Answerawake

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by Answerawake 6y ago
Finally someone with some perspective. Is it just me or is it just baffling at the amount of hubris there is in this thread? Its like there are two worlds, this small group of people who have no perspective whatsoever and the rest of the co
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by Answerawake 6y ago
How do you even end up in a situation where recruiters are banging down your door with such offers? I know developers who have reverse engineered applications, fixed unbelievable bugs deep an application stacks, written top tier code that m
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by Answerawake 6y ago
How do you end up with a network of the good ones? I have gotten my last job through a recruiter but the process sucked. He took me and my boss for a ride financially. This was in part me not getting many callbacks from any decent companies
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by Answerawake 6y ago
>I'm worried that insurgent candidate like those in 'the squad' were only allowed to succeed as an olive branch to the left-populists for the purposes of maintaining a coherent anti-trump coalition. I don't buy that b
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by Answerawake 6y ago
I'd like to learn more about how to understand all of this. Is there some resource you can point me to so I can begin the journey to have this intuition?
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by Answerawake 6y ago
Really? What function did it serve the iPhone?
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by Answerawake 6y ago
Are you referring to the WIndows 10 image viewer? Yes it is now a "Metro" app I think. The good news is that you can restore the old Windows 7 picture viewer. There are instructions on how to restore this if you Google. Think its
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by Answerawake 6y ago
I was actually dreaming about this the other day! I dreamed of a dress a dancer would wear that would have ultra efficient LEDs embedded every inch along with a power harvesting component and as the person danced, the LEDs that moved fast e
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by Answerawake 6y ago
Ah yes I remember AltStore when it came out. Left it on my phone for a while but all that was ever published was his emulator(which kept crashing btw). I wonder if the store has improved since.
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by Answerawake 6y ago
I'm looking forward to my final perfect iPad being just a slab of aluminum. It will be perfection.
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by Answerawake 6y ago
Unplug the modems. They connect to internal antennas don't they?
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by Answerawake 6y ago
Is a there a good collection of Idevice apps somewhere that we can take and compile and use for this purpose? I am starting to go down the path of making my own simple versions of popular apps like Twitter or pulling the backend apis of oth
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by Answerawake 6y ago
There is no reason to build them for Windows. I just use the ones already available for Windows. I want to build it for Mac so I can get the great simple tools on Windows but on the stability of Mac. For Paint I have resorted to buying a Ma
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by Answerawake 6y ago
Really looking to build a tool with the same look and feel. Launches fast, can just paste text stripping formatting and then allow you to save it as txt or copy it as is to other apps. A typical Ubuntu install gives you something like gedit
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by Answerawake 6y ago
Do you know if there is source code for classic Windows apps like the Calculator, Notepad or Paint? Would love to recreate those simple apps and chuck the lousy Linux/Mac equivalents.
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by Answerawake 6y ago
Windows 10 telemetry, secretly turning on auto updates even after you turn it off and correct me if I am wrong, even if you disable the update service or add the urls to the hosts file it now "mysteriously" undoes that stuff over
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by Answerawake 6y ago
Is there a good brand of enclosures that I could rely on? I am not sure if this is a typical use case such that the big guys would manufacture an enclosure that's compatible.
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by Answerawake 6y ago
>When you're using the USB interface, there is some chip in between the actual SSD and your computer. USB doesn't directly handle reading and writing to SATA or NVMe drives, so software on your computer encodes it to go out USB
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by Answerawake 6y ago
Hmm interesting. So even though the physical connector with the two notches fits, the electrical signaling is wrong. Thats seems like a bad design no? All my desktops are on SATA so I am used to a situation where as long as the connector ma
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by Answerawake 6y ago
Hey maybe you or someone here can help me with this interesting problem I have. You see I wanted to put an Intel Optane SSD into an external enclosure to benchmark the absolute fastest Windows and Linux install and compare it to install tim
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by Answerawake 6y ago
Why is that? Isn't the taptic engine just a miniaturized vibrating unit?
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by Answerawake 6y ago
This is fair. I have thought of this as well. As a response, I spent the last year and a half volunteering for multiple progressive challengers to established candidates. After a massive amount of effort: we won some races, lost many, and c
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by Answerawake 6y ago
With all due respect: I think this thinking comes from a massive place of privilege. With the sea of unemployed entry level developers who would kill for a job with FAANG, getting into Facebook for the chance to earn that kind of money and
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by Answerawake 6y ago
>as a tech person, that makes me extremely uncomfortable, and someone who hasn’t figured out even a personal route around the problem, much less a societal one. god bless us all. Work for a boring company that provides a core service and
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by Answerawake 6y ago
Technology can be understood and reasoned from first principles. Can you really say the same about human relationships, especially the complex kinds that can result in such a logical mismatch? There is a lot of irrationality in the real wor
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by Answerawake 6y ago
Was there a particular reason?
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by Answerawake 6y ago
You should set up youtube-dl on your machine so you can at least download the videos before they disappear. This tool can handle hundreds of websites and has come in handy so many times. One of the many projects I started and never finished
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by Answerawake 6y ago
Not sure if this relates but I was wondering if you heard of ASCI ActiveBatch? If so what are your thoughts on it? I'd like to have some easy to set up orchestration/job scheduling engine in my team so we can help clean up the tan
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by Answerawake 6y ago
They offer "anti-interdiction service" https://puri.sm/posts/anti-interdiction-services/ From the site: -Customized tamper-evident tape on the sealed plastic bag surrounding the laptop itself -Customized
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by Answerawake 6y ago
Phil Schiller needs to go back to awkwardly jumping off of heights to make a impact. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MR4R5LdrJw EDIT: Whoops, just saw someone posted the same clip below.

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