vhanda

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by vhanda 3mo ago
Nix has a high learning curve. I now use Devbox [0] as it hides all the complexity of Nix while still giving all the benefits. Now I install far more packages via devbox (or devbox global) than I do via HomeBrew (on osx) or pacman (on arch)
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by vhanda 5mo ago
The bigger problem for me is buying Ebooks without DRM, which are cheaper than the paperback. I see no reason why I should be paying the same (or often more) than the paperback version. Just let me buy the ebook and let me own it. Right now
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by vhanda 7mo ago
They way we usually do, by restricting their access to EU markets unless they comply and/or fine them, and/or threats about nationalizing the "EU Google". What is the US going to do, apply more tariffs?
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by vhanda 9mo ago
Could you please elaborate on how this is different than the other python based modeling tools - build123d[0] and CadQuery[1]. I recently also got annoyed with OpenSCAD and its limitations and therefore started experimenting with Build123d.
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by vhanda 1y ago
I was thinking along the lines of how much I actually watch, if I only watched 10 minutes of your show, I only pay for 10 minutes, not the entire thing. You're also saving on bandwidth. Paradoxically, I'd still want to pay per min
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by vhanda 1y ago
All streaming services should have a pay per minute system as an alternative to the fixed monthly subscription. That way, I'd happily use any service to watch whatever cause it would be convenient, instead of piracy. And it would be a
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by vhanda 1y ago
From the article - > this paper was not a retrospective study of electronic health records, it was a randomized clinical trial, which is the gold standard. This means that we’ll be forced to immediately throw away our list of other obvio
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by vhanda 1y ago
Not who you're asking. I really don't see why we're still using A/C inside our houses / apartments. I understand that the transmission loss is lower when sending A/C, so it makes sense, but then nearly every de
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by vhanda 1y ago
Well, there is packet inspection. My ISP / Government will know.
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by vhanda 1y ago
I think what they meant is that if it's hosted online / home-network, only allow access to all services through a VPN. Wireguard is relatively easy to setup, and you can configure all your services to only be available through wir
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by vhanda 2y ago
Wouldn't the share holders care more about the profits of the company which are then being given as dividends instead of the price they can trade the share price at? Isn't the amount of profit the company is making (and how that w
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by vhanda 3y ago
I bought some cheap Chromebooks (100-150 euros, second hand), and removed nearly every app on them, apart for one for writing. Having a separate device for separate tasks, can often be quite useful.
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by vhanda 3y ago
If I may ask - why? Why is increasing your code coverage to 100% matter? Would that reduce bugs or speed up development in any way? Wouldn't it just add lots more code to maintain and make refactors more time consuming?
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by vhanda 3y ago
"In addition to not offering the longevity loophole, Opsomer also points out that the battery regulation covers all products with a portable battery; it’s far wider-reaching than the phone and tablet-focused ecodesign regulation."
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by vhanda 3y ago
> then their billion dollar app distribution monopoly money hose will be in jeopardy It only comes under jeopardy, if there are reasonable alternatives the Apple app store (not move to Android). Otherwise, it's easy for Apple to say
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by vhanda 3y ago
The aggregate is the number of attempts at "Entrepreneurship" across class boundaries. The thesis is that Middle class kids get far fewer attempts vs richer kids. In that context, counting where the number of attempts is 0 doesn&#
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by vhanda 4y ago
Genuine question: Is Github profitable? I can't seem to figure out if it was before or after the acquisition from Microsoft.
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by vhanda 4y ago
It doesn't. Neither does the website. An article from Yahoo [0] says it's "$29.99 per month or $167.99 per year", but they don't link to a source. [0] - https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/duoling
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by vhanda 4y ago
Duolingo seems like they have separate teams for iOS, Android and Web. Their iOS team seems to be the one who experiment the most with new features, and then they either get discarded or finally make it to Android, and then in a few years t
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by vhanda 4y ago
The title seems quite disingenuous. A better description would be "A PHP based web app which calls OpenAI's Whisper API to transcribe speech"
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by vhanda 4y ago
Mate, I'm very confused. The first result in Google [1] which I often use, lets me paste a unix timestamp in seconds, milliseconds or nano seconds, and it accordingly converts it to a Human readable string. Is that not the feature you
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by vhanda 4y ago
If I may ask, have you found using a Typed language such as Typescript has changed your tendency to use Python for other tasks, given that it isn't typed? [0] [0] - I understand that types can be added on top, but I never found the int
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by vhanda 4y ago
Could you please elaborate why you hope 'Chrome gets banned'? I understand not being fond of the its ubiquity, especially with many Websites now requiring Chrome. And Google is allegedly abusing their dominant position. But bann
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by vhanda 4y ago
I found the JavaScript nodes to be quite annoying. Specifically - 1. I want a proper IDE 2. Proper typing so the feedback cycle is faster. 3. Being able to use external packages 4. Being able to quickly test my custom node across old runs.
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by vhanda 4y ago
This is fascinating. It checks a lot of my boxes. I was recently looking at ActionsFlow [0] which is similar but runs on GitHub Actions. My thoughts - 1. I don't see proper secret storage being handled. You typically don't want yo
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by vhanda 4y ago
> I wonder how did they get into poverty in the first place. A lot of areas that are now declared as poverty zones today may have been poor in the past, but were self-sufficient and self sustaining. Well, when the British left in 1945, r
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by vhanda 4y ago
In my experience, it's normal. Eventually you get used to it, and start ignoring it. Sadly. I'd switched to Gnome for many years, but in the end - being able to easy tweak the desktop to my liking drove me back to KDE.
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by vhanda 4y ago
Do you have any plans on open sourcing the code?
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by vhanda 4y ago
I do remember the author of LMDB [0] porting some parts of sqlite to use lmdb instead, and then talking about the results. A quick googling doesn't seem to give me a result though. [0] - http://www.lmdb.tech/doc/
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by vhanda 4y ago
I haven't run devbox, but the README says that it requires docker to be installed. This makes me believe it isn't running the programs on my system (macos), but rather in the Linux VM.

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