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When running on spare hydro, wind or solar power which cannot be accumulated or returned to grid, it can have some uses.

Have I misunderstood the article or it is just a matter of separating feature branches and putting relevant tests in a feature branch while keeping regression in a master branch?

SmartGit have not received credit it deservers, sure there are hi quirks like showing unstaged file tree, but workflow with git made me switch to it from GitKraken, GitExtensiona and others.

I would call the benchmark article rather subjective due to limited amount of comparable features and excluding most frequent workflow components with a respective ease of use score.

Automation is king with Let's Encrypt. I just add a daily cron job to run certbot renew and don't worry about the rest.

Sounds like a step back, both in terms of creativity achieved by tinkering, and a downgrade of the quality of photos and videos.

About that free market - it might be free but lobbying culture in the US starts early, at school where Apple pushes products to influence future choices of students. Not choosing something which is used by everyone around is probably more difficult psychologically than standing up to the status quo and choosing alternatives whatever they are.

There are choices made for use - having a phone on which everyone around communicates, having an internet connection from the only provider in the area.

Uniformity is a choice if the alternative is a viable choice and this is a complex matter.

The only potential contender for me would be GOG but their Linux support discourages any steps towards it. Steam all the way for now!

Slightly off topic thought: article mentions carrot on which OP works. I am so grateful to live in Europe where fertility services are just there...

That explains why Linus Torvalds have been testing kernel developers' cognitive ability with insults. Eventually he needed to give up likely due to social justice warrior pressure. Stultus verbis non corrigitur.

Irrelevant note - it seems page is stuck at the top when using page down to scroll down.

Anyone knows why translations are performed on language pairs? In my humble non linguistic common sense I think translations would be more optimal if word meanings independent of base language were the basis of translations between languages.

Voluntarily can be relative: being pushed to use Swift as a recommended language for new iOS development can influence decisions to use it "voluntarily" for backend.

There surely is a better way to launch an exe having access to the registry, even if it is just HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Some directory handler or file handler, GUID for launching an exe when desktop is shown etc.

Anyone knows more about alternatives to Run/RunOnce to start an exe? Or maybe, let's leave it for the reader to investigate...

You are right and when thinking about it I can see 2 problems which I hope in the future can have even more impact:

1. Using AI to determine the most efficient methods of doing mathematical expressions, transformations and computation algorithms - division, square root, maybe traveling salesman - these which take relatively high amount of CPU cycles to compute and are used everywhere. If inputs and outputs can be assigned to it, AI can eventually build a transformation which can be reproduced using a silicon.

2. Physics phenomena in general, not only organic protein, can be measured and with sufficient ability to quantize them to inputs and experimentally obtained outputs to train the network, we could in theory establish new formulas or constants and progress the understanding of the Universe.

Is that even allowed by Apple to collect subscriptions outside of the App Store? There have been many battles about it and Fortnite or some paid email services are at odds with Apple.

Regarding a cross-platform launch, I think launching at the same time considerable increases odds of reaching a critical mass of people joining the hype generated by a launch. In my experience users rarely come back to a place when app was released to a platform they don't have - disappointment factor plays a role - unless they really need it.

Is it viable to launch an app only for one major platform (iOS), excluding Android with it's payment system entirely? Another question, since I cannot check it - are you collecting payments for subscriptions through the App Store with it's 30% mark? Or are you exempt?

I switched to PipeWire few months back on Manjaro and apart from a problem with packages when switching, there is one issue which bothers me slightly - Bluetooth headphones delay. I tried all codecs on my QC35-II, 3 different BT 4 and 5 dongles and the delay is unbearable, rougly 500ms, kills CS:GO experience. On a headphone jack PipeWire is great, audio is clean without any glitches. Just this bluetooth...

Simple reason - add local or distributed cache to the app server, scale it along front end horizontally and you can handle several orders of magnitude more traffic.

Compare that to Arch Linux on 100MBit connection To update reliably, it requires between 10 seconds daily, 1 minute weekly to about 5 minutes monthly internet access.

Anyone can become a Telegram (or Signal) user. For $0, infinitely less than $199.

That is a great way to do a cross-link DDoS of unsolicited link opening services - send 1000 messages with google links on skype and send 1000 gmail messages with microsoft links there, all gigabytes in size...

Just vote with your money and do not buy Apple products instead of wishing - this is the way.

Securing server internet access using outbound firewall can easily stop calling home without modifying the code or affecting any valid licence terms.

Which home automation platform you eventually ended up with on NUC? I recently bought NUC to do the same and I cannot decide between Home Assistant, openHAB so I am running them both and playing a bit with Hue lights/Belkin switch. I have not tried Domoticz - I know it's very lightweight but not too feature heavy. Eventually I want to replace Alexa, using Snips.