lolive

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   by lolive 2y ago

   I consume a LOT of comics on bittorrent, read them then buy expensive physical editions of the ones i like. That is VERY bad for my wallet (:i consume comics a lot), but it is always a sure shot when going to the comics store. I consider t
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   by lolive 2y ago

   Safari does open Amazon.com in HTTPS. But 256MB of RAM is really small for proper browsing. Anyway, apart from the browser, comics reading, TuneInRadio, old games and digital photoframe apps still work ok. (in case you have the strange idea
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   by lolive 2y ago

   FYI, my original iPad is still working fine.
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   by lolive 2y ago

   I want no remote hacker to do this kind of hack on my devices.
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   by lolive 2y ago

   The question is whether most middle-managers are able to take impactful decisions. My personal experience is that 80% of them are [Steve Jobs quote:] « bozos ».
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   by lolive 2y ago

   I personally say no to my boss 70% of the time, and do things my own way. Usually my n+2 likes the results I deliver, so I am reasonably covered by him, politically. [that will probably not last long, anyway]
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   by lolive 3y ago

   Spoil: Money won’t fix the environment.
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   by lolive 3y ago

   To anyone using Google Sheets as its data layer: be sure never to create a primaryKey column, always use the title column. Also be sure to use one single spreadsheet with many tabs, and coreference cells by their sheet/line/column
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   by lolive 3y ago

   Off-topic, but I still don’t understand why Apple Pay cannot display on the screen the sum currently to be paid before I validate the transaction. I suppose it is not a UX issue, but I suppose that sum is simply not known by the Apple devic
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    by lolive 3y ago

    That was the right answer. You are hired!
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    by lolive 3y ago

    https://github.com/SixArm/usv/tree/main/doc/faq#why-use-cont...
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    by lolive 3y ago

    The reason why USV did not use the proper ASCII codes for field separator and record separator is a bit too pragmatic for me… https://github.com/SixArm/usv/tree/main/doc/faq#why-use-cont...
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    by lolive 3y ago

    A manager: I wish I could have a CSV inside my CSV. Any sane person: NO!
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    by lolive 3y ago

    I still don’t understand how you deal with cardinalities in a CSV. You always recreate an object model on top of it to deal with them properly ? Cf a tweet I wrote in one of my past lives: https://x.com/datao/status&#x2
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    by lolive 3y ago

    Don’t look at the ASCII table, at entries 28 to 31. You are not mentally ready for what you will find there.
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    by lolive 3y ago

    The best thing I see really often is people sending the data model of a CSV file as, #guessWhat, ANOTHER CSV file!!! [please kill me!]
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    by lolive 3y ago

    As a data architect in a big company, I cannot tell how harmful such a stupid data format CSV can be. All the possible semantics of the data has to be offloaded to either the brain of people [don’t do that! Just don’t!] or out-of-sync specs
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    by lolive 3y ago

    My experience is a bit different. I use Chameleon+xmldict to generate dozen of different JSON formats, my input being a XML template plus Chameleon templating instructions. And I have found that JSON can be 100% percent expressed from XML.
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    by lolive 3y ago

    Funnily I use Javascript in Chrome to deal with XML data. And the support of X[HT]ML is still top-notch.
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    by lolive 3y ago

    JSON can be translated into a structure of arrays, maps and primitive types. It can be traversed with functional programming. That matches 100% the skillset/mindset of developpers. Whereas XML has too many quirks and tricks, that it re
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    by lolive 3y ago

    I have never understood why RDF (especially TTL) has never become the format of choice for data exchange. XML and JSON are usually sending connected data (:graphs), and there are very inconvenient at doing that (being tree-structured).
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    by lolive 3y ago

    FYI, RDF transports graph data, where nodes MUST have a unique ID, where relationships MUST be typed, and nodes can optionally be typed. RDF has several serializtion format, one of them being XML. A binary format also exist. And the most c
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    by lolive 3y ago

    [off-topic] I used to follow another visual language a while ago. It seems that it is still alive. Tersus Studio: http://www.tersus.com/#Id=178 [may be some good things to take there, as an inspiration]
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    by lolive 3y ago

    Sorry to hear that. I visited the museum Correr without knowing that that map was at the end of the museum. Discovering it right in front of me is a high time of my life.
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    by lolive 3y ago

    I do not know about EveryNoiseAOnce. But I felt sad when spotifynewmusic.com [a convenient music discovery service, facaded as Spotify playlists] was closed. More than half of my prefered albums were discovered through spotifynewmusic.com,
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    by lolive 3y ago

    Almost want to rewatch it. As it is still, in my memories, the most bizarre film ever.
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    by lolive 3y ago

    A long time ago, there was spotifynewmusic.com, which converted top albums from 40+ music curators [NME, among others] into comprehensive Spotify playlists. The website was maintained by jlarome. Who, i suspect, is a spotify employee. The w
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    by lolive 3y ago

    At one moment, WorkingCopy (on iOS) was considered a valid option for syncing Obsidian vaults.
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    by lolive 3y ago

    Reminds me of this joke: “God exists for sure , at least in the mind of believers.” #downvoteInApproach :)
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    by lolive 3y ago

    IntelliJ has, imho, the most comprehensive & visual diff management UI. That thing alone discards any competitor [once again, imho].