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by zibzab 5y ago
I tested librepcb 1-2 years ago and manufactured a few boards with it. It's extremely simple, but it works. Some parts work really well, such as component creation which is sort of kickads big weakness. Overall, I liked it and prefer i
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by zibzab 5y ago
If that's your goal I think you should wait a few years before starting using Rust. We have already seen early Rust code not compiling with new compiler releases. Right now we are in a move fast and break things phase. Also, you need t
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by zibzab 5y ago
Two things have kept me away from embedded Rust before 1. A huge chain of dependencies. Security issues aside, I prefer my embedded code to be lean and clean. 2. A big departure from how things used to be done in this world. For ex
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by zibzab 5y ago
Is it on librepay? I try to avoid patron.
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I was talking about technology. There are tons of side by side comparisions on YouTube showing the distance between Google and others. Privacy is a completely different subject and whatever we feel about these companies it is very hard to q
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by zibzab 5y ago
You can't really compare Siri & even Alexa to Google. That things is at a whole different level. Anyway, we really need a fully offline and private voice assistant. Maybe this sort of things are what should GNU and Apache work on n
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by zibzab 5y ago
Germans have always been anti-nuclear. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-nuclear_movement_in_Germa...
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by zibzab 5y ago
This was decided longe before the current mess. But it sometimes feels like we should move a bit slower in these matters and be a tiny bit more flexible to not have a huge backlash.
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by zibzab 5y ago
Here is a relevant question: What should be my first (real/useful) web app be?
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by zibzab 5y ago
Not a fan, its trying too hard to look like OSX. If you like OSX, just go use the real thing. See also this clip by Chad, I mean Nick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYUIKdIY7Y8
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by zibzab 5y ago
New sales pitch: It stops 5G _and_ kills cancer cells.
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by zibzab 5y ago
Killed by Google, hardware edition.
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by zibzab 5y ago
No, mate. Hell is mom and grandma dyeing by slowly being suffocated. Full lockdown is just a major inconvince.
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by zibzab 5y ago
No, I meant how does the booster effect reduces over time. The effectiveness of the first two over time went down much quicker than initially anticipated. The question is if the 3rd shot is somehow different.
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> Current vaccines do not stop the spread of covid No, not to the extent we first hoped. But it does help you survive covid, which was our goal all along.
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by zibzab 5y ago
Note that the model does not take into account any countermeasures. If the model promises hell, the country goes into full lockdown and at the end we only see a mild hell-ish, was the model wrong?
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by zibzab 5y ago
But how does this reduce over time?
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by zibzab 5y ago
Because, this is how we do things in Enterprise. Okay, more seriously... this is why I am currently staying away from Rust. Because sometimes I don't even know if the random number generation crate I imported for my banking app came fr
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by zibzab 5y ago
Hopefully this puts an end to those annoying log4j-LOTR memes. (Unless some hobbits have 3 breakfasts?)
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by zibzab 5y ago
The reason EU considered Trumps actions dangerous is because (1) he went after symbolic stuff and (2) Europeans companies got caught in the crossfire and it severely damaged the EU economy in steal and aluminium sectors. See also the ZTE a
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by zibzab 5y ago
Wow, that was an interesting read. Not sure I'm up for working in such a toxic environment, but the technical challenges seem very interesting.
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by zibzab 5y ago
I think you are ignoring how much Android security has improved in the past 3-4 years. Core libraries (where historically the biggest security bugs have been found, see for example stagefreight) plus all core applications (e.g. Web browser,
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by zibzab 5y ago
I find it impressive that they have managed to capture the payloads in the wild. These are meant to be very hard to record and having a copy will help Apple tremendously. I think Apple should give citizenlab some generous funding to expand
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by zibzab 5y ago
I see lots of different explanations here but people seem to have missed the most important one: ECONOMY! Let me explain, because you are probably not thinking about the same thing as I am right now: Android exists on different CPU architec
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by zibzab 5y ago
They are all dead now despite some subjects not being old. So statically, no they were not vaccinated.
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by zibzab 5y ago
I use multiple platforms at work and that's really the biggest difference to me. Linux is much faster, like a lot! Specially on older hardware. And not only the filesystem and that stuff. With recent gnome versions the interface is muc
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by zibzab 5y ago
Only if you never work with other people, who use office for whatever reason. Also, not everyone wants their files in the cloud. Although that's getting harder and harder with Office too.
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by zibzab 5y ago
Thanks man, TIL! Too bad ctrl-click means new instance on gnome, I'm bound to confuse the two now...
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by zibzab 5y ago
Apple is extremely sensitive to bad PR, this should not surprise anyone.
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by zibzab 5y ago
Seriously, how does something so hated continues to exist? Is some evil billionaire secretly bankrolling Pinterest as a cruel joke?

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