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   by avtar 9y ago

   Lots of great tips here regarding taking breaks every 30 mins to stand, walk, stretch, etc. Yoga and other forms of core strengthening exercise will help reinforce better posture. If you don't do this already then ensure that your knee
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   by avtar 9y ago

   The poster you replied to used a seven day old account. Their submissions and comments history is a bit telling.
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   by avtar 9y ago

   If vendors ever end up releasing them for older motherboards. It doesn’t look like Asus will be doing so for mine, an X99-Deluxe, purchased four years ago.
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   by avtar 9y ago

   Fastmail is a great alternative as well.
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   by avtar 9y ago

   > I don't see what google and M$ is bringing to the table It depends on which perspective you're using. A company paying staff to host private mail infrastructure? Individuals who aren't in a position to take on that workl
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   by avtar 9y ago

   TBH if I wanted that type of experience I would just install a Linux distribution on a separate partition myself and dual boot. But I need access to some Adobe and video conferencing apps that aren't available for Linux. Having a Linux
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   by avtar 9y ago

   I've tried almost all the terminal emulators listed in the article with Hyper being the most recent and keep going back to mintty. The first time I tried Hyper Ctrl L didn't work at all. It does now but the performance story or tm
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   by avtar 9y ago

   “Skylight is a smart profiler for Ruby on Rails applications.”
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   by avtar 9y ago

   One could argue that having to scale up to 150% is a pain point. If I'm switching to a 4K display I would want to use the maximum resolution at 100% scaling.
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    by avtar 9y ago

    In my experience, yes. I tried an Dell XPS 15 for a few weeks and the 4K pain points were evident with apps like Audacity, Photoshop, and VLC. I ended up learning more about Apple's high-DPI approach: https://forums.macrumor
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    by avtar 9y ago

    I didn't spot this in the release notes but looks like the UI will now accommodate high-DPI displays in Windows: http://bradshacks.com/vlc-3-hidpi/
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    by avtar 9y ago

    I'm assuming 'uptown' is a typo in your mockup?
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    by avtar 9y ago

    The parent rightfully asked for a citation for your claim: > hand-rolled protocol riddled with cryptographic errors It's fine if you know of examples but even better if you can provide them so others benefit.
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    by avtar 9y ago

    That and high DPI inconsistencies make the Windows 10 experience pretty rough.
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    by avtar 9y ago

    > Why does Bloomberg even have to take their opinion. Bloomberg seem to love speculating on bubbles of all sorts https://www.google.ca/search?q=bloomberg+bubble+bust
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    by avtar 9y ago

    MSI seems [1] to be fairly proactive right now with patches going back to several X99 motherboards. Asus for example has so far only committed to provide updates for two X99 motherboards. [1] https://www.msi.com/news/de
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    by avtar 9y ago

    I'm eyeing Threadripper for my next build but beyond that I'm going to choose a motherboard vendor based on the level of support they offer in this scenario. Some observations that I'm making: * How promptly did they address
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    by avtar 9y ago

    Thanks for sharing those details. Deferring to OEMs is such a copout given how they are most likely going to handle security issues: https://twitter.com/avtargill/status/951195158229463046?s=17 At this point it’s
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    by avtar 9y ago

    Probably to quickly stock up on drinking water.
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    by avtar 9y ago

    Ah keychain, of course :) Thanks for pointing that out.
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    by avtar 9y ago

    Getting access to SSH private keys might be an issue.
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    by avtar 9y ago

    This thing looks great! What's the wireless performance like?
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    by avtar 9y ago

    Buildkite also offers free accounts to open source projects along with awesome email support. After years of Jenkins, followed by a couple of months trying to cherry pick CI parts of GitLab and make them play nicely with GitHub, Buildkite h
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    by avtar 9y ago

    “A male came to the front door,” Livingston said. “As he came to the front door, one of our officers discharged his weapon.” Regardless of the information they had their actions seem way beyond reckless. The fact that some people think th
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    by avtar 9y ago

    > My "symptoms" include pretty serious social anxiety and an inability to think during conversations, inability to focus on non-interesting work, and just a general feeling of being dumber. That hit really close to home. I&#x
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    by avtar 9y ago

    I had to soak the silicone ring in white vinegar for a couple hours to make it lose its awful out-of-box odour. I also ran it on the two minute steam setting with white vinegar. It's been great since then.
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    by avtar 9y ago

    I've been using Firefox for 90% of my browsing for a few years now and really want to continue to do so but I really wish Mozilla would stop shooting themselves in the foot already. This once again gives the impression that they have s
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    by avtar 9y ago

    Does anyone know who created their video? https://vimeo.com/235737232
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    by avtar 9y ago

    > I think sometimes we forget that at their core, people in 1750 BCE were just like people today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_graffiti http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/G
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    by avtar 9y ago

    I forget who the author is but these notes were posted on HN a couple months ago: https://workflowy.com/s/E9HW.jGUYboLrGj