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by alwaysanon 5y ago
This makes me wish that I still had one of the classic old laptops around just to see what they keyboard felt like. I have a ThinkPad X1 Extreme and a new M1 Macbook Pro and I like both keyboards - but I wonder if that is just because the
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by alwaysanon 5y ago
Part of why working from home was soo effective for me at first is all the good will and camaraderie that I'd built up with my coworkers over many years - and vice versa. I imagine that if I had started a new role during the pandemic i
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by alwaysanon 5y ago
I'd love to now see Google follow suit for Android. They have air-cover now that Apple has done it. And, if they don't, I hope Apple beats them up on how this is a unique feature of iPhone re: protecting your privacy - the value o
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by alwaysanon 5y ago
I talked about this in a recent blog post on transitioning away from Docker Desktop - https://jason-umiker.medium.com/replacing-docker-desktop-wit...
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by alwaysanon 5y ago
This reminded me to re-check for the first time in a year or so which sites I frequent are now dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6. Surprisingly Hacker News is one of the few that isn't these days...
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by alwaysanon 5y ago
I am a solutions architect for one of the cloud providers. Pre-COVID, in-person meetings were the vast majority - and most were me travelling to the customer. While, often, that was a walk or Uber across the centre of town - it also, all to
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by alwaysanon 5y ago
Wow - I hadn't even considered the Electron "app" angle! That is such a disaster re: memory on my Mac that I certainly don't want every app on the iPhone to become Electron. Apple has gotten away with comparatively lower
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by alwaysanon 5y ago
On Windows you can re-create this ‘magic’ pretty easily (on the WSL-less Mac its a bit harder). I wrote a blog post about it. https://jason-umiker.medium.com/replacing-docker-desktop-wit...
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by alwaysanon 5y ago
The issue that Google Pay has is that they don't block the bank apps from doing their own payments via the NFC hardware like Apple does. And, as such, the banks here in Australia all opt to do their own tap and pay ( https://
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by alwaysanon 5y ago
I am an American ex-pat living in Australia. I had been using TurboTax for the last decade and this year it kept messing up the forms for my foreign tax credit so they were getting rejected by the IRS. I tried heaps of things, phoned their
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by alwaysanon 5y ago
This is why some of the rustbelt cities like the one I grew up in (Buffalo, NY) will have a resurgence at some point. They have affordable housing, good infrastructure bones (including green hydro power from Niagara Falls), are on one of th
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by alwaysanon 6y ago
I am in Australia and our government is almost all in on this vaccine. They bought a bit of the BioNTech/Pfizer for our front line people to get started but they bought the rights to make 50 million doses (enough for two for everyone h
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by alwaysanon 6y ago
This is my favourite article on this topic https://fractio.nl/2014/09/19/not-a-promotion-a-career-chang...
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by alwaysanon 6y ago
So I don't know for sure but my understanding is that what you pay for each service does not include any support cost. It just goes to the operations of the service. The support team/division is entirely funded by the support line
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by alwaysanon 6y ago
I spent a whole summer in my early teens were my dad paid me to write a DBase IV database/app and to inventory all of their parts (he was a co-owner in a business that serviced CNC machine tools). When I'd get tired of DB 'co
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by alwaysanon 6y ago
The way that support is paid for within AWS is roughly like the way that tipping works in the US at a restaurant. The cost of the 'food' doesn't include the cost of your server/support person. Everybody knows that and so
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by alwaysanon 6y ago
I really rate Jack London as the great American novelist. I like the lessor known Sea Wolf the best of his but White Fang and The Call of the Wild really capture a sense of adventure and the history and vibe of that period of American expan
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by alwaysanon 6y ago
This is only true for 4k monitors on MacOS - and I often run into non-4K monitors in my work hotdesking situation (though admittedly I mainly WFH at the moment). And Windows solved that not scaling elements by the same amount several years
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by alwaysanon 6y ago
This is only true for 4k monitors with MacOS. Anything under that looks terrible these days as it won't offer the HiDPI modes on those.
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by alwaysanon 6y ago
Yep - all our screens at work are not 4K but 2K (1/2 being the ultra wide curved ones) and I find that the MacBooks look just awful on them as it doesn't see them as 'retina'. It was really strange at first as I always r
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by alwaysanon 6y ago
Credit where credit is due this is the one area where Windows is the best OS these days. It not only will do fractional scaling but it will do display independent fractional scaling - whack in the scaling percentage on each screen and in th
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by alwaysanon 6y ago
I thought it was ex SYD but it looks like what Qantas was planning on doing was ex BNE. https://www.qantasnewsroom.com.au/media-releases/qantas-sets...
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by alwaysanon 6y ago
Speaking as somebody who has flown one regularly between Australia and the US I'll really miss them when they go. They were a much nicer, quieter, smoother experience than the 747 or 777 - though the 787 is almost as good and I guess t
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by alwaysanon 6y ago
Cisco has set things up to protect against this by basically killing the secondhand martket. I used to put up with Cisco's "you need to pay for ongoing support (SmartNet contracts) to get any updates/firmware - including for
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by alwaysanon 6y ago
On the spyware part it can be all turned off. They give the Group Policy tools to do it to 'Enterprise Customers' but it is all there in the settings/registry and tools like this will flip it all off for you quickly and easil
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by alwaysanon 6y ago
To his comment about truly disabling Font Smoothing on Windows I think that, in addition to disabling ClearType, there is also a font smoothing setting to turn off as well. You can disable it by: * Open System in the Control Panel * Click o
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by alwaysanon 6y ago
My mobile carrier in Australia (Vodafone) was 100% Huawei for 4G and, similarly, has had to pivot away for 5G at great expense (it seems that the Huawei 5G was a cheaper upgrade to the existing kit they had). It has delayed them doing 5G fo
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by alwaysanon 6y ago
Not only has Linux and its software ecosystem gotten better (though I guess we have the browser-fication/Electron-ification of everything to thank for that - even MS Office in a browser is pretty good now!) but the hardware options hav
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by alwaysanon 7y ago
And, in retrospect, Boeing would have been WAY ahead financially, not to mention that hundreds of deaths would have been prevented, if they had just offered to subsidise the retraining if they bought the new plane...
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by alwaysanon 7y ago
The government can pay for the pilot retraining - which Boeing should have done in the first place.

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