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by rkangel 3y ago
You've moved the goalposts on this argument now. "$Thing is hard to implement on Wayland and requires quite a lot of effort by each DE"[1] is a very different argument to "$Thing doesn't work on Wayland". Pre
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by rkangel 3y ago
> It's fine to have the "works on my machine" attitude for a user discussing this on the web. I just hope the devs of what is being pushed as a replacement for what works don't have it. (and the signals aren't go
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by rkangel 3y ago
I have personal experience with Greece trying very hard to manage the public impression of safety in Greek waters. They understand that tourism is a key source of income do do some positive things try and keep it safe but they will also go
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by rkangel 3y ago
Also Chrome has a hard limit on the length of history that it'll store and I regularly want things that I saw more than 90 days ago. Firefox seems to be longer.
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by rkangel 3y ago
This is going to be sorted in the UK through legal means rather than your clever technical workaround: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66085232
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by rkangel 3y ago
There is a good range of "3-in-1" sets that are good at starting kids off building the same bricks into multiple models: https://www.lego.com/en-gb/themes/creator-3-in-1 Once they've got a few sets
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by rkangel 3y ago
> In recent years, there is a general drift towards "collectible display models" I think there is an actually an "addition" here rather than a change. You're an adult conversing with adults (I assume) and therefo
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by rkangel 3y ago
I talk in terms of an even simpler mental model that you might call the "Two-document model". All documentation really fits into two groups - "Reference level" documentation and "Guide level" documentation. Ref
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by rkangel 3y ago
It's a reasonable response to Twitter's issues because of Musk publicising that he was going to clear out Twitter's bloated architecture. If you take responsibility for an architecture it's ok to be criticised if things
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by rkangel 3y ago
Yeah, the web version of Teams is fine but doesn't support Firefox properly - e.g. can't make calls. This is annoying because Firefox containers are ideal for managing the multiple teams sessions I have for different clients.
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by rkangel 3y ago
It's worth remembering that all of these solutions are Wine (or Proton which is a fork) underneath, it's just a question of packaging. The Steam Deck is a Linux Gaming machine that uses Proton to make the vast majority of the Stea
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by rkangel 3y ago
That's why the number is 1 and not 4. The processor is 4 wide so if it was doing the absolute theoretical maximum you'd get an IPC of 4. Brendan's "rule of thumb" of 1 is taking the multi-cycle thing into account.
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by rkangel 3y ago
Yes. I spent last week hoping that everyone from Reddit moves to Lemmy, but I realised that I don't need Reddit to die, I just need Lemmy to be successful enough . There is a critical mass of people needed to sustain a set of useful s
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by rkangel 3y ago
The important issue with VLF radio in this case is that what we need is sub->ship communication. VLF relies on massive antenna, often ground based to (very slowly) send message to subs. My understanding is that for comms the other way, t
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by rkangel 3y ago
[I don't have stats, but one anecdote:] I was originally a desktop user of Reddit, before the redesign. At some point I also installed Sync Pro to read occasionally on mobile, but it wasn't my primary interface to Reddit. I'm
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by rkangel 3y ago
I do miss the discussion in some cases. I'm an NFL fan in the UK so I don't have a lot of other NFL fans around me. /r/nfl and /r/greenbaypackers were both great for providing me with a community of people I co
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by rkangel 3y ago
https://lobste.rs/ and https://raddle.me/ are "Reddit style" sites. Slightly different approaches to moderation and signup. Lemmy and Kbin are the future I'd like. As siblings have said they&
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by rkangel 3y ago
I've been using Lemmy, and while there are a couple of places to improve (around how interacting with communities on other instances works, and how you end up looking at your own instance's view so you can interact) my only issue
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by rkangel 3y ago
> The problem is that many people have come to think of reddit as a public utility That's a good summary of the problem, and I would extend that to say that public utilities should be in control of the public, which means federated
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by rkangel 3y ago
I agree with you, but I am actually finding some enjoyment in using something that's at an earlier stage. I'm not normally the early-adopter type and Lemmy does fundamentally work - its issues are missing features rather than bugs
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by rkangel 3y ago
> If Reddit was a business I wanted to give money to, then Reddit Gold would be a perfectly fine way to do so I think people underestimate this. I'm always much happier for my cash to go to a business that I like. Where "like&q
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by rkangel 3y ago
Yeah, any of those 3 would be fine. Except that in all cases it needs 6 months notice to reduce the hit on app developers that have year long contracts with users.
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by rkangel 3y ago
I agree with everything except the last sentence. Reddit does want to push you towards the use of /r/all (or similar) because that's they get more time in front of your eyeballs. The design of the product is pushing you towar
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by rkangel 3y ago
It's slightly more verbose but I have mostly stopped using the & notation to produce functions out of thin air[1]. I find the following code is much more easily readable - more welcoming to the less experienced, less brain load for
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by rkangel 3y ago
Yeah, but that last bit is so valuable . How often have I answered a technical question by adding "Reddit" to the search query. Having discussion indexable raises the value of any community.
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by rkangel 3y ago
I have come to understand that due to rhe paradox of tolerance some form of moderation is absolutely necessary for the long term health of a community: "The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its a
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by rkangel 3y ago
This exact situation is why federation is valuable. It allows us to separate the "shape" of tool that we want from the people who run it. Reddit is a useful concept: a series of communities with voting and hierarchical discussion.
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by rkangel 3y ago
I'm a fairly heavy Reddit user and I've been musing on what I would lose if Reddit shut down. I came to the conclusion that /r/nfl and /r/knitting were far and away the leaders (and in fact otherwise it might b
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by rkangel 3y ago
> I wonder if the framework is particularly tied to Elixir or if it could be done in a more popular language so more people will take it up. My understanding of the origin of Phoenix is that Chris McCord tried to create something like Li
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by rkangel 3y ago
I've never encountered a high volume mould tool that was less than $50k. In addition to being two piece is it also a low complexity part, e.g. just a few straight faces with pretty lose tolerances? I'm still amazed you got it that

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