mad182

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by mad182 5y ago
Exactly. I don't think its only the google search algorithm to blame, this has a lot to do with the extinction of old school forums and blogs. These days large part of the real discussions and posts without financial motivation have mo
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by mad182 5y ago
Moving money upwards in the pyramid.
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by mad182 5y ago
File system is a database. Spreadsheet is a database. And surely blockchain is also a database.
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by mad182 5y ago
Since the ICO craze in 2017 I've seen countless ideas and millions spent trying to use blockchain and crypto for everything you could possibly imagine, and yet I don't see anything meaningful has ever came out of it, apart from ge
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by mad182 5y ago
Same. I prefer Telegram, and a few of my closest friends also use it, so I use it the most, but even my contact list on WhatsApp is at least 5x longer.
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by mad182 5y ago
I'm curious, in what way do you consider Macbook touchpad so much better? I have a Macbook pro, a dell, a Thinkpad, and I honestly can't tell which one I like better, they all work perfectly fine.
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by mad182 6y ago
As a user, I think Chrome ignoring autocomplete=off is great and if it was a flag, I would enable it without hesitation. This feature is misused all the time.
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by mad182 6y ago
Yep. I block remote fonts by default and for a moment it all seemed very weird.
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by mad182 6y ago
Packages in the default repos for some large Linux distro are usually reviewed and tested by many people until they make it into updates for current stable version, so while it's probably not entirely impossible for some malicious code
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by mad182 6y ago
> Type C is pretty ubiquitous by now. Not really. From top of my head I could easily gather > 30 things at my house with the plain old USB A connector (several flash drives, keyboards, mouses, Bluetooth and WiFi adapters, smart card r
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by mad182 6y ago
The size argument against jquery has always dumbfounded me. Bundle sizes in megabytes, "node-modules" folders with thousands of files and hundreds of megabytes are fine for modern web apps, but if you dare to mention jquery, you c
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by mad182 6y ago
Not the OP, but to me a tablet is probably the worst tech purchase I ever made. I have 2 at home (mine and wife's), but we almost never use them. To me the tablet combines the worst properties from phone and laptop. A smartphone is gre
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by mad182 6y ago
What does it even mean?
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by mad182 6y ago
Not really. The technique is well known and pretty simple. If there are differences between old and modern Damacus steel, it's mostly down to impurities in materials, but you can get all kinds of different results depending on material
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by mad182 6y ago
I personally don't care how it's named, but it seems silly to change a commonly used word because one of its multiple meanings in a completely different context is associated with something bad. If we are going this route, just in
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by mad182 6y ago
I'm from the EU and this is pretty much how I feel. Also I kind of trust huge companies like Google more than smaller ones. Yes, I know Google is collection lots of info on me, and I know they will show me ads and try to sell me someth
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by mad182 6y ago
This is my experience as well. If DDG gave me the same quality of results as Google, I might use it. Until then, I don't care. Privacy alone isn't going to cut it, if I only cared about privacy and not the results, I would send my
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by mad182 6y ago
Hats off, Chrome starts instantly on my Debian machines. Even on a 10 years old, half dead Thinkpad it's just couple of seconds. This must be a Ubuntu/Snap specific issue.
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by mad182 6y ago
Not really. In hindsight, many of the efforts like digging under the reactor and dropping lead from air were of questionable usefulness at best. In their defense, they acted according to the information and resources they had, but all in a
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by mad182 6y ago
Wrong. They are using blockchain to generate hype. Internally it might as well be an Excel spreadsheet instead of blockchain and it wouldn't make a difference to the end user.
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by mad182 6y ago
There is no cloud, it's just someone else's computer.
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by mad182 6y ago
> we keep a bunch of old laptops running win 7 and other examples around, hound around for them and spare parts Maybe I misunderstood something, but do you really need some specific, old hardware to run win 7? I thought you are going to
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by mad182 6y ago
Power cuts every month doesn't seem very normal to me. I had a home server running for a few years without UPS, and at one point it had over 2 years of uptime.
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by mad182 6y ago
AWS is cheap to start with, but once you got some scale, the numbers starts racking up quickly. It's a really bad idea to use AWS for a project with lots of users and low earnings per user. Of course, for some kind of eCommerce project
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by mad182 6y ago
It doesn't really help. I have purchased very few toys for my kids myself, but they have way more than enough, we even have couple of huge garbage bags full of toys hidden away in the attic, and we gave some away, otherwise our house s
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by mad182 6y ago
You forgot there will be a leap second and switch to summer time.
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by mad182 6y ago
But this is relevant. If both the product and her CV are weak, the racism card doesn't hold up. If I was deciding if I want to invest money in some app, I'm pretty sure seeing most of the reviews are poor quality fakes would be a
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by mad182 6y ago
Of course they should. Investors have every right to choose where to invest however they want, it's their money and nobody is entitled to it.
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by mad182 6y ago
Same. I'm running Linux as my primary desktop and server operating system for ~16 years, and I don't really care if it's becoming more mainstream on desktops anymore. It's already working perfectly fine for my needs, so
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by mad182 6y ago
Why not? I have done this for 10+ years and it's still working flawlessly, I don't see a reason to add more complexity to something that is working fine for my needs. I don't have to change config often, maybe once a year or

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