paledot

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by paledot 2y ago
I thought that was supposed to be banned by international treaty.
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by paledot 2y ago
HASS configuration has gotten a lot better in the past few years. Almost everything can now be done via the UI, including automation and scripting, and it's one of the smoothest scripting GUIs I've used. It even supports cut/
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by paledot 2y ago
Your personal information is valuable. See also why smart TVs are/were cheaper than "dumb" TVs when the latter was even still an option.
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by paledot 2y ago
Wait, you can't shard on session ID? And this is an ephemeral key-value store here, which is basically a best-case scenario from a performance standpoint. It's basically the last thing you're going to need to think about sh
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by paledot 2y ago
And the former default is no longer developer friendly. (Or friendly to anyone else, really.)
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by paledot 2y ago
Tags are crowdsourced. I was tagging games with "always-online DRM" before they declared it on the store page, but only the top few tags are displayed, so there's no point.
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by paledot 2y ago
String/str are both valid UTF-8 by definition, though. Plain ol' piles of bytes in Rust are generally represented by Vec<u8>/[u8]. Rust could have done better in naming, but a definite design goal of the language (for b
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by paledot 2y ago
You realize that the Industrial Revolution was almost 100 years long, right?
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by paledot 2y ago
You're in the right ballpark, though a good chair can easily get you into the 5 figures. Top-end is perhaps $20k.
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by paledot 2y ago
They're crap. And that's what you find at hospitals and airports.
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by paledot 2y ago
Late to the party, but I just wanted to say how refreshing it is to see an accessibility-related post on HN that isn't about a bunch of able-bodied MIT undergrads winning awards from able-bodied judge panels for building a product that
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by paledot 2y ago
Yes, it's based in the real world. This was the Falcon 9 launch price that I could come up with in the amount of time I was willing to spend on a shitpost. I agree that launch prices will continue to come down, but launchers will alway
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by paledot 2y ago
Presuming that you mean "stairs", these exist and impress Hacker News users who think any problem can be solved with enough overengineering, but nobody really uses them because they're so much worse at everything else. I&#x27
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by paledot 2y ago
This is a bit like saying that an ill-fitting bicycle can cause more harm than good: technically true but missing the point. Sometimes it's valuable to have a cheap bicycle that you can expose to the elements without worrying about mes
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by paledot 2y ago
Hah, beat me to the nerd snipe. Moreover, that sphere would cost $10k to make and, at a launch price of $1500/kg, cost $4.5 million to launch into orbit.
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by paledot 2y ago
The Python core docs are uniquely terrible, though.
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by paledot 2y ago
Is it illegal, in fact? If a cop saw you, you'd be arrested and prosecuted for attempted auto theft, and your "I just wanted to see how comfy the driver's seat was" defense would ring hollow in court. But sitting in an u
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by paledot 2y ago
It's no better at exporting to CSV. I wrote a CSV parser a few years ago that had one set of logic for Excel CSVs and a completely different set for everything else.
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by paledot 2y ago
He's also running out of lawyers willing to commit perjury and risk disbarment on his behalf.
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by paledot 2y ago
I don't know either, but it seems like approximately 100% of the reason game studios opt not to self-publish in this day and age is that lift. Annapurna's name alone carried a lot of clout. (Side note: continue to be disappointed
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by paledot 2y ago
Your domain isn't `null.example.com` or something, is it?
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by paledot 2y ago
> forming non-profit organizations to address public needs (such as subscription libraries, fire departments, and street sweepers) I'm curious to know when Y Combinator did this.
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by paledot 2y ago
I can see bearing a grudge for 50 years over that one, though.
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by paledot 2y ago
Gallons are larger than litres, so in Canada you'll never find anything sold by the gallon. However, pounds are smaller than kilograms, so produce at the grocery store is commonly advertised with per-pound price, with the per-kilogram
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by paledot 2y ago
Yes. I'm not sure what a donation is for, if not for the recipient to spend as they see fit. And this isn't a matter of spending donor money on unrelated but deserving causes - as you say, supporting clients supports the ecosystem
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by paledot 2y ago
Mind you, Zoom does everything in their power to steer users away from their web client and toward their ~~malware~~ desktop client, so I don't think they're too upset about the status quo.
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by paledot 2y ago
I didn't feel comfortable with Google controlling my entire digital life, should I feel comfortable with migrating it wholesale to Proton?
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by paledot 2y ago
By the way, that page is entirely unusable without JavaScript enabled, apparently in service of a modal preloader? Retro vibes are nice, but let's leave Flash-based websites in the past.
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by paledot 2y ago
Fortunately, the EU is also mandating app store competition. :)
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by paledot 2y ago
Google tried to make that argument in first, but was unsuccessful.

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