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by rkangel 3y ago
I did - edited to fix.
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I am currently trialling Bitwarden. I have found that it's not that great at picking up that you are creating an account, offering to generate and then saving the result (using Firefox with Bitwarden extension). I am looking at the oth
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It is analogous to spending half your time writing tests when developing software. Yes it slows you down in the very short term, but in the medium and long term it speeds you up as you have confidence in the code and there aren't bugs
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I get the issues, but using a fresh name that doesn't have pre-conceptions is often the better idea. If I call something a "package" people will have an immediate understanding of what "package" means, but it will b
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by rkangel 3y ago
These days browsers are good at following standards, but it's very important what's actually in the standards. There is potential for Google to use Chrome's market share to move the standards in a user hostile way. Chromium b
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It won't be completely the same as git, because the client fetches stuff more lazily (according to the linked presentation). So the backend will still fill up with stuff and need lots of storage, but the clients then won't necessa
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by rkangel 3y ago
I almost always do "git add -p", "git commit". "add -p" is great for showing you all the chunks of code you've written one-by-one and then you do "y" or "n" for whether you're addi
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by rkangel 3y ago
Can you not "just" pay a subscription for a VoIP/SIP phone number and then use a compatible app on your phone? There are several providers you can just pay a per-number monthly fee and will handle calls and texts.
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by rkangel 3y ago
FWIW, that line you've written looks a lot like Verilog (or any other hardware description language).
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That's also true in other domains - the more I learn about a sport the more interesting it is to watch because there is more to see and understand. I can see the opportunity though for analysis to overcome emotion. You want to respond
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by rkangel 3y ago
I switched to Firefox for the idealogical reasons above and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was a net improvement. The only site I have compatibility issues with on desktop is MS Teams and even then it's only for voice/
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by rkangel 3y ago
I'm actually not sure this isn't better. Targetting Linux directly can have some challenges to work across the given distros. Instead we've adopted this standardised portability layer that just needs to be made to work once o
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by rkangel 3y ago
This is probably right for kids development, but if I was actually making a game I would probably target Proton rather than Linux. That way I have both Windows and Linux support very easily.
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by rkangel 3y ago
I think this is ignoring that different approaches to budgeting are needed for different people. For me, I have a Monzo account that I put my monthly "disposable" income in. Monzo is a (mostly) UK digital bank with a good app that
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by rkangel 3y ago
I'm transitioning to Bitwarden. It seems great, but the "how to get going" content is all in a series of 5 minute Youtube videos. I just want some text to read!
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by rkangel 3y ago
Yes, I think that's exactly right: the definition of utility needs to be expanded.
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by rkangel 3y ago
Over the course of the film, the three women cover a broader range of capabilities than just doing arithmetic, and that tagline is not unreasonable. I'm not being very specific on purpose - you should watch the film.
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If I'm rude to the butcher, they should absolutely be able to deny service. The difference with the big platforms is that denying service has rather more comprehensive effects. This is a core problem that doesn't show up in this s
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by rkangel 3y ago
I'm incredibly resistant to adding complexity to my home unnecessarily (I debug stuff at work all day, can't be bothered at home), but I am slowly adding things because they are useful. Mostly they're smart because they save
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by rkangel 3y ago
I don't like racists either, but I don't understand how you don't draw the conclusion from this story that there was both centralisation of power and abuse of power. First - he wasn't racist. It was misheard. And secon
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by rkangel 3y ago
Firefox password management on desktop is great. I've got very frustrated with it on mobile (Android) over the last 6 months, with it failing to recognise password fields on account creation to generate passwords. I was relying on Fire
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by rkangel 3y ago
Perception of relative intelligence or sensible decision making is irrelevant. Just because you think you're doing a better job doesn't mean you need to shit on the other person. You could not mention Linux at all, or you could ev
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by rkangel 3y ago
> we have to learn to work without estimations. That's all well and good in a world that's pure software (and that does happen in those environments). It's not realistic in a world with lead times on physical items that ar
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by rkangel 3y ago
This is definitely true in some places. I have worked on Defence contracts that worked in exactly that way - win the initial bid by being cheapest, and then have the MOD pay you to fix all the bugs later. OTOH, it's not the culture whe
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Unfortunately collaborative software that works well is extremely hard. It needs to be their from the very foundation of what you're building.
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> They do have a catch all, but for PR sake they probably won’t use that unless you’re clearly in the wrong. If you're relying on PR then what's the point in the licence? This is a legal agreement - it should be scoped for inte
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by rkangel 3y ago
Surely the lesson from Reddit (and Twitter and every other commercial social media entity) is that we shouldn't put our trust in a single organisation? if you're going to take the "pain" of moving away from the network e
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by rkangel 3y ago
Surely it's just a sign of the network effect? Reddit is several things, but one of them is a set of communities that provide value to people. I'm an NFL fan, but I'm in the UK so my community of people to discuss NFL with is
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by rkangel 3y ago
As a user who doesn't want to spend hours fiddling with config to make my PC work, Wayland is good for me. Plugging and unplugging monitors is now generally predictable correct in a way that it didn't used to be.
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> Yes that's the point I'm making. It is now a display server. On X it was just a desktop environment. I think this is the point, but maybe in the opposite way you mean: X was the wrong architecture for what we want to achieve

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