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by pmontra 1y ago
But if nobody write SEO content anymore because questions to AI remove all human traffic to those sites, where will AI find up to date opinions? Facebook ? Instagram? Meta will block Google from scraping them or ask money. Booking? Same for
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by pmontra 1y ago
I'd love to see the code of that editor. Is it publicly available somewhere?
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by pmontra 1y ago
They had Linux on DeX in 2018, killed in 2019. It was a partnership with Canonical https://9to5google.com/2018/11/09/samsung-linux-on-dex-andro... It was the Ubuntu 16.04 desktop running in a LXD container. I
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by pmontra 1y ago
I work on a laptop from 2014. An i7 4xxx with 32 GB RAM and 3 TB SSD. It's OK for Rails and for Django, Vue, Slack, Firefox and Chrome. Browsers and interpreters got faster. Luckily there was pressure to optimize especially in browsers
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by pmontra 1y ago
Did he draft people and sent them to fight, like in WW2 or the Vietnam war? I believe he didn't but I never lived in the USA so I might be wrong. At one extreme a government can draft all the population into the military and send most
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by pmontra 1y ago
Yes, Redis is usually the backing store for Rails' Sidekiq. With Elixir we stored the job data in a PostgreSQL table and started a process with the id of that record as argument. When we had to restart the BEAM (deploy, reboot, anythin
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by pmontra 1y ago
You scale Rails by adding servers (or containers) behind a load balancer and by scaling up the database server in the same ways you would do it for another server technology, including Phoenix. By the way, I've seen many more Rails pro
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EU SST closely monitors upcoming re-entry of space object Cosmos-482 Descent(eusst.eu)
2 points by pmontra 1y ago|0 comments
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by pmontra 1y ago
I never had an iPhone but I think I disabled all haptic feedback on my Android phones and tablets since forever. I find it very annoying. My phone vibrates only to signal messages and calls. BTW, I don't type on the keyboard, I swype s
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by pmontra 1y ago
I get the joke but it goes the other way around. Martini is a common family name from the north of Italy (Carmelo is common given name in the south). The drink was named after the name of company producing it (actually half of it.) The comp
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by pmontra 1y ago
That's not important. In times of war the government can draft people and send them wherever it needs. What might be more difficult to scale up is steel production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_b
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by pmontra 1y ago
It's got a number of different licenses for it's various components. LGPL 2.1 is among them. License file at https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob_plain;f=LICEN... Source at https://source
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by pmontra 1y ago
New dishwashers take a long time because they can be more energy and water efficient if they leave more time for detergents to degrade grease and the other stuff on dishes. If you don't have the time to wait for a slow cycle you use a
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by pmontra 1y ago
China and India are still formally at war since the 60s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_War and there is an ongoing dispute over territories in the east of India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by pmontra 1y ago
That seems to be a Mediterranean thing. Pitch black shutters are common also in Italy and (AFAIK) Spain. No idea about the eastern and southern Mediterranean. Rolling shutters are the norm in Italy. Old houses or country houses have traditi
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by pmontra 1y ago
It's one of those things that "why did nobody think about it yet?!"
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by pmontra 1y ago
https://archive.is/20250506094352/https://www.ft.com/content...
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by pmontra 1y ago
I think that in my country it's “1'234,5“. It was when I learned to write many years ago before computers were common.
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by pmontra 1y ago
https://archive.is/20250506014802/https://www.wsj.com/world/...
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In a democracy, you should have two votes instead of one(pietrasiak.com)
2 points by pmontra 1y ago|8 comments
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by pmontra 1y ago
One in a million is more than rolling 4 doubles in a row in backgammon (it's played with two 6 sided dice.) So if a backgammon app or server starts having about 10 thousands players it's not uncommon that every single month (or da
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by pmontra 1y ago
Or with the more affordable (in terms of skills) method of using another phone to take pictures of key messages on the screen of the first one.
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by pmontra 1y ago
Not only the backup generator of that base station but the backup power of all the network hardware up to it. The base station could have outlasted some other parts that run out of diesel before it did and yet it did not have connectivity.
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by pmontra 1y ago
That was not the case for Vietnam vs the USA or for Afghanistan vs the Soviet Union. I'm both cases there were internal anti war movements, especially in the USA, and (for the smallest state) the resolve to outwill the largest one, no
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by pmontra 1y ago
It's probably "Army Transformation and Acquisition Reform" https://www.defense.gov/news/publications/ I wonder if UAS include small FPV drones. The language of those announcements is necessarily vag
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by pmontra 2y ago
It means that Apple and their shareholders can do less things with those shares. Buying companies with their shares or selling shares to buy a car.
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by pmontra 2y ago
I googled: younger people voted for conservatives https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd6j9z3dqg8o MAID: Medical assistance in dying?
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by pmontra 2y ago
I'd say that screen capture probably works under X11 no matter what your graphic card is. However this kind of confirm your general feeling: there is no only one blessed and enforced way to do things so everything can break because of
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by pmontra 2y ago
A legitimate answer could be "who?" I played a game of Taboo (a party game) yesterday night. I asked the question "the surname of the leader of party ..." (the third largest one in my country). The guy I asked it to look
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by pmontra 2y ago
The reach of the US economy to the rest of world will be back to before WW2 too. If the USA step back other countries will fill the space they leave, especially if the USA vacate the military bases in Europe. Those countries will be more fr

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