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They haven't made any more moves in that direction since the store appeared. If anything, it's use seems to have declined since then. For awhile I would download a few apps from th…

I didn't really understand your comment. More than 50% of Americans poll as supporting Ukraine, with something like an even split between too much, too little, and enough, meaning …

I made https://newsagents.app and I ended up using the extract API from kagi and falling back to cloudflares browser API for problem pages. That looks to be more cost efficient tha…

Of his work the Reality Dysfunction was the one I liked the least. Character development in his last 2 series, Salvation and Exodus, seems improved.

> There's only one spot in London where you'll have to drive like much of the rest of the world That makes it sound like Britain is the only place with left side traffic. 35% of th…

I can't really think of anyone I know who doesn't have a hobby. Of course, most people I've met are via a hobby.

They didn't take anything, they just sell it hosted. And surely they only got 50% of the market share by doing a better job of it? I also note they have some contributions, for exa…

I'm not sure we know what people want though. After terrorist attacks politicians seem to decide what people want, tell people what they want, but rarely, if ever, offer a referend…

isn't that the point of bubbles: nearly impossible to predict when they'll burst?

I've made my own bread for many years now. Every other day I make a loaf. Whenever I do buy one, even from a nice bakery, I'm disappointed and my kids hassle me to make it instead …

Again it's almost certainly other people using their phones. One of your facebook contacts friended this person, maybe even before you shook their hand, facebook is going to recomm…

It makes sense though for the price to fall (in relation to inflation) when the general public got into gaming though. The cost of development is unchanged whether you sell 10,000 …

Didn't they hold a referendum on an alternative voting system and it failed? I'd moved away by that time, but I seem to remember they basically chose a bad and confusing system to …

I saw a product, it had a 1 rating. I added a higher rating. The total rating went down... bug? As always, the problem with this kind of site is that as soon as you gain any kind o…

Every job is the means to an end really. But if people are taking jobs at your employer and then feel unmotivated and are trying to get a new job elsewhere as soon as they can, doe…

If you're in that 20% that actually has an interest in the work then you'll probably be fine.

I use one. I play guitar at my desk then type and I think that transfers a lot of dirt around. It does leave a mark on the screen. It's easy enough to clean off, but I do like how …

From what I recall, doing handwritten CS exams in 2004, you aren't writing long essays. Long form was the course work. The exam was short form answers and it did not stress my writ…

That's not quite true. The original signals would let a train into the cross over block when no station lines were available because they didn't have that pass through. Depending o…

For most signalling you want the path signals. They come in 2 flavours: both kinds only do the path in one direction, one kind is non-blocking to trains running the opposite way, t…

> since charges were introduced That's one way to look at it I suppose. The other is that these institutions had a tax break for a long time, not having to charge VAT like every ot…

The US has a volunteer army, if you don't want to do army things why be there in the first place?

I assumed they meant more than that because nodejs does the same since v22.18 and prior would do it with a flag. But they mentioned type stripping, which is really all transpiling …

> Deno can run true TypeScript directly and not just strip types What exactly do you mean by that? Because no js engine carries the ts types into the runtime as far as I know. Deno…

Basically you have a tax by another name. That's not necessarily a problem in and of itself, there's plenty of areas in life where we have essentially a tax by another name or syst…