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by nikitaga 4y ago
Speaking of this specialness... having the main system shortcut modifier – Cmd – physically located under both your thumbs is priceless. In contrast, the Ctrl keys are usually located such that they're best accessed with your pinkies.
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by nikitaga 4y ago
At this point, "Consistent shortcuts" is the main "feature" keeping me on MacOS. Cmd+, opens preferences in every app. Cmd+[ or ] goes "back" and "forward", in every app that has those concepts Cmd+Sh
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by nikitaga 4y ago
I could be confusing them with DigiKey, but I think McMaster handle customs themselves, no customer action needed. If that's a problem to them, I'm guessing they don't have a fully automated solution to that like e.g. DigiKey
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by nikitaga 4y ago
Since you're in Canada too, my experience might be relevant. My first McMaster order last year was cancelled with the following response: "Due to the cost and complexity of shipping our products to Canada, we are only able to acc
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by nikitaga 4y ago
> you will live the consequences of "the enemies of the West" from a mostly economic perspective. Did we already forget about political interference by "enemies of the West"? I mean, not just brazen election /
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by nikitaga 4y ago
In addition to what everyone else said – consider that cheating does not stop being a viable short term[1] solution after you graduate. You can cheat your way through work just like you can cheat your way through school. Not always and not
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by nikitaga 4y ago
Over the last 10 years in the US: Inflation (CPI): 25.2% (2.2% annual increase) Pilots average wage increase: 67.8% (5.3% annual raise, $118,070 -> $198,190) Lawyers average wage increase: 13.4% (1.2% annual raise, $130,490 -> $148,03
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by nikitaga 4y ago
> if fortune 500 CEO pay is up less than 11% on avg since 2020 Yeah well, in reality it's up considerably more. They didn't get to be the 0.1% by accepting sub-inflation pay raises for the last 100+ years. Here is what their ac
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by nikitaga 5y ago
Subjectively – it's a much more sane environment for programmers than point-and-click UI. If you want parametric design (and you probably do want it unless you're building simple one-off designs), with GUI CAD tools you need to de
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by nikitaga 5y ago
Conversely, hopelessly vague regulation like this ensures that big evil companies just implement ineffective token measures and then spend millions of dollars in court to determine which small tweaks to their small measures satisfy the give
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by nikitaga 5y ago
Russia will never give up nuclear arms. Just look how that worked out for Ukraine (...) Also, Russia is too damn big and unpopulated, it would be almost impossible to defend it all without nuclear deterrence. Much like Canada, in that regar
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by nikitaga 5y ago
Not sure how much one month can tell us. Last 20 years of annual deficits, for reference: https://datalab.usaspending.gov/americas-finance-guide/defic...
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by nikitaga 5y ago
I'm not sure why miniconda would break your existing python setup? It installs all packages in a separate environment, that's its main purpose. I don't know why Conda / CadQuery dependencies are so big, but I have more t
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by nikitaga 5y ago
Fun fact, cq-editor does actually work in Docker. I haven't tested autoreloading, but the app at least launches and renders fine, "just" needed to configure X.org proxying or whatever it's called. Thankfully I ended up n
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by nikitaga 5y ago
Unfortunately the latest published version, 0.2, is pretty old, and lacks newer features such as autoreloading imported modules for example, which imo is a must for any sizeable project. That said, for me the miniconda setup was annoying bu
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by nikitaga 5y ago
Right, it doesn't, if their point was to doublespeak "why didn't he just comply".
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by nikitaga 5y ago
Personally I also ran into some inexcusable bugs on my first try of FreeCAD recently. Sadly I don't have the link anymore, but the problem was offsets being incorrectly calculated in certain cases, and I found it to be a long standing
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by nikitaga 5y ago
Incremental compilation is pretty fast on Scala.js – it usually takes just a few seconds for me, about half of which is usually webpack bundling. Although if you make a code change that affects many modules of your app, it will take a bit m
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by nikitaga 5y ago
Eh, even if so, how many years and millions of dollars before that is established in the highest applicable court and actually enforced? Until then Apple can do whatever, really.
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by nikitaga 5y ago
> Scala is really lacking a way to easily support structural typing like typescript does. ES clearly wins here, since in Scala you have to define the case class in advance. And while you can just use maps, you give up typesafety. Looking
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by nikitaga 5y ago
Typescript's main advantage is convenience and familiarity to JS devs. With typescript you just put type hints on your good old javascript and you get to keep using all your javascript coding patterns. This comes at a cost of unsafety
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by nikitaga 5y ago
Some Zendesk buying Google ads is several orders of magnitude more important to Zendesk than to Google. They're not really in a position to act pissed off about anything, when dealing with Google.
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by nikitaga 5y ago
Since you seem to be using it – what are your thoughts on the Crystal language? Pleasant? Ready for production?
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by nikitaga 5y ago
IMO, RSS as a browser feature was dead pretty much as soon as smartphones happened (and desktop<>mobile RSS sync didn't).
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by nikitaga 5y ago
No, MSFT (and others) failed at mobile because there is no amount of money you can invest to break into that industry anymore, due to all the moat the duopoly has built up. It's literally impossible. Google started early and got on the
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by nikitaga 5y ago
> I don't think that having better margins than the competitors says anything about being a monopoly. > Apple's large margins are merely an opportunity that no one was able to fetch. In a functioning free market, competitors
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by nikitaga 5y ago
Apple might have a minority of units sold, but they have a very convincing majority of revenues and profits in several markets, e.g. https://www.counterpointresearch.com/global-handset-market-o... "Apple has been the
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by nikitaga 5y ago
If you or anyone else ever decides to bring your paragliding reserve onboard an airplane, be sure to check its specs first . Paragliding reserves are optimized for fast deployment at low airspeed, whereas deployment at airplane flight spee
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by nikitaga 5y ago
As much as I love open source... I tried using KiCAD to design a PCB and have it assembled, but ultimately switched to EasyEDA – not because their app is better (it really isn't), but because of their smooth integrations. EasyEDA is
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by nikitaga 5y ago
* When you do something to people to see how they act, it's a human experiment. The purpose of this study was officially "to understand how websites would respond to real users" * The participants / subjects of the study

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