necovek

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by necovek 1y ago
Most languages are well representable with 128 characters (7-bits) if you do not include English characters among those (eg. replace those 52 characters and some control/punctuation/symbols). This is easily proven by the success o
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by necovek 1y ago
That says roughly the following when applied to UTF-8: "The base ASCII characters and control characters in UTF-8 are the same single byte codepoint as ISO-8859-1 while all other characters are represented by multiple bytes where each
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by necovek 1y ago
It's pretty annoying on a phone screen where there are additional line breaks: I actually lose the flow when I need to skip lines. Maybe it'll be better on a larger screen, but due to more frequent line breaks, I would advise you
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by necovek 1y ago
Not at all my point to "catch" you, just to demonstrate that some of the claimed benefits are not really there. We all make typos regardless of the editing format: for some cases it might be better to go with these "semantic
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by necovek 1y ago
It's amazing what adults do to things too. I believe it's actually easier to cope with what kids will do (banging it, trying every nook out etc), compared to many adults putting more force than needed on common mechanism or button
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by necovek 1y ago
It is really tough to queue up along with kids who are not letting go of any interactive exhibit easily — and similarly tough to explore it well while there are kids waiting behind you. So in theory you are right, in practice there is a lot
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by necovek 1y ago
I think they meant that books being handled and read by dozens of readers annually won't survive for too long.
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by necovek 1y ago
Usually, knowing where and when a poet or author is born does matter — it sets the cultural context for what and how the author is writing about.
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by necovek 1y ago
Wouldn't putting a single word per line minimize reformatting and changes in line-diffs further? From an opposite angle, I imagine you do not use semantic line breaks in ASCII art or code that shouldn't be word-wrapped, so I imagi
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by necovek 1y ago
I imagine this type of formatting caused you to sneak in a typo or two like "free to the render" — if you had it as a free-flowing sentence, it'd be easier to catch. The point is that if these formatting snippets are useful f
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by necovek 1y ago
GP brought the point up that addresses this: "why deprive readers of extra clarity offered by this formatting?" So if this is something that's valuable when reading or editing material, why not extend that to the final, rende
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by necovek 1y ago
While I agree with that, this is the reason I doubt the claim in the article that "wheel" (including the axle connection) was only invented "once" — there is no support for it in the article. As all of these technologies
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by necovek 1y ago
They suggest you might be at home 80% of the time, thus firewall on the home network would protect during that time.
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by necovek 1y ago
I don't think that's an apt comparison: GP has not lived their life entirely without "going out" (locked down phones), yet they are still fine with phones getting increasingly locked down.
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by necovek 1y ago
You are absolutely right that majority will not care enough to influence a change. Which is why we should always applaud and support those who do care enough to sacrifice something in return: they are the ones ensuring at least _some_ thing
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by necovek 1y ago
The article seems to misuse en-dashes in place of hyphens. Perhaps it's just the font, but for a largely graphical difference, that matters. Anyway, I've used em- and en-dashes for a long time now (had it built into keyboard layou
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by necovek 1y ago
How do you indicate an interjection with semicolons?
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by necovek 1y ago
Or much simpler, use the integration with TPM/DRM-style chips to monitor HID input (not too fast too) and publish that to a blockchain as PoW (new NFTs?)
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by necovek 1y ago
Would you wear an original swastika[1] on your baseball hat? [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika Which is to say, we all compromise. I'd hate to lose my em- and en-dashes, but the original post seems to mi
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by necovek 1y ago
Uhm, I see that you are playing the devil's advocate here, but I'd note that phones being bought today cost more than laptops sometimes — if that's not where the money is, could we at least get them much cheaper?
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by necovek 1y ago
Google Pixel phones for a while have been the phone of choice as they allowed easy root and bootloader access. Not sure if that's still the case, though, as they've been pivoting. Other manufacturers offer it as well — these optio
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by necovek 1y ago
They all existed before mobile apps on systems you don't control became prevalent. This was just useful for them.
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by necovek 1y ago
That's what can be achieved by encapsulation/containerization of apps: a la flatpak, snaps, docker or VMs... I found my parents to install random crappy adware apps from official stores too. What protects their banking application
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by necovek 1y ago
If that's the case, what is a practical difference between you having access to your device or not? You could be installing random crap from the store, or not from the store. Or you could not be installing random apps from either. I
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by necovek 1y ago
This is the phone that came out and faced an announcement that development is stopping on the platform a few months before release — that's actually amazing sales considering the circumstances! HP Pre 3 was a similar situation where it
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by necovek 1y ago
N9 development was stopped by the management despite the success in the market: all Nokia phones started moving to Windows as the "strategic" platform due to a new CEO who joined from Microsoft. Yes, previous management messed u
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by necovek 1y ago
That's easily solved, ain't it: check the "tech savvy" box, and all "safeguards" are off? Yet instead, we are getting increasingly fewer phones with unlockable bootloaders and root access available. What gives?
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by necovek 1y ago
With phones becoming our main computing platform, I wonder why do we look at it any different from our personal computers? On my computer, I can choose to containerize applications I run with something like docker, flatpak or snaps; run the
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by necovek 1y ago
I was actually curious about the brands that people found tasteful: I personally like Bavaria 0-alcohol the best. But this survey does not identify the brands, instead focusing on chemical and physical properties. I am not sure it helps us
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by necovek 1y ago
I found that to be a double edged sword: some copy and paste it verbatim without thinking it through and adjusting at all. It's a delicate balance we need to keep in mind between many of: - maintainable code - getting things done - fee

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