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by smaudet 4y ago
The problem is flatpack/appimage are equally bad/opaque, they solve one problem at the expense of being better off just in windows or osx. tar.gz is opaque in a different way - the solution would be more like an interpreter - some
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by smaudet 4y ago
Why? I can't tell if it's just being lazy or there is some FUD. Owa is a poor client on multiple accounts...
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by smaudet 4y ago
Yeesh. I mean kind of makes sense but it doesn't make want to use them more...
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by smaudet 4y ago
The idea to use special filter is a good one, but as others stated the 'top bar' isn't a real thing in email. Maybe some sort of IMAP extension, but it's a bit like asking how to put onenote into a Google doc - you might
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by smaudet 4y ago
The iPhone has a high-res display, hi-capacity battery, associated regulator hardware, multiple SoCs, cost of supporting a software/firmware engineering team for the OS/drivers, app developers, UX/Design experts, company mark
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by smaudet 4y ago
In attempt to disabuse this notion that "nobody uses linux"... Spoken like someone who only eats from fast food restaurants. Fast food, for the most part, is horrid, disgusting, greasy, bad for your general health. Sometimes, I&#x
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by smaudet 4y ago
Depends on who you are. "Nobody" would spend 1k+ on a desk mic, except unless you are upping e.g. your podcasting game. I suspect a lot of vloggers, or at least wannabe, can and would easily shell out a measly 500$ for a webcam.
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by smaudet 4y ago
Welcome to what camera makers realized a long time ago - film doesn't matter, the processing does. It's why DSLR was (is?) a thing - if you ever do research on one, you realize they factor in quantum mechanical effects to make you
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by smaudet 4y ago
RAD (Rapid Application Development) is a valid way to brainstorm. Offloading solutioning to other people or tools is also a valid strategy. Ultimately, RAD is just a design phase. Commercial No Code companies aren't positioning themsel
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by smaudet 4y ago
"realistically the meat of it requires more “advanced” knowledge but so does making a really good spreadsheet." Same way the no-code developer doesn't want to learn the harder (more useful tool), the coding developer balks at
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by smaudet 4y ago
This is what the concept of DSLs are/were... Famous example, Photoshop. UI that makes complex things seem simple...and a scripting language under the hood which ties into the (incredibly complex) internal operations, for the multitude
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by smaudet 4y ago
I can't say I'm as familiar with ruby bindings, I have dabbled with node bindings.... JS could sort of probably do most things Python can, except for there not being a huge effort for JS things to be native binary (compiling an ex
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by smaudet 4y ago
This and geo-thermal. The crazy megalomaniacs pushing solar are as bad as the rest of oil/coal kingpins, unsustainable and another ecological train-wreck in progress.
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by smaudet 4y ago
"The non-critical-of-Apple reading is convoluted and tortured, imo." Perhaps you are also reading things with a certain context - "poor", "convoluted", "tortured", "lack", "can't&q
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by smaudet 4y ago
> What stops fiction authors from picking a niche as well? Trad publishing and a lack of any real discoverability. I don't read much fiction in text format, anymore, so take Audible, for example. I have a backlog of maybe 50+ books
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by smaudet 4y ago
Just brainstorming, if the chip is large enough you could just plop a reader down on it.... not as convenient as RFID but then you could sell a reader which reads info off of bananas, e.g. Why the consumer would want to read info off of a b
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by smaudet 4y ago
I'm curious what they will be able to hook up to one, and how it will be programmed - if you add a tiny amount of flash this could definitely be interesting, maybe have a dollar processor though. The use cases for a student are more di
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by smaudet 4y ago
Better just not to encrypt anything like that. If you have a house, which has windows, your locks do not provide security against someone smashing open the window. Key cutting schemes are a bit like this - no key offers security, only one o
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by smaudet 4y ago
I don't have a problem running JS but it is getting to the point where, if you can't prove you are JS worth running perhaps the browser should refuse to. Why have we gone from 'oh only run programs you trust not anything from
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by smaudet 4y ago
I wonder if this is such a widespread issue - frequency attacks mean the cpu must actually change speed frequently in order for any attack to occur. For a laptop how I thought it worked was cpu frequently was constant depending on performan
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by smaudet 4y ago
Its absolutely not a conspiracy theory, but it is a bit more complex than that there is was a coordinated push - there was a big push a while back from the likes of Microsoft to e.g. eradicate ssh credentials - in favor of stuff like AD (ug
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by smaudet 4y ago
To echo the sibling commenter, perhaps this rule applies: When dealing with hardware, hardware access tokens should be required. When dealing with software, software access tokens should be required. That way, you never have hardware compro
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by smaudet 4y ago
"I certainly do not want to see any child educated with Microsoft values" Not just the children, one thing I have seen as of late is indoctrination of developers in Arrange Act Assert (AAA) - I specifically remember it being pushe
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by smaudet 4y ago
Because the world is a ponzii scheme, where we don't pay people for their time but for the going market rate. If you keep a stable population and pay people based upon life expectations * skill, no one would need a retirement account.
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by smaudet 4y ago
Whenever the incumbent seeks to maintain their position by means other than performance - I think the reference is to e.g. large companies closing down, in an effort to keep revenue streams (think vendor locking, kickbacks, back room board
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by smaudet 4y ago
Read your question again and then realize you just wondered if it would be possible to engineer a virus to kill all of humanity, with no possible immunity. See the problem? This is why people hate (software) engineers, they are oh-so-dumb o
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by smaudet 4y ago
And that's why we need to be shutting this stuff down, completely. Someone tried to say there were ethics committees etc the other day...what a bad joke. Who checks the ethics committee is making ethical decisions? I was told I "d
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by smaudet 4y ago
At least in the piracy model you don't have a badly made app between you and your music. You should still buy the album if you care about it, even with streaming.
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by smaudet 4y ago
I used a TP from the 2013, 2014 era, and I have my current main laptop as a TP from 2017... The old TP was fantastic. Really out of date hardware, but it did the job. New one is great, in theory (spec-wise), but its a much cheaper build, br
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by smaudet 4y ago
Can you custom design parts with pinouts for your 2008 thinkpad? If not, I'm not sure I believe you know what you are talking about - its nice lenovo (in past) has been so rugged, repairable, but using reverse engineered parts is a ver

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