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by ubercow13 3y ago
The perfect use case for a massive incredibly complex browser runtime is...a tiny desktop app? What?
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by ubercow13 3y ago
In the UK normal employees are automatically enrolled to invest in their pension (life savings for retirement) and this will be at least partly in the stock market. It is normal and sensible. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if you coul
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by ubercow13 3y ago
This video is good, it shows how you are more likely to lose more money with cash than stocks over longer periods. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeob9z27-gA
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by ubercow13 3y ago
What? It's completely not beside the point. This was fraud - he stole peoples' money. That 60s couple could have played it "safe" and kept their life savings in a regular bank account, and the owner of their bank could s
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by ubercow13 3y ago
Windows definitely does break backwards-compatibility of printer drivers. My parents had to use a Windows XP VM to print on their Canon printer for a long time before giving in and buying a new printer.
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by ubercow13 3y ago
I prefer the fountain. Canned or bottled coke is too carbonated, too acidic, and too sweet. It tastes corrosive, gives me hiccups, and hurts my teeth. Cola from the fountain tastes more interesting, like the other flavours are more prominen
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by ubercow13 3y ago
What? Doesn't Wayland work this way by design?
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by ubercow13 3y ago
Having the QR in your photo roll doesn't break the 'not phishable' property.
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by ubercow13 3y ago
But that is not the same because radio spectrum is a very limited resource and those old uses are preventing newer uses. So the very limited bands of RF can only gain new uses say once per generation, as old FM radio users die out? Is that
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by ubercow13 3y ago
I also use Python professionally and still have by far the worst luck with getting anything Python on github to work out of any language. Written in Go/Rust is definitely a feature for something like this.
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by ubercow13 3y ago
>what if i spent that time on deliberate practice instead Well yeah. What if I spent all the time I spent on various types of consumption on deliberate practice. I'd be some kind of wizard by now. There's nothing specially bad
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by ubercow13 3y ago
No, that's just the opposite extreme.
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by ubercow13 3y ago
Does anyone know how to get Korean text to display consistently on macOS in the terminal? If you create a file in Finder with a hangul name, by default ls in iTerm2 will display the name incorrectly, with the composite syllables expanded ou
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by ubercow13 3y ago
Every role has good or bad practitioners no? eg, I have worked with many so called 'developers'. They shipped lots of code, but most of it was solving the wrong problem, didn't fit any business requirement, added unnecessary
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by ubercow13 3y ago
So just don't have them, and don't let them think about it?
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by ubercow13 3y ago
Most of the comparisons are encoded from source. The one that isn't is because re-encoding is a specific recommendation from the services that they are criticising. They are specifically showing that yes, that's a bad idea.
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by ubercow13 3y ago
If you tried and couldn't see, it might be like others say that it's more visible on certain monitors and setups. But then, again - if you are designing codecs or choosing them, you probably want a monitor that makes it easy to se
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by ubercow13 3y ago
The authors point is that if you are making this tech, you should have educated eyes. And given all the confident comments in this thread claiming the author is full of shit and there's no difference, I think their frustration is justi
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by ubercow13 3y ago
Pretty sure his channel is successful due in no small part to his voice. It couldn't not be, considering the whole thing is just voiceovers. You also often see people commenting as such on his videos.
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by ubercow13 3y ago
https://youtu.be/PJSTFzhs1O4
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by ubercow13 3y ago
I don't think it's any easier, it's just less unpleasant because you don't have to pretend to be working as actively while slacking off. And if this is true it just proof of the merits of WFH. If everyone is 'slacki
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by ubercow13 3y ago
That too is benefitting rich people more than poor.
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by ubercow13 3y ago
But every time you opened one it would also open a separate Chrome window that you had to keep open, which made them kind of useless.
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by ubercow13 3y ago
How else would regulation work?
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by ubercow13 3y ago
No, Resident Evil 4 from 2023.
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by ubercow13 3y ago
Windows uses mdns natively now. That article is 10 years old.
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by ubercow13 3y ago
Check Indeed, junior SWE jobs in London are listed starting at ~£25k/yr. Yes, £8 is expensive for a pint of lager.
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by ubercow13 3y ago
Any more info on this? I can't find anything via Google or on the Monterey features page.
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by ubercow13 3y ago
I have noticed that Youtube often re-encodes videos, replacing the data for a certain stream type/number with a new encode.
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by ubercow13 3y ago
No, bonds held by the federal reserve are rolled over. The debt is paid back but it is immediately replaced with new debt of equivalent value, off of the open market. The process is described here: https://www.newyorkfed.org&#x2F

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