xprn
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- xprn parentSame on anything resembling a mobile device
- For the file system, the OS could do something similar to what iOS is doing when you want to share a picture - giving the user control over which pictures the app has access to. Yeah, for a gallery app it could render the app quite useless because of the UX, but it would solve the issue itself IMO.
- Today I learned. I always thought it was some “electricity magic thing” like additional heat generated within the power strips causing issues between the connected devices, but this makes a lot more sense than whatever I was thinking of.
Although I do think I might have mixed some things up between regular power strips and those outdoors/industrial ones with a long (double/triple digit meter) rollable cable which my dad was a big user of back when he used to work in construction. Basically back when I was little he used to tell me never to plug power tools into a rolled-up “power wheel”, and I think that when I was later heard you shouldn’t daisy chain power strips I must have made that (wrong) connection.
- I would actually think that monorepos suck with Github and others like that. Looking at the Linux kernel for example, that seems to me like a well executed monorepo outside of Github. From what I’ve heard and read, they specifically use Git and mailing lists instead of Github or others because Github wouldn’t work for what Linux is (aside from as a mirror).
There might very well be some context I’m missing, but that’s what I understand from that side at least.
- Once SMS itself becomes a more modern way of communicating. Currently every 160 (IIRC) characters costs, sending images (and god forbid videos) is barely worth it, not to mention the lack of security. Comparing to food, I would say this is as good as saying “Why not just buy a bag of chips instead of cooking a meal”
- Windows uses some weird install process where it needs two partitions for the install media. Basically the whole installation is too big for FAT32 so IIRC the way to have it work is to split the ISO in two having the bootable part on one partition and a lot of the installation content on another.
- Money rarely follows those that have good intentions. The intentions are rarely even part of the equation there. And as Tinder has already showed us, there’s a lot of money in keeping people lonely, giving them just enough but not too much. Something tells me that the large majority of those building AI companion bots do not have good intentions in mind. Of course, only time will tell, but considering the track record of such topics so far I doubt this is the way to go.
- The way I see it (admittedly, as a 24 year old working in tech for the past 7 years), manual labour is okay, but definitely not something I’d do as a means to get by. My dad worked in construction for most of his life (mainly motivated due to debts incurred while he was locked up and taken up by my “mother”) and it has had an immense toll on his body, mostly back injuries and other non-reversable issues it has caused. But there were still many occasions where I went along with him to Finland, Sweden, and Norway as a “helper”, which have all taught me the value of hard work and dedication, pushing through whatever hardships you might have, and have generally been great for father-son bonding. Now that he however has exited that fieid (to work as a trucker which he loves because it’s basically “getting paid to travel long distances” which he loves), although I value the work done by tradies and have an immense respect for them (or at least the ones working as hard as my dad did), I still don’t see myself ever wanting to do that as a “job”. Since my dad has those skills, he still puts then to good use for personal needs (remodelling the house, fixing the roof, building a gazebo in his yard, etc), I still love going there to help him with all that, but much more as a father-son activity than as work.
- Although he’s out of line, he’s also right. Pornography has, does, and keeps on making it even harder for people to create meaningful connections, be fulfilled with “regular” sexual ideas, and messes with our body’s production of dopamine which in the end results in even more severe loneliness due to the inability to be more realistic in terms of sex as well as highten the chances of depression caused by the former. It is a disease, and the longer we try to destigmatise the situation, the worse effects it will cause for people and society as a whole
- Suppose I Wanted to Kill a Lot of Pilots https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=37209309