SloopJon

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by SloopJon 12y ago
> I've always run as non-admin, what OS X calls a Standard user. Ditto. Only difficulties that come to mind are some installers failing to escalate, Adobe in particular. Using separate accounts for dodgy and financial sites is a go
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by SloopJon 12y ago
The "%" search sounds really interesting, but I can't seem to get it to work. No matter what I type after the "%", it initiates a web search. This is with Firefox 33 for Mac.
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by SloopJon 12y ago
Not that I've tried that hard, but the most recent IE that I can run under WINE (Crossover Mac) is IE 8.
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by SloopJon 12y ago
The vast majority of my Gmail access is through IMAP, and I'm quite happy for Google to leave that alone. Their tastes are very different from mine, and change more frequently. I would not be happy to wake up one day to find that Goo
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by SloopJon 12y ago
I tested positive for Lyme a couple of months after noticing what I thought was a spider bite. It didn't have the distinctive bullseye, but it gave me a sunburn-like rash over my entire upper arm. I took three weeks of doxycycline. I
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by SloopJon 12y ago
Have you configured the same drive in each? The Fusion Drive that comes standard in the high-end model is a $200 upgrade in the mid-level model.
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by SloopJon 12y ago
No quad-core models?
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by SloopJon 12y ago
The current risk in the graph doesn't update when I change a value and click Calculate My Risk again; e.g., if I calculate with blood pressure blank then recalculate with it set to 130. I'm using Firefox 33 and Chrome 38-ish for M
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by SloopJon 12y ago
I missed that too. I was looking for the weight of the Nexus 9 (slightly less than the iPad Air).
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by SloopJon 12y ago
It's kind of amazing to me that a ninety-six-story skyscraper only has 104 units.
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by SloopJon 12y ago
Failed the first few reloads, but they're starting to work again.
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by SloopJon 12y ago
Yes, it is insane. I've actually never seen it that high before. I get annoyed when it's over one or two GB. There has to be a leak of some kind, but I don't know how to diagnose it. Activity Monitor has me at 756 MB right
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by SloopJon 12y ago
Hmm, after upgrading and restoring the session, all of my Hacker News tabs now show a Secure Connection Failed error: "The OCSP response contains out-of-date information. (Error code: sec_error_ocsp_old_response)"
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by SloopJon 12y ago
The Latin1 optimization looks interesting. It seems like a big improvement for such a simple change (granted that it took one developer two months to do). Activity Monitor reports that Firefox 32.0.3 is using 21 GB on my Mac. That makes f
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by SloopJon 12y ago
> don't eat until noon each day I'm trying to cut back on my late night snacks, but I don't understand the rationale for not eating in the morning. Great job, BTW. A pound a week sounds great.
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by SloopJon 12y ago
Previous discussion of the email thread that prompted this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8328206
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by SloopJon 12y ago
I'll be watching these answers with interest. I used Vienna for a long time, then switched to Google Reader by way of Gruml. Hard to believe it's been over a year, but I pretty much stopped using RSS the day Reader died. (My Fi
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by SloopJon 12y ago
Most of the stories about this list have pointed out that it doesn't necessarily contain passwords from Gmail, but from various accounts that used a Gmail address as a username. Someone on Slashdot searched for "+" suffixes i
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by SloopJon 12y ago
Title should probably be changed from "We Don't Just Need More Women in Tech, We Need Fewer Assholes" to "A hilariously sad tale of gender bias." (Not sure if I should put a spoiler alert or something.) The author
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by SloopJon 12y ago
I still haven't figured it out (partially for lack of trying, I'll admit). Kind of reminds me of Donald Norman's criticism of doors that require a user manual, even if it's only one word.
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by SloopJon 12y ago
Zaphar obviously didn't mean a web service. Look at the READMEs for the projects he mentioned to get a sense of the architecture: something that understands the language, be it a library, a daemon, what have you; and a binding of th
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by SloopJon 12y ago
I believe the patent in question is 7028023. Prior discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1165089 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1165471 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by SloopJon 12y ago
I think the picture is supposed to be generic, but it kind of looks like Florida and Cuba.
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by SloopJon 12y ago
I used to opt for the grope (also never had a particularly bad experience), but kind of threw in the towel after the airports switched from backscatter to millimeter wave.
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by SloopJon 12y ago
The announcement links to an earlier blog post (pardon my formatting): http://blog.trailofbits.com/2014/06/23/a-preview-of-mcsema/ "McSema translates x86 machine code into LLVM bitcode. "Why wo
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by SloopJon 12y ago
Foundations of Business Strategy started last week on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/course/strategy101 Probably not too late to catch up.
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by SloopJon 12y ago
The addition of music streaming to Amazon Prime certainly makes a lot more sense now. I have a Nexus 5 that I keep meaning to upload my music to, but I usually end up listening to an instant mix of Google Play freebies.
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by SloopJon 12y ago
PHPStorm is essentially a superset of WebStorm.
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by SloopJon 12y ago
During which time he became proficient in the language and landed what sounds like a pretty cool job.
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by SloopJon 12y ago
In Mavericks, selecting Customize from the System Voice dropdown of the Dictation & Speech preferences brings up a list of voices you can download as well. I think Alex was my default, but some of the others seem much better.

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