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folkrav··on Thirty Seven
The fact you have to lay it out like you did kind of points towards the pattern being the result of prime factorization not being as evident as you seem to think it is lol
folkrav··on How iTunes Is Changing on PC
Somehow, in high school around that same period, while everyone was over on Winamp, it was still my favorite to both catalogue/tag and listen to the ~80GB library I had back then.. Genuinely can't remember why, though, but I do remember everyone else hated it.
folkrav··on Netflix adds 13.1M subscribers, tops revenue estimates
Prime literally just started pushing ads to existing customers and charging $3/month extra for no ads. That’s literally making it worse for existing paid viewers. I have no reason to think Netflix would do otherwise. They all end up doing the same crap the second one of them pulls it off, historically…
folkrav··on Canada's population is booming – access to family doctors hasn't kept pace
Last I checked, in Quebec specifically, 25%+ of the population is 65 and up, and it's trending upward. Immigration rates definitely have to do with the shorter-term issues, but this has been going on for decades at this point.
folkrav··on Culture Change at Google
Are you claiming manhood is defined by what it isn't?
folkrav··on Z – Jump around
Wouldn't this easily be solved by an alias or setting your script's directory earlier in your $PATH in your shell's RC file? I'm not sure how it's becoming an issue at all. It's just an executable name, in the end, you control your environment.
folkrav··on Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year
Most have the logo on the tongue and behind the heel too. Some designs have it on the shoe too. They also have clothing and accessories where the logo can be rather prominent.
folkrav··on Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year
I wear some brands, but I buy them at the discount/clearance store, I'm not directly looking at buying specific brands, most of the time. However, in the case of some brands (e.g. Vans in my case) I just... genuinely enjoy their stuff. Is it that weird to have preferences?
folkrav··on Comments on Comments
The right thing, I can define with code and check for correctness with tests. I guess I mean that if it can be expressed clearly in code, it should.

But I don't completely disagree that they can have their place. They just get used as crutches for unreadable code a lot of time, that's all.

folkrav··on Comments on Comments
> Comments are a perfectly reasonable way of indicating logical blocks within code.

Comments like these very often end up lying to my face and make me lose precious time. I nowadays tend to semi-ignore them and just read the code anyway. YMMV, I guess.

folkrav··on Pollution in 1/8 (2010)
Last I checked, most of that IPv6 traffic was mobile, and most residential ISPs don't offer IPv6, or if they do in areas, they don't always provide IPv6-ready equipment. We're in a similar situation up here in Canada - adoption is slowly trickling in through mobile networks, but many large ISPs still aren't offering it.
folkrav··on Amazon CEO warns remote workers: ‘It’s probably not going to work out for you’
> at Amazon

As to the matter of remote in general, I'll go back to the office once they stop putting said offices downtown in expensive cities where I can't afford to buy anything worth the hassle in a >60km/1h commute radius despite being a relatively high earner in this country. For reference, I'm about 65km out of town right now (straight line on the highway), commute downtown would take over 1h15 on a good day, and in the area, I could maybe afford a condo, or an old bungalow with an unfinished basement that needs tons of renos.

Or once nobody wants to pay me for it - which doesn't seem to be a problem yet.

folkrav··on Switching from Chrome to Firefox
I use Mozilla's Container Tabs extension for most of this. Unless you specifically want to keep settings/extensions/etc in specific, separate profiles, they're a good in-between solution. In my case, having a single FF instance is desirable as I would juggle between too many profiles which would need similar extensions for completely switching profiles and windows to be a good experience.
folkrav··on We’re all just temporarily abled
> Which is a complex way of saying "we don't know the root cause of why [...]"

