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by tazjin 3y ago
Firefox, the browser that recently started literally showing ad spam on the new tab page on mobile? I'm sure they're a lot better.
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by tazjin 3y ago
How much influence does a building owner/developer have over this assignment? Can they explicitly request multiple post codes for a building?
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by tazjin 3y ago
If you work there you can maybe reach someone, but at this point the company is so large that even that doesn't help anymore in many cases ;)
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by tazjin 3y ago
So a thing that increments "number" is probably also "flat", which probably leads to what I understood as "household" in a large building.
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by tazjin 3y ago
In London what ends up happening is that many buildings are so large (e.g. St. George's Wharf[0]) that the household count restriction ends up with multiple codes being allocated. [0]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikip
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by tazjin 3y ago
I had a bizarre encounter when working there, also Maps related. I lived in the UK at the time and my post code just didn't exist in Google Maps. I did some digging, and found out that in fact no post codes in the UK had been added in
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by tazjin 3y ago
This is just great. Thanks for the idea.
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by tazjin 3y ago
It's fairly common in Russia, too. Mostly because some "challenger banks" forced everyone else to modernise.
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by tazjin 3y ago
Maybe I'm misreading those Dev Drive docs, but those don't seem related in any way? Dev Drive seems to be a special type of disk volume with higher reliability or something for dev-related workloads. EdenFS is "Facebook'
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by tazjin 3y ago
Not off-the-shelf git though, they have their own file system virtualisation stuff on top. Some of that used to be open-source (Windows only, I think?).
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by tazjin 3y ago
Most large monorepos simply are not on git. Google has Piper, Yandex has arc, Facebook has eden (which is actually semi-open-source, btw!), some companies use Perforce and so on.
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by tazjin 3y ago
You're talking about a different thing. I'm not interested in Nix for end-users who maintain office suite installations and Steam on their desktop computers. By all means, if somebody wants to make a great UX improvement for that
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by tazjin 3y ago
A thing with a clunky UI that technically only restricts the capabilities of its parent tool is not the future. It's a tarpit for staying in the local optimum that most Nix use is in right now.
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by tazjin 3y ago
Considering that flakes aren't a critical feature for Nix, it balances out.
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by tazjin 3y ago
Back in the day I was hacking on WoW-related stuff like server emulators, and it was always very noticeable how much care Blizzard put into this kind of stuff. The (iirc) torrent-based patch distribution for WoW etc. was really well done. K
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by tazjin 3y ago
I think it's absurd to say that "developers can press Cmd+\, which is so good that we will accept a ~15% worse UX". The industry has very strongly decided that developer "productivity" is more important than anythin
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by tazjin 3y ago
It's what you get when a programming language is designed to support a political philosophy, and not a technical one ;)
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by tazjin 3y ago
> This story is a winding one, beginning in 1981. Kermit is, to the best of my knowledge, the oldest actively-maintained software package with an original developer still participating. This is a bit of a philosophical question, for exam
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by tazjin 3y ago
Your Emacs configuration, embedded in your Nix configuration, is obviously tested by CI before being committed. (mine certainly is, and I've also been using EXWM for 6-7 years or so, with few problems)
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by tazjin 3y ago
This happens in European tech companies, there just aren't many (that aren't American anyways).
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by tazjin 3y ago
Dasung actually make a 13" version of this, which I own and have used outside in Egypt a lot while I lived there. It's a VERY sunny country, and normal laptop screens are almost unusable outside. My model is a few years older and
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by tazjin 3y ago
Some people don't want simple and comprehensible. They want to run unnecessarily complex scripts in black terminals with green fonts. Let them be, somebody has to operate all the remaining PHP web pages out there.
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by tazjin 3y ago
You must be very deeply engulfed in whatever pop culture context this is about. I barely even understood the post.
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by tazjin 3y ago
Slowly working through them, but you can only do one try every couple of days ;)
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by tazjin 3y ago
> it's easy to see a hypothetical consumer-focused browser that restored that functionality, or had it natively would easily be worth millions And where would those millions come from? Make the browser paid? It could work if it&#x
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by tazjin 3y ago
Doing stuff their customers hate is the default MO of most tech companies. There's very little recourse. For example, when Apple makes a user-hostile hardware change, every major Android vendor will copy it in a matter of months[0].
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by tazjin 3y ago
Archive link for those in countries that this page doesn't allow access from: https://archive.is/13uNy
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by tazjin 3y ago
You can also just not use either.
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by tazjin 3y ago
You also technically didn't specify that the guy is not one of the monsters from Silent Hill. Agreed, it passes.
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by tazjin 3y ago
C++ errors are so bizarre that most of the time I use the compilation result as a simple binary value. Some part of one's mental neural network learns how to locate many errors simply through a "it doesn't work" signal.

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