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by jbstack 9mo ago
I think it depends on how you approach learning genders. As a native English speaker, when learning Romance languages I don't think of words as being feminine or masculine. I think of "il pane" as being a single unit, and &qu
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by jbstack 9mo ago
Great. If you added those this would probably become my go-to SQL client.
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by jbstack 9mo ago
You could always run it in a sandboxed browser (e.g. a Firefox profile) and limit the use to just language learning (e.g. reading neutral articles online). The data you would leak wouldn't be much different than what you risk any time
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by jbstack 9mo ago
All this will do is compel me to import my phones instead of buying them in the UK. If I stay below the thresholds I can even avoid giving 20% VAT to this dystopian government that we've ended up with.
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by jbstack 9mo ago
I've recently been trying to find a good SQL TUI client, and one of the ones I tried was Harlequin. The main disadvantage, which every other SQL TUI I tried also suffers from, is that they don't comprehensively show every type of
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by jbstack 9mo ago
Yes but the article said "particularly the review screen". 95% of the review screen is made up of your card, which you can customise.
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by jbstack 9mo ago
> First, [Anki] is ugly to look at, particularly the review screen. You can customise note types with CSS and Javascript, which means that you can make cards look however you want.
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by jbstack 9mo ago
> this sort of thing shouldn’t be possible any more than a bank deciding to take all your money with no recourse. (They can close your account, but they can’t keep your money.) I once had to help a relative sue a bank who had closed his
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by jbstack 9mo ago
Wrong Fedora
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by jbstack 9mo ago
"Take a loan with it" - that's not a practical solution if the asset is property. Getting a mortgage approved is far from straightforward, can take months, is by no means guaranteed to be accepted, and can be extremely expens
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by jbstack 9mo ago
Yes, a bubble just means that it's over-valued and that at some point there will be a significant correction in stock values. It doesn't mean that the thing is inherently worthless.
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by jbstack 9mo ago
I don't follow why it makes a difference? If someone wants to invest to improve their future quality of life, why would it matter how long they will live in a place for?
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by jbstack 9mo ago
It's actually more like 2.2% for shares (5.88% assumed return taxed at 36% = 2.2%. If you have an ultra-low risk investment strategy focused on value preservation and inflation beating (where your expected returns are in the low single
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by jbstack 9mo ago
I guess my complaint was more about the type of taxes rather than the concept of taxes in general. Income tax I can accept: it's the price of entry to live in the place and enjoy its benefits. Even then there's plenty of room fo
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by jbstack 9mo ago
I love the Netherlands and have spent a few months trying it out as a place to live. It's among my favourite places: moderate weather, friendly people, a high level of personal freedom, very high rate of English speakers, clean and mod
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by jbstack 9mo ago
Misleading article. From the second paragraph: > David Heinemeier Hansson (also known as DHH) released a new kanban tool, Fizzy, this week and called it open source. From the linked article by DHH: > That means it's not technical
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by jbstack 9mo ago
Something can be technically true while still being misleading. In fact arguably that's what the word misleading means (as opposed to false). I think most people, when told that something will last for "years", would be quite
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by jbstack 9mo ago
> It says two years of average use. Even this is misleading. The product hasn't been released yet. So what is it an average of? How do you know how people will use it?
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by jbstack 9mo ago
It's pretty bad when you consider that you have to limit it to just this use-case (3-6 second recordings 10-20 times a day), when it could have instead been useful for other things e.g. recording much longer thoughts or making notes wh
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by jbstack 9mo ago
I'm not sure how you reached this conclusion. I did as you suggested. $100 invested 50 years ago into gold would be worth $3000 today. $100 invested into the S&P500 50 years ago would be worth $6870. https://www.macrotre
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by jbstack 10mo ago
Examples don't help if you can't understand them.
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by jbstack 10mo ago
I refer you to: https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by jbstack 10mo ago
They can be nice for running low footprint VMs (e.g. in LXD / Incus) where you don't want to use a container. Alpine in particular is popular for this. The downside is there are sometimes compatibility issues where packages expect
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by jbstack 10mo ago
"Just" write your own module? Have you seen how bad the Nix documentation is and how challenging Nix (the language) is? Not to mention that you have to learn Yet Another Language just for this corner case, which you will not use f
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by jbstack 10mo ago
Not really. Smart contracts ensure that if all the conditions are met, the contract will be fulfilled. They achieve that through decentralisation: no one person can decide whether or not it will be fulfilled. No real world contract can repl
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by jbstack 10mo ago
Reform is also headed by a guy who regularly used phrases like "Hitler was right", "gas them all", and "go home, Paki" as an 18 year old (confirmed by 20+ former classmates). Ordinarily we might give him the be
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by jbstack 10mo ago
"a more libertarian government" As long as you are white British. If you're anything else you're probably going to be worse off under Farage. It's a shame that if you want to vote for someone with different policies
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by jbstack 10mo ago
Or you can pay £0 per month for 99% of the content. I'm a bit like the parent comment. I've always wanted to be able to pay a monthly fee (even a high one, say £50 a month) to have access to a good quality selection of movies an
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by jbstack 10mo ago
Is anyone in the UK really complaining that it's difficult today to show you're eligible for hospital care, voting, employment, or buying a drink? I can't honestly remember a single time in my life where someone told me this
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by jbstack 10mo ago
I'm not sure that's still correct. There was an uplift because of Covid and people having more spare time, but whatever more recent (2024 - 2025) sources I can find suggest the trend has reversed. It's worth also considering

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