modzu

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1. 451.▲
   by modzu 6y ago

   why should viral "behavior" be "intuitive" in any sense at all? (unless of course youre a bioligist of the requisite experience). here is one idea that might reframe your intuitons: viruses are so small there are billion
2. 452.▲
   by modzu 6y ago

   what a linguistically awful title
3. 453.▲
   by modzu 6y ago

   oh i get it, watching for a light to see if the camera is on is equivalent to covering the camera
4. 454.▲
   by modzu 6y ago

   agree but zebra 401 here
5. 455.▲
   by modzu 6y ago

   sure the engine is not descended from google code but if mozilla didnt have google's funding they would essentially go bankrupt and consequently ff would go byebye. id call that dependence.
6. 456.▲
   by modzu 6y ago

   looking back at all of the things i most appreciated about going to university, classes are near the bottom of the list. you cant put a price on the relationships you form, the labs, the teams and companies that you spin off, the hands on a
7. 457.▲
   by modzu 6y ago

   same can be said for Firefox though (+300 million a year comes from google): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation#Financing
8. 458.▲
   by modzu 6y ago

   use github/gitlab (you mentioned not having backups? git is your backup). there really is no substitute to git, but there are supporting tools that can make life easier: a good ide like intellij, github desktop, to name a couple. ded
9. 459.▲
   by modzu 6y ago

   FRBs seem to make the front page of hn on a repeating cycle too lol
10. 460.▲
    by modzu 6y ago

    i dont follow..
11. 461.▲
    by modzu 6y ago

    wait, what? so if they are ignoring wayland wont default ubuntu users on gnome not get these benefits? seems odd to do all the surveys and research but not actually check what distro/compositor respondents use?
12. 462.▲
    by modzu 6y ago

    windows 8 anyone?
13. 463.▲
    by modzu 6y ago

    i was replying to the parent thread that observed no performance data was shared. if performance were say, the same or slightly worse, then it would explain why apple wouldn't release performance data. but they might still want their o
14. 464.▲
    by modzu 6y ago

    maybe it's about profits not performance?
15. 465.▲
    by modzu 6y ago

    without childcare cant work at home either..
16. 466.▲
    by modzu 6y ago

    for windows yes it's still true!! but in that 20 years I've also moved on from windows: nothing comes close on macos and on Linux I've been using audacious which i must say does sound amazing. lack of cross platform options i
17. 467.▲
    by modzu 6y ago

    this isnt an answer to your question but it just got me thinking, the opposite thing happens too: i had an engineer leave who was earning a good salary -- and i ended up being able to hire 2 new engineers each making half
18. 468.▲
    by modzu 6y ago

    what advantage does this bring over something like material-ui?
19. 469.▲
    by modzu 6y ago

    then there are apps like photopea.com. feature parity with Photoshop, but starts immediately, consumes virtually no memory, requires no special permissions, runs on virtually any os. compare that to the adobe app which loads half a dozen se
20. 470.▲
    by modzu 6y ago

    if anyone wants to know more, here's a cool talk about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZmaeC_Ma5A the whole thing is just 2MB of JS written by one guy!
21. 471.▲
    by modzu 6y ago

    props to the team! but having learned on photoshop i could just never get used to gimp. and me most used functions being smart select and smart fill -- does gimp do that yet? in any case i dropped both for photopea. i still can't get m
22. 472.▲
    by modzu 6y ago

    please brave dont f this up. we really need you!
23. 473.▲
    by modzu 6y ago

    science = hypothesis; prediction; test prediction; observe. thats it. so a lot of "science" actually isnt science either...
24. 474.▲
    by modzu 6y ago

    Debian, brother
25. 475.▲
    by modzu 6y ago

    brave browser has a "tor private window". such a great idea, since most people dont realize a private window is only private to their own browser. anyone know how updates to tor affect brave? it seems crucial it is kept to to date
26. 476.▲
    by modzu 6y ago

    this review nails it. 2015 mbp in my case. all it needs is a faster cpu and a couple of usb3 ports to replace the thunderbolt and it would be money. well at least we had a golden age
27. 477.▲
    by modzu 6y ago

    i think the battery in the 16 use larger than the 15 was, but all the others have been shrinking. not sure why
28. 478.▲
    by modzu 6y ago

    i feel better about having dozens of sticky notes all over my desk now
29. 479.▲
    by modzu 6y ago

    Posting because I don't see the word Enterprise anywhere in this thread!
30. 480.▲
    by modzu 6y ago

    thanks. found this, many takes on the subject: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3118898/is-debian-the-gold...