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by roryisok 9y ago
The same individual animal? Because that seems kind of weird for reasons I can't quite put my finger on. I guess it would be less wasteful though. If you're going to butcher a man-pig to steal his pancreas you might as well use
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by roryisok 9y ago
An experience of a community that is respectful, mature and is one of the few places on the internet where I read the comments, and don't feel ashamed of humanity afterwards. It's also linked me to all kinds of interesting tech I
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by roryisok 9y ago
Until you have to replace the battery
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by roryisok 9y ago
I'm assuming you're in the USA but geography is relevant to this question. For example, here in Ireland, older cars can be considerably more expensive to tax and insure. I'm trying to sell a 15 year old VW Golf at the moment
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by roryisok 9y ago
I see a lot of skeptical comments on here and I suppose that's healthy, but generally I find news items like this encouraging. We need to find more ways like this to use technology to fight deforestation, pollution and the erosion of t
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by roryisok 9y ago
I assume the "one per second" figure is calculated from the total tree output, not the other way around. As in, whatever rate the drones can plant per day divided by 86,400 and rounded up to one
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by roryisok 9y ago
Because they can't hover
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by roryisok 9y ago
Transpilers are nasty alright, but I like being able to write in Typescript and LESS, and to have my src split into multiple files but my distribution as a single Js file
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by roryisok 9y ago
So if I don't use Emacs, org mode is sort of pointless then? This link is for org mode in vscode which can't do any of those things?
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by roryisok 9y ago
But it really sounds like you're telling me about things Emacs can do. If I don't use Emacs, what advantage does org mode hold for me? This link is for org mode in vscode, which I do use, but from what I can see it doesn't do
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by roryisok 9y ago
Forgive my ignorance but what makes org mode better than markdown? Whenever I see it demonstrated it seems to be just another way of marking up content in plain text. Is there more to it?
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by roryisok 9y ago
I didn't think a question like this would get any attention on HN let alone hit the front page! :) Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi was one of my favourites last year
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by roryisok 9y ago
> Something has to give I disagree, I think Apple can continue to release sub standard products for macos with little or no consequence as long as people are willing to hand them $1000 for an iPhone.
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by roryisok 9y ago
The best microwave UI has just two dials. Temperature and time. For years my microwave experience involved mostly just twisting the latter and walking away. I've gone out of my way to find microwaves with this control set. Unfortunatel
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by roryisok 9y ago
It seems like every day I read a new reason not to make the update from sierra.
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by roryisok 9y ago
universe pull rebase
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by roryisok 9y ago
Three Web apps and 12 tabs might not be the equivalent of that one app in Electron, if it's a heavy one. If a Chrome browser instance running Slack uses less RAM than the Slack Electron app does, __then__ we can say Electron uses more
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by roryisok 9y ago
> You still need to update the browser wrapper through which is more annoying than pushing some code to a web server. Yes, you'd need to update and build apps for each native platform separately, but the end result would be worth it
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by roryisok 9y ago
Valid point. But also worth pointing out that react native doesn't support win 7 either (probably for that exact reason), and is often suggested as an electron alternative.
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by roryisok 9y ago
maybe not, but electron requires some refactoring and learning a few new things by itself, it's also not a straight swap from a web app.
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by roryisok 9y ago
UWP apps can be written in HTML/JS. You can run local js / html in a webview in most platforms. React Native is pretty much just this. It's a shame there isn't a cross-platform framework using webviews and native framewo
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by roryisok 9y ago
I wonder why more devs who are transitioning from javascript don't simply build a shell native app with a webview in it? UWP or .NET with a webview uses a lot less RAM than electron to do the same thing. I haven't run tests on Mac
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by roryisok 9y ago
Check out qbrt, a gecko app runtime by a mozilla engineer https://github.com/mozilla/qbrt I really hope it sees more development
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by roryisok 9y ago
> Electron can do better Think of electron as a single tab open in a browser instance. If you open 12 tabs in chrome, it doesn't use 12x the RAM, because most of the initial RAM is used maintaining the browser instance , not the re
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by roryisok 9y ago
thanks, I have the same request / reasons. don't want to miss out on fixes for the inevitable critical vulnerabilities that turn up in Sierra. On a side-note, is there anything about high-sierra that's a notable improvement o
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by roryisok 9y ago
I recently started using macos for work. I'm on sierra and every day I get pestered about upgrading to high sierra. Every day I also read a new reason not to do that. Is there any way I can turn it off?
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by roryisok 9y ago
This might sound like I'm trolling (honestly not) or trying to seem superior (Again, really not), but I try to simply use long passwords and memorize them . I'm fighting back against what I perceive to be the erosion of memory by
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by roryisok 9y ago
Oops. My bad
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by roryisok 9y ago
A big mac costs €5??
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by roryisok 9y ago
Well, he was comparing EU countries so Norway, Iceland and Finland would not be included in that. Sweden should be though

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