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by yarcob 6y ago
I've tried to get my kids into tinkering with computers by showing them how to write Python code (with Thonny) and installing lots of programs for drawing etc. They are curious, and they do tinker with stuff when I'm there, but ab
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by yarcob 6y ago
Good point. I think most people aren't aware that it costs €500 - €1000 to post a single job ad on an important platform. Of course, the rate will be a lot lower for small companies, but with something like this you'd have perfect
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by yarcob 6y ago
> I can even do some crazy things, like share my local branches with other developers over side channels Haha, right, totally crazy, you could use git just like it was designed to be used! Who would do that!! (Joking aside, despite Githu
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by yarcob 6y ago
Update: After nothing happened, I rewrote the last commit and force pushed to trigger an update. That seemed to do the trick. I have no inside knowledge, but from the outside it looks like whatever outage they had broke the propagation of c
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by yarcob 6y ago
Even though the status page shows all green checkmarks, we are still experiencing issues. The web interface is showing stale data and we can't perform merges in git. Looks like some of their systems got out of sync and they aren't
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by yarcob 6y ago
The wikipedia page is heartbreaking. Griefing parents sent to jail, their other children taken away and placed in foster care... So many lifes made miserable by one person...
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by yarcob 6y ago
I edited my post to make it clear I don't think skulls have gaps in general.
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by yarcob 6y ago
From the Wikipedia page > In June 2005, the Chief Coroner of Ontario ordered a review of 44 autopsies carried out by Smith. Thirteen of these cases had resulted in criminal charges and convictions. The report was released in April 2007,
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by yarcob 6y ago
I'm late to reply, but in Austria the postal service happens to offer multiple services similar to this. You can rent a "post box" for letters or packages. You pay a monthly fee and get a post box number. You provide your pos
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by yarcob 6y ago
Their docs say they do: https://developers.google.com/search/reference/robots_txt They do say that they ignore robots.txt for user-initiated actions eg. Google Translate, which makes sense in my opinion.
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by yarcob 6y ago
Can someone explain why nobody seems to use the official Python installers from python.org? In my experience they work great, you can install multiple versions, and even pip3 seems to just work with them. I'm not a heavy Python user, b
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by yarcob 6y ago
You also get a better view of the road the higher up you mount the camera.
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by yarcob 6y ago
I think it's only really a hard problem because Apple has decided that they will only offer a single model (of most products). Apple makes one mouse. It's going to fit 80% of people and they will like it. If you're one of the
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by yarcob 6y ago
It's very typical for Apple. They make some very nice products, but they unfortunately apply a one-size-fits-all approach for most of their products and don't give a shit about ergonomics. They sell products that work for 80% of p
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by yarcob 6y ago
Same problem. Why would a business use a product that they don't know how long it's going to be around? They probably have to spend thousands of dollars to train their employees to use the new product, and if something changes (si
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by yarcob 6y ago
I can't imagine that a business would pay for a product that they can maybe start using in a year. Businesses are already wary about buying from startups since there's no guarantee their product will be around in a year. If the pr
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by yarcob 6y ago
It was revenue of 2000€, I still had to pay taxes, social security, etc. But yes, it was still more than enough. I lived on around 600€ side job + 200€ government stipend before I made my app.
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by yarcob 6y ago
Oh my god, they don't even bother implementing the app any more... It reminds me of my first App Store experience. I made an app that was somewhat successful (about 2000€ a month, enough to pay for a students living expenses). Within s
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by yarcob 6y ago
Why are marketers so obsessed with collecting data on their customers? It seems so absurd. On the one hand, they come up with ridiculous surveilance tech like this to track everything their customers do in their stores, so they can better u
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by yarcob 6y ago
Yes. 50% sounds like a healthy amount (only half as much!), even if it's still way too much.
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by yarcob 6y ago
People aren't stupid. People may fall for these tricks once or twice, but then they realize it's a trick, and they go shop somewhere else. The sites that treat their customers like idiots need to constantly find new victims. Sites
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by yarcob 6y ago
Here in Austria/Germany I see these dark patterns only from Amazon. They always try to get you to subscribe to prime, they mislead you with delivery times (my girlfriend has Prime and the website shows LONGER delivery times for her. Sa
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by yarcob 6y ago
Holy shit that's awful. I thought the advantage of subscription software is that you don't need to pay an expensive one time fee if you need software just for a short project. But if they make it hard to cancel, that really sucks.
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by yarcob 6y ago
Code I've seen at an (at the time) very well known startup horrified me. It must have been written by people with exactly this mindset: "Why spend time learning all this useless background information when I can just find the answ
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by yarcob 6y ago
It's not a problem when you look up the spelling or the order of arguments in the reference. It's a problem when you search for the solution to every problem with a search engine. So many answers on the internet are written by abs
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by yarcob 6y ago
> On iPhone if you and a friend in iMessage are together and one can connect to a protected WiFi, the other can connect to. Automatically. I don't think this is accurate. The Wifi sharing feature works differently. It's documen
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by yarcob 6y ago
This is getting a bit off-topic, but there are good reasons why biometric data is especially sensitive. For example, the GDPR emphasizes the "right to be forgotten". If something bad happened to you, you may not want to be forever
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by yarcob 6y ago
> This is incorrect You are right about Schengen. But I had to show my passport a couple of years ago on a flight from Vienna to Norway, so I thought they weren't part of Schengen. I'm not sure why, but I believe the reason mu
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by yarcob 6y ago
> So any data that does not fall under that blacklist is free game? No. That list are data that are considered especially sensitive, and so it's generally prohibited to process personal data of this kind. As far as I can tell it&#x2
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by yarcob 6y ago
I just looked up the relevant section in the GDPR, and it's actually pretty clear: It's section 9 "Processing of special categories of personal data" https://gdpr-info.eu/art-9-gdpr/ > 1. Process

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