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by spurgu 6y ago
Love the idea! I would. /end-positive-tone This is a disease nowadays in modern websites which are reactive or ajax-driven - you have to explain to people step by step how to reproduce something (or send screenshots), as opposed to bac
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by spurgu 6y ago
> I would have saved an offline copy on a USB stick Yeah that must be great to walk around with...
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by spurgu 6y ago
I've reversed those two since I use the clipboard a lot more frequently.
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by spurgu 6y ago
Globen just means literally "the globe".
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by spurgu 6y ago
Yeah I've only tested Zulip briefly but it seemed like just that, Slack threads evolved. At first I was put off by everything showing in the main view, until I realized I could filter everything.
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by spurgu 6y ago
Curious: How did you pick the name? In Finnish fish is kala. And galaxy is galaksi. So it sounds a bit like a mix of the two words, like fishaxy and it's also quite close to how you actually pronounce galaksi. Or it could mean "to
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by spurgu 6y ago
Agreed that Slack's "main" thread view sucks and I only use the sidebar view, it's really difficult/cumbersome to move between threads. I think some kind of tabbed interface could work. And I'm all for threaded
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by spurgu 6y ago
> Well, I don't know in which world you live, but in mine Outlook is alive and kicking, that's where purchase orders are confirmed, meetings with suppliers are organized, business decisions are made Stuff like that was what I m
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by spurgu 6y ago
>> _why_ communication has moved away from email > Has it, though? I don't think we are any step closer now to dropping email than we were 25 years ago. Email feels more like a tool for reaching out than for communicating to m
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by spurgu 6y ago
Element has a sad amount of bugs/inconsistencies, even though they're being fixed/improved all the time. Message formatting issues for example between mobile and desktop clients are things that really put me off using it. I l
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by spurgu 6y ago
Gatsby at least spends a lot of effort playing cat and mouse with Google's Pagespeed algorithms so you don't have to. That by itself has tons of value.
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by spurgu 6y ago
Yeah, given that browsers have already loaded the content anyways. Suppose it's for tracking who actually reads past the intro paragraph.
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by spurgu 6y ago
Yeah it gives off some nice first impressions! These popped out immediately: - Keyboard controls to skip forward/reverse with arrow keys, pause with space - Video speed adjustment - Threaded comments Edit: Critique for the infinite scr
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by spurgu 6y ago
Yeah it's pretty much witchcraft at this point still.
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by spurgu 6y ago
Indeed, wholeheartedly agree. Short term gains is such an attractive proposition though...
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by spurgu 6y ago
Big IF there. :)
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by spurgu 6y ago
Depends on the size of the society. If you think about it from scratch, you only need lending once society grows to about a certain threshold where you're essentially dealing with unknown people. Interest is a compensation for the risk
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by spurgu 6y ago
This is the whole gist of the (potential) problem.
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by spurgu 6y ago
My problem with Flotato has been unreliable notifications. No matter how much I fiddle with the settings they oftentimes never appear.
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by spurgu 6y ago
We used Dropbox and it was also a PITA. Bitwarden is great, haven't used 1Password.
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by spurgu 6y ago
You pay zero with the Phoenix wallet: https://phoenix.acinq.co/
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by spurgu 6y ago
Eh, that was an example that everyone can grasp. A more inline alternative would be Lightning Network.
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by spurgu 6y ago
If you happen to ever read this, I ended up with a setup similar to the hacky one I did before: - WP moved to subdirectory (WP home and siteurl changed in DB) - Static site served normally from (and generated to) webroot Just needed to add
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by spurgu 6y ago
I've had it on my TODO-list to try out that plugin, thanks for reminding me! How many sites have you tested it on, have you had any issues? I'm gonna play around with it now but what I'm mostly concerned about now is how you
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by spurgu 6y ago
Maps.me was on HN a couple of weeks back. MAPS.ME is gone. We must bring it back: https://telegra.ph/What-happened-to-the-old-MAPSME-12-20 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25515004
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by spurgu 6y ago
> I can send a wire transfer for free to any other person in Poland at 4am on saturday night, and they will get it instantly (some exceptions apply). Depends on who you are, or who he is (or who he knows) and how much money you're s
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by spurgu 6y ago
Following the philosophy of simple hosting + MD outlined in the OP then the WP equivalent would be something like a simple (official twenty*, or your own custom) WP theme with zero (or minimal amount of) plugins. Enable auto-updates on WP a
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by spurgu 6y ago
Yeah the problem I think is other vendors implementing their own camera apps without this feature.
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by spurgu 6y ago
Have a look here: https://oec.world/en/profile/country/gbr/ It shows November 2020 car exports as £2.4B (= $3.3B). In 2018 total car exports was $43.4B = ~$3.6B/month. Judging from this I'd say
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by spurgu 6y ago
That's what they wanted, to keep pesky immigrants like you away. /s

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