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by ryanplant-au 7y ago
His accusation is that Hugo Boss are going well beyond reasonable defense of their trademark, by suing businesses in entirely unrelated industries that use either 'Hugo' or 'Boss' in their names or their product names. O
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by ryanplant-au 8y ago
It's a "cheap, easy, reliable: pick any two" situation. Cheap and easy: buy a 2 TB drive and keep it at home. If some disaster affects your home -- flood, fire, burglary -- it can take out your data and its backup. Cheap and
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by ryanplant-au 8y ago
I think the popular opinion (and my own) is that VS Code has been the better editor for a long time now. Performance, features, and reliability have all been drastically better, its one weak spot might be the slightly more limited interface
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by ryanplant-au 9y ago
To be fair, I wouldn't have found him on IRC in 1998 either. IRC has really always been a relatively niche thing and I think it's fair to say it's doing well if you define that as remaining popular within the niches it's
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by ryanplant-au 9y ago
Not necessarily, there are lots of phone service providers who except certain websites or services from the data tracking. Some of them Google services already -- Virgin Mobile in Australia excepted YouTube traffic for years.
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by ryanplant-au 9y ago
What do you consider to be low? Anecdotally, the Google app on my phone almost perfectly recognised, played over speakers, this fairly rapid dialogue between two people encoded as 6 Kbit/sec Opus. https://ryanplant.net&#x2F
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by ryanplant-au 9y ago
Their leather cases will help keep them on your armrest, too, because they peel into a tacky flaky mess within two months. Very cheap and nasty.
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by ryanplant-au 9y ago
ESPN only really cover one country. If you're in the US I'm sure it's fine but for everyone else the coverage is not only almost nonexistent but often factually wrong when it does exist. I saw AFL coverage on ESPN where they
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by ryanplant-au 9y ago
The term fair use is US-only but many nations have similar concepts or concepts that overlap with it. Australia's 'fair dealing' policy allows for the use of copyrighted material without seeking approval if its purpose is in
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by ryanplant-au 9y ago
An emoji isn't really a shorthand for a word or phrase, using an emoji has its own unique meaning. Responding to something with (heart-eyes) is interpreted differently to anything verbal, like "I love that." In the same way,
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by ryanplant-au 9y ago
Netflix and Amazon are both moving to AV1, so while that's true today, it won't be for long.
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by ryanplant-au 9y ago
The Switch only allows whitelisted pages, but sometimes loads them over HTTP (notably Puyo Puyo Tetris opens a web applet to http://sega.jp ), so you can MITM yourself and load arbitrary content including your own JS.
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by ryanplant-au 9y ago
It does this by converting them to AZW3, which can have poor results or fail entirely for long books, books with lots of images, or books with certain formatting.
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by ryanplant-au 9y ago
There are quite a few things I like about Go, but it's just so hard to leave the safety and reliability of TypeScript. Go's limited type system is its fatal handicap IMO.
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by ryanplant-au 9y ago
> a very known fact for all unix grey beards The co-inventor of Unix, Ken Thompson, and the Unix team engineer and author of The Unix Programming Environment, Rob Pike, are both big advocates of static linking. They designed Go and made
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by ryanplant-au 9y ago
Because you trust their security better than your own, which at any organisation without a dedicated security team seems like a reasonable decision. I live and die by my money, too, and I give that to a private company to hold rather than p
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by ryanplant-au 9y ago
I groan every time I have to implement the 15th type-specific loop implementation of what I'd do with a single map or fold in Ruby/Elm/Haskell/JS/TS/Crystal/every other language I use. It's not a lot
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by ryanplant-au 9y ago
Does JavaScript make it easier to reason about those potentially-optimizable areas? Which language features make it easier to optimize to the level that V8 is? (V8 being 7-10x faster than CPython 3 on most of the Benchmarks Game.)
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by ryanplant-au 9y ago
Can you elaborate on what you mean when you say that (==) : a -> a -> Bool is a lie? I don't have enough experience with more powerful type systems to know what the more accurate claim would be. Do you mean that it should really
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by ryanplant-au 9y ago
I'd read it as implying the opposite: that there are 40,000 moths out there who will wind up in a bear's stomach tonight. Like "some 40,000 people per day are hit by a car"; you wouldn't take that as meaning one car
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by ryanplant-au 9y ago
CPython switched to C99.
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by ryanplant-au 9y ago
Many ads like this will also let you exit out by pressing the area where the x would appear immediately, even 10 seconds before they actually render the icon.
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by ryanplant-au 9y ago
Borges' one-paragraph story "On Exactitude in Science": "... In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, t
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by ryanplant-au 9y ago
I learnt more about Haskell in ten days of using Elm than I would have in another ten days of studying Haskell, personally. I think Elm makes a better introduction to FP concepts because there's much less you have to absorb before you
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by ryanplant-au 10y ago
There is work being done on Universal Windows Platform support for React Native, which will let you publish not just on Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile but on the Xbox One.
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by ryanplant-au 10y ago
That was a terrible default setting, but you've always been able to change it, or at least you have been since I started using it in 2003-ish. You're right, though, it was an extremely poorly-designed bit of forum software with so
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by ryanplant-au 10y ago
I don't quite follow. You seem to be saying that Microsoft make changes just to justify the release of a new OS version. But they announced quite a while ago that they would never release a new major version. There will never be a Wind
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by ryanplant-au 10y ago
Worth noting that Chrome won't throttle a tab that has audio playing.
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by ryanplant-au 10y ago
Borges: "In Alexandria, it has been said that the only persons incapable of a sin are those who have already committed it and repented."
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by ryanplant-au 10y ago
Rice, breads, and noodles do make up a very large percentage of many people's diets, especially when you're in poverty.

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