MyPasswordSucks

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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
First and foremost, you have to understand why people use Amazon. Amazon has a good chance of having whatever it is I'm looking for, the price is generally about the same as I'd expect to pay elsewhere, and the shipping (with Prim
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
Both have their ups and downs, but broadly speaking, private money tends to be a lot more flexible and risk-liberal, whereas public money can be like having the worst aspects of the ignorant absentee CEOs-golf-buddy manager and the micr
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
> Touch-screen interfaces today are anything but "perfectly designed". I don't disagree. However, a mouse will always be more versatile than a touchscreen. There's a finite theoretical ceiling for touchscreens that&#x
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
> Current interfaces are generally a lot more simpler than those ones though? Unless and until you need to do something that isn't one of the three or four basic functions. > Are you saying those elaborate 90s style window menus
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
I think you might as well be saying "robotics fail miserably at the very simple task of jogging around the block, so why should we trust the field to be able to accurately place millions of transistors within a 25cm square of silicon?&
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
I think the best way to go (if you're the "Good Samaritan Who Wants to Do His Civic Duty but Also Doesn't Want to End Up Spending the Week in Nerd Court") is to fork it, fix it, and leave a brief comment in the issue thr
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
The phrase you picked to describe them is "endemic", rather than "ongoing pandemics". There's a reason for that.
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
> Veering off topic, but this letter is in a variable width font. Were there typewriters that could do that? Yes, and in fact one of the most popular was from IBM itself [1], released in 1944. > The letterhead and body text aren’t ali
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
> after covid is an illusion, there is no such thing as "after" for an ongoing pandemic.... The US death rate from Covid in Q4 2023 (so, pre-Trump II) is roughly the same as the US death rate from influenza. 14.9 or 16.8 deaths
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by MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
> I am curious if anyone can find the text for "IBM's Policy Letter #4" written by IBM's chairman in 1953, which is referenced in this article. https://web.archive.org/web/20110409171021/http