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Comment · 9 months ago
Needs a [2013].
Comment · 1 year ago
That’s my biggest gripe with audiobooks: good for fiction, not so good for learning.
Comment · 1 year ago
Gemini 1.5 indeed is a lot of hit-and-miss. Also, the politically correct and medical info filtering is limiting its usefulness a lot, IMHO.

I also miss that it’s not yet really as context aware as ChatGPTo4. Even just asking a follow-up question, confuses Gemini 1.5.

Hope Gemini 2.0 will improve that!

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
I’m convinced that the Erasmus programme (and it’s not so serious counterparts such as AEGEE and IAESTE) contribute to lasting peace in Europe by marrying people between nations.
Comment · 3 years ago
It is much worse. The Berbel retains the insulation provided by the wall, when closed. This is nothing more than a fancy hole in the wall.

Opening and closing, means you get the best of both worlds.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Did anyone try opening LibreOffice master in it?

LO has a reputation as an IDE-killer, as it’s so large and complex.

Comment · 4 years ago
If _one_ bad experience turns you into a lost customer, then this business model purely operates on the happy-path and hopes for the best.

I am highly sceptical that the core promise “anything, anytime“ is really what people need: they use it, because it’s possible, not because they want to use it.

The alternative to your problem would be asking a friend/relative to do the shopping, using the in-house delivery service or simply make do without. All more secure options than ordering something and not being sure, you’ll actually get it.

I say good riddance for this petty excuse of a business!

Comment · 4 years ago
Pseudo-engagement, optimised for easy and massive consumption, pushing you to compare yourself constantly.

And all we have to protect ourselves, is our over-exerted self-control mechanism.

Comment · 5 years ago
This is indeed the correct reason. The app is much more usable.

That’s why I switched to teddit.net. It’s much faster, resembles the old Reddit layout and supports dark mode.

Comment · 5 years ago
I second PowerApps. There’s a to user-friendly tutorials out there and their programming model is based on concepts similar to Excel.

It should be fairly easy to pick up for end users. But only if you don’t use denormalized tables. If your DB is in 2/3NF you’ll run into issues, e.g. the ever so useful DataTable cannot update data across table.

Also, there’s a pretty significant hard limit on 500 rows.

PowerApps is a great tool, but be aware of its limitations and see if that works for you.

Comment · 5 years ago
Very nice, indeed! Congrats for the release.

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