A thing a lot of people don't seem to be aware about modern medicine. We can treat many things, we know a whole lot more than we used to, but a lot of this knowledge is often incomplete. Many of the body's systems are very badly understood. Treatment for most of those issues is symptom management more than anything else.

folkrav··on July 2023 was the hottest month on record
One word: infrastructure. People over here cry every time they add anything resembling bike/walking infrastructure - "WHAT ABOUT ALL THOSE CARS LOSING SPACE?".
folkrav··on Launch HN: Serra (YC S23) – Open-core, Python-based dbt alternative
As I mentioned, their main GraphQL server package is[1], so that's where the confusion came from. Thanks.

[1] https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-server/blob/9817bc47...

folkrav··on Launch HN: Serra (YC S23) – Open-core, Python-based dbt alternative
> This license was popular w folks like apollo who arguably hijacked nearly 700 contributors efforts w a license like this. Because they are using it from start at least that won't be as bad

Which Apollo are you talking about? Only one I know is Apollo GraphQL, and their main server package seems to be MIT, so I must be looking at the wrong thing. What's the story?

folkrav··on Want employees to return to the office? Then give each one an office
I know I could get paid ~10-20% more somewhere else, but I stay where I am. I still make good money, I like my job and the people well enough, it's fully remote, and the quality of life of being able to take care of my 5yo son after/before school, and being present to see my expecting baby as he grows up in between meetings, instead of through messaging and photo share, is IMHO well worth the pay cut.
folkrav··on Pegasus Mail
Why do you make the assumption that people running, or interested in running Pegasus, would not read things on their phone?
folkrav··on Pegasus Mail
I guess we have very different definitions of "works perfectly". Sure, the page displays as intended, if that's what you mean. Tiny 3 pixel high links are neither accessible nor very usable.
folkrav··on Pegasus Mail
If only we had simple CSS rules to present things in a way that doesn't require one to do this
folkrav··on Pegasus Mail
You're free to call that "negative space", it's still 70% of my screen that's just blinding white, and 30% that's a tiny, non-responsive column layout. You call it perfect, I call it annoyingly empty and bad usability on mobile.
folkrav··on Pegasus Mail
I feel like there's an in-between we're not talking about, that would look a bit less like a shareware site from the early 00s, used more than 30% of my screen, and would work on my phone, but isn't the modern mess of megabytes of JS bundles for a static landing page. It could load in 35-50ms, too, I wouldn't mind.
folkrav··on Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)
Fair
folkrav··on Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)
Funny. Coming from a non-math background, having only one symbol to deal with feels less confusing than switching around symbols based on the medium it happens to be written on. Did one of the symbols come "first"?
folkrav··on Shortening the Let's Encrypt chain of trust
I think OP's point was that Google/Android don't have much to do with OEMs choosing to update their older devices or not.
folkrav··on Thunderbird 115
Aaaah. So that's why I wasn't finding anything, I thought I was going crazy. That landing page seems to hint that it's currently available ("Upgrade to version 115 and experience the future of Thunderbird!").
folkrav··on Thunderbird 115
I have a lot of trouble taking Betterbird seriously... The whole thing feels like a revenge based project by a disgruntled former contributor.

  https://www.betterbird.eu/faq/moz-governance.pdf
  https://www.betterbird.eu/faq/permanent-ban.pdf
  https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.governance/c/RQHR3eFAYZ8
YMMV
folkrav··on Thunderbird 115
> It's also IMAP and webmail but POP3 is better for my use case.

I'm curious as to why, if you don't mind! Are you specifically looking for "download only once then get rid of it"?

folkrav··on The GMP library's repository is under attack by a single GitHub user
> It already is cached by the docker image. The problem why it's SO MANY requests is because hundreds of people have forked this repository, and now at the same time (due to the workflow cron) start an image build. 99% of the days, it'll just use the cached image and not cause any network requests whatsoever.

> If it builds new images, it'll be at max 10 requests to fetch the latest snapshot in parallel from my end (that's how many parallel jobs Github allows for free), which shouldn't be an issue. I've already switched GMP back to use an outdated release tarball because of how annoyingly flakey their mercurial server is.

Straight from the repo author. Looking at the workflow, not sure how it could really fetch less than it already does.

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