pmontra

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by pmontra 1y ago
Exactly. This is hard to understand when living in a flat in a modern city but it's immediately clear in any other case. My figure of 1 mm is about the compacted result of decaying and layering. It may vary a lot according to the confi
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by pmontra 1y ago
Or do without exceptions for control flow. For example Elixir does have try/catch but it's used very rarely because most functions return tuples with the first element being either :ok or :error. Then we can pattern match it and r
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by pmontra 1y ago
If you leave ground alone all sort of things grow on it or lay on it. Dirt, mud, leaves etc. Soil grows at about 1 mm per year. 1 meter in 1000 years. Historically cities were hit by floods and wars and new buildings were built on top of th
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by pmontra 1y ago
It's HTML imagemaps from the 90s, when we could not style buttons and navbars where GIFs with links in the right places. Browsers still have the code to render them. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/We
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by pmontra 1y ago
My experience with uMatrix: most sites work right away. Others require fiddling with the matrix of media, script, xhr, frames and the third parties serving them. After a while it's easy to remember which ones must be temporary enabled
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by pmontra 1y ago
I more or less use those addons (uMatrix instead of NoScript) plus uBlock Origin. uMatrix doesn't load a large number of JS files. An example from an ecommerce site I'm browsing right now: the site is functional (at least in brows
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by pmontra 1y ago
That happened with the Mac in the mid 90s and Apple closed the deals immediately when the clones started to sell well, because they were better machines than the ones Apple sold. If Apple didn't stop the clones they would be a software
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by pmontra 1y ago
A Motif interface from the early 90s at about 10:00 in the video. That X-Ray detector has probably a very long history.
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by pmontra 1y ago
The Unihertz Atom is probably too small but it really fits the niche its web site targets. I might consider it for my bike.
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by pmontra 1y ago
It's very difficult to find something around 140 grams and 140x80 even giving them some slack about the thickness. The Samsung S25 [1] is about there but I currently still use an A40 [2] because of the size and weight. I'd give aw
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by pmontra 1y ago
> I was so much hoping for an iPhone that will fit into my pocket Yes, and I was about to write "so some Android manufacturer will copy Apple and deliver a phone of the size that was common 10 years ago." Almost all of them are
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by pmontra 1y ago
The data is out there if we give at least wheels to a robot and let it bump into things like we did when we were little. We didn't need a billion pictures or videos. Only trial and error, then we developed a mental map of our home and
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by pmontra 1y ago
In my experience copying from some programs preserves long lines. Copying from other programs breaks them at the wrap point. Once the text is cut into lines, pasting can't fix it. I'm not at my computer now so I can't give fa
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by pmontra 1y ago
Their goal is not my goal. My goal is to fly to a destination. A paper ticket has always been enough for that. And if they want to upsell a web page can be full of upselling too. But I don't want upsells, only a flight and air companie
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5 Scenarios to keep the Netherlands dry (2022)(watersnoodmuseum.nl)
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by pmontra 1y ago
I remember the hours gcc needed to compile itself on those HP servers. We needed it for all the programs that would not compile with HP's cc. We also installed some GNU userland utilities because, as you wrote, they were better than th
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by pmontra 1y ago
There are so many people buying rice that's not hard for rice producers to forecast how many thousands of tons of rice they have to grow each year. And not many people look at how much they spend for rice year long. For the single box,
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by pmontra 1y ago
China owns some ports abroad and probably they have enough leverage in some of those countries to let their ships dock there.
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by pmontra 1y ago
Yes, but now that's the answer to questions like "how do we deploy AI without pissing off our communities?"
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by pmontra 1y ago
The post is about that 99% of companies that will never go large scale. Its point is that they don't need cloud, buying a server or two is all they need.
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by pmontra 1y ago
Especially because one does not have to push three keys with the same hand, which is not nice to tendons. I think I did that for a while time ago, then forgot about it. Thanks.
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by pmontra 1y ago
Yeah, that slows down typing a lot. Luckily people on a laptop can use the touchpad which lies just below the space bar. I have a laptop with physical keys around the touchpad so I even have a button to paste. No need to tap, double tap, et
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by pmontra 1y ago
That's an X11 thing that Wayland had to reimplement because it's so convenient. The problem is when pasting into the terminal something that another program copied into the clipboard. That's ctrl-shift-c. I thought about rema
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by pmontra 1y ago
The naive implementation is a train: everybody enters at once at a fixed point, the strip accelerates, everybody leave at the next stop or stay for the next stop. I wonder if you devised a way to make people keep accelerating while other en
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by pmontra 1y ago
As a EU citizen I'd ask for at least a 2/3 majority to let the UK back into the EU, maybe 3/4. They came, they were always skeptical, they left, they want to come back? Please demonstrate that you made up your mind and won&#x
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by pmontra 1y ago
We did have that well into Internet years because some services where not there yet. I give you an example: I worked for one of the early 3G providers (2003-). YouTube is from 2005. We developed and run streaming video services because our
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by pmontra 1y ago
We would have had telcos (or satellite TVs) creating and competing on siloed services and eventually some big company would buy a telco to have access to their customers. Some multinational telcos would provide the same services around the
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by pmontra 1y ago
My naive way to think about a reality without time is that all the possibile states of reality are already there, all together. The rules are about how to move from one state to another one, like water flowing on the side of a mountain. Tho
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by pmontra 1y ago
Maybe what breaks that process is what Edge does not do and Safari does. There is more to a browser than the rendering engine. Furthermore, does Safari still uses an optimized JS engine that the other browsers cannot use?
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by pmontra 1y ago
So are we going to download APKs from fDroid to our computers and then adb install them to our phones? For every update? I see a lot of people, even developers, giving up.

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