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For some documentation we are using https://www.bookstackapp.com/ , we have also few instances for clients internal docs. What is especially nice (less for us, more for some of clients) is that it has clear, understandable
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At first sight idea seems to be good however I'm wondering if "officially" turning OS projects into job market sieve in long term could not lead to associating contribution to OS projects with mandatory unpleasant chore. I me
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Is this GPT-3 generated? This looks like affiliate links content farm designed specifically to nerdsnipe HN visitors: topic which are popular here:writing and organizing knowledge, plenty of affiliate links to most popular books frequently
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It's kind of ironic twist of fate and disgrace that something like SciHub needs to be hosted/served from Russia in order to avoid getting squished and destroyed by rent seekers greedy hands.
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Bacause FB/Meta and none of it's other incarnations is not fashionable among young generation anymore, it's platform for old people. I'm wondering what kind of play would be successful long-term in this scenario with lon
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Maybe company is changing approach - LG shut down their mobile department, Sony is selling some minuscule amounts, not sure about Motorola/Lenovo though (but I'm aware of their horribly slow almost non existent updates policy). So
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Very easy solution which I'm using when searching for something with expiry date is to look for date first and if it's not there then immediately leave site and not even bother to read anything there, if this is regular practice a
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> people arrive to be better, rather than pull the same old bullshit to protect profits Of course not, batteries for electric cars, bikes etc. will be locked down as hard as possible and new ones will cost 2/3 of the new car price
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Thanks to this cursed god forsaken parasite "Pinterest" I just completely stopped using google's image search option. I'm using bing/ddg now and it feels soooo good compared to how awful google search experience bec
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I observed in myself that when learning new programming language/framework/concept I usually need to force myself through first few chapters even though I may not necessarily understand why . This understanding usually happens la
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Recently there was discussion[0] about Apple devices dominance amongst teenagers ~85% mobile devices in US. Apple is heading towards market domination in a couple of years - in US first but in some European countries trend seems to be catch
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The thing is that US is still the "trend setter" - if using iPhones is fashionable and using other phone is not and puts teenager out of the group then they'll want it at all cost, not to mention young adults and Tinder relat
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I agree, I think it's unethical and also wrong when looking from the angle of supporting (or at least not damaging) smaller websites owners and Internet where they are creating and maintaining own websites. Unfortunately open nature of
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Yes, there is nothing good or bad in it nor it's something new - we already experienced it in the form of `Atomic CSS` and other similar - it's just another swing of the pendulum, for some use cases it's good and will bring j
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> I don't like talking about tech and business in a sense of 'weapons', 'winning', 'smashing the competition', etc. Talking about it in this sense makes it a struggle, because one will look at tech from
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> former middle class opt out of having children because all value property is too high for them to afford Don't worry, just go ahead and don't forget to wince when looking at demographics stats, South Korea and Japan will be y
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Sounds nice but how it would be possible to prove that owner of the device attached it to vehicle? You would need to have video recording with clearly identifiable person, otherwise owner can simply say that she lost AirTag and someone did
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I'm seriously admiring spirit of people working on Asahi Linux project. In my eyes Apple, it's hardware, software, whole ecosystem and philosophy is openly hostile towards any tinkering, customization, modifications - kind of anti
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Maybe she was self-aware of the situation as well and decided to turn it into material for next joke
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Google has lame boring marketing and is just not fashionable enough at this moment, just wait until Apple iGlass ProPrivacy™ appears on the market, lines at the Apple Store will be record long and owners will wear it with pride and sense of
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Unfortunately in the wake of recent[0] news and overall history I don't feel comfortable at all about making something like this integral part of the terminal and thus giving it access to basically everything? [0] https://ne
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> Crypto is effectively monetising everything Nice, this sentence actually seems to explain pretty well why after more than 10 years for most of cryptocurrency tokens adoption and usability for common people is really minuscule. It looks
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> People complain about the "1984"cation of our society and houses, and then they literally PAY to have an always on microphone in their homes. They are doing it because they are deep in "Brave New World"ification pro
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> Someone will post a new coin and half the comments look like bots and shills loving the tech and the use cases Oh yeah, cryptocurrency classic - just look at the outcome of this thread, basically no solid solution backed up by majority
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I think that the key here is Cloudflare's approach: mainly working in the open - Akamai works kind of "behind the scenes", I don't think that developer working mainly for SMB is even able to try to evaluate their servic
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It's all pretty impressive until I start to imagine myself renting an apartment or house like this or being a guest in house like this. Then it fills me with dread and starts to send shivers down my spine. Every damn single activity mo
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> Future of cars could be irreparable, vendor-locked in(parts), e-waste after 3 years if governments don't strengthen and extend their existing repair laws (if any) for EVs. Future is now already for some cars, Nissan Leaf is a good
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One could think that multiple failed military interventions through decades which resulted in worse mess in the end than at the start could teach some lessons but apparently not. Let's send warships do deal with trash problems - yeeeee
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Unfortunately when it comes to big corporations it's hard to tell if something like this is a real effort or just _greenwashing_ meant to improve company's image in the eyes of customers and help to silence their conscience. When
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The problem I have with discord is that it's kind of similar to facebook - content placed there is elusive, temporary, hidden, non-searchable, non-indexable, non-organized. It's why I hate FB groups and pages with passion - it&#x2

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