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by wink 1y ago
We tried the included "converter" or whatever they called it on a work project and it only generated garbage. A coworker from another team said they just started fresh and reformatted their project, but I hate the idea. IMHO movin
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by wink 1y ago
My first reaction was "huh?" - I very much remember this logo as a thing of the 90s, apparently I didn't pay attention since it vanished from the BIOS screens. Am I just personally oblivious or is it more prominent in the US?
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by wink 1y ago
Hello operator, gimme the number for nine one one!
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by wink 1y ago
They often got the "be an asshole to the patient" part down though.
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by wink 1y ago
But why would you take your lunch break according to the sun, especially if you work in an office? I'm not trying to play dumb, but sun rises at 6 in the summer in Germany - most people take their lunch break at 12. Sun rises at, I dun
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by wink 1y ago
Or bad at interpreting data? Of course not all Germans go for lunch at 12-1 but unless you are in retail or your team has decided 1-2 is better, or 30min is enough.. I think it's just a very good guess that it's 12-1 for most th
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by wink 1y ago
I mean, yes it reads a little awkward, but not too long ago I had misplaced the stack of envelopes + stamps I keep in my desk drawer and I needed to send something by snail mail (hey, remember that term?) and yeah. I am not someone who take
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by wink 1y ago
I think that's personal preference and circumstances though. I have used Windows on the desktop since 1994, I have used Linux on desktops since 1998 (work machines being 50% or exclusively Linux since 2010ish) and I got my first mac la
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by wink 1y ago
Yeah, it's handy - and maybe my teenage years were an exception here, but for me the deciding change was internet access and not the smartphone. As long as you could coordinate with your friends online, the actual meeting up outside wa
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by wink 1y ago
Yes and no. I think you're right about the reason being a bit off, but let's say to coordinate some birthday party or "let's take the kids to the zoo or whatever" it was still absolutely true, just not a daily occ
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by wink 1y ago
Winamp only changed the colors, and the default wasn't too artsy. Try Sonique :P
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by wink 1y ago
You're right in the absolute form, but I've yet to see a Dockerfile where (with a little thinking and elbow grease) I couldn't "easily" port it or update it, even after years. It's basically the best and easies
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by wink 2y ago
Just getting people to pay their domain fees on time (or at all) was a nightmare back then - so nowadays there's only one deal on infrastructure I own: It's free and comes with no guarantees. If you need a domain or subdomain, you
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by wink 2y ago
Maybe the fame, but I've only recently taken up Kotlin and... I can't say anything bad about it. Yes, Java is catching up, to a degree, but Kotlin is really nice to use if you're on the JVM anyway. (non-mobile btw)
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by wink 2y ago
Some stuff is usable, but not fun. I have a Centrino laptop from 2004, and it's single core, with 1.5GB RAM and, of course, spinning rust. It works , but even playing a video on youtube can be taxing. I'm not arguing for "pe
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by wink 2y ago
I'm more confused but why seems to be ignoring (or just being modest?) the technical feats of Quake and Quake 2 and (what I read to be) some sort of "well we just somehow made it work, but the game development (maybe artistic) w
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by wink 2y ago
How recent is Swish adoption? Some Swedes I knew back in 2013-2018 seemed to mostly use Visa/MC at home.
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by wink 2y ago
It's always hard to describe the minutiae of things happening in the span of just a couple of years, but I think you're overly broad here. Wikipedia tells me the initial release of Subversion was in late 2000, and for git it was 2
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by wink 2y ago
IANAL but I actually think "Engineer" in Germany is not the same protected word, thus companies use this, or "Software Engineer". You also don't always get a say what they put in your sig or on your business card (a
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by wink 2y ago
So just like the windows copy dialog. Progress bar it is.
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by wink 2y ago
Kinda depends. My first own laptop was 15.4" brick - but I didn't constantly move it around, just randomly to uni 2-3 times a week. My work laptops have generally been 14" and it's fine with external monitors (current is
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by wink 2y ago
Can confirm that autocorrect still mentioned my coworker JSON in 2025. (don't remember where though)
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by wink 2y ago
IIRC it can't to ctrl-t (transform) because it opens a new tab. Gets me every time I use it. It's still a lovely piece of software.
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by wink 2y ago
On my Win10 desktop it got to 30GB though and the stuff worth backup is actually about 1GB of it. Let's just call it what it is: a complete mess. Some apps install their binaries in there, some just config files, some all your data. If
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by wink 2y ago
If they had a public and accountable org structure, but certainly not with their CEO's salary. I've said this often, I hold them to a higher standard, but they're not even matching the standard of companies I respect.
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by wink 2y ago
I'm a) not a linguist and b) ESL - but I notice a stark different between Irish/Scottish/Texan (as a standin for a thick southern example) on the one hand and most Indian/African (both native) and French (as ESL) dialect
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by wink 2y ago
That may be true but if you've been burnt enough over several years that it seemed to cover 1% of people's needs you just put it on the trash pile.
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by wink 2y ago
thanks, you had me wondering...
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by wink 2y ago
But I don't miss manuals printing black on brown things for copy protection.
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by wink 2y ago
I'd say it's good enough - but I refuse to call a conversation over email "reliable" as in the properties I expect from a realtime messenger.

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