StuckDuck

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by StuckDuck 3y ago
Woah, I have been watching all of this guy's videos recently, I love how deep he dives into niche topics. His video on segmented displays got me very interested in the clever designs that came out of technical constraints, and challeng
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by StuckDuck 3y ago
Italy blocks ChatGPT*
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by StuckDuck 4y ago
Nice :)
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by StuckDuck 4y ago
Yeah, I guess probably "free software" was a more appropriate term
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by StuckDuck 4y ago
Unfortunately it seems like nowadays with open source being very widespread that many companies or people simply ignore/forget that these libraries that they include in their software aren't just "public domain" because
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by StuckDuck 4y ago
I think the gnome project deserves a mention here, their docs program is really complete, and covers many high level aspects of how to use the software. Most gnome apps also use it
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by StuckDuck 4y ago
This article is from 1999, what do you mean?
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by StuckDuck 4y ago
I'm not defending Amazon
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by StuckDuck 4y ago
Yeah, it even seems very weird as well that a company would paint this image on themselves
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by StuckDuck 4y ago
This article is so wrong on so many levels. First off, Amazon is definitely not selling "suicide kits", let alone advertising them. What they really meant here is the automated "people usually buy this with" section th
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by StuckDuck 4y ago
HackerNews is basically just text and links, so... I don't see how a CDN would only complicate things, honestly
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by StuckDuck 4y ago
#7085B2 #04977C #202b38
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by StuckDuck 4y ago
I used to be on twitter (wonderful thing, I know) for about a year during 2020-2021. I never really any social media accounts aside from that, but anyways, during that time on the site I felt so stressed, anxious, and manipulated that it ac
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by StuckDuck 4y ago
Agree. Still, this is horrible
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by StuckDuck 4y ago
> I was frankly astonished that Windows would drop them into a temporary user profile without dire warnings about its transience Does it? I recall using Windows 7 and being dropped into ~TEMP sometimes, but I was warned with a notificati
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by StuckDuck 4y ago
No, this was on a clean install
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by StuckDuck 4y ago
Cloud apps != Web apps I never had a problem with the former, and appreciate their capabilities. Many cloud apps are also web apps, but not necessarily (see Sketch)
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by StuckDuck 4y ago
I never did.
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by StuckDuck 4y ago
> just brushing off anything made with web technologies because “it wasn’t designed for this” feels very shortsighted in my opinion That's more of an ideological reason for me. But even setting that aside, you can't ignore the
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by StuckDuck 4y ago
Yes and loads more. I don't use notepad++ on the daily but it is a far superior experience than whatever VSCode gave me
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by StuckDuck 4y ago
> Have you considered that your computer is the problem? I wouldn't say so, Elementary OS's built in code editor takes a few seconds at most to open a file Then again, Electron is really slow (among other things), but anyways,
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by StuckDuck 4y ago
> As someone who has been into mobile app development since 2010, the comments above read like a punch to the gut. We grew up believing that the native experience was better than the web! It is With the transition to web apps, we have lo
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by StuckDuck 4y ago
Agree with it being weird but intuitive != commonly known. Just because windows does it a certain way doesn't mean it is intuitive. It's just widely known and assumed. If GNU developed to be the worldwide market leader then we&#x2
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by StuckDuck 4y ago
I'd say macOS actually is a lot more polished than Windows, but I agree with you that it is damn confusing. Try "closing" an app for example and you'll find that half the time it will not have closed properly, or maybe i
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by StuckDuck 4y ago
Something to note which wasn't mentioned here is that `cd` is not a binary executable, but instead a shell command. You won't find it anywhere in /bin, /sbin and so on. That's also why `sudo cd ` doesn't work,
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by StuckDuck 4y ago
Wikipedia hands down because it includes about all the information I could ever need from the internet at any given time
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by StuckDuck 4y ago
Yep, and that's the story of how I lost years worth of discussions and chats because Discord thought well that linking a phone number doesn't automatically allow you to verify yourself with it.