tomcooks

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   by tomcooks 5y ago

   That's more or less what is happening in Europe as an incentive to economy, I think in Italy freelancers got about 1000 euros from the state
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   by tomcooks 5y ago

   Imagine how I feel having been the last compulsory army draft for my country.
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   by tomcooks 5y ago

   Then society gets the fruits of this small investments in terms of social services, public school, public hospitals, etc.
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   by tomcooks 5y ago

   Problem is you don't use it, you resell it and keep the cash.
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   by tomcooks 5y ago

   And smartphones, playstations, cash (e.g. https://www.lastampa.it/cronaca/2020/05/16/news/bonus-cultur... )
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   by tomcooks 5y ago

   The cheating included much more ( https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bonus+cultura+truffa ) than expensive e-book readers. Many, with fraudolent sellers, converted the monetary bonus to cash, and spent it as they please. In my opinion
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   by tomcooks 5y ago

   I have never been that convinced to switch from vim to a closed source text editor as when I tried ST on Windows. It has a glorious interface and defaults that give your fingers wings. And maybe one day GPL license, who knows?
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   by tomcooks 5y ago

   How would that lead to the industry the company works in?
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   by tomcooks 5y ago

   ? Which languages and in which contexts?
10. 310.▲
    by tomcooks 5y ago

    The Anglosphere covers more than half of the world, being used to deal with other cultures and adapting to that should be taken for granted.
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    by tomcooks 5y ago

    Yes beware of the friendly dragon stealing your credit card info
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    by tomcooks 5y ago

    I can't find in the text where they're pretending a personal crusade of any kind, let alone any virtue signaling aside from not wasting too much solar battery on tech. Why are you giving so much importance to something you despise
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    by tomcooks 5y ago

    Web is a lost cause, go to inconveniently placed platforms if you want to find peace, freedom and lack of commercial drones
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    by tomcooks 5y ago

    > In the end, the “hard” languages to learn are not those that do what your own language does in a new way. They are the ones that make you constantly pay attention to distinctions in the world that yours blithely passes over. TL;DR: Ang
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    by tomcooks 5y ago

    "wrong password" error when connecting to irc.libera.chat
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    by tomcooks 5y ago

    I'm sure that with funding they'll have resources to focus on that
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    by tomcooks 5y ago

    I still use float and positioning, it works fine. Slowly integrating flexbox and grid in my work but I'm not in a hurry.
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    by tomcooks 5y ago

    With a bunch of games requiring advanced graphic cards to emulate "retro CRT" effects on the market, it's refreshing to see software specifically written to be usable on low end machine
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    by tomcooks 5y ago

    Between Spain and France you can barely download mail (a few kB), let alone download a map. In Europe you don't need to worry about roaming, if you have and European SIM.
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    by tomcooks 5y ago

    Pasta e fagioli, o coi fagioli If it's about heritage get it right, it's worth it.
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    by tomcooks 5y ago

    > I’ve had several strokes. This sums up the article
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    by tomcooks 5y ago

    I use suckless sent, it sucks
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    by tomcooks 5y ago

    That's why the original ones were bright yellow. Once you make differences you're doomed to maintain them and divide further along the line.
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    by tomcooks 5y ago

    When on a bike ride between Spain and France but you only have 2G connection from your termux session to the tmux session running mapscii on your VPS. Google maps would timeout and you can't download a billion gigabyte map file.
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    by tomcooks 5y ago

    Stream screen to webrtc via ffmpeg
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    by tomcooks 5y ago

    Or creators should promote public domain platforms like archive.org instead of complaining that a commercial platform is run like that
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    by tomcooks 5y ago

    Peertube, self hosted or upload to a public istance
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    by tomcooks 5y ago

    > Remember when the world wide web began? Many thought static pages were not that exciting (what the heck am I going to do with this?), and no one could have predicted all the use cases that followed! Purchasing clothes on your phone, re
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    by tomcooks 5y ago

    Very violent as compared to what? Do you have data to confirm these claims?
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    by tomcooks 5y ago

    Isn't terrorism specifically the reason behind the Patriot Act and all limitations that American citizens are suffering?