randmeerkat

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by randmeerkat 2y ago
How about what’s your go to programming language?
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>…addicted to their phones by making Watch support exclusive to iPhone. Buy a Garmin watch, battery life measured in weeks, and you’ll never have to re-enter your pin again because it moved on your wrist. You’ll still get great fitness t
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How do you feel about Clojure vs Lisp?
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iLemming you clearly know how to interwebs, well met.
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> If you think that "VI is a superior editor than Emacs", I'm afraid you still have a shallow understanding of both. Thank you for your long and thoughtful prose, so fitting for an emacs user. One day, when you value produ
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> Strategically thinking, after setting the shredder on fire it will be harder to shred the code of the future emacs clones! :D The most realistic future is that emacs begins shipping with a self-shredding feature. C-h s
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<3
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> I would like to see a dedicated new user/learner mode “To run the tutorial, start Emacs and type C-h t, that is, Ctrl-h followed by t.”[1] [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/
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Realize that VI was the superior editor, give up on the endeavor, print out the code I had already written for emacs, shred it, then set the shredder unceremoniously on fire. For those that downvote me, worth it.
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> They have some of the most recognisable IP in gaming (and with Pokemon etc, one of the most recognisable bits of IP in the world), so they have the market power to pull people to buy their hardware too. I haven’t picked up my Switch si
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> Nintendo currently rent out NES games as part of Switch online If Nintendo really cared about this they should create their own version of Spotify for legacy video games and charge a monthly subscription fee for the entire library that
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Verizon Outage(cnet.com)
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Touché
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> Removable storage should come standard with any mobile device. Removable storage should come standard with any device.
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> Probably a dumb question, but what are the 3 taps for after screwing each screw? I presume they are tapping the screwdriver itself? I think it’s a torque screwdriver.
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> That's kind of the opposite of the Hacker ethos HN revolves around YComb and finding ideas that make great products. Someone has come up with a brilliant solution and someone else is saying they want to buy it. HN isn’t about “hac
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Gaming laptops have user replaceable batteries.
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> What do you mean by that? Due to geopolitics? Or at a technical level of the current law? Geopolitics, but the technical level of law certainly plays a part. Europe had no idea what the effect of leveling lawsuits against a fortune one
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> Until these fines become meaningful, companies will just continue breaking the law and asking for forgiveness later, as the changes to their market cap can offset this fine in hours. Up until recent years the EU didn’t even know if it
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> Still not something they want user serviceable, I imagine mostly because it creates headaches for everyone involved. User replaceable cell phone batteries used to be the norm, not the exception.
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> If the iPhone would have true user-swappable batteries, their business would collapse. It’s coming, the EU brought the USB-C port to the iPhone and in 2027 it brings user replaceable batteries too. [1] [1] https://appleinsid
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> apple isnt building to impress internet neckbeards like us. they are building for the normies. features they understand intuitively and cannot fuck up. maybe wait til it gets in the normies hands to judge. Apple has lost its way, just
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> You have no idea how true this is :). I had to upgrade everything, the old site didn't even have SSL. But this annoyed me so much I wanted others to know how to fix it. People like you are the ones that make the internet worth log
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> I'd be extremely happy to be wrong, as I invest my life and my family's in the US. Spend less time reading the news and more time enjoying your family. The world has been “ending” for decades now, the U.S. isn’t going anywher
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> I'm curious about such questions because on a larger scheme of the things, I really hope that Boeing is not a miniature reflection of the US - an empire in its twilight that got entangled in irreconcilable interests, doomed to wat
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I will never trade liberty for the easy fix. That side road you are so willing to take could very well be what ends the democracy that you’ve lost faith in. What comes after is something much more sinister.
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Nihilism does nothing but to further erode the foundations of democracy.
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> There was a UT reboot, but as the other poster mentioned, when Fortnite eventually took off, they removed everyone from the project around May 2017. Yeah, I guess I was always holding out some futile hope that they may reboot it at som
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> Fortunately UT2k4 is still fun and plays well, even on an ancient PC, and looks decent enough. I’ve heard there’s still some folks on some self-hosted servers playing it, maybe I’ll have to look into that.
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> His talks are great to watch, and the books on BSD design as well. If you had to pick one book, which one would you select?

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