jw14

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by jw14 3mo ago
There is no privacy concern here. Probably monopoly concerns. Personally I would consider withholding products or features from the EU, not because I want to "steal everyone's data", but because they're a pain in the nec
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by jw14 2y ago
I dislike duopolies /s
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by jw14 3y ago
I've always felt worrying whether foods are "processed" was to focus on the wrong metric. It also sounds like some kind of Luddite moral judgment when I hear people talk about it.
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by jw14 4y ago
Supported with updates for 3 years? So you'll change the battery once, I guess.
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by jw14 4y ago
What is this doing on the front page?
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by jw14 4y ago
I'm probably going to give Sublime another try. For one, I'm finicky about colors and VS code makes it easy to tweak one or two colors of a theme without getting involved in forking and creating a whole new theme. I may just do it
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by jw14 4y ago
I've made extensive use of this and it is a killer feature of VS code for me. Still, I wish it supported all of CSS like Atom did.
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by jw14 4y ago
I checked back regularly for years to look for signs of life in Atom. There weren't any. Last blog? 2019. None of the releases did anything interesting. I work in Vue.js and needed that toolchain to work well, it never did with Atom. S
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by jw14 4y ago
Atom was doing great and I was happy with it until VS code started to create nuclear winter, freezing other efforts. I will gladly pay a premium for someone to offer me I real VS Code alternative. Nova almost solves my problems.
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by jw14 4y ago
I think Formula E is kind of useless. Racing competitions can be a good engine for innovation, but last I heard Formula E has all cars using a standard battery. Isn't the battery the biggest thing we want to improve on EVs? They hold t
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by jw14 5y ago
I think there are stress/psychological factors. I developed RSI while being in a very bad living & working situation. I've switched to COLEMAK and I still have pain. Does that mean COLEMAK doesn't work? Maybe. Or, since m
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by jw14 5y ago
If I'm reading this right, I think UltraRAM doesn't solve this problem. From the article: > its fast switching speed and program-erase cycling endurance is "one hundred to one thousand times better than flash." I know
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by jw14 5y ago
It is absolutely extra work. You have to test every mode of operation. So to support those with JS disabled (about 1.3% of users according to some quick searches) you have to test with JS disabled. Then you have to test again to make sure y
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by jw14 5y ago
Until this moment I didn't know the Apple version of bash was outdated, I reluctantly started using zsh when Apple defaulted to that. Now I don't care about bash. Was that good for bash?
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by jw14 5y ago
That's exactly what I meant. You were forced to do extra work to support mobile Safari or else exclude Apple customers. That decision is made over and over again by teams everywhere and Desktop Safari reaps that benefits. The technolog
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by jw14 5y ago
Broken HTML+CSS in Safari? Examples? I started using Safari as my daily driver because I use all apple devices and I like extending my battery life. Before deciding that, I did stints with Firefox and Brave, both of whom had poor sync'
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by jw14 5y ago
In practice it's not that great. I hosted meetings on Zoom with 4-5mbps up (based on my tests and my recollection since it's been a year-ish). It was fine until my wife connected separately. So 0.6mbps is optimistic... or for peop
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by jw14 6y ago
When is google going to offer to transfer my photos to iCloud? I've done it using their export.. it was a nightmare. Dates aren't preserved.
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by jw14 6y ago
Never used it but there's a port/clone of Django in Go called Beego ( https://beego.me/ ).
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by jw14 6y ago
> You can't expect normal people to browse with JS disabled > This is the real answer to the question, "why is my computer so slow"? Yes I can. That's one of my criteria to start taking this seriously. Though I cou
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by jw14 6y ago
It should be pretty easy to tell what ratio of hits had JS disabled. If it’s more than a tiny minority, I’d do something. I have plenty of things to talk to users about without getting them into whatever this is (still deciding if I class t
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by jw14 6y ago
> Because in 10 years nothing you built today that depends on JS for the content will be available, visible, or archived anywhere on the web. > All your fancy front-end-JS-required frameworks are dead to history, Pretending to know an
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by jw14 6y ago
A Firefox based Electron was tried: Positron. It was scrapped for some reason or other (lack of traction?): https://github.com/mozilla/positron
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by jw14 6y ago
I agree $3/month is reasonable for email, but since the encryption backdoor laws passed in Australia in Dec 2018, I've been avoiding Australian software.
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by jw14 6y ago
Rent is normally flat. I've never heard of a landlord taking a percentage
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by jw14 7y ago
Fair enough, but that still doesn't make it a track car.
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by jw14 7y ago
Your wife drives an Audi that can't do better than 0-60 in 6.5 seconds? Also.. tracks have turns. Low center of gravity helps, but this thing will probably weigh 3-4x as much as a sporty car. Even the Model S has weight comparable to
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by jw14 7y ago
Thanks for the insight. I never found Mercurial slow for anything I needed to do. So honestly I didn't recall. (update: I had an impression it was, since I remember reading the kernel team needed something fast, but I never 'felt&
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by jw14 7y ago
That's a good point. Although Mercurial had Bitbucket. Was GitHub that much better? Or was it network effect of everyone on GitHub? (sincere question, I don't know)
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by jw14 7y ago
Creating both are merits, of course. But creating Linux should not be a merit toward Git. Obviously the experience would make Git better. But why did a better UI lose to an inferior one? I'd love to be wrong because now Mercurial is so

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