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by omnimus 1y ago
Make two blocks sized as business card. Extrude your graphic in one and make inverse hole of the graphic with some tolerance in the other. You will get better results that's easy to model, print and align. Just pushing two blocks by ha
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by omnimus 1y ago
I mean the obvious other choice would be Linux. Wayland is pretty good with hidensity screens nowdays.
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by omnimus 1y ago
Exactly. It's very convenient to claim that somebody else benefits from the open license when there have always been dozens of competitors behind wordpress ready to take their place. There are even commercial WP competitors with highly
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by omnimus 1y ago
It's way more nuanced. Wordpress became popular thanks to convergence of many things including work done by PHP and shared hosting providers (and of course linux). WP itself is not that special CMS but it was main platform people knew
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by omnimus 1y ago
Very little? The norm used be to slap google analytics on everything. Suddenly everybody thinks about compliance — especially those who didn't even have idea there was something wrong. Many sites ditched tracking altogether so they don
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by omnimus 1y ago
Aaron Swartz downloaded big part of JSTOR to make a statistical model for some research, was charged with hacking felony and committed suicide because of it. Sam Altman downloaded all of JSTOR and then rest of the internet to make a statist
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by omnimus 1y ago
I have iphone 11 and you can have battery replaced just fine. I did it few months ago and the phone became like new. I am not sure about Apple in US but if they won't do it then some third party will.
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by omnimus 1y ago
Why would you think that?
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by omnimus 1y ago
I think there is contradiction in that what makes europe attractive is the thing that doesn't allow building Silicon Valley. You cant't have Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon... without intense surveillance and financial specula
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by omnimus 1y ago
The problem now is that institutions are literally infected with strongly US leaning people. I don't even mean politicians but just people who tied their careers and lives to some US technology. Look at Microsoft - there is whole indus
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by omnimus 1y ago
If you look at the NY Times video shared above - the strikes are very precise. First they hit viewpoint/staircase favorited by journalists. Then 10min later they hit exactly the same spot with two separate strikes in a row. There aren&
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by omnimus 1y ago
I can't know whats Google plan nor do I care much. I am just saying that it is quite apparent that Google is trying to replace Search with LLMs because they are already trying to do it. One would think that they have a plan why they ar
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by omnimus 1y ago
a16z are investors in substack.
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by omnimus 1y ago
I am not 100% sure but my partner has the nokia “bannana” phone and i think it supports both. It for sure supports 4g hotspot and caldav but i think even carddav. Kinda sad that it's KaiOS the FirefoxOS fork. One can only wonder what w
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by omnimus 1y ago
I think the “stable” straightforward flexible static site generator in JS world is eleventy. Astro is anything but that. It is made with quite specific vision and gets breaking changes all the time.
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by omnimus 1y ago
That is true. I just wanted to point out that the reason US economy is doing ok right now are exports of tech companies. Especially software could be replaced by EU surprisingly easily. It was response to comment saying how subsidized and
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by omnimus 1y ago
I know and they couldn't do anything with it until the startups opened the way to freely use licensed data.
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by omnimus 1y ago
Not sure why it would be controversial. They are already doing it.
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by omnimus 1y ago
I am sure they can figure out even better. Like put the product purchase link in the answer.
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by omnimus 1y ago
I don't think you realize this is temporary state for Google. Their overall plan called Google zero is to provide answers fully like LLMs and never link to any other website (zero links). This has been their long term goal since the mo
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by omnimus 1y ago
Eastern europe is indeed very different from NL.
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by omnimus 1y ago
What about the other way around? What happens with US economy when europe (and similar allies) stop buying US information technology (they for sure can replace a lot of it) and embrace digital tax? They are for sure tied to each other but i
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by omnimus 1y ago
Perpetual vacation? Wow that would be great that is surely aim of every society. Unfortunately afaik majority people in europe are employed (75.8% of population) and thus have maybe 5 weeks (4 weeks minimum) of vacation. In USA the employme
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by omnimus 1y ago
In europe it is exactly because people are less relaxed that they start to looking for someone to blame. Not the other way around. They are less relaxed because power over time concentrated so much that the top is managing to kill the middl
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by omnimus 1y ago
Arial for sure does require licensing it is owned by Monotype. Monotype sells it here https://www.myfonts.com/collections/arial-font-monotype-imag... You actually have to license the typeface for many usecases. Even as
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by omnimus 1y ago
Calling Arial just a bad Helvetica copy misses the point. Arial stands on its own as a typeface and has its own feel and nice qualities. It was made by really great type designers who were tasked to create contemporary neo-grotesque sans-se
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by omnimus 1y ago
There is no copyright protection of visual shapes/curves. Typefaces are licensed as software, the source code (coordinates/bezier curves) are what is protected by copyright. If you make a typeface by overdrawing different typeface
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by omnimus 1y ago
It depends on type foundries. Some of even the high quality ones (Grilli Type, Florian Karsten) keep the licensing fees pretty fair one time perpetual licenses. Dinamo is most hyped top tier foundry that just understands that they can make
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by omnimus 1y ago
The point is to get slightly changed Arial. Arial is great typeface. The freedom to tweak it and not be burdened by licensing issues makes the project worth it. This is exactly how many software projects start.
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by omnimus 1y ago
Kill 100 whales now or suffocate all of them with coal air later.

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