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by pif 8mo ago
For all the people commenting as if the meaning of "kilo" was open to discussion... you are all from the United States of America, and you call your country "America", right?
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by pif 8mo ago
> I've never heard It doesn't matter. "kilo" means 1000. People are free to use it wrong if they wish.
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by pif 8mo ago
> Edit: I'm wrong. You need character to admit that. I bow to you.
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by pif 8mo ago
> The wish is for "kilobyte" to have one meaning. Which is the reality. "kilobyte" means "1000 bytes". There's no possible discussion over this fact. Many people have been using it wrong for decades, bu
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by pif 8mo ago
> And if you've ever dug into the guts of glibc's loader it's 40 years of unreadable cruft. You meant: it's 40 years of debugged and hardened run-everywhere never-fails code, I suppose.
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by pif 8mo ago
Eh, nice times, when you could type an email just by telnetting to port 25...
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by pif 9mo ago
mandatory reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by pif 9mo ago
> I think we largely need support for "soft deletes" to be baked into SQL I think web and GUI programmers must stop expeting the database to contain the data already selected and formatted for their nice page.
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by pif 9mo ago
> It's always a statement 'to protect the children' or 'fight piracy' Both of which make a lot of sense. And the contrarian view is always expressed as a matter of "privacy", as if remote privacy had ev
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by pif 9mo ago
> "Private remote communications" like sending a letter have been around forever. Yes, but it was never more private than the law decided for. Any judge could lawfully have the police tear the envelope apart and read the conten
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by pif 9mo ago
> From a procedural standpoint, that is democracy. Actually, that is democracy, full stop! Elected representatives vote new laws, and people react according to their interest. with a pinch of smark, I dare to add: 1. civilised people kno
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by pif 9mo ago
> companies would want to pay theor employees more money, but they can’t because of unions Well, inkind-of sort-of makes sense. It happens that companies would like to spread the salary increase budget as they please, while unions tend t
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by pif 9mo ago
> The Lettre Verte example actually reinforces the point: service got slower, then slower again, not because physics demanded it but because maintaining the previous standard became inconvenient. Well, it did indeed become inconvenient..
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by pif 9mo ago
French "La Poste" sets the first threashold at 20 g.
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by pif 9mo ago
> Basically banning brand advertising ads. I don't get it. Could you please elaborate? Thanks in advance!
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by pif 9mo ago
Mandatory reference: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Classic-WTF-The-Indexer
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by pif 9mo ago
Yous story is not about optimization: it is about change imposed to people who did not request it, nor felt the need of it.
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by pif 9mo ago
> I was struck by how something as simple as text content could have such a big impact. The fact that he was struck by such an evident truth means that he is (hopefully: was) part of the problem.
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by pif 9mo ago
I think 30 years should be much more than enough to realise the idiocy of proposing a non-backward-compatible standard to the general public.
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by pif 9mo ago
75% or 99% does not matter. Until you can't forget about IPv4, IPv6 us useless.
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by pif 9mo ago
If the insects are fed "naturally", though!
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by pif 9mo ago
As far as I understand, it is indeed safer, because different animals tend to be sensitive to different illnesses.
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by pif 10mo ago
It is actually the case! That's why your choice of tires on online sites gets so smaller as soon as you tuck the "electric/hybrid vehicle" case!
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by pif 10mo ago
Unicode is a must in a human facing application, even in those countries where English is spoken by the majority of people.
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by pif 10mo ago
If you can't afford $20 per month, you are not in business.
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by pif 11mo ago
I wish people stopped conflating web programming with the whole realm of software development.
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by pif 11mo ago
> (1) Most modern languages discourage or forbid symbol/emoji characters in identifiers > (2) When it comes to color, Call me boomer if you wish, but if you can't grasp the value of having your code readable on a 24 rows by
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by pif 11mo ago
> Microsoft is first and foremost a business oriented company, and what matters to them most is feature set, compatibility, support etc. As long as things mostly work, it's fine. Usability is at the bottom of the list. Blame their c
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by pif 11mo ago
> which typically helps me. Uhm, how can you get to that conclusion? I mean: how can you compare the evolution of a cold with and without the vitamin surplus?
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by pif 11mo ago
A function returning a boolean cannot return a Promise. As simple as that!

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