Friedduck

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by Friedduck 3y ago
Oh grow up. It’s so naive to think there’s no time, effort or money in building what they have. That there’s no ongoing costs. That it doesn’t take thought. They should build it and you should just get it for free. Is 30% reasonable? Should
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by Friedduck 3y ago
We spent years moving to forced encryption and multi-factor authentication for this? Microsoft could answer questions like: Which of my employees is leaking info to a competitor? Looking for a new job? I’m buying a property. What’s the leve
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by Friedduck 3y ago
This is what I fail to understand. It’s a cool hack but ad-free YouTube is a few dollars a month. Spend that creative time elsewhere!
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Show HN: Chase Bank's service agreement limits liability for their fraud
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by Friedduck 3y ago
I haven’t kept up with it but UE is still the most functional editor I’ve used. I’ve dabbled in Sublime, BBEdit, VIM and others but UE had some tricks none other have matched.
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by Friedduck 3y ago
How long is this model sustainable? How long before they have a reputation of a firm to be avoided? This isn’t the first we’ve heard and I’d wager we all know it by now. So how long before the non-technical general population shuns the bran
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by Friedduck 3y ago
I’ll add my lament. We use nest cameras, a nest thermostat and google WiFi. As part of their recent forced account merge our WiFi controls no longer work. Their apps are buggy and freeze-prone, and ironically continually trying to sell more
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by Friedduck 3y ago
My takeaway is how tone-deaf automakers are. Do they actually need clients with fire and pitchforks to listen? Touchscreens are the wrong UI choice for cars. Full stop.
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by Friedduck 4y ago
There’s a larger story about consolidation on the web and longstanding franchises getting folded into others are going dark. The economics of cameras have changed but I fear that the market for independent reviews has cratered and made it m
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by Friedduck 4y ago
I fully recognize that media is a business like any other, subject to pressures and the biases of its participants. (It’s a product, said a CNN producer friend.) With that said, is it any wonder, with certain politicians demonizing media at
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by Friedduck 4y ago
I’m on day two of converting from LastPass to another service (Keeper in my case.) Canceled auto-renewal, deleted the account, and exported/imported within a half-hour. That part was painless. Resetting passwords, however, is something
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by Friedduck 4y ago
My mother-in-law, also from Waco, took a bus alone to Fort Worth, changed buses, and continued on to Witchita Falls. All at age five. For all of our nation’s ills, a child walking on his own block outside is a crime that warrants this extra
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by Friedduck 4y ago
We need a BT manifesto of how phones, cars, etc should behave: 1. Don’t start any program/activity unless directed. 2. Don’t switch output devices without confirmation. My biggest complaints are my car taking over a call mid-conversat
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by Friedduck 4y ago
Democratically? I hope you’re kidding. This court doesn’t have the thinnest of veneers to hide behind. They have a pretty obvious agenda (e.g., Thomas’s concurring opinion) and show no deference to either precedent or the Constitution. We’r
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by Friedduck 4y ago
Why would you connect a smart appliance to begin with? It doesn’t have the credentials unless you provide them?
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by Friedduck 5y ago
Went through this same expedition with similar results. Two conclusions: I won’t buy a laptop with only usb-c again; and searching for thunderbolt hubs instead of usb-c hubs led to the real hardware others have mentioned (CalDigit, et al.)
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by Friedduck 5y ago
Are you saying every tomtom, garmin, etc used Bluetooth and cell services for navigation all those years? Not to be argumentative but dedicated GPS devices didn’t always have that option. Also I’m curious: it uses triangulation off cell tow
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by Friedduck 5y ago
I’ll add one: if you pair AirPods with one of your devices, it adds them to all devices attached to your AppleID. Remove them from one removes them from all. This removes one possible solution to unwanted switching between devices. I know y
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by Friedduck 5y ago
How is this not considered PII and subject to all of the disclosure and control requirements we all must abide by? May an employer opt out?
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by Friedduck 5y ago
Lower-Case use of mm in accounting and finance is incredibly common. If you worked in those industries it’s understandable you’d think everyone followed that convention.
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by Friedduck 5y ago
If you haven’t, I urge you to watch The Crime Of The Century on HBO. The title is not hyperbolic, and this outcome speaks to just how unequal justice is for the wealthy.
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by Friedduck 6y ago
Inept judge, or certainly one not steeped in the ways of finance. People make wire errors all the time. Fraud occurs, things happen. I haven’t read the statute but as written the exception doesn’t even apply (Citibank being an agent and not
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by Friedduck 6y ago
The answer is because it’s a pretty narrow market. Anyone wanting good quality has purchased a camera (or has one), external mic, and cobbled it together themselves. Or they buy a laptop with a decent camera and add a mic. So your market is
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by Friedduck 6y ago
I’ll take it and I’ve already had and recovered from COVID. We know virtually nothing about the viruses long-term effects. Anecdotally there’s quite a bit to be fearful of. At least with the Pfizer vaccine there were only 2 in 10,000, repor
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by Friedduck 7y ago
I experienced a dramatic positive impact changing my home work environment from a dark, cramped area to a bright, sunlit room. Similarly I found that my productivity is significantly better standing (queue standing desk.) What’s remarkable
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by Friedduck 7y ago
Perhaps it’s elsewhere in the comments but these same programmers build models that are as capable as a person at diagnosing illness, or identifying relevant case law in litigation. If you look at it from a value perspective the very best p
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by Friedduck 7y ago
This nicely illustrates my experience with Google fiber. Even though I happily use some of their nest products I’d hesitate purchasing anything from Google I couldn’t just walk away from. They don’t even attempt to be competent at customer
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by Friedduck 7y ago
It didn’t affect any of the 3 orgs within our firm. It was limited to firms who’ve deployed Pardot so a much smaller audience. Still, epic screw-up.
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by Friedduck 8y ago
Knowing what we know it astonishes me that people take devices with anything of value over an international border. Save everything to the cloud, or use a burner device like a It’s not worth the hassle. (And yes, I’ve read that this antagon
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by Friedduck 8y ago
I haven’t heard: if you replace your phone number will they maintain the association with your historical one? It’d be trivial to get a Google Voice number or burner to replace yours.

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