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by rvieira 4y ago
I agree with your point. But I wanted to add that with the exception of empty offices due to COVID all other problems didn't change that rapidly, IMO. These have been slowly building up since Gideon's austerity and in almost all d
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by rvieira 4y ago
As most people, I guess, during the peak of the pandemic I increased my online shopping a lot. From food take-aways to vinyl records. These can be examples: the majority of restaurants in my area proudly claim an "online presence"
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by rvieira 4y ago
I honestly think the other way around, that Facebook is way too powerful and in a more insidious way, than Apple. I'm coming from a Apple HW user perspective. This means that, yes, if Apple locked me out, I would have trouble using my
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by rvieira 4y ago
I've never used it, but from the look of the code Ada seems to me such a nice, chill language (for a statically typed one, at least). (Disclaimer: I have a soft spot for Pascal)
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by rvieira 4y ago
In some of the houses I previously lived, a high-powered vaccum would just rip out the carpet :) But seriously, I would use a medium-powered vaccum for loose debris on carpet. High suction in thin carpets can actually damaged them and for s
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by rvieira 4y ago
> more powerful vacuum cleaners ((as in, more expensive to run) I know it's not your point, but on top of everything "more powerful" is misleading. - Typically this means more power consumption, not suction power - Most mo
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by rvieira 4y ago
(I'm joking, but curious) How difficult would it be to implement and oximiter-like sensor along with touch id, to at least make sure blood is pumping through the finger?
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by rvieira 4y ago
I have an LG SmartTV that I use "offline" (watch streaming services via a Playstation connected to it). Curiously, I've connected it once to try the bundled apps (e.g. Netflix) and the Playstation ones had much better picture
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by rvieira 4y ago
I second that. Perhaps it's a perfect storm of COVID (NHS degraded), international economic problems (inflation, fuel, food prices), Brexit (bankrupcies, universal shortage of staff, Horizon science funding, etc), fatigue of a decade+
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by rvieira 4y ago
If we are talking about radicalism (far right or far left), lawlessness, and value systems in general, get intertwined with politics. Radicals will often see violence and law breaking as a means to an end. I'm not saying this is the ca
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by rvieira 4y ago
Children often grow up to hold opposite political views from their parents/guardians as a form of rebellion, so it's not that linear. A (ethical) social experiment can be made by looking at siblings later in life (e.g. the Hitchen
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by rvieira 4y ago
It's not perfect (nothing is?) but to ease my 2FA fears I keep two copies. One on authenticator app on my mobile. Another as keepassXC TOPT entries in a file in a USB stick. To have a perfect mirror requires adding both (mobile and kee
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by rvieira 4y ago
Ah, yes. I forgot the "detail" of land purchasing/compensations...
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by rvieira 4y ago
Driven by this post, out of curiosity I started looking at the price tag of some mega-projects around the world. Interestingly, the most expensive ones are almost always highway systems. Can someone briefly explain why? I'm my naive vi
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by rvieira 4y ago
Mandatory Arthur C. Clarke predicting the future in 1964: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aajlLeTgrEg
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by rvieira 4y ago
Kermit in Eraserhead is everything I expected it to be.
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Commercial-Emacs(github.com)
156 points by rvieira 4y ago|76 comments
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by rvieira 4y ago
Honestly, for prosaic reasons. Most of the posts are interesting, most of the comments are interesting and there isn't an obsession with "internet points". I'm sorry if this sounds elitist, but it is also less crowded th
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by rvieira 4y ago
The birds eye view of your application can be much more complex than code or library dependencies. Your app might be expecting database X running on port Y, a specific OS version, Kafka running, etc... Containers allow to configure all thes
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by rvieira 4y ago
Drew's been doing really cool stuff. I'm a paying user of Sourcehut myself and I'm considering moving from the "Amateur" to "Pro" tier just to support the project. I also don't get how someone would g
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by rvieira 4y ago
Yeah, I used edges as a tell. For instance, the train at dusk on a bridge was really well composed overall, but some of the bridge cables were slightly transparent.
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A CSS Slinky in 3D(css-tricks.com)
3 points by rvieira 4y ago|0 comments
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by rvieira 4y ago
Totally anecdotal evidence, but I have two cats and I give them "wet" food once a day. If one of them is far from the food bowls I say his name and he immediately comes running. If none is near me, both come running as soon as I c
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by rvieira 4y ago
It's fair to assume that British pensioners that move to Spain are not doing it on a temporary basis, however they are still called expats. This kind of language is usually an indication of exceptionalism. Another example is British ne
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by rvieira 4y ago
- 2017 iMac with Linux ("light" general coding, note taking) - 2021 Ryzen 24-core 64Gb RAM (heavier stuff, remote k8s dev, etc) - 2021 Intel MBP (90% of the working time there) - 2021 7-inch Pocket Book (for fun really. I call it
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by rvieira 4y ago
This is great. I'm not a front-end dev but I have a low-traffic personal site where I like to experiment. One of my hobbies is to find out how small, lean and compatible with old browsers I can make it, while still looking modern-ish (
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Doom Emacs quips on different programming languages(github.com)
3 points by rvieira 4y ago|0 comments
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by rvieira 4y ago
I would love a "better Doxygen", or more accurately a nice multi-repo, multi-language documentation generator. It would have almost zero config to get started, but highly customisable. It would support (or be open to easy extensio
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by rvieira 4y ago
Incidentally, I've been getting a lot of timeouts from .dev TLDs today.
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by rvieira 4y ago
> Then we get to the cost. Estimated ~15B pounds. Actual cost is what? 20B pounds? Again, that's honestly not that bad. Considering the UK gov announced 7B pound to improve transportation for _the rest of the UK_, the 5B overrun is

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