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'For too long, Apple has operated a walled garden around its products': The EU forces Apple to open its closed system to third parties by xigoi in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago

You still have the freedom to not use alternative app stores.

'For too long, Apple has operated a walled garden around its products': The EU forces Apple to open its closed system to third parties by xigoi in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 82 points 2 months ago

Walled gardens are not good for anyone.

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Why are 3D glasses a useful tool for reasoning about complex problems? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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They put things into perspective.

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“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.” —Noam Chomsky (lemmy.sdf.org)

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Elon Musk Says He Survived On $1 Per Day Before Becoming The Richest Man In the World – 'In America It's Pretty Easy To Keep Yourself Alive' by xigoi in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 58 points 9 months ago

The headline and article seems to be hugely misleading. According to this article, the $1 was only for food and he did it as a challenge, not out of necessity.

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The only correct way to indent (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Um… small correction. (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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nvim-unicode-search: Find and insert Unicode and Nerd Fonts characters by name (git.sr.ht)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Which communication protocol or open standard in software do you wish was more common or used more? by xigoi in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago

Markdown is terrible as a standard because every parser works differently and when you try to standardize it (CommonMark, etc.), you find out that there are a bajillion edge cases, leading to an extremely bloated specification.

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manual-pairs: Neovim plugin that rethinks the concept of automatically pairing delimiters (git.sr.ht)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If a machine is never 100% efficient transforming energy into work because part of the energy is converted into heat, does it mean an electric heater is 100% efficient? [@[email protected]](h by xigoi in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago

Doesn’t the light turn into heat anyway as soon as it’s absorbed?

The way this is written out really irks me. by xigoi in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There used to be a community for this on the website that shall not be named. “Don’t Dead Open Inside” I think?

Is it illegal to con people into thinking you have a perfect ability to pick football games by emailing out two lists: one picking one team, and the other picking the other team, and only sending... by xigoi in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 50 points 2 years ago

Relevant xkcd

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[-] [email protected] 95 points 2 years ago

“The other programmers keep accidentally writing code that ends up in an infinite loop. I'd like you to make a program that can reliably detect that.”