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by abhibeckert 3y ago
In Australia if you install a moderate number of solar panels on your roof at home, you'll be paid between a few thousand dollars and several thousand dollars through a carbon credits system. It can work out to close to half the cost o
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
I also love BBEdit, and while it hasn't stagnated it also hasn't kept up either. I've moved on to VSCode which has so many more features than BBEdit - it's not even close.
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
> These patterns probably seem obvious to us as power users, but I find average users get endlessly confused by them. They're obvious to power users because we have seen them a million times before. When a web developer does a custo
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
> being able to style and control the width of the scrollbar is useful No it's not. I have operating system wide settings for how scroll bars should work and the rules are complex with visibility and size of the scroll bar changing
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
> hope it's a better [model] than the freemium model we've been relying on for the last few years. It may be a better model for something, but it's impossible for this to be used on a "reddit-like" site. Reddit i
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
MH370 changed course immediately after it left airspace where it was closely monitored, followed by several more minor corrections and then there's evidence the someone was controlling the final descent after one of the engines ran out
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
I'm not much into gaming on a Mac — most of the games I like to play only run on Windows, and I have a gaming PC for that... But I have tried a few games on the Mac laptop I use for work, which doesn't do anything graphics intensi
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
They're not the same thing. Clang is a compiler for C and C++ and Objective-C and Objective-C++. LLVM is the underlying technology which is used by clang, but it's also used by other compilers (e.g. Swift uses LLVM, and some major
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
iCloud+ is primarily cloud backup and storage solution for iPhones. Those two are both very tightly integrated. The custom email domain is a side feature... but it does work well, and it's essentially free (assuming you want your photo
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
Not from 1Password, but refusing to comply with EU cookie legislation seems to be almost universal. Is any company compliant?! (I'm being facetious... my company is compliant or at least I think it is - not a lawyer... but it's
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
> I confess I have never used it. I still rely on USB sticks Phew boy. You really should try dropbox or a competing service.* Picture this: 1. Double click a file 2. Type some words 3. Save the file That's it. There is no step 4. Yo
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
The efficiency mostly comes from _moving_ heat that already exists, instead of creating new heat. Depending on the specifics, that's often about 5x more efficient. Counterintuitively - the "heat" source doesn't have to a
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
If we're listing icons, I use these ones: https://ionic.io/ionicons/ They provide a full framework but you can also download SVGs.
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
Mine isn't private. I hand my email out to anyone who wants it, including search engines and presumably AIs. It's right there on my website. If you want my email, I'll happily give it to you. Emails are "personally ident
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
> At the other extreme you have the medical profession where the first thing you learn in medical school is that left/right always refer to the patient's perspective In (musical) theatre we do it the other way around. The we ca
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
My mobile device (iPhone) relays most traffic through the nearest Akamai datacenter. So they don't get my IP address. And that datacenter has a massive number of IP addresses, which are rotated.
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by abhibeckert 3y ago
I'm working at a company where we perpetually don't have enough engineers and we've learned (the hard way) that adding more tends to make the problem worse (too many cooks). Copilot helps a lot with that. I can write `/&
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by abhibeckert 4y ago
Your patent has to fully describe how the invention works. And if it doesn't work at all, then who cares if you own a patent for it, it's a useless invention anyway. If your rocket does work, then yes being able to lock everyone
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by abhibeckert 4y ago
In Australia, the windows of my home which have light shining through them every evening, are surrounded by insect eating lizards and spiders. Definitely a thing everywhere in the world. The number of actual insects varies (from none to pla