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by minusf 5y ago
have you noticed how screenshots and background images for iphones marketing material is chosen so that the notch is almost/totally invisible? it borders on false advertising. it's a design company, they know the most how ugly it
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by minusf 5y ago
while this might be a valid criticism of the blog post, i think it kind of sidesteps the issue that what it describes is a common experience while working on javascript projects. for me, pinning days are dreadful. sure, hunting in changelog
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by minusf 5y ago
i was computer obsessed as a kid and my parents could do little about it, though hard they tried. i did all the chores they came up with in exchange for hours on front of a 286 with a monochromo crt. but i had to leave it in the room, so i
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by minusf 5y ago
both china and russia have ridiculous claims for every day of the week just as well. at some level all political claims are ridiculous but all countries mentioned in your post are pathological liars, they just lie about different things in
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by minusf 5y ago
really depends on the mailing list software. unfortunately there is basically google grouops and/or mailman2/mailman3. for self hosting there isn't even a choice at all: mailing lists suffer even more from what forums suffer
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by minusf 5y ago
btpd
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by minusf 5y ago
i have seen a flask/pyramid apps recreating django's batteries -- weakly and unmaintainably. yes, building something from scratch is good for learning, and arguably should be done before picking up and learning a framework. but t
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by minusf 5y ago
> Very few things bother me, and very few things excite me. the bother part is fine, but i want to stay being excited even by everyday things like a good book, music, a small treat, a cup of coffee or a meal i just cooked for myself. not
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by minusf 5y ago
i am not an audiophile but for classical music, and esp full orchestras very good headphones and flacs are the order of the day. i dont think it's a good idea to to lossy compress classical music...
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by minusf 5y ago
swinsian is what itunes should have been from the start. after it became the homescreen for all the i-devices it never had a chance to be a usable music player...
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by minusf 5y ago
i also think this is the case, as the user base must be tiny still (esp when looking at the comments here, even classical music fans didn't know about it. i found it through the "inside the score" youtube channel)
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by minusf 5y ago
i think as far as streaming / discovery apps go primephonic was ok, esp considering their probably miniscule dev team. bandcamp is also just so-so. but both of them are head and shoulders above any apple made media player. beggars beli
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by minusf 5y ago
musicbrainz takes a hard line on the correctness of metadata and will preferably use the original names of composers, bands, etc. that includes cyrillic, kanji, and even symbols like david bowie's "". There are ways to make
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by minusf 5y ago
i am not sure it's a good beginner piece... the music was playing second fiddle to the animation. > Many found fault with Stokowski's rearrangements and abridgements of the music. Igor Stravinsky, the only living composer whose
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by minusf 5y ago
yes, based on the current primephonic one. apple can't make a good music app if its life depended on it.
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by minusf 5y ago
looking forward dragging down the fairly ok primephonic app to the level of apple's music app. what a sad day.
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by minusf 5y ago
I'm a subscriber and not very happy about this. Except the 6 months of free apple music i never wanted in the first place there is confusing messaging what this means for my subscription. I hope the founders are happy with their exit.
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by minusf 5y ago
do you have some concrete examples? i have used pf since it was turned on in openbsd (i think around 2001ish) for simple rulesets, and there were certainly some changes that needed config file changes but i don't remember anything hug
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Choice Words about the Upcoming Deprecation of JavaScript Dialogs(css-tricks.com)
3 points by minusf 5y ago|0 comments
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by minusf 5y ago
might be. either way the numbers are impressive although i am afraid this massive bandwidth is necessary because of the docker's and ci/cd's that don't use caches...
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by minusf 5y ago
interesting article. where is the 300 TB number coming from? > The “maximum” here is per-day, so this means that at the peak (which was the day I made these graphs) PyPI served nearly 900 terabytes over more than 2 billion requests per
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Reverse-Engineered Apple NeuralHash, in ONNX and Python(teddit.net)
1 points by minusf 5y ago|0 comments
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which is a loss, as according to openbsd developers developing for both caught a lot of bugs otherwise not found easily..
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by minusf 5y ago
wfh is not all roses either. sometimes i have difficulties "leaving work" when I'm in the flow. so i started wearing "work clothes" to remind myself "i need to go home" and change into home clothes. meetin
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by minusf 5y ago
let's not go there :} life is too short to compile bug lists for macos.
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and big sur and up... unfortunately the quality of the OS is not keeping up with the quality of the hw.
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by minusf 5y ago
> And btw, you can opt out of ads personalization on https://adssettings.google.com/ ads are not unethical per se. what i find unethical is the on by default tracking apparatus/personalized ads following me around a
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by minusf 5y ago
you could try mapy.cz, also uses OSM. pocket earth is also quite good, but the UI needs getting used to.
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by minusf 5y ago
the default mode in apache/apache2 used to be _process_ per connection (pre forked workers) not thread per connection. threads came much later.
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by minusf 5y ago
> We get 4-6 weeks paid leave as a father this is technically true, but for context: it started in 2021. Before it was 2 paid days and 3 unpaid days _in total_. Also the last 5 weeks are 70% paid (at least for me)

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