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by _trackno5 3y ago
At some point I realized that it is okay to drop a book I started reading. If it turns out to be boring or not meeting whatever expectations I had, I just ditch it and move on.
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by _trackno5 3y ago
That’s interesting. I went through that book not that long ago and I found it fascinating. I had a hard time putting it down. I found that the concepts he covers in that book can even be applied for good software API design. Also, he did sp
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by _trackno5 3y ago
I’m not saying I believe $12 is good value. It’s not a matter of opinion. It’s just a fact. Similar forms of entertainment cost the same. You’re the one with the subjective opinion here because you personally don’t see value in it and make
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by _trackno5 3y ago
I am not. The EU’s move is to force Meta to stop personalised ads and Meta is pushing for an ad-free option. That’s an attempt to appease the regulators and keep their business model. They’ll make the argument that the customer has a reason
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by _trackno5 3y ago
Sure you don’t NEED meta. But it still offers value to their users. Regardless of their “addictive” design, you can’t deny that people want what they (and other social media) offer. It would be absurd to say they don’t add any value to peop
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by _trackno5 3y ago
Here you go: https://edpb.europa.eu/news/news/2023/edpb-urgent-binding-de...
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by _trackno5 3y ago
New EU regulation is forcing Meta to offer users an ad-free alternative. That’s why they are doing this. Meta’s revenue per user is around 40 USD iirc. Tbf, as much as people like whining they definitely get 12 bucks a month worth of entert
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by _trackno5 3y ago
macOS already uses (at least on ARM chips) device trees. I don’t see why they would go back to ACPI as long as they keep their SoC model.
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by _trackno5 3y ago
I wonder how this compares to the Hisense Reader Pro. I’ve been eyeing it for a while
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by _trackno5 3y ago
> Were women more likely to be junior, and therefore more likely to be cut? It's almost as if NPR just wants to parrot a narrative. That last point read like BS to me. I’m willing to bet that number includes a good chunk of tech r
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by _trackno5 3y ago
Is the conference explicitly only for women? I thought it was something that focused on women in tech but men were allowed to join. If the organizers don’t want men attending it they should verify peoples sex before handing out tickets. Per
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by _trackno5 3y ago
The main thing io_uring gives you is avoiding multiple syscalls. With a pipe you can’t really avoid that. With a shared memory queue/ring buffer you can write to the memory without any syscalls. But you need to build synchronisation yo
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by _trackno5 3y ago
Man that’s just sad. I remember a while ago Lex Fridman had a girl on his podcast talking about the changes in academia and self-censorship.
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by _trackno5 3y ago
Sounds like C and C++ are converging? Wikipedia has a good summary of the changes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C23_(C_standard_revision)
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by _trackno5 3y ago
This is the dumbest statement i’ve ever seen. You would prefer to have all your fellow humans die to save the planet. I’m all for improving things and looking for solutions to the problems we created, but this dumb nihilism serves nothing.
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by _trackno5 3y ago
I’m in a senior position and most of my time goes to architecting and design work. I barely get to code at my day job. I just use my free time to code. I see it as a relaxing activity
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by _trackno5 3y ago
Would this be something that might make electric aircrafts practical? AFAIU the good thing about regular aircrafts is that as it burns fuel, it becomes lighter. That doesn't happen with batteries, obviously.
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by _trackno5 3y ago
Like the other commenter said, you’re falling prey to the “appeal to nature” fallacy. There are plenty of natural things that are bad for you and plenty of synthetic things that are good for you. And there absolutely are reasons to feed you
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by _trackno5 3y ago
I mean, I'm in my late 20s and use emacs. Maybe for whatever work you do your IDE works better for you. In my case, I mostly code in C++. I've tried JetBrains' IDEs and it drives me insane how slow they are to index and I oft
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by _trackno5 3y ago
You literally proved my point. It’s not generally auditable. Even if you ignore the fact that the audit window is restricted and that the software is developed behind closed doors, just the first step in the process is absurd if you want
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by _trackno5 3y ago
Just because those companies have certifications it doesn’t mean they can’t make a mistake. In addition to that, the source code is closed and not generally auditable by third parties. I was a student under Diego Aranha (a cryptography rese
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by _trackno5 3y ago
Sure, we can all agree that this narrow use is in the interest of the public. Emphasis on narrow. It’s completely unreasonable to have a broad scope direct communication channel between the government and my browser or OS.
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by _trackno5 3y ago
It’s absurd that an article exists to allow French govt agents to display messages in my browser. How is that even enforced?
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by _trackno5 3y ago
This is great, thank you! Mozilla should really link to it in the petition page
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by _trackno5 3y ago
On top of that it should have the same rules applied to cigarette branding. Health risks need to be clearly exposed in the packaging
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by _trackno5 3y ago
I know the feeling. I'm the only person "remote" (work from another office/country) in my team and I am the one that always has to travel to meet the rest of the team. It's nice meeting people and all, but I general
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by _trackno5 3y ago
I don't think you could. Don't those services use your phone number as your id? They'll just block you from signing up or using the service.
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by _trackno5 3y ago
You should look into Harris Heller. He created a record label to make copyright free music for people to stream on places like Twitch. He distributes his music through Spotify, Apple, etc. The key thing here is that his music is used on str
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by _trackno5 3y ago
Like I said, and the link confirms, it will not by default collect tax. For that you need to set up Stripe Tax on top of it. Stripe Tax itself also takes a cut from your payment. It also “helps” you file taxes only by providing the reports
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by _trackno5 3y ago
Nice project, but this is a bit of a misrepresentation of Gumroad. The reason you “give up” so much money to them is because they handle VAT, which this service doesn’t seem to do at all. Stripe by default will not collect and remit VAT.

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