get what actually expected. 0. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/may/18/
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by kbart 9y ago
Yes, "my friends use it" argument greatly impedes switching to another app, even though it is better. Anyway, slowly, but surely I expand my circle of Signal users. Current version of Signal is actually quite polished, at least no
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by kbart 9y ago
I'm sure your sample is bigger than mine, so maybe that's a regional thing (I'm in Europe)? Did you notice some trends?
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by kbart 9y ago
I don't know anybody in security community who would prefer WhatsApp over Signal. Of course, my sample is limited.
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by kbart 9y ago
They should change the name too. I still feel repulsive seeing SourceForge link and never download anything from there. Reputation is easy to lose but very hard to fix,so I'm surprised the new owners chose this path.
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by kbart 9y ago
"From personal experience you can easily navigate a roundabout at 35+ mph." If a roundabout is small enough, you can't. I have seen many small roundabouts throughout Europe that you cannot navigate without swerving faster t
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by kbart 9y ago
I take a single 400mg pill whenever my head hurts, so I can imagine that 1200mg/day for a more serious issue is not that uncommon.
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by kbart 9y ago
The car analogy is very good one. Also an infamous Samsung Galaxy Note 7 comes to mind. I agree that such security hole such warrant for a replacement.
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by kbart 9y ago
No. The check is being made what CPU is underlying before applying the fix.
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by kbart 9y ago
It's not hard to choose when there's only 1 real candidate. USSR had elections too.
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by kbart 9y ago
If you had a phone and Internet to call Uber, you also had a map. Of course, I don't deny that it's much simpler with Uber or a taxi app, but telling that Uber is the only mean to get a taxi in a foreign country is like telling
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by kbart 9y ago
"In the US, law enforcement is split among too many organizations to implement a Big Brother system competently." NSA begs your pardon..
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by kbart 9y ago
All MCUs are basically micro PCs that have SRAM, flash memory and run internal, binary code, so no, it is not possible. It is, however, possible to have everything open source from bootloader and up, if you don't need advanced graphi
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by kbart 9y ago
So people before Uber have never used taxis in foreign countries?/s In most countries taxis already have apps comparable to Uber available on Google Play. Even before that, I've managed to get a taxi in China without understandi
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by kbart 9y ago
Smartphones were obvious decades before iPhone (see Sci-Fi and PDA's), it's just that technology wasn't mature enough before. The rest is just a speculation -- I might say that S. Jobs could had been replaced by Joe and iPh
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by kbart 9y ago
There is no perfect map (at least for now), I've had the same experience with every map app I tried. You just have to choose which one works best on a given location.
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by kbart 9y ago
They can simply ask a friend or buy them anonymously. I don't see how this rule could be enforced in practice.
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by kbart 9y ago
Cookie law was the only major f*ck up from EU on privacy. And it will be fixed as soon as GPDR is active. On the other hand, we have many successful and useful regulations and court orders. I don't think cookie law alone is enough to

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