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by vog 8mo ago
Indeed, it's a pity that the author placed so much focus on a cool looking font that they forgot to take basic properties like "good readability" into account. Form should follow function, not the other way around.
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by vog 8mo ago
This is far from meaningless, because if you are too far below those 3.5%, you'll fail to make a change for the better, despite having a good cause with no real opposition. Those 3.5% are encouraging for all social movements, who suf
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by vog 2y ago
Note that the article's link to the UUID v7 standard is meanwhile outdated. You should instead head directly to RFC 9562: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9562 (which wasn't yet finished at the t
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by vog 2y ago
Okay, fair point. But then, why prescribe the most expensive placebos where you co-finance societal harmful behavior, rather than just prescribing the "harmless" placebos that are not homeopathy, which are usually even cheaper and
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by vog 2y ago
To those who downvoted: Would you dare to explain your disagreement?
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by vog 2y ago
Contrast this with advertisement, which actually does work even when people know that it is ads, and which still does work on people how know how ads work. Also, contrast this with psychotherapy, which usually does work even better if t
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by vog 2y ago
This is an incorrect summary of the placebo effect. The placebo effect does require the patient to either believe it is effective, or at least not knowing clearly it is ineffective. This is why clinical studies don't tell neither gro
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by vog 2y ago
While I hear this argumentation a lot, I still struggle with this: If you have "mild problems, which would normally heal on their own", buying no medication at all would be even cheaper. And from an ethical point of view, the idea
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by vog 5y ago
To me the "natural way" has always been to write portable code in the first place. From time to time, you'll find that parts of it are not portable, so you fix it, and along that way to learned something new about portability
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by vog 5y ago
I'd recommend starting "from scratch" for the simple reason that the official PostgreSQL manual is excellent: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/index.html You'll quickly find which parts of th
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by vog 5y ago
I have always suspected this to be the case, but it is great to see it confirmed and well-explained in detail by an almost-authority in our field. I wonder if in the near future we'll see a similar article regarding security - "Yo
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Reading “Confidential” Facebook Documents(noyb.eu)
3 points by vog 5y ago|1 comments
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by vog 5y ago
From the announcement: > "We will continue to improve this new solution and are already working on an IPv6 only solution for cloud servers, too." I'm eagerly waiting especially for this! The cloud servers are pretty cheap,
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by vog 5y ago
It took a while for me to fully appreciate the OpenSSH approach to portability: They primarily develop OpenSSH purely for OpenBSD, using all (including non-portable) facilities of OpenBSD, including crypto and whatnot. Then, a separate team
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by vog 5y ago
Put a public Jitsi server.
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by vog 5y ago
If you haven't been aware of the great work of the European NGO "noyb", this should grab your attention. Facebook's GDPR violations are not just tolerated by the Irish DPC, they are outright protecting Facebook. Until re
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by vog 5y ago
If you haven't been aware of the great work of the European NGO "noyb", this should grab your attention. Facebook's GDPR violations are not just tolerated by the Irish DPC, they are outright protecting Facebook. Until re
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2nd public reading of alleged confidential Facebook and Irish DPC documents(noyb.eu)
2 points by vog 5y ago|1 comments
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Public reading of alleged confidential Facebook and Irish DPC documents (noyb)(noyb.eu)
1 points by vog 5y ago|1 comments
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by vog 7y ago
PostgreSQL allows for all of that: User-defined types with user-defined index structures and whatnot. PostgreSQL is great and flexible, yet transaction safe and fast. You should really try it. It is one of the highest-quality FLOSS projec
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by vog 7y ago
Congrats for this simple and beautiful website! I wonder how you manage your overall style, though. Is your design set in stone, do you never change it or fix quirks? If you e.g. change from GitHub to GitLab, would you edit the footer of ev
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by vog 7y ago
I used to use a lot of SymPy, but finally switched to Sage. This is Python as well, but has some syntax extensions and sensible defaults that reduce many quirks of Python. For example, you can write 1/2 instead of of Rational(1,2) and
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Durable Design (2017)(exple.tive.org)
151 points by vog 7y ago|42 comments
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by vog 8y ago
> The fact that its default chats are not end-to-end encrypted and are stored in plaintext on its servers is a concern. "Concern"? This is a deal-breaker. > Everyone who talks about this as a huge deficiency should also c
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by vog 8y ago
I find it quite telling that a short outage does more damage to Facebook than any data breaches and mishandling of user data.
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by vog 8y ago
The article is refreshing and makes clear that REST is violates KISS, making a good case for RPC with no nonsense on top of it. I fully agree with that sentiment. However, at some places the article goes over the top. This is really a pity,
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REST is the new SOAP(medium.freecodecamp.org)
6 points by vog 8y ago|3 comments
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by vog 8y ago
The site https://f-droid.org/ currently shows: Not Found The requested URL / was not found on this server. This look more like a configuration error than anything else.
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by vog 8y ago
> several of which using 200GB of memory I really, really hope you mean "200MB", although I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they managed to use 200GB if accidentally started on a beefy server.
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by vog 8y ago
Not sure what you argue against, but exactly that aspect, "human experience is limited by our senses", means that everything could be a simulation. Plato named those "shadows", but that's only because people weren&#

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