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by adiabatty 9y ago
> I'm confused. Is this just saying that Urbit supposed to replace my Windows desktop and all the cloud services I use? You'd run an Urbit instance (a planet) in the cloud (ideally, on three separate machines where a disk write
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by adiabatty 9y ago
People want to keep in touch with other people? Yeah, I think so.
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by adiabatty 9y ago
Instagram has auto-deleting photo streams now, I hear.
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by adiabatty 9y ago
It's useful to tell a text editor "This is UTF-8, not Windows-1252 or ISO-8859-1 or whatever you might be used to".
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by adiabatty 9y ago
iOS 11 will force a PIN if you press the Home button five times (or, on the iPhone X, probably if you press the Siri button five times).
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by adiabatty 9y ago
Then you get the bill in the mail a couple days later and then ground your kid.
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by adiabatty 9y ago
I usually say "hey Siri, open auto-lock settings" as I take my iPad into the kitchen.
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by adiabatty 9y ago
My experience is that it's no big deal if everyone else is doing it. On the other hand, it's rare to find a critical mass of men who don't care about being seen naked unless your gym has a bunch of men over 50.
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by adiabatty 9y ago
Paranoid newbies like me.
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by adiabatty 9y ago
You'd just have to set up a Boot Camp partition like I did.
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by adiabatty 9y ago
I'm quite happy with local-only 1Password sync via SyncThing and LAN sync to my iOS gizmos. I've been avoiding using 1Password with cloud sync because it would increase the attack surface area for little benefit to me. On the othe
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by adiabatty 9y ago
macOS will say "You plugged in an external drive. Do you want to set it up with Time Machine?" Windows, IIRC, doesn't ask you if you want to set up a backup if you plug in an external drive.
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by adiabatty 9y ago
It's an area of active research: https://github.com/nagadomi/waifu2x
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by adiabatty 9y ago
I wish the libraries I use to make sites made it easy to only send cookies after logging in, as opposed to before.
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by adiabatty 9y ago
Last I checked both houses were over 2/3 Democrats. Is this not the case now?
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The Four Blind Men, the Elephant, and Alan Kay(status451.com)
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by adiabatty 9y ago
Most (≈99.99%?) death threats aren't at all serious.
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by adiabatty 9y ago
Did it work, or did nobody migrate from Fortran to C?
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by adiabatty 9y ago
From your fingers to Nadella's eyeballs, but Microsoft will probably move 65% of its stuff to this style before moving on to the next big thing. I think it looks cool, but I'd want to see Computer Management done in this style in
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by adiabatty 9y ago
> Letting a 7 year old walk themselves to school is no longer okay, for example. Why not? What's changed?
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by adiabatty 9y ago
The same way I do (and you do): get both ALAC and FLAC downloads from Bandcamp. ALAC for now, FLAC if you want to play your music on systems that won't run iTunes.
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by adiabatty 9y ago
I've been mulling a standing desk for this reason.
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by adiabatty 10y ago
A while back a political ad ran that was supposed to take place in Beijing in 2030. There was some discussion about the students and whether they looked believable given expected improvements in nutrition and dental care given the PRC'
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Semantic Locality and the Way of Unix(esr.ibiblio.org)
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by adiabatty 10y ago
> Search is a pretty good way to navigate content, and is simple for raw text. Gamefaqs hosts plain-text documents. Some of them are quite long and well-structured. Since there's no intra-document linking like with HTML, newer docum
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by adiabatty 10y ago
…the who?
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by adiabatty 10y ago
Interesting. I used to use VoiceOver when doing platelet apheresis (lying down in a bed for an hour and a half) and I found that a lot of stuff I wanted to do other than play/pause needed two hands to perform reliably, like making the
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by adiabatty 10y ago
I'd still have to sign up for a Facebook-controlled service. Pass. It might slow migration from Instagram to Snapchat, though.
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Some Economics of Parental Leave(conversableeconomist.blogspot.com)
1 points by adiabatty 10y ago|0 comments
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by adiabatty 10y ago
> I wasn't able to deploy a lets encrypt cert without pooled memory. You mean you had to enable swap to run the Let's Encrypt client?

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