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geewee··on Linux Rust Support
Thanks!
geewee··on Audacity is a poster child for what can be achieved with open-source software
Disagree on the comparison - at least if you only use the web platforms. Word for web is miles behind the experience of using Google Docs, with many settings you simply can't change.

I think the desktop versions are a different story though, if you have access to those.

geewee··on Linux Rust Support
This might be a stupid question because I don't know much about Linux development. Have these patches been accepted into the kernel? Or are they still just "propsals"?
geewee··on BTC Hashrate dropped another 27% down ~62% form peak now at 2019 levels
It seems like bitcoin enthuasiasts can always determine why something is good for bitcoin. If more people hash the system is more robust but if less people hash then it's.. uh.. also good?
geewee··on [dead]
It's somewhere in there if you expand the 80 comments or so.
geewee··on Amazon’s wage increase to $15 an hour also upped pay for non-Amazon workers
Wait, so is your argument that it should be okay to pay people dirt-poor wages because Amazon used to get away with it? I get that it's a classic tactic to avoid a loophole in legislation and then build a regulatory moat afterwards, but I don't really feel paying people more is a good example.
geewee··on Denmark parliament approves giant artificial island off Copenhagen
No the property prices would be way too high there for that..
geewee··on Can Apple change ads?
This is still a huge deal though. Facebook and google scour so much data through stuff like facebook pixels and google analytics - there's no need to give them anymore than what they already have.
geewee··on Things you can’t do in Rust (and what to do instead)
Logrocket finds writers on other sites like Medium and approaches them and pays them reasonable rates (2-500$ per post iirc) to write for them.

Source: I have written for them in the past.

geewee··on Node.js 16 Available Now
I think this is the only "Javascript has too few third party libraries" take I've ever heard.
geewee··on Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20B
After having tried Microsoft's automatic captioning on Microsoft Stream which is akin in accuracy to monkeys typing something random on a typewriter, I think this seems like a good choice.
geewee··on Wix and Their Dirty Tricks
Hm, we've had our startup page hosted with Wix for a few years. I had no idea they were doing all of this shady stuff. What are some good alternatives if I'm looking to migrate? Is squarespace less shady?
geewee··on WhatsApp Reveals What Happens to Users Who Don't Agree to Privacy Policy Changes
That's an oddly biased article: "The misperception.." ... "rival messaging apps like Telegram and Signal, both of which were quick to exploit the situation"

I think being skeptical of these anti-privacy moves is perfectly reasonable, and I think saying Signal and Telegram is "exploiting the situation" is misleading at best and disingenuous at worst.

geewee··on The SOC2 Starting Seven (2020)
It does seem like a very strange upselling tactic.
geewee··on The SOC2 Starting Seven (2020)
One of the things I've encountered as a startup doing the danish equivalent of a SOC2 is issues with VendorSec. (We don't have much revenue yet, but our customer segment really cares about this sort of documentation) is that many cloud providers (..TypeForm) requires you to spend thousands of dollars with them annually before they're willing to give you any security details or audit reports at all. This means that we have a hard time making revenue because we don't have the certifications, which we can't get because we can't spend enough money to get access to them.
geewee··on Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump
I hope twitter does the same.
geewee··on LA: Ambulance crews to not transport patients with little chance of survival
You realize this is crazy-talk right? No country has avoided a pretty wild amount of casualties without locking down. If the evidence was so strong, you'd think at least one of them would have succeeded with this strategy.
geewee··on Google fired employees for union activity, says US agency
Why?
geewee··on How Microsoft crushed Slack
At least if you're on a Linux desktop, the GSuite experience is vastly better than the online Office 365 one, as there's no desktop clients. That's a pretty small market segment though.
geewee··on I Miss Working from the Office
I've only visited the US briefly but those toilet gaps were truly, truly awful
geewee··on There's Still No Viable Open Source Business Model [video]
Yes but I think that's why they changed their license wasn't it?
geewee··on Almost 60 percent of business closures are now permanent, new Yelp data shows
I would much rather eat at s restaurant. The food hasn't gotten cold, and it just feels like a completely different experience
geewee··on Ask HN: What is the best money you have spent on professional development?
Not the OP but I have similar experiences and am also very introspective. For me, my introspection dealt a lot with what my thoughts were and how I behaved, but I had a lot of feelings that I had suppressed so deeply they never really came into consciousness. Therapy helped a lot with that.
geewee··on Angular 11
Oh that's a clever way of doing it. Thanks!
geewee··on Sweden Covid-19 Update
Certainly it makes sense when talking about hospital capacity - but it does give a bit of a skewed impression when you're looking at the hospitalizations re: cases.

You'd be surprised. Around 1/7th of the covid hospitalizations in Denmark[0] are hospitalized for "other reasons" - where covid is not the primary factor - I'd say that is significant.

[0] - https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/braekket-ben-fylder-i-cent... (link only in danish, sorry)

geewee··on Sweden Covid-19 Update
That's different from country to country. In Denmark hospitalizations are counted as covid hospitalizations for example, even if you arrive due to e.g. a broken leg, but you have covid. Not sure about deaths though.
geewee··on Angular 11
I would love this so much.
geewee··on Angular 11
I'm glad that it isn't all just rookie mistakes and I'm not "getting" it :)

I'm intrigued about you not agreeing with the last part though. You don't think it's painful to manually reroute inputs/outputs to child-components?

geewee··on Angular 11
Is there a good implementation of makeObservable() somewhere? I haven't been able to find one that seemed to work elegantly.

Patching @Output and @Input is supremely painful - I really wish there was some sort of shorthand for that.

geewee··on Angular 11
I've used it for a couple of months, but I've primarily been pair programming with people who have used it for years. Some of it is probably still getting used to the ropes, but I've heard many share similar sentiments about most of the things.
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