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by mikl 5y ago
Wow, epicly bad project name there. Maybe take it one step further and call it “Google Search” or “Microsoft Office”?
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by mikl 5y ago
If you only need PostgreSQL, I find Postico much superior to TablePlus. The GUI is nicer, the support for PostgreSQL features more complete, etc.
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by mikl 5y ago
For some value of “normal”. 4K (or better) monitors have long since become the choice for most of those who cares about how font rendering looks. After a decade of “retina” screens, I’m ruined, I can’t stand the look of anti-aliased fonts,
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by mikl 5y ago
Yeah, the new GTK4 UI looks like a clone of Apple’s UIKit with a worse font. Shame that Gnome is following the trend of flat and boring UIs.
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by mikl 5y ago
Comparing anything done sitting at the computer to the Navy SEALs is risible.
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by mikl 5y ago
So happy they finally made this. Ever since I got my first retina MacBook Pro a decade ago, I’ve wanted a good companion display for it. The LG UltraFine worked, but was never good. Iiyama and the other knock-offs were worse. Basically inst
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by mikl 5y ago
Window zoom asks the application to “right-size” their window. The application then gets to decide what the “right” size is. For example, a Finder window will size itself so it can display all the contents of the folder it displays (if poss
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by mikl 5y ago
We’re talking about macOS here. Your complaints about hardware features have little to do with this discussion. Macs still have headphone jacks, too.
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by mikl 5y ago
> "It will cost over USD3 billion to restore the plane, the restoration shall be time-consuming. Ukraine will make every effort to ensure that the aggressor state pays for these works," And if you believe that will happen, I ha
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by mikl 5y ago
A few points: 1. You’re not supposed to quit Finder.app. Unless you customise macOS somehow, the ability to do so is carefully hidden. There’s no menu item to quit it, Cmd-Q does nothing, and even the Force Quit menu has “Relaunch” for Find
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by mikl 5y ago
Ah, yes, always good with a reminder about the priorities of Mozilla management. They fired the MDN team, most of the Rust and Servo teams, etc., to prioritise funding pie-in-the-sky projects like these.
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by mikl 5y ago
> Additionally, and with immediate effect , you will no longer be able to use Namecheap Hosting, EasyWP, and Private Email with a domain provided by another registrar in zones .ru, .xn--p1ai (рф), .by, .xn--90ais (бел), and .su. All web
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by mikl 5y ago
Yeah, you’d need to use something like *nix `tar` to do the archiving part. I think newer versions of tar already have support for Zstd.
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by mikl 5y ago
Good luck trying to send a file compressed with Zstd or Brotli to people and have them know what to do with them. I’d certainly have to google to figure out how to open one of those. And I’m an engineer and aware that those formats exist.
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by mikl 5y ago
Oh, yes please. Getting rid of Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp would be such a boon. They are so dominant in Europe that not having them is a serious social handicap, but I stubbornly refuse to let Facebook spy on me, which unfortunately is
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by mikl 5y ago
Beyond, once in a blue moon, following a link to DA from social media, not in the last decade or so. With the wave of web 2.0 sites like tumblr, pinboard, reddit, etc., digital artists have so many choices of where to post their content, so
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by mikl 5y ago
Even if we assume that “the billion Euros of cannabis sold there each year” is not a wild overstatement (that’s an unimaginable amount of weed), the Danish GDP is some 300 billion Euros. As for tourism, it’s just one of a long list of touri
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by mikl 5y ago
Oh and before I forget, Bern has a bunch of OpenData/government IT stuff going on, and Basel is a hub for medical companies (Novartis and friends), and thus has a lot of med-tech companies.
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by mikl 5y ago
I’ve never really needed to look for work, but https://www.jobs.ch/en/ is one of the big ones. Lots of smaller portals too.
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by mikl 5y ago
The two MIT-like schools in Switzerland, EPFL Lausanne and ETH Zürich are big tech hubs. Also Google has a huge hub in Zürich, and most of the other big tech companies have offices there or in Zug. And as someone mentioned, there’s a lot of
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by mikl 5y ago
Prices in excess of 1'000 CHF/day are not unusual if you get someone through an agency. Freelancer rates I’m less sure of, but they’re probably not far behind.
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by mikl 5y ago
I moved to Switzerland (from Denmark) almost a decade ago, and I’ve not regretted it. 1. If we’re talking software engineering, the demand is ultra-high. I’ve had to hire freelancers, because skilled software people are neigh-impossible to
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by mikl 5y ago
Everything can be taken to unhealthy extremes. It’s one thing to “charge more”, when people can actually take their business elsewhere. It’s a different thing entirely when you’re the sole gatekeeper between hundreds of millions of customer
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by mikl 5y ago
There’s some nuance to be had, to be sure. But I think we should be able to agree that demanding 30% of nearly everything and completely banning any sort of alternatives is extremely overbearing and ends up taking a lot of money out of the
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by mikl 5y ago
They might have a point when it comes upfront sales of apps and games. Steam also charges 30%, and the Xbox, Playstation and Nintendo Switch stores also charge similar if not higher premiums, as does other comparable app stores. Where it ge
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by mikl 5y ago
Apple execs might have convinced themselves that they are entitled to a huge cut of pretty much everything that goes on an iPhone/iPad/etc. To everyone else, this just looks like mustachio-twirling, cackling evil and unfathomable
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by mikl 5y ago
PostgreSQL recommends you use the text type everywhere, and use CHECK constraints if you really really really need to limit a field’s length on the database level. (VAR)CHAR is considered a code smell. So many fields are artificially limite
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by mikl 5y ago
If that’s the biggest problem you have with your database, be happy.
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by mikl 5y ago
It’s not fixed. MySQL still has a datatype called “utf8” that, in fact, is not utf-8 but a limited subset thereof. PostgreSQL has some sharp edges, sure, but a lot less obvious footguns like these.
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by mikl 5y ago
Amazing work, you guys rock.

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