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by yakcyll 8y ago
Playing Go. I picked the game up around the time when AlphaGo was on the up and up. My goal with it was to work on patience and fulfill my competitive drive. It proved to do so much more for me - a year in, I got to play solid games, experi
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by yakcyll 8y ago
I don't think I'm up to date with the Web enough to understand the selling point of this article. Is it not that most use cases of static sites are not at all concerned with latency or bandwidth, but rather simplicity and presenta
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by yakcyll 8y ago
It strikes me in a weird way that power users are brought up in one of the comments as the main users of Firefox. It's obviously a major stretch to argue the counter-argument, that Chrome and others must be mostly used by casual users,
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by yakcyll 9y ago
I get that it's super anecdotal to mention this, but this idea sounds a lot like the worst oppressive, sadness-inducing systems I read about in school books, the purpose of which was literally to save people from thinking stuff like th
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by yakcyll 9y ago
If so, then it's that much more disingenuous, considering that specialists are more likely to be aware of issues like those and of options they have to solve them. The Average Joe will never feel compelled to cross-check a claim like t
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by yakcyll 9y ago
Not sure (I haven't tried it yet), but the developer manual stub mentions using gnome-terminal.
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by yakcyll 9y ago
It's bloody common sense. If you don't respect my rights, there will come a time, as history has shown time and again, when I will gather enough power to be able to not respect yours. And so, slavery was abolished.
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by yakcyll 10y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but as a non-American, I still have no bloody clue what the election hacking was about. That, plus, it shouldn't matter who has done it, since (especially if it was Russia) they most likely won't be persecuted
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by yakcyll 10y ago
And who of the God knows how many users of Android will 'tinker' with it? Ignorance of the user base, technical or otherwise, IS a valid argument against this sorta thing. We made it so.
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by yakcyll 10y ago
Here's to hope it's not just the brand they're going to slap on and into it. EDIT: looking it up, it seems like HMD Global has been formed as a result of buying back parts of Microsoft Mobile and employs veteran Nokia staff (
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by yakcyll 10y ago
Why it is app.run() and not app.go_fast() is beyond me.
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by yakcyll 10y ago
So, uh, in layman's terms, where's the money now?
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by yakcyll 11y ago
I think it's not hard to argue that Microsoft is, in many ways, exploiting people's lack of awareness about their shift towards OS-as-a-service model and the consequences of it, thus building a user base that either does not care
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by yakcyll 11y ago
Definitely! I'm just hoping for this 'aha!' moment, since it just feels like black magic for me. I think conservative approach to fundamentals is a great way to build a robust language and the way it's presented to me su
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by yakcyll 11y ago
For a C++ developer, Rust introduces a lot of seemingly arbitrary rules and constraints on how data can be managed, moved around and referenced. In order to develop things that employ a lot of composing, one has to either make the code nigh
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by yakcyll 11y ago
How can a font possibly affect automatic content scanning, is what I'm curious about.