brokenkebab2

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by brokenkebab2 4y ago
Frankly it doesn't look like it's ready to be useful. As an example tried "Braze notifications" and the first result was about Brave, then two mildly relevant, and then a long stretch of "Who's hiring?" to
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by brokenkebab2 4y ago
Overgeneralization detected! I live tiny, and spend less than I used to. I'm not in US though. But I think the general principle is the same everywhere: many of those who come to alternative homes do it not to save (especially from IT
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by brokenkebab2 4y ago
Guests fiddling with their phones is not QR-dependent from what I experienced. Also, waiters can be helpful, and friendly even when there's no paper menus. In my current city most restaurants are QR-enabled, and they serve food as nice
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by brokenkebab2 4y ago
Interesting idea. Though maximally-simple claim doesn't look warranted to me. It feels more complex than most of Forth incarnations.
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by brokenkebab2 4y ago
How's this important for a project which is obviously an experiment in PLs field? You either interested in such things, or not, nothing else applies.
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by brokenkebab2 4y ago
I can easily agree that Mac's touchpad is nice, as many other pieces of its hardware. MacOS however is not as good as it used to be (comparatively), because other OSes advanced significantly while retaining better configurability. Btw,
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by brokenkebab2 4y ago
>System wide function keys (play, pause, volume up, etc.) that work everywhere What's so special about it? The only difference between my Asus with Linux, and Mac in this regard is that on Mac I have to use touch stripe which is inf
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by brokenkebab2 4y ago
MacOSX UI nowadays feels quite outdated compared to e.g. default KDE. And I don't even like KDE that much.
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by brokenkebab2 4y ago
It's absolutely not like that. Apple extracts profits in a lots of ways, including those which rely on gathering personal data. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32539762
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by brokenkebab2 4y ago
I didn't like FB well before it became fashionable, but I don't understand your logic here: what is that exactly that you can't entrust WhatsApp to send, but you can trust Apple, or your mobile carrier?
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by brokenkebab2 4y ago
I must note switching from novelty to boring phase is a crisis which every growing project will come through once it starts to expand its workforce. I saw it in teams with very average tech stack many times.
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by brokenkebab2 4y ago
I mentioned history of numbers, and it starts not from PIE speaking peoples, so I'm a bit lost as for what exactly is your point.
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by brokenkebab2 4y ago
I'm a member of multilingual family, and I'm inclined to insist it's not about Germanic grammar cases, because it's true for non-Germanic languages as well.
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by brokenkebab2 4y ago
>If I ask you to count the number of red balls in a bag with only 3 yellow balls, then the initial count in your head is 0, Sorry, no. Humans count from 1. That's just a basic fact reflected in the history of numbers, which at early
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by brokenkebab2 4y ago
For example I could prepare presentations with it, or deal with long emails, and write code - all day long. While it was less comfortable compared to full-sized PC, it was normal, alright. Appearing in the same situation with any modern sma
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by brokenkebab2 4y ago
It's not a point if postmodernism, however. Noting that earthly life is unfair, and humans (and therefore human institutions) are inherently morally fallible predates postmodernism by millenia. The novelty of postmodernism thought was
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by brokenkebab2 4y ago
"...asking the subject about their eating habits over the last period"
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by brokenkebab2 4y ago
> exist only in your imagination and in fairy tales. I'm afraid, this argument is both wrong (maybe you just haven't been lucky with people around you), and inapplicable (the talk is imaginarium).
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by brokenkebab2 4y ago
Summary: the linked text doesn't answer the headline question. It's more a literary excercise
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by brokenkebab2 4y ago
>Were as Windows has been used to support It's turning things upside down. Windows has been used in remote because it became dominant, not vice versa. It won in enterprise segment before e.g. even remote support, not to mention remo
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by brokenkebab2 4y ago
>the effort of physically going somewhere is high Ok, I realize there's a context for it. Still can't help, but laugh at how low is a "high" mark for physical effort when in office.
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by brokenkebab2 4y ago
We have historical experience which pretty clearly shows that not increasing the price of aggression surely doesn't stop it. Contrary to what feel-good gurus say about "breaking the cycle of violence", in real life, it only b
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by brokenkebab2 4y ago
>Do you apply this principle consistently or only when and how it suits you? Of course, I do. Not to say I don't have biases, or that I'm always have an access to 100% correct information. Life's not that easy, of course,
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by brokenkebab2 4y ago
>if you call something fmt() you start needing to make up equally clever short names for everything else, and it becomes less principled. Not necessary. There's a very sensible "huffmanization" principle created within Per
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by brokenkebab2 4y ago
Can we decide that saving a victim from violence by applying violence to an aggressor is net positive? Yes, absolutely
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by brokenkebab2 4y ago
Your opening lines seem yo be in contradiction with the ending.
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by brokenkebab2 4y ago
"Illegal" is not equivalent to "bad thing", though. There are more people living under oppressive regimes than not.
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by brokenkebab2 4y ago
I'm concerned by the fact that Amazon can delete files from a device I bought. How is this related to your comment? I don't see
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by brokenkebab2 4y ago
>Afterwards, Jeff Bezos apologised [...] It is therefore unlikely to happen again. If it's still technically possible (it is), it will happen again. It's implemented to be used, even if occasionally. And mere existence of this
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by brokenkebab2 4y ago
I don't think that effects of sun exposure significantly changed since long-long-long time ago as neighboring comment suggests. What certainly changed however is human life longevity. Your tanning strategy should work against burns, an

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