roydivision

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"Oh, good grief!"
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Comment · 1 year ago
More and more article titles follow this click bait pattern. The article itself is fine, interesting, albeit a bit short. But I totally agree, and it irks me too, that the implied promise of the title is not honored.
Comment · 1 year ago
You can easily host and manage your own package repository. My point is that this apparent limitation is not in itself a strong enough reason to embark on NIX.

Go fill your boots if you want to use NIX, power to you, but be honest about why if you're going to write a piece about it.

Comment · 1 year ago
It seems from my own upload that you are limited to one / email address. So yes you could just use a bunch of aliases, but I guess they're banking on most people only having access to a few addresses.
Comment · 1 year ago
> More importantly, Docker containers themselves aren’t reproducible—running apt-get update or pip install requests at different times can yield different results, even with the same Dockerfile.

apt-get install <package name>=<version>

> And frankly, no one really needs Kubernetes, they just have it because everyone and their grandma has it. I digress, that’s a topic for another day.

Oh grow up, ffs.

Comment · 1 year ago
The Mastodon instance I'm on.
Comment · 1 year ago
The article specifically states that this light is NOT visible to humans:

> UPE, also known as biophoton emission, is a spontaneous release of extremely low-intensity light that is invisible to the human eye and falls within the spectral range of 200–1,000 nm.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Paul Fischer's book, 'A Kim Jong-Il Production' is well worth a read, not only for the story of these kidnappings, but of life in North Korea and its history.
Comment · 1 year ago
I choose browser plugins instead for a more consistent experience, at home or anywhere.
Comment · 1 year ago
I switched about two months ago, paid for a year. It's such a relief, it's like having search of ten years ago back again. It just works, and no useless crap. Options that make sense to ME, not to the profit line.

I'm now paying for:

- Search

- Email

- News

- Backups

Of course I'd rather not spend the money, but ALL these services are leagues ahead of the ad-supported alternatives. This is how the Internet should work.

(Edit - formatting)

Comment · 1 year ago
A flawed solution looking for a problem.
Comment · 1 year ago
Guitar player here. App looks great, but shame it's only for piano. I used a different app that does pretty much the same thing and really benefited from it, the improvement was noticeable after each session.

If you add guitar support it will be an immediate download for me.

Comment · 1 year ago
I have no idea how Apple prioritise their bug fixing, but it really looks to me like bugs only get fixed when adding new features, if at all.

This is such a trivial big win as well, create a software dev team to focus on the outstanding bugs. Head it with one or two senior developers, make it the first step in onboarding new developers. What a great way to learn, and make a difference.

This is not rocket surgery, and Apple really do have a bad reputation here, even with the muggles.

Comment · 1 year ago
Mainly The Guardian and Mastodon

Other sites include 404Media, Wired, The Newyorker, BBC News.

Comment · 1 year ago
I couldn't agree more. However the reason we have a Popcorn option on the microwave is because it makes the difference at the point of sale, not at the point of use. Most people when presented with two devices that essentially do the same thing, but one has more options will chose the one with more options because they have been lead to believe it's better.

Design is so often polluted by marketing. The direction of progress from concept to design to marketing to sale should be one way only.

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