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   by progre 5y ago

   Yes, turns out the downloaded apk was corrupt. I did a new download and it installed fine.
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   by progre 5y ago

   Yup, exactly what I did, turns out my download was corrupt. Downloaded again, and it installed fine.
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   by progre 5y ago

   Well, there are the Vinland sagas, and while the events in those are pretty wild, the mere existence of those suggests that some actualy did return. They where recorded sometime between 1220 and 1280 so even though this was well after the f
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   by progre 5y ago

   Install how? My Samsung won't let me run .apk:s.
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   by progre 5y ago

   I suspect the Vatican would have no problem if that story turned out to be true: "Ah, but who gave the aliens the power to give humans intelligence? Surely only god could do that."
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   by progre 5y ago

   If we are adding comedies, surely Life Of Brian deserves to be on the list? Highlighting the absurdeties of dogmatism in both religious and secular contexts.
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   by progre 5y ago

   Circuit bending is the practice of modifying the electronics of musical instruments and toys that where never intended to be musical instruments in the first place. One common techniqe is to find the clock source of whatever microchip there
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   by progre 5y ago

   Hey, XKCD-guy gets a mention!
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   by progre 5y ago

   I belive you mean Fog Creek. Foghat is a blues rock band.
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    by progre 5y ago

    Evidence? This is just, like, my opinion, man. But nested subqueries and old style joins... ripe for rewrite if I had say.
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    by progre 5y ago

    While some of their complaints are legit I think most of the SQL in this article are straw men. Most of it can be made more readable and more performant.
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    by progre 5y ago

    I do love SQL and at least where I live (MS SQL Server) it can be made to run amazingly fast if you take some care with your queries and indexes. It's not portable though: as far as I know not a single one of the big sql vendors follow
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    by progre 5y ago

    Sure, but forking it is a completely unneccesary duplication of efforts moving Audacity forward thats only motivated by the introduced telemetry.
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    by progre 5y ago

    The way to UX improvements apperently involves forking WxWidgets.
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    by progre 5y ago

    Since they have had most of the copyright for contributions assigned to them they can rewrite the few parts that they dont have copyright for and relicense the whole thing though.
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    by progre 5y ago

    Should be "green" in quotes. Hydro power is devestating for the river ecosystem. But it's low on greenhouse gases and maybe thats what matters at this point.
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    by progre 5y ago

    I'm still sad that runnaroo went away as it felt like searching google felt like 10 years ago. https://www.runnaroo.com/
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    by progre 5y ago

    Worth watching for the capacitater joke alone
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    by progre 5y ago

    In Sweden the banks are required to share data with other entities at the request of the bank customer. So I could intall the Tink app or whatever, and connect to my bank through the app. I think the data formats are even somewhat standardi
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    by progre 5y ago

    Lots of words are similar. Both are decendants of old norse, but English has accuired quite a bit of latin since the Norman conquest
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    by progre 5y ago

    And "tun" (enclosure, in Swedish the word means the space between farmhouses on a farm) is the root of the english word "town".
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    by progre 5y ago

    I have personally dealt with GDPR compliance.
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    by progre 5y ago

    >Tracking ethics aside, GDPR is expensive to comply with. If that's the case I think you probably had bad data policies to begin with.
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    by progre 5y ago

    Why not? The Phoenicians had rowers and could just take down their sails. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trireme they also beached their boats at night so they must have been quite comfortable traveling ove
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    by progre 5y ago

    I have never had to take a general IQ test when job hunting here in Sweden. Coding tests, yes, but not IQ.
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    by progre 5y ago

    I think they are buying because of the audience.
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    by progre 5y ago

    Those two are a huge inspiration for sure! I can recommend their youtube channel: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCzdg4pZb-viC3EdA1zxRl4A
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    by progre 5y ago

    This is a tangent, but I have a feeling that the Icelandic reluctance to use loan words is actually slowly killing the language. I know people that acually prefer speakning english to each other despite beeing native Icelandic speakers. App
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    by progre 5y ago

    Like this one. Wanna see a scared lion? https://youtu.be/a5V6gdu5ih8
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    Stitcher buys 99 Percent Invisible(theverge.com)

    2 points by progre 5y ago|0 comments