rvense

9 ms·

91.
by rvense 2y ago
This is regional. Air conditioning is not at all common in Scandinavian homes.
92.
by rvense 2y ago
Recycling electronics basically means crushing them and extracting some of the minerals inside. A lot of them can't really be recovered, and of course all the electricity that was used to create it is still gone and the water used is s
93.
by rvense 2y ago
The Android app will by necessity receive the decrypted passwords from GPG to display and copy them to the clipboard. It could do whatever else it wants with them.
94.
by rvense 2y ago
What kind of reply is this? None of the people I want to give money will take Ethereum.
95.
by rvense 2y ago
Well, "present perfect" would refer to a specific construction that has both tense (vs. past perfect) and aspect (vs. present continuous). But as per my other comment, if you're just listing all the constructions an English w
96.
by rvense 2y ago
It really depends on whether you take the term tense to refer to a semantic category or just a set of constructions (surface forms).
97.
by rvense 2y ago
English "Tense" is also derived from "tempus"!
98.
by rvense 2y ago
What qualifies as a tense or not depends on your definitions of the term. Different linguists and traditions will have different standards and what is taught in school is often not the terminology used in scientific description - it's
99.
by rvense 2y ago
More than half of the Iranian population belong to an ethnic minority, and the biggest by far is the Turkish speaking one, the Azeri - it's something like 1/3 of the population as far as I remember. I don't know if non-Azeri
100.
by rvense 2y ago
They were really really bad at actually shipping products for a long time. I love all that ATG stuff: SK8, Dylan, all that blue-eyed object oriented optimism. But hundreds of man-years were put into all of that and Copland and Taligent, and
101.
by rvense 2y ago
Tailwind requires you to learn CSS. It's not a framework, it just gives you access to the raw CSS primitives in a better way (IMO) than writing classes.
102.
by rvense 2y ago
Typing on a typewriter is five-six times faster than handwriting. Imagine if we still spent all our time writing! How silly that would be.
103.
by rvense 2y ago
One of my main criteria for evaluating a platform would be how easy it is to make user errors.
104.
by rvense 2y ago
They did as well as they possibly could in that environment. The mistake was our lack of supervision, nor their lack of experience.
105.
by rvense 2y ago
Yarh, I thought about this a lot when recently our electric cargo bike passed 10.000 kilometers. It is used, almost exclusively, to bring our son to school, 5km away.
106.
by rvense 2y ago
It might in a lot of places - if anybody even notices that there's a problem and if they then have the political capital to change it. In this case, nobody really kept an eye on how things were being built, and the person was actually
107.
by rvense 2y ago
I'm still cleaning up after the unsupervised junior two years later. To me, the definition of junior is someone who needs guidance. If you don't have a good process of defining tasks before they're worked on and real code rev
108.
by rvense 2y ago
But if you're not reusing things as they are, at the site where you already have it, then you need a whole system to collect, clean, and sort it. Additionally, the price of new materials does not include what it costs to get rid of the
109.
by rvense 2y ago
Which is more expensive to produce, a brand new bowl, or a bowl that was smashed and then painstakingly glued back together again?
110.
by rvense 2y ago
I think it's an interesting debate: what is this thing we've made? And what does its existence teach us about ourselves? You're right that just going yes it is - no it isn't isn't so interesting, but this mainly ste
111.
by rvense 2y ago
Not a fan of the terminology that corporations are people, but stacks of free money will mess up a company much like it will a person.
112.
by rvense 2y ago
I read once that a passenger in his cab told him "You have the same name as a very famous composer."
113.
by rvense 2y ago
It's a pretty good idea, but how are the videos picked? I flipped through all the channels and 11/12 was Americans talking (and the last one was sports). Would it be easy to be able to set the language?
114.
by rvense 2y ago
But there's a lot of people who have been working as voice actors for small/medium visibility content. Toothpaste ads, Kickstarter promo videos, corporate training videos, mid-range video games... a chunk of that is going away, an
115.
by rvense 2y ago
I'm talking specifically about a graphical operating system for desktop purposes, something that people coming from Mac OS 9 or Windows 98/ME might have moved to. I think BeOS was far closer to providing that than Linux was in 200
116.
by rvense 2y ago
I was kind of there. I ran BeOS for a while for fun some years after it had died, in between moving from Macs (which I grew up on in the 90's) to BSD and then Linux. My point was basically what you're saying: BeOS was not nearly w
117.
by rvense 2y ago
An open source desktop OS that was basically usable for day-to-day stuff and easy to install, released in 2001? I don't think it's hyperbole to say that that would have changed the course of computer history.
118.
by rvense 2y ago
And Firefox got to where it was at its peak by being better than IE, not because of any pressure from political institutions. I think there are many parallel universes where Microsoft does in fact own the web.
119.
by rvense 2y ago
You are right. I don't in fact know if that's what he means by calling the Rust community "toxic". I've never seen anything like a bigoted word attributed to Andreas, by all appearences he is one of the most caring
120.
by rvense 2y ago
Not like that. A pull request that replaced "he" in documentation with "they" was closed with the comment "This project is not the place to advocate your personal politics".

More ›