Chirael

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by Chirael 6y ago
I used commafeed with various categories and have a mixture of websites and YouTube channels. It was a game-changer for me when I discovered that you can “subscribe” to a YouTube channel’s videos as an RSS feed by pasting the channel URL in
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by Chirael 6y ago
Virtual assistants
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by Chirael 7y ago
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read HN through lynx for this exact reason.
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by Chirael 7y ago
Sounds like an ansible [1]. I thought this was from Orson Scott Card but apparently it pre-dates him, instead going back to Ursula Le Guin. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansible
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by Chirael 7y ago
I touch my face and even chew on my fingers as a nervous habit (hey, better than smoking or vaping, right?). If a mask kept me from habitually touching my face I'd consider that a win.
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by Chirael 7y ago
Absolutely, I agree 100%. Instead of trying to be all things to all people, I think they should stay focused on being a great email client. Based on the comments on this page it sounds like there’s certainly enough work to go around just wi
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by Chirael 7y ago
What did they abandon it for, QBO?
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by Chirael 7y ago
Some of them probably made the assumption that by the time 2020 came around, they would be long gone and it would be somebody else's problem. And they were probably right.
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by Chirael 7y ago
Even bigger deal is the Y10K bug. But I'm sure these software systems won't still be running then.
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by Chirael 7y ago
It was the least untruthful thing he could say.
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by Chirael 7y ago
YouTube is starting to do this as well. For example they've made it so that accounts with less than 1000 subscribers can't do live streams any more. Not coincidentally, 1000 subscribers is the threshold for monetization (i.e., whe
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by Chirael 7y ago
There was a decent podcast on this about a month back, on Bloomberg "Odd Lots": https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-11/this-is-w...
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by Chirael 7y ago
I've been in touch sporadically with the author/creator since the original two episodes in 2018 and he's put a lot of work into it. I remember those two episodes fondly and for their high quality, and am really happy more are
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by Chirael 7y ago
I hate to say it, but it's perfect training for the world they'll live in once they enter the work force. It's the same thing there - you have no expectation of privacy when you're using the organization's equipment
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by Chirael 7y ago
That killed it for me right there, don't even need to go to the site. Thanks for saving me the trouble.
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by Chirael 7y ago
I got a new laptop about 6 months ago and have refused to install Chrome on it. For the few cases where I need anything Google related, I use Edge. Basically, Edge gets all my Google related tabs, and Firefox with uBlock Origin gets the res
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by Chirael 7y ago
Yes, lock pickers love to work on LOTO locks because of this; you can see a lot of these videos by searching YouTube for #LotoLockTuesday
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by Chirael 7y ago
It’s nowhere as good or fine-grained as uBlock origin, but I’m surprised no one ever seems to mention (or use?) Firefox Focus and it’s associated Safari content blocker. Seems to work really well for me on my iPad and iPhone, at least for g
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by Chirael 7y ago
If you have to ask, you don't understand.
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by Chirael 7y ago
But at least the resale value of a house is generally a /lot/ better than the resale value of a diamond.
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by Chirael 7y ago
Sounds like it would be a big incentive for companies to stay private as long as possible.
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by Chirael 7y ago
Isn't that one of the reasons Hacker News exists, to fill those other 7.5 hours?
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by Chirael 7y ago
I wonder if there’s any relation between this and “Made in China 2025” [1]. Seems like it would be a lot easier if there are no more trade secrets from the government, and the government has representatives in various Chinese companies [2].
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by Chirael 7y ago
How is an oppressive and/or corrupt environment any more welcoming to innovators in a longer time horizon?
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by Chirael 7y ago
It pushes innovators out, which is strategically problematic long-term. If you were an innovator, would that be the kind of environment you'd want to stay in?
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by Chirael 7y ago
You may find this article helpful in some way: “How to Improve a Legacy Codebase” [0] [0] https://jacquesmattheij.com/improving-a-legacy-codebase
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by Chirael 7y ago
“We’ve never needed it before, so why do we need it now?” (actual argument against it at my current workplace)
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by Chirael 7y ago
Every day.
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by Chirael 7y ago
Keypads are good, especially for higher end rentals. Another lower tech (and probably more secure TBH) option is small format interchangeable core (SFIC) locks where the core can easily and cheaply be swapped out between tenants. Landlordlo
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by Chirael 7y ago
With the Internet and YouTube I don’t think it’s as much of a lemon market as it once was. The information is out there, pretty accessible actually. For example it’s not hard to find that Master and Kwikset might not be the highest security

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