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by afandian 3y ago
Isn't the answer simply full disk encryption and a policy about logging in? The laptop is probably a financial write-off in any case.
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by afandian 3y ago
These dioramas are from a different world from historic computers, but they share a medium and attention to minute detail. This and Bobby Fingers' other videos brought me too much joy not to share. https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by afandian 3y ago
OVH may have sequestered a lot of carbon, but it was unexpectedly released.
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by afandian 3y ago
Interesting. I've heard other reports of the hinge wobbling. I wonder if there was a production issue with the material or geometry or something. Found this random video on youtube. You can see it wobbling at 15 seconds, though mine wa
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by afandian 3y ago
Don’t get me wrong I’m very glad they built it, happy to share some risk to get a niche product to market, and used it as a daily driver for some time. Curious though, did the whole unit bounce, with the screen wobbling back and forward, wh
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by afandian 3y ago
I could have written your comment! Though I sold mine. I followed pocket reform closely but the thickness of it, combined with the price, put me off. It’s not the same class of device as Psion, Gemini, or the UMPCs.
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by afandian 3y ago
Imagine the speed you could play Pacman on a modern CPU! You could probably play a whole level in nanoseconds.
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by afandian 3y ago
Did you find the Gemini PDA and friends? It's very very similar.
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by afandian 3y ago
Most glaziers probably don't care about modal dialogue boxes.
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by afandian 3y ago
I'm curious which supplier that is?
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by afandian 3y ago
If you like honey, water sources is one of a few things that might disconcert you.
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by afandian 3y ago
Not entirely applicable in this case, but I had a similar situation with Google (they claimed I owe them money, no way to actually pay, let alone challenge it). Eventually it went to a collections agency who do have humans working for them,
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by afandian 3y ago
I’m building something with Spring Boot, Kotlin, Postgres and containers, with a small team. It’s far from boring, it’s the most fun I’ve had in ages.
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by afandian 3y ago
Seems you can't do absolutely everything.
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by afandian 4y ago
Websites are generally presumed open for business, not get-a-contract-first like a hotel room. A better analogy would be a shop front with an 'open' sign in the window. An increasing numnber of shops on the street have locks that
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by afandian 4y ago
The Nextcloud app is quite good, given the constraints.
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by afandian 4y ago
This is getting very meta. I profoundly resent this behaviour from the BBC app and from the people who built it. I would resent it from any party. It’s no problem to clarify that. But to the “bad guy”. IMHO behaviour is different from ident
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by afandian 4y ago
I got this from BBC Sounds app. https://imgur.com/a/CSMwv96 A full screen dialogue box with no other way of dismissing it but “maybe later”. “Switch on notifications and we'll find new releases that you might like
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by afandian 4y ago
Thanks! Sounds like you're saying that brute-force recursive algorithms without backtracking or early termination aren't a good match for path finding. That's not a surprise. I'm using recursive algorithm on Postgres to
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by afandian 4y ago
I'm sorry could you spell it out? What exactly does "recursive query will always consider _all_ edges" mean? A table scan? I'd be very grateful if you could give some pesudocode or point to a doc page.
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by afandian 4y ago
Where do you look now?
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by afandian 4y ago
From past experience a couple of years ago, I recognise this. I don't know how things are now, but their billing system was siloed off from everything else. They were, IMHO, too ready to cut off features when there were billing hiccoug
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by afandian 4y ago
It fits perfectly well into a schema, it's just been ignored for some reason since the dawn of ID3. It's crazy Apple considered it better to write a completely new app rather than improve their existing product.
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A Technial Walkthrough of the MNT Pocket Reform Open Source Laptop(crowdsupply.com)
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by afandian 4y ago
Being confident and relaxed is important for making a good decision, I think. I recommend the Manager Tools podcast, especially the “hall of fame” (HOF) episodes. Good advice but also friendly supportive chatter from people who’ve done this
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by afandian 4y ago
There are only two distinct transitions there.
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by afandian 4y ago
I'm such a luddite. I will never have a smart thermostat, fridge, voice assitant in my home (until it's compulsory). I feel like progressive enhancement is my choice to make. What do I purchase, what can it do, etc. Whereas gracef
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by afandian 4y ago
Isn't it full of very, very expensive people?
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by afandian 4y ago
Graceful degredation sounds like the best case scenario, to be honest. Backup power for essentials when the grid goes out, applications that work offline, heating that keeps working without an Internet connection. It seems obvious but I&#x2
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by afandian 4y ago
I don’t think I saw MNT on the list. They’re crowdsourcing their second laptop now. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35156029

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