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811.
by rvba 3y ago
Users want Firefox to be the browser that allows broad customization and multiple addons. Including addons that remove ads or allow to customiize the shell. Sadly the ones that run the org are not interested in that. All they want is fat sa
812.
by rvba 3y ago
I thought physics has its roots in mathmatics, but those religious articles never show any equations.
813.
by rvba 3y ago
Why would you? Just use Excel as a database. Unless you have big data, then maybe Postrgresql.
814.
by rvba 3y ago
Thousands of dollars is.. not that much. When I was a junior strategy consultant they charged 175 dollars per hour of my work. And the company managed to find clients who paid for days of such work, sometimes even with overtime. As much as
815.
by rvba 3y ago
Registry bloat was one of the reasons why reinstalling Windows used to speed up computers in the 95-2000 times.
816.
by rvba 3y ago
For me lack of delete (deleting text forward -> compare vs backspace) is a real problem.
817.
by rvba 3y ago
During covid you would often read that medicine X or Y would work on some people or in some country. I always wonder if those didnt work because people often have more than one infection ongoing. And obviously two or more infections are mor
818.
by rvba 3y ago
That's not even the point of the discussion. If the old version of utorrent was changed to fix something (no new functionalities), it would still have a low memory footprint.
819.
by rvba 3y ago
"Flu is not bad when we compare it to ebola" - is like choosing the lesser evil, bit still an evil. The ancient version of utorrent (before ads) works fine.
820.
by rvba 3y ago
> He also wrote that in addition to being denied a hearing about the warrant to obtain Lavabit's user information, he was held in contempt of court. The appellate court denied his appeal due to no objection, however, he wrote that
821.
by rvba 3y ago
Compare it to utorrent that does so much more and is probably around 5mb of RAM. Seriously, is your post satire or you think 23 mb for a calculator app is good? Whole windows 95 (including a calculator app) fit in 16MB of RAM. In fact even
822.
by rvba 3y ago
Most companies not even bother to make their software usable what is baffling. Am I supposed to play a multiplayer game when it takes 10 minutes to open and another 5 in queue and then few before it starts? Blizzard launcher downloads 137 M
823.
by rvba 3y ago
Id argue there is much more strategy and tactics in Starcraft Brood War. Red alert is mostly tanks and dogs. Production is very simplified. Units are very similar. In starcraft strategy defined as "what you want to do" is deeper,
824.
by rvba 3y ago
There are lots of greenfield-only programmers who build something (by glueing stuff together), then they proceed to ship their barely working software to get that promotion / bonus and they run away to the next project They never have
825.
by rvba 3y ago
Someone from the committee checked that
826.
by rvba 3y ago
It is sad that you learn basic history (highschool level) via Netflix. Seriously, has public education degraded so much? Extra points if you are from USA and dont know its basic history...
827.
by rvba 3y ago
How do those microwave transmitter lines work? Do they need to be empty from station to station? Does a bird flying break the connection? Would a drone block it? I read the high frequency trading firms use own towers to transmit messages. C
828.
by rvba 3y ago
Is it legal to use the matrix screnshots?
829.
by rvba 3y ago
The phrasal verbs are often completely idiomatic and make no sense at all. "Do someone in" "Come across", "come forward" "Back down" "back up"
830.
by rvba 3y ago
> My fav was when ms announced they'd paid an academic to fix =rand(), ignoring all the others. I am not sure what that means. Excel keeps all the bugs for backwards compatibility. So the sheets made years ago still provide same res
831.
by rvba 3y ago
Most of those were built by non programmers for "free" (no extra pay).
832.
by rvba 3y ago
It is funny how you talk tjat Excel is bad and the examples just dont work. Also lack of accuracy in calculating some complicated statistics that "nobody" uses is not really a calculation bug. Also most of those come from the fact
833.
by rvba 3y ago
Acess allowed you yo build small forms/apps fast. Those business apps made "by that one person" that allowed few other to input data concurrently (back then no google sheets / shared Excel... which are horrible and have
834.
by rvba 3y ago
There is a problem of preserving online-only games - which work in the "game-as-a-service" model. Without a third party / pirate server the games simply wont work. Different thing is that a dead multiplayer game is a dead gam
835.
by rvba 3y ago
I dont have any information about canned tea, but I would assume that it exists, since Japan has a whole tea ceremony ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_tea_ceremony ).
836.
by rvba 3y ago
Nice and all, but has anyone in Mozilla thought about spending money on the browser?
837.
by rvba 3y ago
Safe browsing is there for Google to spy on you easily, not to detect hacks.
838.
by rvba 3y ago
The problem is that the people giving the rank probably never saw Sopranos in the first place, or are idiots whose taste changes on a whim.
839.
by rvba 3y ago
Are we supposed to download this and run on our computers?
840.
by rvba 3y ago
In Kiwi browser (which after my tests seems to be the best Android browser: chome but with good / old way to scroll cards + ublock) you can make a personalized tab with links to pages. When you try to add a new page it auto suggests ht

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