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by rkomorn 1y ago
But the history of why we stuck to four-twenties sort of makes it worse. We were allegedly headed to sanity but l'Academie was like "actually let's stick to soixante-dix, quatre-vingt, and quatre-vingt-dix".
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by rkomorn 1y ago
As a French person who grew up going to a school in Belgium for a bit as a kid, I was quite amused by their numbers. My thought as a 6 year old was "aw, are soixante-dix, quatre-vingt, and quatre-vingt-dix too complicated for you?&quot
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by rkomorn 1y ago
I'm guessing a bigger consideration is whether what appears online is subject to selection bias (especially when the context is "look how much better the food in European schools is"). Maybe it's also changed a lot. My a
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by rkomorn 1y ago
Will we be able to play Subnautica 2 at all, at this rate? :/
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by rkomorn 1y ago
> Occasionally I will see posted the beautiful school lunches given to children in many European countries. Nutritious, appetizing, made from scratch. Man, comments like these compared to my 10+ school years in France really make me wond
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by rkomorn 1y ago
> Honest question. What could Vivaldi "steal" from Firefox? Not being so weirdly buggy on Windows. It's my main browser but man does it have odd behaviors that need restarts occasionally.
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by rkomorn 1y ago
> Maybe I’m wrong and internally they knew they had a major uphill battle, but I don’t think so. I think you're wrong with probably the same confidence you think you're not wrong. :) At most, I'd say they didn't expec
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by rkomorn 1y ago
I don't see Google Plus as hubris. I just think they saw a threat in Facebook and felt they had to try and build a competing product (and happened to have the time/money to invest). Doing nothing while a competitor gains steam wou
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by rkomorn 1y ago
This, plus I also find that the fact that I'm not going to spend random time thinking about upgrading my console, looking at components, etc, also respects my time (and money).
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by rkomorn 1y ago
Much appreciated. :) Edit: shame it wasn't about the band and the song though.
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by rkomorn 1y ago
I hadn't read comments about Dropbox and products/features until maybe a week or two ago and somehow don't know the reference despite having spent most of the last 20 years in tech. I presume the story is along the lines of &
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by rkomorn 1y ago
You never know! Maybe at that point all your atoms will have been recycled into a brand new consciousness absorbed into ChatGPT 7.0.
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by rkomorn 1y ago
I wonder where (and in what state) they'll be by then.
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by rkomorn 1y ago
And even more so for people with corrective lenses and/or weird eye behaviors. Didn't stop me from getting two different Oculus headsets (and some custom corrective lense inserts) but ultimately, comfort is what made me give up.
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by rkomorn 1y ago
I agree but also: famous last words. :)
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by rkomorn 1y ago
It does in the ways that seem important to GP based on their comment, and aside from restarting when the browser updates or other pedantry, it does.
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by rkomorn 1y ago
IIRC (I tried it last year and gave up) the desktop app also didn't properly deal with archived chats, and maybe some other notifications behaviors. Maybe this will make me try the desktop app again.
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by rkomorn 1y ago
I use the WhatsApp Web PWA and it allows me to have a dedicated window/app for it? Sure it's a little quirky at times (eg it closes if the browser restarts for update) and it doesn't have a system tray icon, but aside from th
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by rkomorn 1y ago
Yeah, calls are the only I installed the Windows desktop app instead of using WhatsApp Web.
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by rkomorn 1y ago
> That's been debunked. Every consumer just auto-rounds in their head. Has it? I'm searching around and not coming up with much that says that's the case. On the other hand, here are some recent-ish links that suggest it s
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by rkomorn 1y ago
Not the answer you're looking for, I know, but I used to have 100+ labels/folders, 4-5 deep, and decade+ old emails, obsessively organized etc. 5 years ago, I dropped down to 20 labels, and started routinely deleting anything over
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by rkomorn 1y ago
There's a reason everything is priced at some variety of .99, 99.99, 999.99, etc: it sells better than 1.08, 108, 1080, etc. My point is getting the consumer to eat the sales tax on top is just a wise trick by US businesses, and nothin
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by rkomorn 1y ago
Call me cynical but I don't at all believe the issue is tax jurisdictions or anything related to complexity. It's that it's easier to show a price of $0.99 and have the consumer pay $1.08 (for example) than either show a pric
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by rkomorn 1y ago
It used to take me 50 minutes to go 11 miles on 101/110 from studio city to downtown LA, so 20mph seems optimistic. Heck, it wasn't even all that rare for it to take me 45 minutes to go 5 miles on 101 from Rengstorff Ave to Willow
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by rkomorn 1y ago
> Everyone claims it is of the upmost importance at <current time>. That doesn't mean they are (or were) wrong.
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by rkomorn 1y ago
The "follow KeroPunk" part renders a bit wonky on mobile (you have to scroll inside the pane) but ... I signed up. :D If you uh... need any early testers, LMK.
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by rkomorn 1y ago
Funnily enough, not having stickers for me was an equally (if not more) reliable way to identify my laptop at those types of companies.
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by rkomorn 1y ago
Where do I sign up ?
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by rkomorn 1y ago
Huh. I've got pretty bad eyesight (so I've got noticeable corrective lenses) and I can't say I've noticed any of the issues you mention. I actually had to disable some FaceID stuff because it was too easy to get to the H
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by rkomorn 1y ago
Makes sense. Thanks. :)

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