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by rkangel 1y ago
This article doesn't sound like it's got any privacy improvements? "...users can input these seven-digit codes on online shopping websites, and their addresses will automatically appear on the sites" I was assuming the s
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by rkangel 1y ago
It doesn't have to be an achievement for humanity - it can just be a personal achievement. Thousands upon thousands of people have done the Three Peaks (a famous walking route in the UK), but I'd still like to do it, and would fee
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by rkangel 1y ago
The announcement talked about selling services built on top of the tools: https://astral.sh/blog/announcing-astral-the-company-behind-...
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by rkangel 1y ago
It's not quite that simple. I think that having that skillset and knowledge in house already probably led to it being feasible, but that's not why they did it. They created Chrome because it was in their best interests for rich we
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by rkangel 1y ago
> - They claim federation is impossible… yet matrix has it. They absolutely do NOT claim that, at least from a technical point of view: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/ > Nothing about any of
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by rkangel 1y ago
Interesting - thank you!
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by rkangel 1y ago
> know this is an issue with caesarean section. It is becoming more prevalent because those who require it are surviving You state this as a fact and I've heard it as a strong hypothesis, but I wasn't aware of much evidence to
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by rkangel 1y ago
I think there are two different things though, and in the UK the bar is (mostly) just a practical one. Lots of my colleagues cycle to work, because the cycling infrastructure is great (both from Cambridge City, and from my employer). For th
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by rkangel 1y ago
[Answer scope limited to the US] The problem is that these people want to drive, and don't care about it. They want to drive for sociological reasons - driving is seen as a symbol of American independence and financial stability. Look
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by rkangel 1y ago
Yes, this is an unfortunate direction that SO took in the last 5 or so years. In the first 5-10 years of its life it was much more welcoming and a great resource. Now it feels like a static database of (potentially slightly out of date) FAQ
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by rkangel 1y ago
I agree, but I think that you could get a useful middle ground by continuously publishing the contents of your Q&A Discord channel to the internet (in a way where it gets indexed by search engines). Yes, Stack Overflow collated these qu
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by rkangel 1y ago
If I look at my Windows system tray, it's full of random crap that I never look at and never need to. Windows has to have functionality to automatically hide icons you don't interact with. I can see why Gnome has decided just to d
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by rkangel 1y ago
This is the real missing information. I don't know how much to care (in my professional capacity) without some pricing indication.
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by rkangel 1y ago
I've been using Kagi for almost 18 months. In that time we've had a baby, and I have done many many searches about baby related things. It took months after he was born before I started getting any baby related targeted advertis
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by rkangel 1y ago
I have used Python for a long time for glue scripts, build stuff, test systems etc. and I've always thought it was great. I didn't like using it for larger applications though - when I did, I usually got bitten at some point by so
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by rkangel 1y ago
The adaptive charging used to be great for me, and then I had a baby. Now I get up a few times in the night, and so the adaptive charging just defaults to full rate. My night is still going to "end" at the same time so slow chargi
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by rkangel 1y ago
I'm a big fan of the Elixir operator, and it should be standard in all functional programming languages. You need it because everything is just a function and you can't do anything like method chaining, because none of the retur
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by rkangel 2y ago
I can't remember the last time I sent an SMS. Comparing iMessage to SMS is not useful. Compare it to one of the (several) cross platform messaging services. In Europe, Android is on equal par with Apple. WhatsApp is the default messagi
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by rkangel 2y ago
> iMessage makes it easy to identify the poors, the android users, and ignore them. I hope this is sarcasm, and you're not actually that narrow minded. It is an interesting complete marketing victory in the US by Apple though, that
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by rkangel 2y ago
> Engineering isn't about working on the most interesting problems. It's about getting stuff done and management happy. That's a perfectly reasonable thing to want out of engineering for yourself. I wouldn't state it
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by rkangel 2y ago
They're call PRNG because they are pseudo random. If you know the starting state, you know what sequence they're going to generate. Putting it another way, if you always start them in the same state, they'll always produce
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by rkangel 2y ago
I can provide one data point on privacy, that confirmed that Kagi was worth it to me. I have been using Kagi since mad way through my wife's pregnancy, and my son is now not far from a year old. Notoriously, the moment the internet get
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by rkangel 2y ago
I use it in England and I've had no problem with this at all. Out of curiosity I just tried the same search, and all the results I get are for .ie domains, so it looks to be working correctly.
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by rkangel 2y ago
I have written some large build systems entirely in Make. More complex things tend to rely on templates, but you can build arbitrary things, with two main limitations: The error messages are awful, particularly if using templates. "Une
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by rkangel 2y ago
In theory Bluesky is not centralised. In practice there's only one company operating a relay. The model of "identity backed by domain ownership" is a nice one, and deals with the Mastodon identity portability issue.
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by rkangel 2y ago
Guix is an alternative implementation - based on the same general design principles as Nix. It uses Guile scheme as the language, which is at least a more conventional programming language.
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by rkangel 2y ago
The old mechanism had one serious usability flaw. This is a common sequence: 1) Put console into dock when you get home. 2) Some time later, remove controllers to use them To remove them you need to pull them up, while the console is in the
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by rkangel 2y ago
We're at that point in history BECAUSE everyone has a DSLR in their pocket. Image quality on modern phones is in large part due to a lot of image processing done by the phone. Multiple photos being taken, combined for least blur and be
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by rkangel 2y ago
I agree that there needs to be more ISM bands, but I don't agree that licencing bands is niche at all. The bands owned by Cellular providers are not entirely empty at all, in fact they're very well utilised. It is much easier to m
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by rkangel 2y ago
There are two things that I'm pretty sure are true: - People think that messages are a timeline and are in chronological order. For non distributed messages (Teams, WhatsApp) that's the reality, and people don't read message

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