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pxtail
5y ago
> What happens in a few years when the screen goes out and Ford no longer maintains the part Not only that - what is currently happening with Nissan Leaf can serve as small glimpse into the future: perfectly good cars made obsolete becau
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pxtail
5y ago
There is pretty well known static site generator https://hexo.io/ At first I thought that name similarity indicates that you are using it somewhere as part of pipeline but apparently not.
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pxtail
6y ago
> It seems you have identified a lot with that language, and I see this often. Usually this happens to people who have little experience with other languages. The defend it like it is their home. My take on this topic comes from extremel
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6y ago
> is quick-to-learn, is OO to the bone, is FP where is fits with the OO, is easy to read, has little quirks. Exactly same applies to PHP - without FP part but in exchange one is getting enormous, gargantuan ecosystem of libraries, develo
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6y ago
I hate all this virtue signaling, fake actions and meaningless gestures made with one hand while other hand dumps waste without any remorse. And it's not only about apple, basically all industries are guilty: top shelf fashion companie
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6y ago
> Book does not have English translation unfortunately. It looks like there actually is English translation: https://sorus.pl/produkt/across-the-dark-continent-bicycle-d...
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6y ago
Ohh this is absolutely infuriating for me (and for others as well [0], for quite a bit of time ) on Linux desktop machine, when RAM is fully used OS just freezes and nothing besides reset with a button and potential loss of work can be don
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6y ago
I feel like that supporters count can increase due to all this mess around GME
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6y ago
Apparently in America there are huge prisons owned by private companies, traded on stock market of course. With this scenario one can quite easily imagine that incarcerating more and more inmates for maximally long periods of time could be
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6y ago
Well, I'm not sure about Bitcoin but in general cryptocurrency has a purpose. I know I'm naive in this regard but only recent events with private companies banning people from communication channels in some way opened my eyes. If
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6y ago
Personally, for sinister reasons I like what FB/Twitter and other high profile companies are doing right now. All this meddling with politics, openly taking sides and censoring based on arbitrary rules like a cesar pointing thumb up an
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pxtail
6y ago
This explains the name but the problem is that this name induces distrust and many additional questions even before visiting website: do they want to monetize me/my content? do I have to pay for it? etc. Unless intention is to have it
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6y ago
I think that in order to make it work it has to be completely free, that is - no provisions (or really really extremely low provision), no ads hijacking and other weird gimmicks. In my perception above is contradictory to plenty of involved
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6y ago
Not that much surprising at all, Bloomberg with their "Chinese chip" story already proved that hit piece which will bring many eyeballs can be published by big "trustworthy" newspaper without basically any evidence and w
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6y ago
Great idea, I hope it won't get swarmed by fake reviews. Small nitpick: site navigation is a bit clunky on desktop (Firefox) , it is not possible to open categories in new tab, scroll wheel click doesn't work as well.
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6y ago
OsmAnd fits description perfectly, you can place bookmarks, no account required, maps from OSM, offline maps which can be used even without internet connection.
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6y ago
No no no, stop it, it's Apple and this word is the synonym to "privacy", you are not buying a device, it's like second mother, caring about you and protecting your privacy with angel wings.
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6y ago
For some reason all of this induces negative emotions in me as well - it's like everyone and their mother wants to tell you how excellent they are and how you should live. Maybe it's this "write! you need to write! now!&qu
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6y ago
> Does svelte really has that much presence in industry? I hope it won't get any significant traction because I'm tired of yet-another-almost-same-but-different frontend dev option, why couldn't it be a contribution to Rea
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6y ago
> for elite professionals. > Request an invite. Ahh, good ol' artificial scarcity & elitism trick, good luck :)
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6y ago
I'm wondering if they are not planning to just sell it as (of course) privacy focused unique search experience for monthly fee or as part of package with most expensive device or other streaming service.
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6y ago
In the wake of recent GPT-3 related news I'm wondering how writing and written content perception is going to change. For me perspective of reading through a novel partially or completely generated by software makes it completely unapp
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6y ago
When someone is trying to have meaningful discussion or suggest something important and does it all on twitter for me for some reason it automatically devalues whole effort and communicates that it's just some unimportant random musi
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6y ago
> Maybe it makes sense to shoot single seasons, with multiple seasons being a rare circumstance thing. Just tell a story that fits in 6-12 hours. This actually would be a perfect fit for me - I noticed that it became off-putting for me w
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6y ago
Judging by the pace of development, adoption among users and general attitude I think that sooner or later Krita will surpass GIMP and make it obsolete.
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6y ago
Agree, it's so damn inefficient, for last 10-15 years web developers are building and "reinventing" same basic controls and functionalities over and over, this is such a waste of everything - developers time, businesses money
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6y ago
> But the Nikola truck is more than just a fuel cell vehicle; it’s a rolling super computer. One of the key elements of Nikola’s advanced system is the Bosch Vehicle Control Unit, which provides higher computing power for advanced functi
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6y ago
No worries, in new versions of Android google already decided that call recording is not something that common folk is allowed to do.
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6y ago
I think it's like this because topic is difficult and everyone is guilty so there is attempt to marginalize it and just think "I did my part, I placed bottle in correct container". This part is easy and there is the problem -
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6y ago
I agree, for me it is hard to understand reasons behind it's state - level of stubbornness is almost irrational, it's like project maintainers took some kind of secret oath to never ever surrender and bow to those pesky users dem
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