whateverboat

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by whateverboat 9mo ago
I would say it the opposite ways, everything has become cheap, but in housing and education, there is now a huge profit lobby.
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by whateverboat 9mo ago
Win XP was excellent, as was Win 7 I thought. However, since then KDE has in my opinion, gone even further and become even better. So, the peak is not gone, it has just moved to KDe.
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by whateverboat 9mo ago
They do have a culture of silos and secrecy where employees are not allowed to talk to each other. This is actively enforced to prevent leaks but this also gets you this.
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by whateverboat 10mo ago
I am one of the person who, if they got 40 mil USD tomorrow, would just work much harder on stuff I like to work on (which is making open source software sustainable in robotics), because I would have to spend less time have to take care a
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by whateverboat 10mo ago
You are totally right. Going even way back, in days of TurboPascal, you could include graphics.h and get a very cool snake game going within half an hour. Today, doing anything like that is a week of advanced stuff. Someone wanted to recre
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by whateverboat 10mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnaGZHe8wws This is a nice video on why Electron is the best you might be able to do.
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by whateverboat 10mo ago
The one big reason why CEOs exist is trust. Trust from the shareholders that someone at the company is trying to achieve gains for them. Trust from vendors/customers that someone at the company is trying to make a good product. Trust f
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by whateverboat 10mo ago
I just use the `ae`, `oe`, `ue` and `ss` versions. Seems much easier.
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by whateverboat 10mo ago
Devnagari you mean. We have devnagari keyboard layout which can be used. you of course need to switch between keyboard layouts which can be done with a keyboard shortcut as well.
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by whateverboat 10mo ago
It's good from a text typing point of view but horrible from a keyboard shortcut point of view. I personally had to disable the feature so that I could actually use keyboard shortcuts in a sane manner. The AltGr approach is much super
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by whateverboat 10mo ago
That's a weird position to take. Open source software is actually what is mitigating this stupidity in my opinion. Having monopolistic players like Microsoft and Google is what brought us here in the first place.
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by whateverboat 10mo ago
> In case it breaks, I walk to my nearby electronics store and purchase a new MacBook Pro. > Not working for a week waiting for Framework to send parts is not an option for me. You are comparing apples and oranges here. Apple is inte
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by whateverboat 10mo ago
One bump in your laptop and you are shit out of luck then though. Removable parts imply that there needs to be extremely slight wiggle room (not to the level rightly criticized by the blog post author, but it cannot completely go away).
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by whateverboat 10mo ago
There are three parts of building products in software just like everywhere else: 1. understanding what product needs to be built 2. Having the technical expertise to build them 3. how much effort is needed to build it And all three things
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by whateverboat 10mo ago
LOL. You can do GitLab hosting with High Availability at a very professional level without needing a huge team.