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by vvillena 20d ago
The platform compromise is a new thing. One of the reasons people used Twitter was its open nature, enabling its use as a bulletin board where anyone could post a message and being sure that the message link was free for anyone to see. This
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by vvillena 20d ago
> it's up to you who you follow and what exactly you read on Twitter The Twitter experience is a highly algorithmic feed where tweets from the people you follow are not guaranteed to be in chronological order, or even shown to you a
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by vvillena 2mo ago
It depends a lot on the config language. Gradle has the uncanny ability to be a "worst of both worlds" option, where there are not many upsides to its using a full language for its configuration. Build configuration is also a spac
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by vvillena 2mo ago
Isn't the shader stuttering an issue with games refusing to compile shaders ahead of time?
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by vvillena 3mo ago
I also lived in Madrid. 1h15 means you were not in Madrid, but in one of the surrounding towns. 30 minutes in a car is enough to get from any point in Madrid to any other (assuming clear traffic). It's obvious that people outside of th
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by vvillena 3mo ago
Because public transit, done well, is the fastest way to move around. It gets you everywhere, even to places personal vehicles can't reach. It's a lot cheaper. It generates hubs of activity that keep cities lively and relevant. It
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by vvillena 4mo ago
Gnutella fell in popularity before Youtube existed. The big reason the decentralized P2P file sharing networks went away was their vulnerability to spoofing. Downloads were slow so it was important to be sure of the quality of the files bei
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by vvillena 5mo ago
Their own greed is causing their issues. They could be doing a million different things to reduce demand, but they don't want to dampen their current growth and have opted to continue scaling up at the cost of quality.
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by vvillena 5mo ago
The behavior of the iOS keyboard also showcases how there must not be many decision-making people who communicate in multiple languages.
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by vvillena 6mo ago
I have a Emacs + Spacemacs setup only for Magit. The base Spacemacs config works well, so I never had the need to tinker with it. Nowadays I don't care much about the rest of Emacs. It stays out of the way, and I keep happily using Mag
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by vvillena 7mo ago
The free rectangle area is a 16:10 screen, the space around the notch is a freebie.
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by vvillena 9mo ago
A high end amp+speaker system from 50 years ago will still sound good. The tradeoffs back then were size, price, and power consumption. Same as now. Lower spec speakers have become good enough, and DSP has improved to the point that tiny sp
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by vvillena 10mo ago
Compiler errors got a lot better during the Scala 2.12 era.
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by vvillena 10mo ago
Avoid making memories. Keep your brain pristine.
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by vvillena 1y ago
This is not an issue with Java and the other JVM languages, it's simple to use GraalVM and package a static binary.
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by vvillena 1y ago
The screen size advertised by Apple measures the "full screen" area, the undisturbed 16:10 rectangle of pixels. I just took measures on both a 14 and a 16 inch Macbook Pro. The screen we get is indeed slighly larger. If you want t
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by vvillena 1y ago
Reader mode.
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by vvillena 1y ago
Funny that the language famous for enforcing standard formatting allows freedom for this one particular thing.
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by vvillena 1y ago
The Spain blackout was caused by a multitude of reasons. Lack of stability was one of the factors, but there were other causes, such as energy generation facilities disconnecting while the oscillations were still under a nominal range, or a
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by vvillena 1y ago
It's important to note that the infamous Dropbox comment was not just misguided. It was wrong . The proof is that multiple competitor products have been launched since, and all of them have had sync issues at some point, with differen
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by vvillena 1y ago
This is impossible by design. Decades ago there were some distributions that had this as a goal (e.g. Mandrake, Suse), they included an application similar to the Windows Control Panel to manage everything. But such applications can never r
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by vvillena 1y ago
From the FAQ: > Each time the Leta application is restarted (due to an upgrade, or new version) server side, a new secret hash is generated, meaning that all previous search queries are no longer visible to Leta. If I read this correctly
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by vvillena 1y ago
This is literally the case. Pirated streams keep working, while a good chunk of the internet is rendered inoperative during weekends.
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by vvillena 1y ago
No problems here, both the normal view and reader mode seem to work well.
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by vvillena 1y ago
For anyone not familiar with previous designs, each component in https://m3.material.io/components has a "comparison with Material v2" section.
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by vvillena 1y ago
For everyday use, wireless headphones offer a superior experience simply due to the lack of a cable, and for the cases where an audio output is desired, it should be easy to connect the phone to an audio interface. Is any of this a problem
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by vvillena 1y ago
Bisecting with --first-parent takes care of this.
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by vvillena 1y ago
The "squash everything" mantra turns git commit history into a series of snapshots devoid of any logical notion about how code evolves. Squashed commits are strictly worse than plain, non-fast-forwarded merges from rebased branche
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by vvillena 1y ago
Congratulations on the project! This is an impressive feat at any age. Personally, I love how you found your own balance between extreme minimalism and a useful set of features, arriving at a solution that is indeed below 2k lines of C code
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by vvillena 1y ago
That's the license working as intended, isn't it?

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