pitkali

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by pitkali 1mo ago
When I lived in Sweden I had an 8-digit pin and biometrics enabled, indeed.
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by pitkali 1mo ago
> I think the real problem is Google Play Services. It's far, far too tightly integrated in a way that it just seems like Android was designed to be unusable without. Wasn't the point of Play services to enable keeping OS &quot
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by pitkali 3mo ago
Oh, yeah, the Snowfield itself is secret enough, but getting to the palace afterwards is just a matter of exploration. The teleport is not that hidden. FWIW, after you get one half of the medallion, get invaded by Gideon's lackey and t
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by pitkali 3mo ago
All the speedrunners just kill the guy in the jar to get the medallion: you don't have to talk to him. Also, all you have to do in the Snowfield is to take a teleporter: that's not very secret, is it?
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by pitkali 3mo ago
The peasants did not live for long, though, did they? Hard to say if and how the diet contributed, but just because people rarely ate meat then, for example, doesn't necessarily mean it's better for your health. Even if we could a
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by pitkali 4mo ago
Code review just means you need an accomplice. It makes it harder, not impossible.
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by pitkali 4mo ago
Its mere availability is not "encouragement."
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by pitkali 4mo ago
I never got the idea from git itself that changing history is encouraged. What makes you say otherwise?
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by pitkali 4mo ago
I don't think the internal design is/was that similar. We switched from CVS to git, and were evaluating multiple choices. What tipped the scale in the end was our trust in the internal data model, which for git was the idea that i
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by pitkali 4mo ago
Meh. While I agree that Mercurial had easier to use CLI, there was maybe 1 time over the last 15 years or whatever when I needed anything other than git reset --hard. Although, I suppose part of this is just that manipulate index with somet
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by pitkali 4mo ago
The way I remember it was that bookmarks were added because the git branching model became so popular. The "branches" in Mercurial were allegedly not designed with short-lived feature branches in mind.
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by pitkali 4mo ago
Mercurial had an easier to use command line interface. If that's what makes it far better technology, we have a very different idea what makes the "technology" better.
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by pitkali 4mo ago
The non-professional flow you described does not require merging in git either. I suppose most teaching resources about git go deep into merging because it was created for distributed development where that's important, but it doesn&#x
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by pitkali 8mo ago
I got my first MacBook around 2010 because I was tired of fixing suspend to RAM every few Nvidia driver updates on my ThinkPad. Then I paid for a commercial VM to seamlessly run some Windows software I needed for my freelance work as a tran
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by pitkali 8mo ago
Removing all manifest v2 support is also a code change that can be reverted. Of course, the larger the change, the more work it's likely to require to maintain it in the future.
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by pitkali 9mo ago
A typical example for English is the adjective order.
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by pitkali 1y ago
I have to wonder to what extent the strangeness is just unfamiliarity.
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by pitkali 1y ago
Google is not the only provider of Chrome extensions (yet?).
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by pitkali 1y ago
> But because it hasn't become cannon in any group or culture, it's a bad idea in that it doesn't produce human flourishing. I am not convinced that's certain. At best, we can tell that those cultures were outcompeted
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by pitkali 2y ago
Rampant misinformation certainly makes it harder to figure things out, but I disagree that it somehow removes people's right to vote for what's best for them or making an educated vote. I don't find that kind of rhetoric help
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by pitkali 2y ago
For me, the crisp text was the reason retina became a must.
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by pitkali 2y ago
Sure, but a screen, even a touchscreen, is not mutually exclusive with buttons. My Toyota has both, and after setting up the navigation, I can go the whole way and do everything without touching the screen.
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by pitkali 2y ago
It's not separate, but they don't necessarily have to use them like that. They merely can.
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by pitkali 2y ago
I don't think you appreciate how easy it is for the chromium forks to add their own ad blocking. This is simply not a good example of monopoly abuse on Google's part.
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by pitkali 2y ago
Because development costs money. Your "impossible to keep up" here is easily explained by Google simply investing more money in development and thus being able to "innovate" faster. The only way to compete is to invest m
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by pitkali 2y ago
Yeah, that kind of sucks. I liked a sibling suggestion that splitting off YouTube would make more sense because at least it could be a self-sustaining product.
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by pitkali 2y ago
You see? There is choice.
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by pitkali 2y ago
> Because so many browsers are forks of Chromium v2 will disappear from a majority of browsers. It rather sounds like a great marketing opportunity for anyone trying to compete with Chrome, whether they keep the v2 or just implement ad-b
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by pitkali 2y ago
I mean, in the world where chromium exists, maintaining your own entirely independent codebase of a full web browser does not make business sense. It's better and easier to reuse what you can and build on top of that.
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by pitkali 2y ago
Out of the Western Europe, I lived in Sweden and Germany, and I have not been impressed with the health care so far. I hear it's different when you're having a heart attack, but if you "just" tore some knee ligaments, fo

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