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by vzaliva 6y ago
So, the conclusion of your long-winded rant is that plastic body of Pixel is a show-stopper for you and you prefer Apple policing your freedoms for the price of metal phone body?
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by vzaliva 6y ago
Apple makes excellent hardware and polished OS. However, if you care about your freedoms, you need to take a bullet and chose to replace it with a less restrictive operating system, perhaps sacrificing some convenience along the way. I pers
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by vzaliva 6y ago
I want one like this for OCaml.
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by vzaliva 6y ago
I hope somebody will step up a new maintainer. Helm is very popular and part of many people daily emacs workflow.
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by vzaliva 6y ago
Years ago I was listening for one of early seasons of DSC for a year or so and it was kind of fun. Few years later I've looked him up and his new show has totally different vibe: grumpy old men with questionable political agenda. From
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by vzaliva 6y ago
I've been a long time 1Password user but their lack of Linux support made me switch to LastPass. It is great they finally decided to support Linux, but it should be noted it took them 10 years to do so (see the date of the post they me
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by vzaliva 6y ago
what is an alternative to "being framed as a witch"? Being an actual witch? Of course they have been framed!
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by vzaliva 6y ago
Has it been peer reviewed? Otherwise not being an epidemiologist it is hard for me to judge weather the scientific argument presented by this paper is sound.
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by vzaliva 6y ago
Is Firefox any better in this respect? I am seriously considering switching.
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by vzaliva 6y ago
I had a small harmless extension which does not access ANY user information and completely client-side. I received cryptic takedown notice and was not able to convince them it is not in violation of their policies. They never specify what p
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by vzaliva 6y ago
All is missing is a link to register a domain with generated word.
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by vzaliva 6y ago
If there is a way to limit its access to my dropbox by one folder?
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by vzaliva 6y ago
What about problems people mention here? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22969469 I love ThinkPad and planning to buy one soon, but reporters of problems with sound and WiFi drivers concerning.
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by vzaliva 6y ago
Maybe it was older model? I've seen multiple complaints from people on this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22969469
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by vzaliva 6y ago
As soon as they support Linux...
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by vzaliva 6y ago
From somebody who worked on touch intefraces: #1 could be hardware dependent. Most modern touchpads detects finger coordinates in firmware and send them to driver. Driver has not much to do to improve accuracy besides some high-level smooth
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by vzaliva 6y ago
the web site is very brief on the passport verification mechanism. Anybody can explain how it works? I understand they are compatible with passports with a chip. How do they read them? NFC? OCR a string of letters inside the passport? I wou
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by vzaliva 7y ago
I prefer Ubuntu. If I buy one of these models, does it mean that there are drivers/support for all hardware in Ubuntu as well? Are some of the divers proprietary or Fedora-specific?
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by vzaliva 7y ago
this discussion inspired me to write down my thoughts on email setup: https://medium.com/@krokodil42/a-quick-guide-to-your-persona...
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A Quick Guide to Your Personal Email Address (2020 Edition)(medium.com)
2 points by vzaliva 7y ago|0 comments
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by vzaliva 7y ago
any provider can ban your account. my recourse is to switch my domain. I do not use @gmail.com address - I use my own domain with google mail.
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by vzaliva 7y ago
email is such a critical part of my digital life that is stability and convenience are the critical factors which can overweight some shortcomings in features and UI. So the additional arguments for staying with Gmail are: 1. Stability. Goo
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by vzaliva 7y ago
Read this and decide for yourself if it is accurate enough for you: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6095823/ Study conclusions: "Multi-sensor sleep trackers, such as the ŌURA ringhave the po
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by vzaliva 7y ago
As an academic, I often need a whiteboard during video conferencing calls (for writing math and sketching diagrams). I tried many solutions with a mouse, touch screen, iPad, tablet. It turns out, nothing beats good old whiteboard. I've
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The Math of Social Distancing(medium.com)
6 points by vzaliva 7y ago|0 comments
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by vzaliva 7y ago
In my opinion, critical code like this must be formally verified.
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by vzaliva 7y ago
Good project, but unfortunate bad choice of technologies (C++, AngelScript).
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by vzaliva 7y ago
Potential vulnerability aside, I think the article leaves you with wrong impression about stat of Google Authenticator app. In my understanding Google Authenticator app you install from App Store is not the same as github app authors talkin
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by vzaliva 7y ago
"After more than fifteen years in the computer industry" It must be more than that. Maybe 50?
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by vzaliva 7y ago
This article title and conclusions are misleading. It shows how to write a simple game in OCaml and then proceeds to conclude that ReasonML is better. I would expect the author to have the same game implemented in ReasonML for comparison to

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