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by xctr94 3y ago
I’ve been reading agroforestry and permaculture books for a while — I’d love to get into farming —, and this has been known for ages. Even if not fully understood, it’s well known in agro that trees raise the humidity level of an area and c
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by xctr94 3y ago
They are not… nice. I’ve never had to deal with them, but the way some of them treat people makes you wonder how little power it takes to turn some people into mini-dictators. I’m not taking sides in this matter. We should all pay for the s
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by xctr94 3y ago
I empathize with your feeling, each OS release has been less and less interesting. Widgets? I didn’t care for them on Leopard or iOS, why would I clutter my desktop with them now? Notifications have gotten worse and worse to handle. System
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by xctr94 3y ago
For the past year or so I thought I was being silly for feeing the 1P has gotten so clunky. Now I get it. I had no idea they had migrated to Electron, but the app is much shittier. It can’t even remember which window size I’ve set it to, an
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by xctr94 3y ago
Are people this dense? Do you understand that last ~2C the permafrost melting accelerates climate change out of our control, and that the end result in a post-5C world is that the ozone layer goes to shit because of all that methane? Do you
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by xctr94 3y ago
Cue ‘Developer Hegemony’, a great book on this topic. Yes, as an engineer, you should be interested in vision/strategy/product. Otherwise you’re just executing, and the opportunists will get promoted ahead of you. The book explain
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by xctr94 3y ago
It can go as high as 500–1500x compared to some competitors. I wonder how amazing Splunk is to be worth the price tag.
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by xctr94 3y ago
As a resident of Belgium, bad air quality isn’t anything new. Government subsidies for company cars, pass-through highways, unreliable train system, etc.; these things add up. We knew the situation was bad, but supposedly getting better [1]
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by xctr94 3y ago
The argument is that we’re going after the wrong things, usually. Of course we want to improve things across all vectors, but we’ve been disproportionately asking the lower and middle classes to make sacrifices; and have been too lenient wi
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by xctr94 3y ago
It’s literally explained in the article what happens at almost 4x the speed you mention.
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by xctr94 3y ago
It could be good food. You can make a profit whilst serving the public good, that’s something corporations just can’t get into their heads. Nestlé in Europe has made a few versions with more whole grains and less sugar, with no detectabl
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by xctr94 3y ago
The complaint doesn’t seem to be about GitHub Actions, but YAML. I agree 100% percent, as soon as I saw that Keep is using YAML, I closed the tab. Nope. Nope. Nope. It’s like going back to Mongo without schemas and relational checks. We hav
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by xctr94 3y ago
I empathize and can second this as well. For a few years I’ve been visualizing a spaceship I travel in. By now there’s a lot of detail, so it doesn’t always work; but if the day got me in a sour mood, at least I know my ‘special’ space is w
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by xctr94 3y ago
Needlessly snarky… it adds a lot of value if you want to enhance HTML with dynamic behaviors that would be cumbersome to write in plain JavaScript.
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by xctr94 3y ago
I empathize with the sentiment, but we grew up in a different ecosystem. (I’ve assumed your age bracket a bit judging from the comment.) The lack of online ‘low effort’ content to consume was part of why the tool itself was fascinating. “Ok
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by xctr94 3y ago
Before the System Settings redesign, this was quite possible. Even more so if you use Alfred. I’m Catalina I think I’ll get the right setting 1 out of 5 times, if that much. The redesign is absolute garbage.
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by xctr94 3y ago
This seems quite good, if reviewers don’t reject the app on the basis that not enough of it is native. We’ve gotten push back from Apple for all sort of minutiae. Thanks for the tip tho :)
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by xctr94 3y ago
Subpar on what? That’s the important part. For my non-techie family, it seems to do everything they need WHILST saving a lot of battery life. If that’s the criteria, it’s a great browser. I’d never use it due to lack of uBlock Origin and go
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by xctr94 3y ago
After 4 years of doing cross-platform mobile, I loathe React and React Native by now, and I dislike Expo. But… suggesting any other alternative is tricky. True native development is, indeed, much better. But a small team will be hard-presse
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by xctr94 3y ago
HTTP 413 Payload Too Large is the appropriate response, not silently truncating content because you wanted to be ‘optimistic’ in your replies to clients.
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by xctr94 3y ago
I got an email directly from Metabase.
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by xctr94 3y ago
That's the one feature we don't care about at all. We specifically avoid features like that (e.g. in PostHog) because it would be hard to explain to our customers why we're doing it. Capturing session logs? Now we're tal
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by xctr94 3y ago
Congratulations on the launch :) Do you have plans for a React Native/Expo integration? I’d move our monitoring in a heartbeat!
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by xctr94 3y ago
Amen. I’ll give Microsoft crap any day, but the most popular language on Earth is now routinely developed with a sane type interpreter that eliminates entire error categories.
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by xctr94 3y ago
A lot of work being done at the lower levels is for done in the name of the same farcical issues pointed in the thread. We spend lots of time building absolute bullsh*t. The reality is a lot of these nonsense is fed from high-up without a g
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by xctr94 3y ago
Ironically, Atlassian has an article against measuring productivity: https://www.atlassian.com/blog/productivity/the-problem-with...
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by xctr94 3y ago
You’re conflating economic value with artistic value. The worth of a painting is a highly speculative number based on a few rich people deciding they want to trade in art. Artistic value is independent from it. Art may resonate with you, ye
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by xctr94 3y ago
https://www.scienceofpeople.com/sarcasm-why-it-hurts-us/ Sarcasm isn’t funny to everyone; GP was understandably confused. This isn’t Reddit.
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by xctr94 3y ago
Progress, the one thing JS has too much of, too quickly, without stabilizing for quality. There are a number of benefits (see the link below). We could argue JavaScript shouldn’t be isomorphic, as it barely does its job well on either end.
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by xctr94 3y ago
I had the same reaction. In fact, it was in The Netherlands that I first saw the award-winning report in their decades-long chemical war on the community surrounding one of their plants in the US. It’s what made me stop buying Gore-Tex. Sha

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