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I mean, you say "is this it?", but the multi-language support of literally all other Android keyboards I've used are basically unusable. Take Google's default keyboard, it requires…

> Happens to me a lot on Youtube too - you watch just one thing - and now your recommendations are full of things like that one thing. Spotify's recommendation system is much bette…

std::map (as opposed to std::unordered_map) uses a balanced binary search tree approach and thus guarantees O(log n) lookup for anything that has a well-defined total order (i.e. c…

> "the /usr split is there for a reason!". No, it's just an historical quirk. It's a historical quirk on linux , where there is no clear separation between "base OS packages" and "…

You're assuming cars are the only valid transport option. London isn't the US, you can just take the subway or bus instead...

It actually also compares data when the two databases have different schemas! It's pretty nice for quickly comparing changes in datasets.

> Businesses outside EU are not bound by GDPR. Business outside the EU, interacting with users in the EU are bound by the GDPR. There might not really be a way (currently) to impos…

The maximum fine allowed by GDPR is "10 million or 2% of global revenue, whichever is higher". The goal is to ensure the GDPR "has teeth" even against companies for who 10 million …

The real reason isn't that the system would be GPLv3. The real reason is that GPLv3 includes a patent grant clause, which many companies (Apple included) are very worried about app…

> ...does seem to suggest that the "garbage multiplier" effect of immutability is an ill fit for applications that also create a lot of garbage naturally That actually depends on h…

> Typically legitimate interest is used where consent isn’t an applicable basis (e.g. for processing a user’s address details in an online checkout). Nope, that'd be the "contract"…

I'd scratch the arguably, seems to blatantly violate the pretty explicit text of the GDPR.

> Interesting precedent. The platform is responsible not just for their own security practices, but also their users' security practices. Well, not really. Booking didn't get fined…

This is just not true. See my comment elsewhere in this thread: Why is it not GDPR compliant. You do not need consent under the GDPR. You need a (documented) "lawful basis for proc…

Why is it not GDPR compliant. You do not need consent under the GDPR. You need a (documented) "lawful basis for processing" personal information. Consent is just one of several law…

You aren't forced to service users. You just cannot make consent the currency for your service. Either don't require consent or don't operate in the EU.

Correct. Also, you cannot with hold access upon users not consenting, so there's literally zero incentive for users to ever consent for compliant providers. Which is kinda obvious …

> Is making à file based database that hard,compared to creating new programming language for exemple ? Yes. I can hack together a trivial compiler in a weekend. A serious (non-opt…

> I predict that will eventually end too as they aim towards profitability. Honestly, I don't really think so. I think MS's goal for GitHub is to be a "loss leader" to keep develop…

> If your company has PII, then you by law must be able to produce a consented attestation chain all the way back to the source. So...basically the GDPR? Well, not quite, since the…

For what it's worth, I've been using Mercurial + hg-git to interact with git repos since 2010 and I still do with all my git and github using colleagues.

Can you enlighten me how git's internal model is more beautiful than, say, Mercurial? Which has the added bonus of having a UI which isn't a dumpster fire...

Lemme give you one example of one workflow I've encountered a bunch of times that's super annoying with git. I port/test a project to a new OS. I run into a bunch of issues, like l…

> Would forwarding continue to work if your account is disabled or terminated? That doesn't seem likely? No, but the idea is that you can point the domain at a new host and at leas…

Allow me to shill another amazing Haskell program for general use then: https://www.shellcheck.net/