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by levosmetalo 6y ago
It's not only resource usage, but performance in general. I can feel lagging when typing slowly in VSCode editor, even in plain text files without even trying autocomplete or any IDE feature. IntelliJ IDEA doesn't have any lag, Ec
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
If you have an agreement with someone to give you a free beer for life, in exchange for your personal data, they should be allowed to back up? After already extracting all value for your data? What kind of entitlement is this?
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
> This might have something to do with national bias. I would rather say nationalistic bias. Because the fine German press never put a bombastic headlines like "Migrants invented Covid vaccine", or "Scientists of Turkish o
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
It's much easier to make a stable communication product if you don't need to worry about security and privacy. Just look at the troubles and hurdles Signal messenger need to overcome to implement some features, while the competiti
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
Luck of choice, human rights, data protection and privacy, collectivist society and strong government enforcement bodies are prerequisites for a successful contact tracing. I guess that work much better in Asia than in the "western wor
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
I would rather open it in editor, strike a "reformat all" shortcut, and have the file right there. I don't want to chase separate tools that can format different text files, that's what editors are for.
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
Finally one shutdown that is clearly positive for users. I hope Goole will also make sure that cloud print app is also removed from all android phones.
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
While all that may be true, it's also true that in many companies once you become a manager you are empowered to take actual technical decision. It's the manager that chose technology, high-level architecture, development methodol
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
If that's what he wanted what stopped him from adding one more paragraph to the licence saying something similar to: "The USER is required to publicly thank AUTHOR, and make the thanking reproducible in every copy of the derived w
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
And which country was the first one to start dropping bombs on other sovereign countries without a UN mandate? If I remember correctly, it was not China. They never dropped a single bomb on any other country.
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
And who is to decide what is information and what is misinformation? Google? US government? Sergej? Google Shareholders? Youtube users by voting? Pope? Churches? Some poor employee tasked of tagging content? AI algorithm? A man pretending t
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
If it's possible to abuse it then it's not unlimited. Unlimited can't be abused. If usage above certain level is not allowed, then it's not unlimited. The fault is entirely on company side that do false advertising, not
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
He took a rib from the left or from the right side? The truth would be easy to prove by counting how many ribs a man has on which side. If it's true, one side would have one rib more. If the number of ribs is the same, then it's e
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
No, your contract doesn't get renewed automatically. In Germany usually your contract says it will automatically extend for a year unless cancelled. This basically makes your contract open ended with cancellation option, which you need
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
> What, and let the USA authoritarian regime to keep going to legitimize itself with its rigged voting system? To stop sponsoring the pro-democracy activists in USA? No, it's the USA who should simply cease their meddling with the e
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
I wish grandchildren of your grandparents today would be less willing to sacrifice their lives for anyone in the world by playing the worlds' government, lawmaker and policemen. The world would be much safer and peaceful place.
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
Don't. Just don't. Ever. Rely. On Google. For Anything.
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
If you are still in Germany you should report them to Verbraucherzentrale.
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
Yet, many people use windows and I still miss X forwarding. RDP and VNC are just not a replacement for being able to start 3 different programs on 3 different remote computers, and have them all sitting together on screen next to each other
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
> And more importantly, history isn't "random trivia". While the merits of a degree in history may be debatable, if the majority of the UK had a passable knowledge in why the EU exists, and what the UK did to become an emp
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
uBlock orogin is blocking 88% of requests for me. Still, I'm able to read the actual content. I don't want to know how does surfing looks like without uBlock.
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
Newlisp is to Lisp what New York is to York.
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
Would like to see a similar suggestion for writing in plain German.
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
I see HN in the same way. It happens so often that HN discussion is much better that article itself that I go there first, and RTFA only if the discussion makes me want to read it. For this article, I tried to read it after reading a few co
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
Well, for that money you can buy multiple Android phones and never ever run a two year old phone anymore.
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
If stability is important to you, just don't use software tagged 0.x.y. It's not like it's going to be more stable if the authors are forced to mark it 1.0.0. At least authors are honest that their goal at the moment of relea
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
I'd rather have my data used by an "autocracy" on the other side of the ocean that can't reach me, then by a "democracy" that can get me and make mu life hell. If that foreign "autocracy" is an enemy
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
I couldn't understand double entry accounting until I found out about ledger-cli / hledger. These awful arbitrary "left-side / right-side" and "debit / credit" just doesn't make any sense. As opp
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
Does that mean we should be writing comments on own platform, and just put links here instead of commenting on HN?
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by levosmetalo 6y ago
At least he resigned when he was caught. Francisca Giffey, the Family Minister, never resigned when her doctor thesis was found plagiarized. Also von der Leyen, former German Defense Minister and current European Commission leader didn&#x27

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