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by mathw 5y ago
What's that on the latest iPhone in the EU? Oh it's a lightning port. You were saying??
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by mathw 5y ago
"Waterfox is thriving" eh? Sounds like wishful thinking to me. I get the loss of the XUL extensions is annoying for some people, but the rest of it sounds like pointless UI faffing of exactly the same kind people criticise Firefox
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by mathw 5y ago
There's at least one team working on a vaccine that targets another feature of SARS-CoV-2 that changes less than the spike protein does (the interview I heard called it "the N protein"), which could give us a better long-term
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by mathw 5y ago
Or people could just... read the thread. I don't get why thread reader still exists.
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by mathw 5y ago
India
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by mathw 5y ago
Sadly that is not strange - if there are any technologically literate people advising our government on policy they're not being listened to.
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by mathw 5y ago
And? Loads of projects moved to GitHub when there was no Microsoft-employee involvement because it's just a very good service. And for a good long time, nothing else out there existed which could even start to compete with it. GitLab c
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by mathw 5y ago
The .NET Foundation wanting admin access to repos of projects under the .NET Foundation umbrella is very much not the same thing as how the people who run GitHub could backdoor any repo they like whenever they want, obviously they can they
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by mathw 5y ago
We have - most of them just transfer the terms we had as EU members to us outside the EU. Good for continuity though. The big one is the one with the EU, which our government negotiated, signed and now say is awful and must be changed. It&#
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by mathw 5y ago
It is a shame there are so many Rust examples out there with unwrap() all over them, because it's really not something I would want to see in production code. expect() with a message if you know that the only reason this fails is becau
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by mathw 5y ago
Various bits of C# and its libraries also variously ignore non-nullability when it suits them. I know it's done the way it's done for compatibility reasons, but it's really quite confusing around the edges as a result. And de
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by mathw 5y ago
They're working on colour choices within Adwaita, which is basically what Android 12's Material You stuff is doing (that's just AI-powered and automagical). What Android isn't adding is the ability to plug in a library t
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by mathw 5y ago
In the post announcing libadwaita, it said that the Adwaita stylesheet "including its HighContrast and HighContrastInverse variants" was going to become part of the library. So don't worry, it's not going anywhere! GNOME
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by mathw 5y ago
I'm happy to get rid of the "organized OOP template" which is really just a bloaty mess of unnecessary classes. Given that all the IoC and request binding systems are supported in these minimal APIs I have no reason to believ
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by mathw 5y ago
When my music teacher had melanoma, they tried so many things. Some of them were so new that when she was first diagnosed they didn't exist outside a research lab. The progression of cancer treatment has been amazing, but with its ulti
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by mathw 5y ago
Not sure "written in Rust" is a headline thing that's worth mentioning anymore. Particularly amusing in this case when parts of Discord are written in Rust too.
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by mathw 5y ago
Soylent, Huel etc... admittedly they're made out of various plants rather than growing their proteins etc. in a vat.
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by mathw 5y ago
In my work, absolutely yes. Using Kubernetes has saved us sooo much nonsense. Yes we have a mix of Terraform and k8s manifests to deploy to Azure Kubernetes Service, but it works out pretty well in the end. Honestly most of the annoyance is
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by mathw 5y ago
And that is vital. Retweets and quote tweets and replies just fall apart if the parent tweet can be freely edited. Time-limited typo fixing capability is one thing, arbitrary editing is quite another.
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by mathw 5y ago
Well that supposes that they currently exist, that they're close enough and that they want to come here. Maybe it is feasible to build an FTL engine, but maybe it can only feasibly go at like 4c. That doesn't make it very easy to
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by mathw 5y ago
The GTK bindings are being used pretty heavily by a few GNOME projects now, so I would expect them to continue to get the maintenance effort. It's a heck of a lot easier to bind to an existing GUI library than writing the equivalent of
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by mathw 5y ago
Kubernetes absolutely doesn't require extensive knowledge of Docker. At least not if you're using a managed, hosted Kubernetes platform, maybe it's different if you're running your own. But it takes almost no knowledge o
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by mathw 5y ago
I've been doing some poking around and just found some confused people on Twitter. Bandcamp themselves appear to have said nothing at all as yet. Hopefully this can get resolved fairly soon, as Bandcamp is a pretty great platform and o
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by mathw 5y ago
As a total needlephobe, I'm very glad about this kind of research. I hope such delivery methods become standard in the future. I'm not particularly looking forward to a repeated freakout before my second dose of Pfizer's none
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by mathw 5y ago
Yes that feels very weird. I expect I'll get used to it, but as somebody who used to be very passionate about how tabs must be above the address bar because that is part of the tab not the overall browser, losing that visual link of &q
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by mathw 5y ago
Last major Firefox UI overhaul was... Firefox 57, the first Quantum release, in November 2017. It's had various tweaks since, but my day to day experience has been the same since then. This is not an absurd pace of UI change in my opin
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by mathw 5y ago
Absolutely. Totally up for an IRC-like system with some or all of the feature gap closed compared to systems like Slack or Discord, but this Freenode stuff has nothing to do with that. And anyway, isn't Matrix trying to be that next-ge
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by mathw 5y ago
I guess at one point computing was more like that, in that to solve a new problem you may well have had to build yourself a new kind of computer or compiler first.
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by mathw 5y ago
I would say it's very important to be publicly explicit about it, to help with the expectations of people outside the project. If some of these things then don't make it into 2021, or 2021 is delayed a bit, that wonderful paragrap
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by mathw 5y ago
What value? Bitcoin goes up and down like a drunken rollercoaster and it's based on "look my computer did some maths that accomplishes nothing!" as its representation of worth. It's got no more value than conventional cu

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