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by scambier 4y ago
I'm not sure that making this sentence as obtuse as possible is a great idea to convey your point.
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by scambier 4y ago
On Android, the apps won't track you through bluetooth if they don't ask for the location permission.
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by scambier 4y ago
They paid for the badge
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by scambier 4y ago
Mastodon is the biggest part of the Fediverse. https://the-federation.info/ According to this page, between September 1st and November 13th, the user count went from 6.12M to 7.56M, so an increase of 23%. Where does your es
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by scambier 4y ago
> 1) Once someone starts paying you, they get to exert their influence on your work, and it becomes a lot less "hobbyish." Definitely. I've been working on a free open-source project for 6 months. Last week, a user came wi
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by scambier 4y ago
The number of Mastodon users went from 6.0M to 6.6M in the last week. https://bitcoinhackers.org/@mastodonusercount
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by scambier 4y ago
Almost all the biggest subs, or popular subs tied to a commercial product, have shitty moderators. They're either modding dozens of subs or have conflicts of interest with said products.
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by scambier 4y ago
They recently released 1.0 (with an announcement on HN too), which changed the interface to something more tabs-centric. It's not faster - it's still an electron app - but it definitely feels less clunky.
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by scambier 4y ago
The "Chrome/Web vs Mastodon/Fediverse" isn't event correct, it should be "Chrome/Web vs Tusky/(Mastodon|Fediverse)", or "Twitter/Web vs Mastodon/Fediverse"?. Those things oper
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by scambier 4y ago
Because it's already complicated enough. Marketing matters, even for open-source projects. If you want people on your decentralized social network, don't make it sound more complex than it already is.
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by scambier 4y ago
> Is there a term for complementing something that is objectively much worse than what came before only because it's better than what we have now. What kind of smartwatch came before it, that had a battery that held for more than a
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by scambier 4y ago
Omnisearch plugin developer here. > I use Obsidian but never cared about neither the mapping/backlinks, logging, etc. This is exactly why I built the plugin :) It's not that I don't care about tags/links/etc., b
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by scambier 4y ago
They mean that if the proxy is sent to a non-trustful contact, it will quickly get reported and blocked.
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by scambier 4y ago
Here are the algorithms for PICO-8's sin(), cos() and atan2(), as implemented by the Picolove emulator: https://github.com/picolove/picolove/blob/4b79a3b7ebd1d1bc6c... Also, since PICO-8 coordinates have
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by scambier 4y ago
The "it works or it doesn't" was opposed to "used cards perform worse" (which they don't).
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by scambier 4y ago
There's a nice Linus Tech Tips video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKqVvXTanzI The tl;dw is that used cards don't perform worse than new cards - your card either works, or it doesn't. But like a
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by scambier 4y ago
- "X is extremely wasteful" - "Wait until you hear how much Y is more wasteful" Ok?
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by scambier 4y ago
Trains, cars and power stations serve a purpose. The blockchain only creates waste with nothing in return. Yeah it does pollute less now, but it's still too much.
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by scambier 4y ago
Wait, the Ethereum blockchain alone was consuming 0.5% of the world's total energy?
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by scambier 4y ago
For me it kinda makes sense: the portrait/person is an important feature of the image, so it's heavily weighted in the generation, producing another image with that portrait/person, and so on. I find it more interesting that
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by scambier 4y ago
The woman appeared once, and they kept combining it with different prompts. So it stayed in the subsequent images. https://twitter.com/supercomposite/status/156716492990339481... https://twitter.com&#x2
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by scambier 4y ago
My bad, I missed you were talking about on prem. Genuine question though (I'm just an average salaried dev), what are the advantages of on prem in this case? It looks like it's just costlier, will require more maintenance work, bu
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by scambier 4y ago
Its between $8/month and $99/month, and the highest tier includes all Jetbrains products. That looks... reasonable?
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by scambier 4y ago
> Or someone assumed (or just tried) that other email address. I received 2-3 personal emails, but most of them are automated invoices.
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by scambier 4y ago
That's something I don't understand. I've always given my email as john.doe@gmail.com, and I sometimes receive emails - addressed to Another John Doe - sent to johndoe@gmail.com. That Another John Doe never, ever had access t
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by scambier 4y ago
I started working in 2012, and my colleagues used usb keys to pass projects around. I was a bit... surprised.
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by scambier 4y ago
On a smaller scale, I sometimes like making (and looking for) tweetcarts. Search for the #tweetcart hashtag on Twitter; those are procedural animations made with PICO-8 in less than 280 chars. There is a code golf aspect to it, but it'
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by scambier 4y ago
"School shootings are mathematically irrelevant", what a take.
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by scambier 4y ago
> it rubs me the wrong way when people who decided to take on long commutes for better pay talk about how it's being taken away from them Sure, everyone happens to live right next to several good potential employers in their field,
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by scambier 4y ago
I have colleagues that take DRY to an extreme when it comes to tests. There are so many levels of abstractions that it's incomprehensible. Tests should be clear and readable, you shouldn't have to dig code to understand _what_ a t

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