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by athenot 6y ago
I do the same and in addition to reselling of personal information, it also shows when there was a data breach, as a whole bunch of spam starts pouring in the ones that are breached. Sometimes before an official announcement is made as the
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by athenot 6y ago
If UX is important, then don't track users. There's no consent required if you're not tracking.
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by athenot 6y ago
There should be some reciprocity here… if you scrape open community content, you should allow the same (or not do it in the first place). FB is all about the open internet to suit their purposes but yet fiercely guard their walled garden.
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by athenot 6y ago
This has been a cultural difference I noticed between Windows and Mac since the 1990's. List of features but somehow forgetting to show what it looks like. A few screenshots go a long way to get a feel for it.
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by athenot 6y ago
Or users decline and move on, since decline is supposed to be just as easy as consent.
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by athenot 6y ago
I'm no fan of the TouchBar but once I rearranged it to my liking with BetterTouchTool[0], at least it's out of my way and has a modicum of usefulness. The Escape key is the one key that even BTT didn't fix… because accidental
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by athenot 6y ago
One way to find out is to look at the overall death rates (of all causes) in an area and see how it evolved. NY started doing that and found there's a discrepancy. One explanation among others is that some people who've caught it
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by athenot 6y ago
I'm also very satisfied with Fastmail. Cost is the same as Google's paid tier but they do email really well.
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by athenot 6y ago
The counterpoint is that those are things to be done regardless. Because the absence of an alert doesn't make visiting my elderly parents any safer.
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by athenot 6y ago
This is a much more polished version of what I do, which is to keep a note (in Notes app) called Brain Dump, and I jot down anything that is cluttering my mind, which I hold on for fear of forgetting. Just the act of writing it down helps;
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by athenot 6y ago
This is one reasone that keeps me on Apple's Mail.app: open multiple windows for different mailboxes / folders / smart mailboxes and drag & drop at will between them. Keep a window for specific smart folders if there are
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by athenot 7y ago
The author does mention that: What about Apple? I can't comment on the current state of MacOS since the time I've spent actually using a Mac during the last 8 years or so probably totals to a few hours. Apple used to be good at
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by athenot 7y ago
When I schedule a meeting with more than a few people, the number of open slots within business hours quickly converges to zero. So I have to manually make the decisions as to who is most important to have in that meeting (based on the topi
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by athenot 7y ago
Horizontal scrolling seems to work just fine (macOS with Magic Mouse; same with trackpad). The fact that they included a workaround for those who don't have input devices with horizontal scrolling is a nice touch, yet it didn't in
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by athenot 7y ago
As someone about to (reluctantly) go down this rabbit hole, I'm not feeling reassured. ;(
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by athenot 7y ago
While I agree with the sentiment with comparing apples to apples, I happened to notice this can be expressed nearly as elegantly in CoffeeScript: list_min = (l) -> reduce min, l With the definitions being: min = (a, b) -&g
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by athenot 7y ago
Disclosure: I work on Webex Teams. I feel that this functionality would be quite useful, but easily integrated into existing clients by doing "Saved Searches", "Smart Spaces" or whatever we want to call it. That could le
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by athenot 7y ago
There was a town in Italy, roughly 10k population, where they tested every single person regardless of symptoms. The result highlighted how many asymptomatic people tested positive. AFAIK the test was not repeated so there was no data on ev
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by athenot 7y ago
No questions, just THANK YOU for this effort and for making it public. We use it here to help expand people's minds, shifting their thinking from just writing applications to designing for large-scale HA systems, with all the fun pitfa
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by athenot 7y ago
This is a reminder to all of us to use example.com[1] for these types of defaults, examples, illustrations. And also to scan code bases & configs on a regular basis for the inevitable "dummy yet resolvable" addresses that snea
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by athenot 7y ago
One way to solve this is to not ask customers to trust blindly. For Webex Teams, the customers can run their own key management server[1]. Traffic gets decrypted using customer-controlled keys running on their own hardware. For Webex Meetin
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by athenot 7y ago
In an even more minimalistic syntax, there is Pug. Similar example as the article: https://pugjs.org/language/mixins.html (I think there's a python port too, but I use the JS version both in Node and in the browse
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by athenot 7y ago
More precisely an over-cautious interpretation of HIPAA that happens to annoy patients and is specifically called out by HHS. Note that an individual has the right under the Privacy Rule to request and have a covered health care provider c
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by athenot 7y ago
> cars have to navigate what is basically a set a of 1 dimensional corridors on a 2 dimensional plane. Airplanes don't have these limitations and can fly point to point at their choice of altitude. That's not entirely correct.
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by athenot 7y ago
This is well put together. The PDF has a single page ordered by bloom time within the season. For each plant, it lists the water requirements and rough height: this quickly lets me know whether a plant will fit in a particular location in m
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by athenot 7y ago
> That said, it makes sense that if you pull the emergency lever and request a state bailout, you should pay future dividends back to the state for at least a decent amount of time since they basically gave you a loan that no-one else wo
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by athenot 7y ago
I'm surprized they haven't ended up in dumpsters.
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by athenot 7y ago
Ansible roles solve that. It's a way of organizing tasks in a way where you can use them from other playbooks and supply the configuration parameters for it. And yes, there are public roles for bringing up MySQL, here's one of the
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by athenot 7y ago
A retractable mirror in your back window (inside the vehicle) would also do the trick. Deploy it to both shield you and send the light back to the vehicle behind you.
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by athenot 7y ago
I had done this in a small office; it was definitely a fun prank to pull on folks. Of course with TLS everywhere, this is no longer possible.

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