joiqj

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by joiqj 3y ago
One of the reasons I hate exceptions overall. Someone may add new ones, they break the control flow, they bubble up all over the place, etc etc. They are basically indomitable.
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by joiqj 3y ago
As part of my standard (and pretty lame) OPSEC I always change the default names that apple gives its devices (like "Joiqj's iPhone") to a more generic name (like "iPhone"). Nice to see that it was good practice.
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by joiqj 3y ago
If I had to pay for every worthy free product I use every day...
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by joiqj 3y ago
There have been tons of alternatives and they all sucked in different ways - either they were bloated (no, a news reader does not need "far more features") or they weren't free.
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by joiqj 3y ago
And then people started writing code in Python.
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by joiqj 3y ago
How do you know you didn't get 2 to 4 days with snow per year 50 years ago? Do you trust your government's historic weather statistics?
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by joiqj 3y ago
Once an electronic ID is created it will be enforced, perhaps even to log into the internet, and anonymity won't be an option. The EU busybodies are not your friends.
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by joiqj 3y ago
Some people think they are above everyone else and that others should not be able to scorn their behaviour.
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by joiqj 3y ago
This is the paper https://www.hetnatuurhistorisch.nl/fileadmin/user_upload/doc...
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by joiqj 3y ago
The tumblr site asks me to log in if I want to continue seeing posts after I get to the Futurama one :-(
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by joiqj 3y ago
Of course it can be ignored. I am ignoring it.
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by joiqj 3y ago
That's not true. The law restricts what companies can do with my data even after I consent to their treatment of my data.
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by joiqj 3y ago
Which doesn't cost me a dime. Anybody with half a brain knows that TANSTAAFL, you have to pay somehow, but this way doesn't reduce the magic number in my bank. My information belongs to ME and I should be able to give it in exchan
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by joiqj 3y ago
Also a win for most users, who don't care about this stuff and just want to use free services of quality.
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by joiqj 3y ago
You talk as if humans weren't perfectly capable of coming up with nonsense. Blogs upon blogs full of worthless pap that is there for SEO reasons have existed for like a decade already.
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by joiqj 3y ago
If you google the name of the authors you can see that some of them have a political agenda to push.
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by joiqj 3y ago
Not buying something because you disagree with the politics of the corporate structure is a really tough stance to keep. If I were to stick to that I would have to move to a cabin in the woods.
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by joiqj 3y ago
Someone correct me if wrong but "outlook for windows" is not the same as "office outlook". The first one seems like it was created to fill the hole of outlook express and the mail app that came out later. i.e. the free e
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by joiqj 3y ago
If you don't have feature parity, you really are in trouble, because then you are competing with Google Sheets, on which actually competent engineers are working.
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by joiqj 3y ago
First, I don't think they'll be able to. I have had the displeasure of using their web Outlook client and it was absurdly buggy for a software company of the stature of Microsoft. I can only imagine how terrible the web version of
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by joiqj 3y ago
I appreciate that they have maintained information density. otoh I think they should try and stick as much as possible to the looks of the OS where thunderbird is running - you are building a desktop application, not a website. Of course it
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by joiqj 3y ago
There should be some kind of Litmus test to see how a platform is moderated. You could use it to find where in the political spectrum the moderation team is to see if the platform suits you. I propose, for example, "equating abortion t
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by joiqj 3y ago
btw, the gnaa still exists in a way, in the form of the LRH.
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by joiqj 3y ago
That is nothing but an appeal to authority.
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by joiqj 3y ago
Looking at the Console is precisely what I thought of, at least coming from Windows, where I'd be looking at the Event Viewer to know more about such a message. Does the Console show more information?
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by joiqj 3y ago
You can tell it's Sunday because this is no. 1 on the front page.
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by joiqj 3y ago
Because they are the ones who cause the most trouble.
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by joiqj 3y ago
>Because most people want more than just the absolute necessities of life. You'd be surprised.
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by joiqj 3y ago
Sounds amusing.