shazow

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by shazow 6y ago
> I just converted a small personal site from Hugo to Jekyll Did you mean "from Jekyll to Hugo" instead?
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by shazow 6y ago
> What is in it for Valve? Aside of political motives regarding Microsoft, the technological problem that Valve is solving with using the flatpak technology is creating a single Linux build target for all Linux game releases. A recurring
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by shazow 6y ago
Which platinum game? Which known problem? I wish complaints were less vague, then it wouldn't sound like exaggeration and would be actionable for people who are working on these technologies. For what it's worth, I've played
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by shazow 6y ago
Thanks for looking up the timeline, I was not sure. Also full disk encryption on phones is another thing Apple did way earlier. I agree it's not exactly apples to Apples. Does Apple still have special permissions for their own apps whi
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by shazow 6y ago
You're correct, both Android and iOS have improved. Both have the features you described today, neither had them several years ago.
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by shazow 6y ago
Agreed! That's one thing that I know Gmail is _very_ good at, at least. I didn't get the impression that Fastmail cares particularly about that problem yet.
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by shazow 6y ago
I also had some bad experiences with Fastmail, they're very aggressive at shutting down your account if billing fails (expired cc) with zero warnings. Ended up missing emails on two occasions because of this (I was using fastmail for f
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by shazow 6y ago
I just tried and failed: https://twitter.com/shazow/status/1295835462360338436 I used a realistic sounding name, I tried several email addresses that were rejected as blocked, eventually I landed on an email that
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by shazow 6y ago
> But did Facebook add any value (i.e. engineering money/hours) to improve the device? What you've listed are all negatives, but there have to be at least a few positives to come out of it. Can't help but think of this com
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by shazow 6y ago
Here's a blog post I wrote in response to the acquisition when it happened in 2014: https://medium.com/@shazow/re-facebook-acquires-oculus-f8589... I was far from the only one who was saying this at the time. I do
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by shazow 6y ago
70% as revenue by Alphabet in 2019, 60% of that from Google and 10% from YouTube. https://dashboards.trefis.com/no-login-required/HMtQjcWW/Alp...
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by shazow 6y ago
Same. I'm hoping that Valve's commitment to do a Linux-native release of Half-Life: Alyx is at least a commitment to get an end-to-end working VR experience on Linux sooner than later.
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by shazow 6y ago
> The majority of the games do not support multiplayer on Linux, due to dependency on Windows-specific anticheat software. Definitely not majority. Maybe majority of the top 10-20 most popular/most cheated games? The very long tail
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by shazow 7y ago
> Go does absolutely nothing to ensure you handle the error. Go has many community linters available, https://github.com/kisielk/errcheck is popular for checking unhandled errors. If you'd like a combo-pack, ch
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by shazow 7y ago
Overdrying clothes damages them. Hang-drying clothes increases the clothes' longevity.
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by shazow 7y ago
Love it. By far the best fully cross-platform experience (including Linux) of any alternative, with great independent self-hosted server implementations.
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by shazow 7y ago
Why would you not recommend Deoplete? It works well for me.
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by shazow 7y ago
> Do I think Google would look out for me like that? Hahah, no, I do not think so. This article is literally about things that Google's Project Zero did which were for your benefit.
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by shazow 7y ago
> FWIW the Bitcoin one happened 1 year after it launched and 5 years before Ethereum launched FWIW the Ethereum one also happened 1 year after it launched.
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by shazow 7y ago
Nearly 100% of people spend some time in a hospital in their lives. Unless you're claiming that hospitals only gouge some tiny subset of people and are benevolently generous to everyone else, that number is going to be much closer to 1
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Inbox feel too quiet? Hidden consequences for temporary breaking your email(hellowebbooks.com)
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by shazow 8y ago
> If you are able to pay, American healthcare can be higher quality and more timely than Canadian care. Especially the hospitals and doctors in and around Seattle. That's why wealthy Canadians come to the US for some treatments. It&
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by shazow 8y ago
> Google and a Google Analytics customer may link information about your activity from that site with activity from other sites that use our ad services. To clarify: Linking your Google Analytics account with your Google Ads account is a
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by shazow 8y ago
A more interesting definition is that a server is something that is asymmetric from a client. Things that are peer to peer which are symmetric to each other are something special.
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by shazow 8y ago
More here: - https://github.com/trending/go?since=monthly - https://github.com/search?l=&o=desc&q=stars%3A>5000+language... - https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go - h
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by shazow 8y ago
Can you expand on "I still cannot get out of the package management mess"? I've used the community dep project for a while, which was okay. I switched to the GO111MODULE experiment and it's more than okay.
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by shazow 8y ago
Related issue discussion: https://github.com/dgraph-io/badger/issues/377
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by shazow 8y ago
Headquarter location is kind of an arbitrary line to draw, especially with poor data. Many of these companies are fully remote or have multiple large offices. Just off the top of my head: PagerDuty has a large office in Toronto. GitLab and
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by shazow 8y ago
+1 to what arkem said. If I had to trust a company with private data, there is no other company I would trust more to keep it safe from rogue employees and accidental leaks/hacks.
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by shazow 8y ago
> They may keep up to date with patches, but you have very little knowledge or control of what they collect from you and what they do with it. It's not an ominous mystery. Google is extremely explicit about what they collect from yo

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