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paozac

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About paozac

Staff engineer somewhere in EU

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48758483

    Rail Europe ( https://wwww.raileurope.com/ ) | Hiring in Paris and REMOTE | Senior SWE | Full-time Rail Europe is a global travel tech company and the reference brand for European …

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    Comment #48751319

    I'm happy someone's challenging the Rails almost-monoculture in the Ruby ecosystem, but Hanami doesn't seem to bring much to the table. Is there anything in this release that Rails…

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    Comment #48343652

    Yes, some features now require a subscription - it's clear where this is going

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    Comment #48343387

    Mac office suite is moving to the subscription model, too

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    Comment #48001669

    A good article on jet engines: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-its-so-hard-to-bu...

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    Comment #47817322

    In the 80s it was fairly common to consider C64, Amstrad 464 and ZX Spectrum 8 bit, while Amiga and Atari ST 16 bit. In Italy we even had two separate video game magazines: Zzap! f…

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    Comment #47570982

    Same here, I tried all combinations with BetterDisplay but kept getting fuzzy fonts. It was very frustrating on a large 5k2k display

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    Comment #47386330

    Buy second hand books if you can: wider selection, good for the environment, lower price (usually), supports small businesses (usually).

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    Comment #47350543

    Yes, I've seen that, too. The rails way of doing things can feel like a terrible limitation to some developers, while others enthusiastically embrace it

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    Comment #47350508

    Javascript handling in Rails was easy in the early versions, then became messy with the asset pipeline and webpacker, and is becoming simple again with the latest versions

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    Comment #47347526

    I love rails and the recent improvements are great. I have the impression, though, that these days it only appeals to those who picked it up before version 3 or 4, when it was smal…

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    Comment #47288549

    Planned obsolescence is sure at play here, but I blame the design choices of Jony Ive and his team (thinness above all).

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    Comment #47254391

    Nice improvements. If you like a clean revision history and hate messy git rebases then you should dedicate a couple hours to jj.

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    Comment #47237278

    Asus ProArt

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    Comment #47237248

    I've got that display, too, and quite like it. Matte finish is essential (IMO) if you're annoyed by reflections.

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    Comment #47199858

    As a kid I spent a lot of money with the arcade version, finding it very difficult. Reaching the second or third stage was quite challenging, I was always hoping to find the knives…

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    Comment #47186456

    This might actually make Anthropic very popular among those who do not support the current US presidency, a significant market share.

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    Comment #46409210

    Very nice, but on an A4 sheet the last row is cut off and you need to manually shrink it

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    Comment #44808333

    [flagged]

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    Comment #42042761

    Mazda owner here, love the physical controls but using Google/Apple maps with the joystick is painful

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    Comment #41801711

    Trailers give away the entire film these days. No surprises allowed

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    Comment #38816679

    I’ve always wondered why they didn’t use the Fate of Atlantis script instead of the awful crystal skull

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    Comment #36290655

    He's been the most polarizing figure of italian politics of the last 30 years. It will take decades to reach a balanced assessment about the guy. IMO future historians will not be …

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    Comment #32342853

    You can find them for many companies here: https://github.com/OpenTermsArchive/contrib-versions

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    Comment #30177047

    I used to like Postman, when it was a simple browser extension. I basically used it as a curl gui. Now > Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies …