leetnewb

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by leetnewb 5mo ago
The local illicit drug dealer comparison doesn't apply because you can't simply ignore the development time and cost of FDA approved drugs. My post was about allocating limited capital to pharmaceutical research, and maximizing be
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by leetnewb 5mo ago
Imagine your role is allocating spending on $10B/year of medical research and you are presented with two strategies: spend everything searching for the cure for one poorly understood condition, or allocate to treatments improving stand
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by leetnewb 7mo ago
Most users don't need every single one of those features. It reminds me of the conversations about lemmy and the fediverse after the reddit api uproar. The alternative link aggregators didn't need to do everything well, just the c
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by leetnewb 7mo ago
Isn't this the sort of moment that pushes users off of Discord into alternatives? Maybe pragmatic/opportunistic users should establish new channels or servers and advertise them when the shoe drops on Discord.
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by leetnewb 7mo ago
Hasn't social media like HN, Reddit, fediverse, etc. become the real clearinghouse of information about those sorts of questions? I can see how it would be nice for xmpp.org to be an authoritative source of truth, but user response&#x2
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by leetnewb 7mo ago
In addition to Dino, you could use movim as a PWA.
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by leetnewb 8mo ago
Probably not exclusive to open source, but at least some projects are running into issues publishing to the Play Store with little/no explanation.
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by leetnewb 8mo ago
I have an x86 HP tablet that dual boots Windows 11 and Linux. I don't have specific numbers, but battery life is better on the Linux side.
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by leetnewb 8mo ago
Funding and centralization. Matrix has a for-profit, venture funded company (Element) that is effectively behind the reference/flagship server and client implementations. xmpp is far less centralized. Virtually all of the modern client
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by leetnewb 9mo ago
What do you think of a system like Delta Chat built on top?
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by leetnewb 9mo ago
From what I remember, exact audio copy could not complete the rip on the final track or two.
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by leetnewb 9mo ago
I bought a new album on CD a couple of years ago. Badly scratched straight out of the case. Guess that wasn't really the right comparison though.
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by leetnewb 10mo ago
There was a period of time when our university help desk was installing and recommending Firefox for students and faculty to use over ie6.
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by leetnewb 10mo ago
Not just moving very fast. Mobile is bigger than desktop, Google owns the platform, defaults probably matter more, and control is tighter.
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by leetnewb 10mo ago
T2D is not limited to "old, fat overeaters".
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by leetnewb 10mo ago
One thing I would note on the client side of xmpp - there does seem to be a lot of work happening under the surface. Snikket is working on an SDK to streamline modern client development. There are a couple of alpha stage clients written on
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by leetnewb 1y ago
From my reading, the new API seems like a move in the right direction. But either way, Google is asking Nextcloud to silently break backup/sync-ing until users grant permission, and my guess is that many users won't notice until t
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by leetnewb 2y ago
People in the Symfony camp want less magic. There is also a lot of activity around Tempest.
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by leetnewb 2y ago
Laravel seems to get a lot of hate from within the PHP community as well. I suppose every framework in use has its detractors.
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by leetnewb 2y ago
I think this could be a double edged sword. Slowing down new browser feature/"standards" could allow browser competition, yes. On the other hand, people don't explicitly need a web browser in 2025 like they did in 2015 -
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by leetnewb 2y ago
I don't think those are either/or scenarios.
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by leetnewb 2y ago
Firefox can't compete with iOS or Android for what should be obvious reasons - it is structurally impossible. Also, the competing browsers are way better today than in Firefox's heyday. There is very little reason to use Firefox t
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by leetnewb 2y ago
I picked up php a couple of months back after 30 years of ignoring it, mostly after reading a comment somewhere about using php for shell scripting. Very easy to read the language documentation on php.net and get moving. Powerful standard l
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by leetnewb 2y ago
Just thinking through this now, but the ease of authoring content on the web started very early on, whereas publishing new mobile apps on the dominant platforms is highly technical and exclusionary many years in. Web - available in 1993, co
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by leetnewb 2y ago
Yes and no. The web may exist, but there is a viable digital alternative to it today, which didn't exist before Chrome - the mobile and app ecosystem. Virtually everybody who uses the web also uses mobile apps, but there are people who
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by leetnewb 2y ago
Obviously subject to conversation with their doctor, but my endocrinologist suggested against this class of drugs for blood sugar control.
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by leetnewb 2y ago
Just a narrow comment, but type 2 diabetes certainly isn't limited to the obese. Many lean people develop issues with blood sugar that can't be controlled with diet alone.
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by leetnewb 2y ago
Sometimes the dose (portion) makes the poison.
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by leetnewb 2y ago
Keeping with the name scheme, there is also duplicacy - https://github.com/gilbertchen/duplicacy
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by leetnewb 2y ago
If you do end up kicking the tires, it might be worth looking at duplicacy as well.

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