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by panta 5y ago
> A. The company which has thousands of developers working on it and wants to avoid their brand being dirtied by failures in security and privacy. They don’t seem to be too much concerned about failures in security and privacy… Their ent
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by panta 5y ago
Ok, but CO2 is another output of human activities, can we increase energy expenditure while lowering CO2 emissions? (it’s not a rethoric question, I don’t know the answer)
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by panta 5y ago
Maybe we are far from exceeding the limits of available energy regarding the inputs of the processes, but our most immediate problem is the output energy, which is released as heath in the environment.
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by panta 5y ago
Yes, there are ofc different byproducts (knowledge, health, leisure, fulfillment of needs, …) but, at the end of the chain, a dollar spent is ultimately converted into energy/resource consumption, no?
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by panta 5y ago
A random example: desktop Spaces has been arbitrarily limited to a single row of max 9 desktops (with Lion I believe). Before you could arrange the desktops in a matrix (up to 16 desktops IIRC). Also the removal of RSS support, X11, emacs.
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by panta 5y ago
I’ve used page.js and some other generic ones. It’s up to you, svelte is not bound to anything in particular.
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by panta 5y ago
I agree. SvelteKit should not be advertised as the standard way to use svelte imho. Fortunately it’s not necessary to use svelte. I’ve some quite complex apps built using svelte, all without SvelteKit/sapper (I am of the “explicit is b
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by panta 5y ago
Another important missing point is not having docker publicly exposed. Just reach docker through a ssh tunnel (eg via rdocker) or a vpn.
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by panta 5y ago
The new Evernote desktop app is terrible. It’s slow as molasses (Electron?), search is not reliable, and without connectivity it doesn’t work (you don’t see your local notes). Adding notes via the dedicated email address doesn’t work anymor
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by panta 5y ago
The OP didn’t advocate for dumbing down the project, it advocated for writing understandable code and avoiding “clever” code where possible. More often than not “clever” code is all about “local cleverness”, and it’s entirely avoidable. Int
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by panta 5y ago
Then probably it’s too junior, and not ready to be a contributor to the project. He should be brought up to speed with the basic technologies and tools used. Project quality should not be sacrificed.
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by panta 5y ago
In my view it’s because democracy is somewhat orthogonal to capitalism or collectivism, and masses are easily controlled anyway (they can live with the illusion of being in control). A democracy loses something central to the concept when a
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by panta 5y ago
HW accelerated audio/video encoders/decoders (eg for WebRTC), mic, camera, crypto, ...
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by panta 5y ago
I agree on everything you said, but I have the suspect that if we untapped an unlimited energy source that would quickly put a (near) expiration date on our civilization, and maybe on our planet. Scarcity is necessary to maintain balance.
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by panta 5y ago
In "Object-Oriented programming an evolutionary approach", Brad J. Cox (the inventor of Objective-C) hoped for the birth of "software-ICs", software components that should have been widely reusable, and documented with t
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by panta 6y ago
In Italy copay is very limited, almost symbolic, even for those in the highest income brackets. As you point out wait times can be (very) long for exams (at least when there is no indication of urgency), but for serious/complex procedu
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by panta 6y ago
In Europe free healthcare is guaranteed even if you lose your job, and there are essentially no limitations (if you need an expensive treatment, you get it, no matter what).
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by panta 6y ago
When you consider the total cost of ownership (initial car cost, maintenance, insurance, storage, etc.), the cost per km/mile is way higher than the fuel cost. Also there are many externalized costs that are not taken into account when
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by panta 6y ago
Yes, in my view Canonical betting on flutter is almost a testament to flutter doom. Choosing flutter is not the right choice anyway: it’s a lot more limited compared to Qt, it requires a language which is not used anywhere else, it’s slow a
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by panta 6y ago
If it is targeted without explicit direct consent of the targeted individual, it is not honest, at least from my personal point of view. If it was for me, targeted advertising would illegal.
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by panta 6y ago
Individual ad targeting is needed only as soon as someone does it. It is not “needed” per se.
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by panta 6y ago
Yes, but mega-corps are exploiting free software and killing it in a way. Personally I believe it would be in everyone’s interest to fight back. Maybe we could have “human-scale free software” alongside the traditional model.
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by panta 6y ago
> Unless someone for some reason comes up with a product that's just amazing compared to its competition but has no syncing capabilities, or syncing becomes incredibly difficult to implement well, I don't see why people would u
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by panta 6y ago
Social media platforms are powerful, not critical. If all the platforms disappeared tomorrow, our lives would not be disrupted (personally I think we’d be even healthier, but that’s a personal view). This doesn’t change the fact that these
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by panta 6y ago
It's $0.11 per device. If the change was merged with another batch of changes, it would be just the $0.07 for switch + assembly.
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by panta 6y ago
Beautiful job! I love that you used an action and that the code is so clean. Thank you!
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by panta 6y ago
Human-Computer Interfaces have different needs from Human-Human interaction, in particular they need to be unambiguous (which the natural language isn't), very precise and concise. For these reasons Siri and Alexa would be terrible to
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by panta 6y ago
But what is there for power users today? AFAIK Unix is the only viable option from a very pragmatic point of view. So it's not about being aficionados, it's about being pragmatic.
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by panta 6y ago
I completely agree on dynamic range, and on the fact that we should use a reference image (or images) more inline with modern camera equipment. I don't believe though that _random_ instagram content would provide a good, balanced refer
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by panta 6y ago
Regarding tech, I guess it's because it's still a field where (unfortunately) there are more men than women, and since men are attracted to women, advertisement agencies use this fact to capture the attention of the audience. It&#

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