KnobbleMcKnees

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by KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
I was a huge fan of him in the 2010s when he was fighting the good fight for right to repair / sideload / do whatever. He was a bit of an idol while I spent my own time hacking Xbox hard drives and building tooling to write xfat h
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by KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
I have ubiquity APs and a USG but the camera are so expensive. I'll have to stick with my Chinese crapware and a DNS blocker for the meantime.
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by KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
My problem with this isn't even that it's a bunch of strung together ideas without a clear narrative or conclusion; enough practice at this combined with actual deep field knowledge results in works like Godel, Escher, Bach . My
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by KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
What cameras do you use?
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by KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
Presumably consent is an obligatory contact amendment and easily introduced to new contracts too. And British people will accept it like they accept every kick to the balls by government or big business.
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by KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
This is a story of investors in denial. WeWork died several years ago.
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by KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
Vertical tab bar and more submenus. Gotcha.
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by KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
I think there's no better use of the phrase "hit's different" than when talking about Rare games (or Rareware as we called it when I was a wee bairn). Retro Gamer magazine have done some great articles on them over the y
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by KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
How much did you settle for on average?
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by KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
They've hidden it well
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by KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
You're comparing huts to skyscrapers
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by KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
I would honestly just ignore that feedback. It's needlessly reductive and oxymoronic (coding is fun! But give juniors boring grunt work)
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by KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
Does that mean using jumpto to jump to a label above that invocation results in redeclaration of the same code? Seems janky even by the low standards of the author.
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by KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
They are hard not to love. They also hate each and every one of you.
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by KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
Further, selling GCP to AWS is not how we "break down monopolies".
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by KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
A version of what you're describing is the sunk cost fallacy
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by KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/we...
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by KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
I'm sure someone will turn up with evidence to support this any moment now
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by KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
I'm an experienced engineer that's been a manager for three years. I'm now returning to an engineering role. Having been a manager and having learned what it means to scale your ability to have impact and to land impact purel
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by KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
If you read the second paragraph of the Wikipedia page for "slashdot effect" you'll see that the term was, in fact, "flash crowd".
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by KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
I kind of agree with this in that WIMP is a good philosophy for desktop UI design, and I feel that mobile has never really had the equivalent (hamburger menus falling out of fashion being the apotheosis of chasing rainbows IMHO) But I feel
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by KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
Please, please, please don't ask your reports questions like this: >"On a scale of 1 to 10, what is your approval rating for our management and CEO?" Use an anonymous survey if you really must force a staged set of answers
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Ask HN: Why Have or Haven't You Bought a Developer a Coffee?
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by KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
I call that industry "holistic agile" because it is to agile what holistic medicine is to medicine.
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by KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
Ahh interesting. I could see from the other listed features that this was about guarding against telemetry being used for user tracking. This was not a use case that sprang to mind.
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by KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
>The fix for bad words isn’t to swap them with “good” words, but to answer “what?” and “so what?” in your product description. This seems to be the central thesis, but the first problem is that we don't always write marketing copy t
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by KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
Requiring this for UserDefaults is pretty wild as it will be so far reaching. UserDefaults is also app-scoped so I'm not sure I understand the reason for this as a privacy concern.
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by KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
It's cool to be cynical
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by KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
I have so many devices that have been running 2+ years on a single CR battery. ZigBee is magical.
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by KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
There's a difference between active boycott and explicitly stating you don't really care. You can be against something and not have the resource to fight it. The person in question said they don't see the problem which is the

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