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by pxtail 4y ago
Voice assistants are just too unsophisticated, lacking required context. Recently during a drive I decided to give the Google Assistant another try - Google Maps was being utilized as the navigation but screen was too bright for my liking -
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by pxtail 4y ago
No hope unfortunatelly, car-as-subscription is the dream of automakers and they will do everything to reach the goal. Adding various gimmicks and as many electronic failure points as possible is to make device less reliable and obsolete in
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by pxtail 4y ago
Full recovery to what, stagnation? He is just taking the risk of trying to leap forward in addition to just waiting - FB currently is stagnant, unfashionable, lame, boomer network for old people and ads and it will be like that for a long l
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by pxtail 4y ago
And THIS is the primary source of my furious hate in my toxic love-hate relationship with bash. Guy is writing bash FOR 10 FUCKING YEARS and still apparently doing it wrong in 10 letter oneliner. When it comes to bash search for even simple
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by pxtail 4y ago
I think that it was very good idea to make post edit interface very similar to Wordpress one - plenty of people will be familiar with it right away!
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by pxtail 4y ago
In a very simple way: it's basically single remaining option if someone doesn't want to live in Apple dreamland for some reason (there can be multiple from economical to ideological) AND do not want to own "chineese" pho
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by pxtail 4y ago
This feature is available indeed but I don't feel like it's significant improvement - sensors are too slow to react, too imprecise and moreover drivers seem to rely on them too much, are lazy and don't care about others - for
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by pxtail 4y ago
But the obvious difference is that binoculars were not sold with citizen from the other country attached who would stand near and occasionally would peer through and also report to office worker exact position of the binoculars owner AND al
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by pxtail 4y ago
> It is very rare we get the subject of MySQL on HN Front-page considering HN have been pretty much Anti-MySQL, Which is quite hilarious in the context of looking at all current answers mentioning MySQL as the database for plenty of hi
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by pxtail 4y ago
Not necessarily as it could be Russian false flag operation to justify retaliation in the form of, for example Baltic Pipe damage
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by pxtail 4y ago
Potential to discover, explore previously unknown land/terrain - everything can be scouted, planned, checked from satellite images upfront - or even on the go using phone. Moreover it is probably lost forever because even before arrivi
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by pxtail 4y ago
Match in swimming briefs inside Faraday Cage would have absolutely record viewership
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by pxtail 4y ago
When UML concept was introduced to me at university I was astonished by it and thought that it's really brilliant - I perceived it as parallel concept to construction and architectural blueprints. I noticed how it helped to plan softwa
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by pxtail 4y ago
> young people refuse to pay and force the government How they would be able to "refuse to pay" if payment will come as form of taxes for goods and services? And moreover they won't be able to "force" government
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by pxtail 4y ago
> We create websites with a neutral carbon footprint What are characteristics of such website? How can I make my site 'neutral carbon footprint' too?
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by pxtail 4y ago
Looks like perfect execution of the classic "during a gold rush, sell shovels"
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by pxtail 4y ago
> It's an arms race. > I feel pressure to upgrade both to something larger. It's same for me - one really starts to double think choice of next car when someone clearly distracted, on the phone etc. stops in perpendicular st
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by pxtail 4y ago
I absolutely love this map and I'm using is frequently for kayaking, trekking and bike trips planning and during the trips as well - only thing missing is the social aspect of google maps - photos and comments for locations Google maps
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by pxtail 4y ago
Maybe it works but why someone would want to use 3rd party service with no privacy policy, TOS, owners etc.
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by pxtail 4y ago
Wow so many nice database-related news recently - feels like database week or something! :)
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by pxtail 4y ago
Thank you for kind words man, I appreciate it a lot
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by pxtail 4y ago
> it's simply not worth the trouble This philosophy can be applied for everything and unfortunately - for me - it's incredibly poisonous, I was very passionate about programming, coding, about this unique property of it that on
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by pxtail 5y ago
> Like, we can say it's because of covid, but something seems a miss to me. I'm wondering about this as well - it's hard to imagine that this is not part of greater strategy so either all of this is intentional to increase
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by pxtail 5y ago
How to discover these instances? I would imagine that downside of this approach would be the danger of existing only within certain bubbles and never being exposed to different point of view.
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by pxtail 5y ago
This could be difficult to understand but in Poland due to the history there is sentiment that country was betrayed or abandoned, not helped by allies at the start of WWII by Britain, France. Of course it's not certainty as you wrote b
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by pxtail 5y ago
At same time this is also populist message to Putin supporters among regular working class citizens "see? our grand leader gonna finally shake them pesky rich thieves!"
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by pxtail 5y ago
(Un)fortunately there is absolutely no credibility anymore behind any messages released by putins govt, they proved multiple times already that they are saying one thing and doing another.
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by pxtail 5y ago
> That's how it works, but can he incarcerate millions of people? Don't underestimate Russian capabilities when it comes to punishing regular people - 18millions went through gulag system https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by pxtail 5y ago
Very well written, I have similar weird feeling that the start of this war was important point in multiple plans which were designed for years and meant to be realized for decades and in the end can result in totally different world than we
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by pxtail 5y ago
Damn, that's the dedication - triggering whole complex operation where multiple people and systems are engaged and consume energy just to get slightly different kind of rice.

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