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by piokoch 3y ago
Somehow related... I have noticed recently (note: in Poland) that brands shops are starting to price some items (especially clothes) in the shop to be cheaper than on-line. And the difference is quite significant. I believe that there are t
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by piokoch 3y ago
Malls in Poland are very different, they are expensive and they have almost only big brands shops that can survive predatory practices of mall operators. Those are not malls of US type that used to have a lot of independent "mom and pa
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by piokoch 3y ago
Voyager is the highest technical achievement of humankind to this day. Amount of knowledge we gained from that shuttle, run by a computer having a power of the computer that we have today in our car keys, is invaluable. Let it fly in peace,
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by piokoch 3y ago
This is amazing piece of software. You click the icon and it starts. Immediately. It does what you expect it to do, it just displays PDF file on the screen.
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by piokoch 3y ago
Yes, next to pushing people to buy new iPhone every two years.
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by piokoch 3y ago
Nobody throws away Lego bricks, there is huge market, you can sell them in various ways (by kilograms, by pieces).
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by piokoch 3y ago
I also feel that it is unfair that each LaLiga footballer does not have his private Boening 747, like Neymar. We need to do something with those pesky pirate apps to make sure footballers earn more money, as their torment of poverty is unac
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by piokoch 3y ago
"all functions have unique distinct names" Really? And every developer will create custom, broken, non-standard "namespace" system: admin_get_user vs. readers_get_user, or maybe admin.get_user vs. readers.get_user, or ma
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by piokoch 3y ago
It is all playing with the statistics. How the risk of getting cancer grows if one eats glyphosate? How does it compare to other factors, like pollution, obesity, etc. We used to have a similar discussion about contraceptive pills, at some
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by piokoch 3y ago
He gave "self-driving cars" as an example of "disruptive, 10X leaps in technology". I am not so sure if that what we need is even more cars on the roads.
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by piokoch 3y ago
No longer doable, at least in Europe, you can't buy per-paid phone card without showing you government ID. And I believe you will not be able to create Twitter (that is, X) or Facebook account without being forced to provide something
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by piokoch 3y ago
Seriously, without ability to add VAT? Where is invoice issue date? Where is Tax ID? This looks like something USA-only thingy.
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by piokoch 3y ago
Howdy, this man is nuts. "Experimental Fat Loss is a pseudonymous blogger who has run lots of self-experiments on weight loss." Seriously, is this something we should promote? Wrong diet can cause severe diseases, physical or ment
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by piokoch 3y ago
Threads must be doing something really square with user data if they could not start in Europe because of violation of rather toothless GDPR regulation (as if someone really dig into all those possible settings instead of clicking ok on the
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by piokoch 3y ago
Big no-no to Joplin for me is that it is using some custom data format (sqlite I think). Why bother? Just give me an app that can handle nicely markdown files, syncing I can do myself e.g. (Synology, rsync) or use some file syncing service
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by piokoch 3y ago
Wait for the next election in Germany. AfD has just climbed to the 2nd place with 20% of support and is still growing. Believe or not, one day you will miss someone like Orban.
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by piokoch 3y ago
1. Cooling. You need a lake or a see nearby. 2. A lot of custom stuff that has to be created from scratch, as nukes were "bad" (see point 4.) for many years so there was no chance to rise industry that would provide standard parts
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by piokoch 3y ago
If only life was that simple that it could be enclosed into series of two digits categories. The problem with such strongly hierarchical system is that it fails if there is some document, note, picture, etc. that would be useful to keep in
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by piokoch 3y ago
Kotlin provides modern features in the Android development Java land stuck on the ancient Java 6. Scala was an academic experiment on how to match nicely object oriented world with functional programing paradigm that got some hype because J
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by piokoch 3y ago
Nice list, I was reading it in anxiety to the very and, yes, rank number 100 "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie. A great, underappreciated book that deserves Nobel Prize.
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by piokoch 3y ago
It has not disappeared from enterprise and this has nothing to do with Java. XML is still very good as a document format, with powerful validation capabilities (XSD) and powerful language to do transformation of documents (XSLT), searching
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by piokoch 3y ago
This is so not true... For the whole Middle Ages people rarely could write, but still there were lawyers (yes, lawyers who could not write), doctors, scientists, poets, merchants, mighty and clever kings (yes, there were kings who could not
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by piokoch 3y ago
KeePassXC is one of those old style applications that are fast, small, does not change UI every quarter and does well what it was built for. It does not offer "cloud integration", does not send email asking you if you are happy wi
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by piokoch 4y ago
While this is definitely a good new, we need to be very careful. Why? Those new fancy threads are stored on heap and need to be garbage collected. If you buy into ads and believe that you can create for free millions of threads, then, well,
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by piokoch 4y ago
EU Eurocrats think that innovation works this way: some bureaucrat comes to Elon and tells him - Elon, there is a great idea, build an electric car, this gonna be hit. And, BTW Elon, how about space rocket that comes back to the landing spo
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by piokoch 4y ago
Yes. And graphene will change technology, cryptocurrencies will replace fiat money, we've been through that several times. Autonomous cars will be everywhere. We will use VR for everything. What OpenAI insider could have said? That Cha
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by piokoch 4y ago
Please do not compare a very small country with a very small and integrated population, which is also very rich to the USA. It does not make any sense.
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by piokoch 4y ago
Ok, so we have that software written by AI, AI is clever, it does not need good variable names or functions/methods/class names, some of the stuff it will call according to passed specification so it will be understandable, but th
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by piokoch 4y ago
This ship has sailed when Gab creator was cut-off from all payment systems. People widely applauded Visa et. al move, as this Gab guy is a horrible person that ends each message with dreaded "Jesus is King" quotation. So "the
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by piokoch 4y ago
Who will verify that those data are correct? What if majority of the code sucks, what if majority code uses "best practices" that are no longer valid - think of many GoF Java "patterns" that are now considered to be code

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