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by lopis 3y ago
Unfortunately, content farms can push new websites and blogs faster than you could ever downvote them. LLM are going to make that task increasingly easier. I've no idea how we're ever going to be able to search anything anymore us
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by lopis 3y ago
They're still typically imprisoned in a cage or small room. You wouldn't consider it humane if you were trapped inside your bedroom your whole life against your will, even if you had some regular social interactions with dogs, got
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by lopis 3y ago
I would love if Reddit actually went and banned most moderators. The resulting meltdown of the website would be deliciously catastrophic.
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by lopis 3y ago
There's a long bugzilla thread since 2017 exactly for this. It has a some activity over the years, but was never prioritized. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1332447
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by lopis 3y ago
They were added to Unicode because they were already part of other encodings, and then were expanded. Makes total sense to add them.
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by lopis 3y ago
It's a bit scary to be honest. Linux is fairly easy to use because it piggy backs on the popularity and relative standardization of PCs thanks to Windows. If Windows were to go fully cloud-based and computers would become simple termin
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by lopis 3y ago
They gamble with high risk and no stakes. If it works out, get win big. It it fails, they get to layoff people, restructure the company, and earn a small millionaire bonus. There's literally no losing for them.
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by lopis 3y ago
This could replace all the libraries used to create modals, and all their complexity. But I'm afraid people will start blocking all `popover` elements and spoil this for everyone. Anyway, this is Chrome-only for now, so unless Safari i
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by lopis 3y ago
You'll never be able to do with people what computer vision systems do today, no matter how many people you hire. We're way past that.
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by lopis 3y ago
Agreed. It's part of my job to review my colleagues code, and I expect reviews from them ideally within a couple hours, maximum 24 hours. I find this practice also helps with knowledge sharing and breaking silos. And while I wait for a
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by lopis 3y ago
In our setup, the committer can merge their pull request after CI passed and at least one review has approved the code. Seems like a better compromise than relying solely on CI. And pairing is nice, but there's not always someone avail
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by lopis 3y ago
> My fellow dev often laugh when I tell them that instead of looking at all the long dead techs that are not useful to me anymore, my way to feel good is to look back at all the long dead techs that I didn't bother to learn. I share
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by lopis 3y ago
Just read through the comments on this thread. Most people only care that EU "fall behind" the US, no matter the societal cost.
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by lopis 4y ago
It's being done. This is a great video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hph9OeKjg3w
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by lopis 4y ago
Google Reader had an "outdated" UI, in the sense that it was really bare-bones and feature-less, and focused on its main function. If it survived to today, it would probably have been redesigned 7 times like gmail and become incre
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by lopis 4y ago
Most of my friends don't frequently read their emails and have such bad inbox hygiene that I would expect them to miss half of my emails.
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by lopis 4y ago
This is the first year of general purpose language AIs broadly available to the public. The best way to improve it quick is to throw complex things at it.
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by lopis 4y ago
> a laptop that you can upgrade When you want to "upgrade" from a broken SSD to a functional one, you still need to replace basically the whole device. So yeah, we need to continue to complain until companies stop being anti-us
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by lopis 4y ago
Better title: "How I personally think hackathons can be done right" but that's really not as catchy. Hate and outrage drives clicks.
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by lopis 4y ago
The EU has passed a law forcing Apple to open up, threatening fines up to 20% of their revenue [0]. They have until (the end of?) 2024 to follow up. [0] https://techhq.com/2022/12/apple-bows-to-eu-demands-with-pla.
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by lopis 4y ago
That's why in other languages it's called "notebook computer" or "portable computer". "Laptop" never really made sense. No one ever used laptops on the lap.
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by lopis 4y ago
I don't just want cookie isolation. I want cookie obliteration.
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by lopis 4y ago
> I remember coming home from bars reeking of smoke Unfortunately, that's still common in Germany, most notably in Berlin.
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by lopis 4y ago
I think we're well past the craze curve. I see way less scooters nowadays. Somewhere there is a mile high mountain of old scooters.
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by lopis 4y ago
They are running at capacity for free users. They will be able to afford much higher capacity with MS money, and probably stop providing the service for free soon.
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by lopis 4y ago
It is a privacy feature, specially when paired with Cookie Auto Delete. I have CAD setup to always delete cookies when I close all tabs of a website. But I can add exceptions per website and per container. So I have a Google container that
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by lopis 4y ago
The last decade was strongly minimalist in terms of design, while this one is showing the opposite direction in many ways.
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by lopis 4y ago
Aren't unions opt-in?
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by lopis 4y ago
About 99% of gender dropdowns are there for marketing purposes and serve no other purpose. If it's for medical purpose, then your gender doesn't even matter, as the doctor at most needs to know what sexy bits you were born with an
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by lopis 4y ago
And yet several companies did exactly that in 2018 after GDPR started being enforced in Europe.

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