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by alberth 3y ago
Or Caesar's being hacked last year and a belief (right/wrong/indifferent) that they don’t want to be hosting the kind of folks who could do that. https://www.securityweek.com/caesars-confirms-ransomware-hac...
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by alberth 3y ago
I don’t even understand what this comment means in this context. This isn’t like a bug that was introduced in the beta, and betas are intended to help find bugs. This is functionality deliberately being removed, that is wildly known to brea
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by alberth 3y ago
Any good alternatives today? E.g., what’s the “HN” for designers?
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by alberth 3y ago
I meant across all browsers since Interop is about raising the bar on all browser support. Right now, no other browsers support those features. https://caniuse.com/?search=leading-trim
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by alberth 3y ago
What’s more interesting is how bad Safari fails these tests (and how Firefox is on a negative trend the last few years) … which saddens me given Safari is my primary browser. https://wpt.fyi/results/?label=experimental&
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by alberth 3y ago
Fonts I really wish more effort was put into CSS typography. In particular: leading-trim margin-trim —- https://medium.com/microsoft-design/leading-trim-the-future-... https://developer.mozilla.org
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by alberth 3y ago
You can on macOS. Just not on iOS. And given that there’s a new iOS update every 3-4 months, it’s not a problem for iOS in practice.
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by alberth 3y ago
Writing is probably not the best medium to express a review of a product like this. At least have a few more photos.
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by alberth 3y ago
Who’s the author of “Financial Intelligence”? Amazon has multiple books with that title.
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by alberth 3y ago
Glad to hear I'm not alone. Question: do you think this would still be a problem if only 1:1 chat was allowed (no group chat existed). I've often wondered if the real problem is group chat / channels, and not per se the 1:1 t
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by alberth 3y ago
> 2. Stop using email. It's the worst format of online communication. Slack, MS Teams, etc. The difficulty with this, is that work can spiral quickly into just spending the whole day responding to chat (slack/teams/etc) an
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by alberth 3y ago
100% Also, the tools a manager needs for 'remote management' is very different than what's needed for in-person. It's also very possible managers are not given the tools needed to manage a remote workforce.
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by alberth 3y ago
Is the cost of syscalls expensive for all OS's (e.g. BSD, Redox, etc)? Does OpenBSD limiting how you can call a syscall help at on performance (or hurt)?
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by alberth 3y ago
Walmart did ~$600B revenue across ~10k stores. Which means each store generates ~$60M/store. For someone responsible for $60M in revenue, is the GM of a store with hundreds-of-thousands of products, and manages dozens/hundreds of
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by alberth 3y ago
> [if Oxide-created software] is a part of a larger ecosystem that has a prevailing license, in which case that prevailing license may be used How does that work if the prevailing is BSD/MIT/ISC? You're saying that Oxide c
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by alberth 3y ago
License MPL 2.0 is an interesting license choice, for an operating system. EDIT: why the downvotes?
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by alberth 3y ago
That's interesting, maybe that's it. Hypothesis: People want/need larger displays, and larger display would allow for full immersion experiences on whatever task it is they are doing. And since 99% of people have never partic
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by alberth 3y ago
> Another digital watch, simpler / cheaper would do just fine You're conflating being unique vs solving a problem. You don't have to be unique in what you solve. There's lots of blue cars sold every year, why does For
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by alberth 3y ago
> myself talking about how useless the iPhone was The need people had is, wanting a phone you can carry with you anywhere (not tethered to a wall). While the original iPhone might have had limited functionality (no 3G), it still solved t
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by alberth 3y ago
Apple Watch: * People for over 100 years, wore mechanical watches to tell time. * This solves that same customer need + (digital enhancements). --- HomePod: * people want to play their music for others (not just for themselves), for parties
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by alberth 3y ago
Especially for women who typically don't have pockets in their clothes and their phone is in their purse - which causes them to miss calls/texts.
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by alberth 3y ago
This might be Apple's first product launch in 20-years that doesn't solve a customer problem/need (at time of launch).
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by alberth 3y ago
Does any online tool exist to automate the creation of a subset variable font? (Like Font Squirrel from above)
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by alberth 3y ago
Can you subset variable fonts? One way to reduce the size of a font file is the remove all characters not needed (eg non-Latin characters) Is it possible to subset a variable font? Font Squirel is great at subletting non-variable fonts. ht
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by alberth 3y ago
Hugely age dependent. But in general: puzzles, strategy games, building blocks, and asking my kiddo questions that force them to think.
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by alberth 3y ago
Genuine question, how will memorizing this info help him? I’m a parent too, and have prioritized activities that teach my child critical thinking (so they can self-solve problems). I’m curious if I should be layering in some memorization ac
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by alberth 3y ago
“Why good content” … doesn’t have (a) date posted, (b) author by line, or (c) clear navigation because you want to read more. I always enjoy Dan’s post, but above also drives me crazy.
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by alberth 3y ago
When? For 20-years now we’ve heard graphene, would revolutionize the world. Not just batteries, but throughout tech. But unless I mistaken, there’s not a single graphene product on the market yet. Maybe it’ll be like AI. Where no major adva
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by alberth 3y ago
Maybe something like this might be better … Heading: “Localizing your app, has never been {easier/facile/etc}” Subhead: “A developer platform for all your i18n needs” That the {xxx} is animated and changes languages
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by alberth 3y ago
> Consulting: Limitless income Not exactly. Consulting is purely a function of your Bill Rate x Hours Worked. And given there’s only so many hours in a day, it’s very much a Limited Income job.

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