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by pqb 6y ago
> We turned the Karuma [...] It was Kuruma, in Japanese it means just a "car".
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by pqb 6y ago
As other commenter mentioned the BigQuery supports the `SELECT * EXCEPT(column names...) FROM mytable` syntax. Also, it is worth noting the `SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mytable` in BigQuery is faster and cheaper than `SELECT COUNT(always_truish_co
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by pqb 6y ago
Honestly, I don't know if it is related but I learned it is way better to keep per-disk configuration instead of dual-boot using exactly the same disk but having multiple partitions. These days the SSD disk are really cheap and the sim
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by pqb 6y ago
What touches me the most is how much I like the GUI applications look [0][1]. As a person, who use GNOME Shell DE on daily basis I really miss to see the titlebars condensed with the menu just like VSCode does. It was what I liked in the v
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by pqb 6y ago
There are many opinions here that are rather do not follow your idea as-is, but I would like to say do not give up if your project is even dedicated for only your use-case. I believe, you already know the way how you write data is exactly w
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by pqb 6y ago
Relating Telegram, it is worth to read one of the latest Durov post [0] about the possible future of the Telegram becoming used as a construct of a social platform. [0]: https://t.me/s/durov/142
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by pqb 6y ago
I second the AnySoftKeyboard. It is nice alternative, however I miss the mode that resembles BlackBerry 10 keyboard, especially in case of autocompletion suggestions that popped over specific letter and I had to swipe it up [0] in order to
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by pqb 6y ago
> What I don't miss from Ubuntu are the PPA's, I have just looked into the extra sources to see if I have any PPA there but I was surprised to see the only one, which come with a Pop_OS! to bring some custom tiling manager and
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by pqb 6y ago
> The ability for one window to float over another was a later innovation and is of course more difficult to implement. I find it funny, because I would say I have seen more floating window manager, when I was browsing GitHub, so I assum
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by pqb 6y ago
> I have found that a lot of people _think_ Ubuntu is safe/stable. As a 10+ years long user of Ubuntu and its derivatives (currently Pop_OS!) I would say I know it is stable. Ubuntu still feels like a polished Debian for a typical c
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by pqb 6y ago
> And the little bit of information they provide, like a link. I don’t know. I share the lack of sentiment to hype and overusing its name and symbol but I cannot agree about the sentence I have quoted about. The QR code comes with titles
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by pqb 6y ago
I second qrencode. It is notoriously used by the password-store [0]. Theirs qr function is perfect to extract as a separate script and put them into the $PATH (especially useful when it is needed to generate and save some QR codes). The o
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by pqb 6y ago
> I still don't know why they stuck the "Java" name on JavaScript. It is still funny to see a job offer with a mistaken Java and JavaScript posted in a title or in requirements section.
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by pqb 6y ago
Discussed previously: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12703751 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15262981 PS. Would you mind adding a [2016] in the title? It will show readers they probably need
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by pqb 6y ago
Yes, it is a standard Play Store / Google Services on Fairphone. However, it comes with a very small amount of applications pre-installed. I was really surprised when I turned it on for the first time.
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by pqb 6y ago
That's interesting. I have a Fairphone 3 with a stock Android 10 and it does not come with the Duo pre-installed. The icon for video chats in Contacts app is greyed-out. After installing the Google Duo, it becomes active. Is it possib
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by pqb 6y ago
That's actually (at least recently) quite "popular" product I would say, because they included it in most Android smartphones to offer video calls. I am tempted to say Google Duo is spread on millions of devices, however it i
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by pqb 6y ago
I assume you are talking about a similar tool to the Atlantis [0] / Terraform SaaS offering [1]. [0]: https://www.runatlantis.io/ [1}: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/terraform-collaboration-for-e..
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by pqb 6y ago
Ouch, what a shame on my side. Sorry, I must have missed it. Thanks for pointing it out.
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by pqb 6y ago
Yes, it is true. However, I am hesitant to say the AWS CloudFormation is a bulletproof tool that does not need help from the support side. If somebody was too impatient and manually removed a resource that was managed by CFN, then he might
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by pqb 6y ago
> I'm over here laughing in my "over an hour of CloudFormation only to have a run fail, and then a rollback fail, and have to contact AWS support" life. Oh, I see I am not alone in having the same experience with the AWS C
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by pqb 6y ago
> terraform-lsp is supposed to provide autocomplete, but it mostly doesn’t, in my experience. I find Terraform for Jetbrains IDEs to work hundred times better than the VSCode one. I really can recommend it, does magic to autocompletion,
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by pqb 6y ago
In case of running/testing window manager on Linux there is Xephyr(1), which creates a brand new display (opened as a new windowed "app") that can be used without breaking the main $DISPLAY that comes with GNOME/KDE&#x2F
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by pqb 6y ago
GTA even had a few minutes coverage on the BBC TV in 1996 [0] (mirror on the YouTube: [1]). Reporter visits the DMA studio and discusses with game developers. [0]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7372117
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by pqb 6y ago
Erm, no. I think I haven't been clear in my first post. I am not asking about "how to install apt package", but how to provide a universal recipe to provide 3rd-party software as handy installation script. What you suggest is
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by pqb 6y ago
Of course they are but they are meant for more sophisticated purposes, (i.e. install, update, reinstall, remove app or even purge program with user data, etc.) and all of that logic is usually covered with signature checking with other secu
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by pqb 6y ago
Actually, deb is way how to "distribute" software not to "just" install something. Let's say I would like to install Docker I will need to type following commands in case of Ubuntu: ( sudo apt-get update
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by pqb 6y ago
Good question, I personally find gVisor-like [0] snippets that suggests to copy & paste in order to install the program as the most pleasant way: ( set -e URL=https://storage.googleapis.com/gvisor/rele
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by pqb 6y ago
Yes, it was fantastic - minimal, elegant, simple, fast, had low learning curve and everything had a description - even icons in action bar[0]. As their competitors, namely iOS7+ and Android 5+ totally replaced gradients into flat design I w
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by pqb 6y ago
I would say exactly the opposite. I regret of buying a book from Amazon [0] dedicated to Kindle-use, because it is DRM protected and I am forced to use "Amazon Kindle" application, otherwise I cannot open it. I am usually okay wit

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