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by Osmium 9y ago
Congratulations on the release! Been waiting for this one :) Requests to any Keybase devs reading this: * UI to disable the macOS app from auto-launching on login (slightly user hostile not to be able to have this option, also asking permis
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by Osmium 10y ago
> "Google Chrome required" - sure, because current crop of web developers are too young to remember dark age of Internet Explorer domination. This is the same with the new YouTube TV too. I'm not sure if it's a DRM is
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by Osmium 10y ago
> This is an extraordinarily bold claim. Very bold. The full quote is worth reproducing: > Our results also suggest a null hypothesis for explaining origins of prejudicial behavior in humans, namely, the implicit transmission of ingro
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by Osmium 10y ago
> I'm as excited about this as anyone, but this kind of content just doesn't belong on HN. Agreed, but do you know of a high-quality forum for political/current news discussion online? Seems like a difficult problem to sol
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by Osmium 10y ago
> That's mostly guessing, though, as I'm not a rocket scientist and can't find hard information on this. Yeah, my understanding is that you're wrong on this, though I too am not a rocket scientist. But a few points: &
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by Osmium 10y ago
The Economist famously doesn't use bylines: http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/09/ec... https://andreaskluth.org/2008/11/20/why-the-economist-has-n
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by Osmium 10y ago
> It's Google docs but instead of being aimed at producing documents for prints, it is aimed at producing document for online consumption (multimedia) Honestly, not a bad idea when you think about it. It seems strange that we'r
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by Osmium 10y ago
Question, from someone who does not understand the Holographic universe idea: If 'true', is the holographic universe 'merely' a mathematical tool that helps us solve problems, or is it a description of an objective reali
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by Osmium 10y ago
Agreed, as a consumer I prefer flat-pricing, even if it's nominally more expensive simply because it's easier to budget for and requires less thinking (honestly).
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by Osmium 10y ago
Always wanted to try Tarsnap for personal use, but I can only budget if the cost was comparable to Dropbox/Microsoft OneDrive/Google Drive/iCloud/Amazon Drive which are all ~$10/TB/mo, but instead Tarsnap seems
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by Osmium 10y ago
> Microsoft took 5 years to go from IE6 to IE7, as 7 was really bad. IE completely stagnated, while being the default browser on a billion PC's. I feel like many people have forgotten how bad this really was, or simply weren't
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by Osmium 10y ago
I like that Safari supports content-blocking extensions that it guarantees can't read or transmit content from webpages. Makes me feel safer about running them, rather than relying on goodwill. I'm not sure if Chrome has a similar
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by Osmium 10y ago
> My current job contributes positively to society, but I would love to have a job like this. Seconded. You [the OP] don't give numbers in your post, but I would jump at a job like this. Having lived in London for several years, wha
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by Osmium 10y ago
> So, I went through the whole logo creation process and got stuck at the sign up screen. I don't mind signing up ... Yeah, I stopped here too. I'm not going to hand over my details sight-unseen ...
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by Osmium 10y ago
I have. I would definitely recommend watching the film first, before reading the story. The film is great. It adds a little side-plot to make it work better as a film, but it doesn't properly explain the core physical idea behind the s
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by Osmium 10y ago
All we can do is guess, but maybe they're retiring AppleScript specifically, rather than automation support generally? Yosemite added JavaScript for Automation (JXA)[1]. Very few people actually enjoy writing AppleScript, I think most
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by Osmium 10y ago
> "for a useful lifetime of five to seven years" Isn't that a relatively low lifetime for so many satellites? Doesn't that mean they'll need to make a lot of launches just to keep the fleet operational?
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by Osmium 10y ago
FYI, I can't remember which way round it is, but only some of the UK 3-pronged adapters are actually earthed (as I discovered after having this problem myself). I think it's the extension cord that is properly earthed, whereas jus
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by Osmium 10y ago
> (And is any interpretation of quantum mechanics a consensus?) There is, broadly speaking, a consensus view. Whether this is because the consensus best matches reality or whether it's dogmatic is probably up for debate, but I don&#
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by Osmium 10y ago
> I mean, I get standardizing on USB-C only for peripherals, but I don't get it for power. * A dedicated power port takes up space; now you can use it for data too. * If a USB-C cable breaks, it's a lot cheaper to replace than
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by Osmium 10y ago
> I find linguistics one of those topics that I have questions about but don't know enough to use the correct terms to find an answer. I can't help answer your questions, unfortunately, but I agree completely that it's dif
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by Osmium 10y ago
> But there's a neutral General American which a majority(?) of Americans speak, with very minor variations. So this was actually the kind of thing I was hoping to address with my comment. The idea that there's a "neutral&
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by Osmium 10y ago
> Whenever I'm traveling in areas where people speak with an accent Nit-pick, but everyone speaks with an accent :) (I'm not sure if you meant it that way, but I have met people who genuinely think that they don't have
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by Osmium 10y ago
> It frustrates me that computers become obsolete this way. Honestly, I'm optimistic. Technological progress is plateauing (at least single-threaded CPU speeds), and this will naturally need to more stability. I think the last few d
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by Osmium 10y ago
> That's because magsafe is magical, and they removed all the other ports. In fairness, there are two huge new benefits to their new approach: * You can charge on either the left or the right side. This reduces cable strain. * If th
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by Osmium 10y ago
> I really don't understand why developers use macs at all. I don't want to single out your comment, but there's been a lot of this lately (and every time this discussion comes up). There's no one true version of a &#
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by Osmium 10y ago
> despite my personal feelings that macOS continues to decline in quality Not disagreeing with about the changes to exposé etc., but I find it interesting how often this 'decline' is talked about. I read somebody saying that Sn
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by Osmium 10y ago
> The Finder logo, on the other hand, looks like something one would find in a student union at a small midwestern college that hasn't been updated since 1986 I've always loved the Finder logo, each to their own. It was possibl
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by Osmium 10y ago
These things are always personal... for my use case, I do need a quad core CPU and portability, but these CPUs seem like they're the best compromise for speed and TDP that Intel currently offer, so I don't see what else Apple coul
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by Osmium 10y ago
> This event was by far the most disappointing Mac event in the history. I very rarely respond with such a glib comment, but: really? Isn't that slightly hyperbolic? This is very emotive language to describe a completely reasonabl

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