sime2009

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by sime2009 3mo ago
aaah, the 90s price crash. Good times.
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by sime2009 6mo ago
proton.me? That is in Switzerland, not the EU.
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by sime2009 1y ago
Seriously? We're going to complain about a couple megs in a text editor in the year 2025?
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by sime2009 2y ago
> we're undertaking this more as a port that maintains the existing behavior and critical optimizations we've built into the language. Idiomatic Go strongly resembles the existing coding patterns of the TypeScript codebase, whi
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by sime2009 2y ago
I'm in the Netherlands and the used market for Tesla has already dropped like a rock. It is flooded with cars from leasing companies who after 5 years now want to sell them on for deprecation and tax purposes.
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by sime2009 2y ago
From https://www.sgoc.de/pentium.html Q: How many Pentium designers does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: 1.99904274017, but that's close enough for non-technical people. Q: What d
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by sime2009 2y ago
I contribute to NodeGui, Qt on Nodejs. It doesn't try to emulate the C++ API by allowing subclassing. Instead it exposes most methods on QWidget classes/subclasses which process QEvent objects (and their subclasses) in the form of
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by sime2009 2y ago
Is it possible to extend/subclass an existing QWidget and customise it?
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by sime2009 2y ago
garbage in, garbage out
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by sime2009 2y ago
There is no company size threshold here. This is GDPR related. You and Gruber are both mixing up GDPR with the EU's Digital Markets Act. Digital Markets is the one which has a "gatekeeper" concept tied to company size and mar
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by sime2009 3y ago
That's right. It can't be pushed down from above. The team has to want to do this and take the power. A manager can start work on this kind of culture shift without even saying the word "agile". They need to give their
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by sime2009 3y ago
The rarely discussed cornerstone of Agile is trusting the team and letting them organise themselves. For most organisation this represents a huge internal change in power structure. The Agile industrial complex can't really sell a mess
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by sime2009 3y ago
Yes, it kind of is. But the whole article talks about the extremes but spends zero time describing what the desirable middle ground looks like.
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by sime2009 3y ago
23% did, just to be clear.
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by sime2009 3y ago
I prefer desktops because is something breaks I have a chance of working around it immediately (e.g. screen), and if not then I can have a replacement part sent to me in about 24 hours or less which I can install myself.
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by sime2009 3y ago
I've found LLMs great for vague questions about functions and APIs whose details I've long forgotten. Recognising the right answer when it appears is often faster than digging through random results on google.
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by sime2009 3y ago
A similar tool is `task` https://taskfile.dev/ . It is quite capable and also a single executable. I've grown to quite like it.
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by sime2009 3y ago
TermKit was one of the inspirations for Extraterm ( https://extraterm.org/ ). It separates command output, allows for reuse of previous output, as well mixing content types. The terminal VSCode has been picking up on these
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by sime2009 3y ago
Design patterns, for example, really should only be studied once you have quite a bit of experience with complex code bases under your belt. You need to have done battle with some nasty code problems in bigger code bases before you really u
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by sime2009 3y ago
Synthetic images like generated graphs with fine lines and text (i.e. not photographs), need pixel perfect rendering otherwise they look terrible. This is likely to be a far more common and useful use case for images in a terminal than show
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by sime2009 3y ago
https://gdpr.eu/fines/ For Facebook is would be either 2% of the firm’s worldwide annual revenue from the preceding financial year, or 4% of said revenue. A bit bigger than a rounding error.
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by sime2009 3y ago
Where in the world is this?
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by sime2009 3y ago
It's really not that hard. Under GDPR you have a right to privacy, and companies can't demand you give it up as part of some kind of condition to gain access to their service.
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by sime2009 3y ago
Cosmopolitan is cool and I have some uses in mind for it that I wish to get to. But what I don't understand is the use case for an exe which supports both running as an user app on normal operating systems and from the BIOS. For whic
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by sime2009 3y ago
Of course MS asked for it. They created and sustain this situation where software needs to signed for it to easily run on the Windows platform. Who do you think put the signature checking code and root keys in Windows?? The code signing gno
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by sime2009 3y ago
"Look at it this way, why should a project like IM pay anyone for the privilege of enriching and adding value to the Windows platform?"
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by sime2009 3y ago
Who actually receives the money is not relevant to my core point.
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by sime2009 3y ago
Look at it this way, why should a project like IM pay MicroSoft for the privilege of enriching and adding value to the Windows platform?
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by sime2009 3y ago
> A scrollbar is not only a control, it's also an indicator. Thank you! finally someone understands what a scrollbar is for. It primary job is to show the user that the document is bigger than the window, and secondly, to show which
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by sime2009 3y ago
umm.. wouldn't an agreement about where you work and when be the kind of thing you would have written down in your employment contract?

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