vladvasiliu

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by vladvasiliu 2mo ago
> And now, even when I go hiking, I encounter people who feel the need to hike with a bluetooth speaker blaring out their music / podcast / audiobook at themselves and everyone else. Man, I really have no issue with people who
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by vladvasiliu 2mo ago
I think GP was talking about the phrasing itself, not the dash. I actually didn't notice the em dash itself when reading it and agreeing.
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by vladvasiliu 2mo ago
> So what insane person will ever touch Azure willingly? The nobody-got-fired-for-choosing-Microsoft crowd. And they don’t look few and far between.
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by vladvasiliu 2mo ago
Let's not pretend we do not all -know- virtually every company looks at security as a cover your ass exercise. The SaaS is able to provide some fort of "certification", so companies are happy to move responsibility to them. T
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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
> I find it weird that I've been living in the same building for 7 years and I know basically nothing about my neighbors Isn't this just par for the course when living in dense settings? I've been living in my current apar
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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
I actually find dead keys quite practical. MacOS uses those, and it allows me to easily type French on a US keyboard. This also allows you to easily type other symbols, like •, º, etc. Maybe not everything, but it's fine for my needs.
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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
I was never into comics, but the impression I get is that many "actual nerds" were. And that's something that was clearly visible from the outside. And since everything nowadays seems to be about surface-level signaling, cult
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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
But are these off-the-shelf solutions actually supported for ten years? And since they're usually bought for "easy remote connectivity" and whatnot, that's rather important. Bonus points for updates typically being insta
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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
Right. I think the underlying question is, how do you get to know these people in the first place? Isn't this the whole point of the discussion? How do you initially get to know people?
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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
I think there are, see the other comment about tree-style tabs or similar for Firefox. I can absolutely see the value in that and I don't argue for that option to be removed or otherwise degraded. But that's not the point. I'
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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
> So that any application could have tabs, if the desktop manager would allow you to group windows as such. Same with showing a split view within such a tab as well. Not only that, but you could actually mix "tabs" from separat
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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
> Sadly the community prefers to solve this at the application level rather than the desktop level Not only does it "prefer", they actually enforce this. I haven't found any sensible way of completely disabling tabs in e
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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
This. They're also too big, so if you don't wear baggy pants it can be a pain to maneuver in and out of jeans pockets. But then, if I'm visiting somewhere unfamiliar in the middle of nowhere and drop it and it becomes unusabl
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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
Well, you could buy a waterproof phone, which wouldn't break if you walked into the ocean with it in your pocket? I use my phones as GPS attached to my motorbike's handlebars. They get drenched in downpours, frozen in the winter,
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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
I'm not sure I'd say it's hypocritical. More like unintended consequences? Part of the moralistic argument against planned AC rollout is electricity consumption. But not doing it is actually generating more consumption in pra
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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
Do those also cover the apartment walls? I've only seen large awnings covering walls in detached houses, and even then it's relatively rare to cover walls that aren't close to doors.
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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
The moralistic argument here in France is that the AC units heat the outside air, which worsens things for people outside, especially those who can't afford AC in their home. Never mind that these same people would go absolutely out of
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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
Actually, many homes in France don't have shutters. According to this article, almost half don't have any. https://immobilier.lefigaro.fr/article/seulement-54-de-logem...
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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
> legislation/landlords preventing installation Don't know about "Europe", but here in France this is the main reason. Even if you live in an apartment you own, you have to fight multiple bureaucracies (city / HO
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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
Right, but there's a mismatch in priorities between when I'm driving and when I'm walking around. I would rather not lug around a big-ass phone when I'm out and about. My iphone is already too big as it is. But when driv
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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
In my case, I use Atuin. It has a concept of "context" so you can easily search the history for commands related to your current directory / project / etc. See [0] for some examples. Now, I admit I don't use these
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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
In the Paris area, if you commute during rush hour, you'll probably been stuck between 100 people per square meter. At best, you can listen to some podcasts or audiobooks. When I still had to work from the office, I was fortunate enoug
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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
Yes, I was thinking about this exact situation (drivers waiting around in the "wrong" spots). But that is already a problem, which should be fixed, whatever energy the truck uses. So if they should increase parking spaces anyway
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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
Well, at least you got to access it. We use OneDrive at work, so I have all the right apps and accounts and whatnots. When I wanted to download a folder with a lot of files in it, it would regularly crap out. There's no way to download
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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
Yeah, the questions showed up in non-native dialogues in both cases. I installed the Logitech one, but not the Dell. But then again, even freaking Office looks non-native on Windows, so I don't really pay attention to this aspect.
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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
> Flat pack furniture tends to be very awful compared to alternatives that are also often cheaper and without assembly requirements. I don't particularly like my ikea furniture. But one big reason why I bought this instead of altern
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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
The issue is that most corps disable Windows Update and only allow whatever goes through the on-prem Windows Update thingy. This can, of course, fire back if they don't think to include all the updates. We had one such issue where th
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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
I have a logitech mouse and I'm pretty sure I was asked whether to install the logitech app, it didn't do it automatically. Same for the dell mouse I have at work, it asked to install dell somethingorother, which I declined, and i
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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
I don't know about that. But what I usually observe is that many people tend to veer off in the next lane in the direction of the turn (even if it's a lane for traffic going the opposite way!) if there is one. But if there isn&#x2
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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
I'm not saying they should drive like a rally. I most certainly don't. Just don't slow down to a snail's pace for no reason. Or if you insist on doing that for whatever reason, let other people pass you if you can see th

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