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by zoul 7y ago
Having a house helps a lot, we already have data on that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_First
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by zoul 7y ago
“Useful man”! So it’s official now.
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by zoul 7y ago
We have a newspaper with close to 1000 articles running on Jekyll. Site generation speed is low, but acceptable.
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by zoul 7y ago
IMHO conversions between various “error types” are quite common when gluing together different APIs. Like when you are chaining a handful of Result-returning calls and there’s one in the middle that returns errors using Option.
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by zoul 7y ago
If they own the rights they can do whatever they want to, but that doesn’t mean we cannot consider it worrying. In fact, if we consider some of their actions too worrying, we can change the copyright law to better benefit the society.
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by zoul 7y ago
Considering that Elm seems to be by far the most stable, usable and used alternative, just dismissing it for the lack of typeclasses seems a bit short sighted to me. Is this a case of avoiding success at all costs? :)
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by zoul 7y ago
Statistically speaking, the doctors were probably right. The guy taking the chemo effectively traded a better chance of survival for worse short-term quality of life. (And lost the bet.) But yes, it’s good to know the chances, so that you c
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by zoul 7y ago
Fucked when viewed from the point of a single individual. Beatiful when considered as a whole.
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by zoul 7y ago
The tap targets are minuscule and close to each other.
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by zoul 7y ago
I still don’t think this is a good solution because of the common CNLabelContactRelation prefix. It would be better to introduce a CNLabelContactRelation enum? Then the enum cases would be much less painful. Or at least an empty enum as a n
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by zoul 7y ago
So far I have not found anything broken yet. I think I would go for a whitelist in that case.
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by zoul 7y ago
https://pi-hole.net . Just installed, very happy so far.
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by zoul 7y ago
No it doesn’t, agreed. But I imagine the design constraints for a notebook vs. wireless headphones are pretty different. I am amazed that the thing can be built at all.
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by zoul 7y ago
But that’s an argument against all wireless headphones, right? They all need a small battery with limited lifespan. After that, you either return the device for recycling or replace the battery. The latter sounds like the more environmental
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by zoul 7y ago
It would be interesting to ask Apple how much they manage to recycle from the AirPods and how. Would that be asking too much from the article author?
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by zoul 7y ago
Jesus, that’s a really bad article, spinning some truths, irrelevant info and memes into hate. Most of what’s written applies to all wireless headphones, wired headphones or even other consumer electronics. Also, Apple has a recycling progr
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by zoul 7y ago
I expect a lot of franken apps not fitting into the system. As a developer, I would be happy to write a new interface for each platform. If only we had not bottom-raced software prices to levels that make it hard to create an app, let alone
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by zoul 7y ago
UX for laptops/desktops was solved in the early 2000. In the early 2000, my music library was a few dozens GBs played back using mpeg123 or something. Nowadays it’s a Google Play Music subscription. Things have moved to the cloud, a
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by zoul 7y ago
> Media always need resources to get produced, no matter which format. So they are never independent. Whoever provides these resources has the power. (…) It's not perfect but it can't be improved either. You can only exchange o
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by zoul 8y ago
Ahoj! :) This is a perfect article that always comes to mind when talking pluralization: https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Locale-Maketext/lib/Lo... We Czechs have it easy!
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by zoul 8y ago
I18n is something like security, it takes a lot of effort to get right, people often don’t know that their assumptions are subtly wrong, and getting them right often requires using a more complicated solution. No wonder programmers just cop
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by zoul 8y ago
Elm (elm-lang.org) does some of that.
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by zoul 8y ago
I’d guess serving them a static placeholder or cached result to prevent them from hammering the DB?
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by zoul 8y ago
FWIW, I have been running a local newspaper (both digital and print) for the last five years. There is _no_ competition to speak of whatsoever. There are papers allright, but practically none of them make serious journalism, they just do wh
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by zoul 8y ago
They don’t have to do anything. But then the society may feel like it’s hard to compete in the ad industry and start breaking the oligopoly down. Which, I think, is the main reason Google does this charade.
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by zoul 8y ago
The writing was on the wall, in the same way that streaming killed optical media and optical media killed LPs. Or in the same way that e-commerce is killing retail once logistics gets cheap enough to make delivery cheaper than buying in st
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by zoul 8y ago
I don’t think so. How does Google replace the journalism it helped to destroy? How can a single entity with its own political and other biases replace a vast, diverse network of local journalism?
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by zoul 8y ago
The main problem is that this just does not scale. Facebook and Google have damaged the business model of local media all over the world – now how can they fix that by reintroducing local media to a few towns below 500 thousand people? If t
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by zoul 8y ago
I think “deeply nesting components” means dropping a stateful component (view+behaviour+state) anywhere in your app without anything else changing. That’s not possible in Elm since the only place to store state is the central state storage.
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by zoul 8y ago
If it was allowed, somebody would have done it. People are often scared, don’t care or don’t know how to. I have found it best to include a batch of refactoring each time I touched something during development. (Because adding features or

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