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by vsl 3y ago
It doesn’t.
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by vsl 4y ago
Central Europe: eggs price skyrocketed earlier this year (= supply shortage, aka “ran out”, due to bird flu prevention orders). Medical supplies shortage and running out of some medicines completely.
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by vsl 4y ago
Elon just killed a sizeable chunk of their business without a word of explanation, let alone at least heads up. He’s pissed, rightfully so - it’s “livelihood motivated”.
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by vsl 4y ago
The apps disappeared from users’ authorized apps lists and are showing as suspended in developers’ accounts. That can’t plausibly be explained by API being down, although it could be by e.g. a trigger-happy banbot.
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by vsl 4y ago
No. The current subscription-based version required new auth when released (was a separate app).
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by vsl 4y ago
Yes it is.
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by vsl 4y ago
The TV series is almost entirely disconnected from the novels. It’s like they picked and used some minor details at random and that’s it. It was bizarre.
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by vsl 4y ago
It’s not a troll (someone being deliberately offensive). If you make something free, you do get some amount of just this kind of entitled, abrasive users. It can be soul-draining and I admire Don’s kindness here.
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by vsl 4y ago
That’s … debatable. More importantly, however, working on : OSes frequently is rare . The developer of the app does it. I, as the user, dominantly use a single OS and want apps to be standard for that OS…
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by vsl 5y ago
IIRC EMF is specified as basically “whatever win32 GDI does”, it never was meant as portable format. And PostScript is a Turing-complete programming language - not really a way to make anything simpler, let alone SVG.
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by vsl 5y ago
You might want to read patio’s previous article linked from this one, which covered this.
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by vsl 5y ago
For some value of “works”. Mostly theoretical. Been there, done that for a few years, bought PS4 out of sheer frustration. It’s a death by thousand cuts: problems in some games, occasional popups from whatever that can’t be dismissed withou
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by vsl 5y ago
It’s perfectly possible to have employees or subcontractors as a sole trader…
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by vsl 5y ago
Anecdotes like this are plausibly explained as https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
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by vsl 6y ago
This is a great way to phrase it. Friction really is essential for so many things where we're gradually loosing it.
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by vsl 6y ago
They may not be a lawyer, but they have basic grasp of copyright law. It is indeed distribution of copyrighted content without permission that is illegal, not obtaining it.
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by vsl 6y ago
You can see what a load of BS is right from the one review screenshotted in the article. Point 1 boils down to: - “manager is Czech and full of himself” - xenophobic my ass (preemptively: I’m Czech and no way in hell would I see such statem
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by vsl 6y ago
Criteria for whether a work is copyrighted are a bit more nuanced and the word “header” doesn’t figure in it. A work needs to be original and have creativity element in it. Code in header files can - and very often does - meet that requirem
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by vsl 6y ago
Being a stateless protocol is the big one, for mobile. There’s more: https://fastmail.blog/2014/12/23/jmap-a-better-way-to-email/
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by vsl 6y ago
They require you to use their store, servers and bandwidth. It’s not fair to claim that’s value provided to developers when they are forbidden to not use the infrastructure. My costs for direct distribution on Mac are ~8% and are absolu
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by vsl 6y ago
Two years ago, support for paid (peanuts-level, $20/mo?) plan was... not great.
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by vsl 6y ago
So how about these? https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1266715217398030336 There does seem to be bias in media coverage and therefore society outrage or lack thereof.
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by vsl 6y ago
Below 1, not 0. Below 0 would mean an infected person on average heals other infected.
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by vsl 6y ago
> Public safety is not a human right, while privacy is. Seriously? “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person” is literally Article 3 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - and 1&2 are “this applies to ev
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by vsl 6y ago
It’s not about “people assembling” at all. It’s about individual prolonged contacts, possibly accidental (mass transit), with an infected person, allowing much more targeted (as opposed to current blunt tools like shelter at home orders) su
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by vsl 7y ago
Pretty much: Thierry Breton. A political hack with a pressing need to feel relevant in the crisis and nothing useful to do. The daily briefing at ec.europa.eu was edited after Netflix caved, but yesterday it was evident from it that the per
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by vsl 7y ago
Why do you think that’s screwing over somebody, rather than rationally protecting the very limited supply already insufficient for Germany’s own imminent need?
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by vsl 7y ago
Ramping up production of a new drug is typically an involved, lengthy process. Supply of any drug is going to be severely limited when needed most.
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by vsl 7y ago
It’s really archive.is acting up here...
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by vsl 7y ago
Nitpicking: gas goes bad eventually and needs to be burned before that, the usually given timeframe is after ~6 months.

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