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by barnabee 4y ago
I open tabs in groups in Sidebery. For stuff you plan to return to they are better than bookmarks because there’s no switching between bookmark and tab lists (you’ll always have tabs anyway) and clicking a tab switches to the tab and focuse
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by barnabee 4y ago
True. Also, of course, the way you treat someone, the kind of tasks you give them, and the style of management and working with them should be tailored to each individual to get the best out of them. I’m constantly amazed at how many people
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by barnabee 4y ago
Early in my career I quickly moved off projects whenever I found myself working for people like you. As a junior, especially when working for large organisations I frankly didn’t give a shit whether I did what was described as “my job”, I w
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by barnabee 4y ago
Ideally we would have a world where privacy is the default and everyone has it. Because we don’t, and there is considerable friction required to have financial privacy, most people don’t bother unless they really need it or are unusually pr
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by barnabee 4y ago
It would be fantastic if large language models (or any of the nascent AI/machine learning tech.) finally kill off both assessment in education and copyright/IP protection. What a wonderful future that would be. We can but hope.
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by barnabee 4y ago
There's some truth to this, but on the other hand I find it cost effective and useful in the long run to build up inventory by cheap kits. For example, if I need specific resistor (and don't have any high precision/tolerance&
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by barnabee 4y ago
There should absolutely never be a prompt to install PWAs. If the site wants to tell me I can install the PWA by adding it to my home screen and remind me how to do so, it's welcome to, but no unwanted popups/prompts.
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by barnabee 4y ago
My desktop browsers get denied permission to show notifications at the OS level and are set to block them for all sites without asking. I can't think of a single valid use case for them. There are only a handful of desktop apps (litera
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by barnabee 4y ago
No. My computer having an internet connection is not an automatic invitation for anyone's software to use it. Just because a lot of software sucks doesn't mean it's acceptable or we should lie down and give up. We should work
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by barnabee 4y ago
Warp is closed source and for-profit, so if it is indeed doing something different and interesting (I haven't tried it given the aforementioned facts) then this attempt is to be applauded and supported and ought to get far more atten
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by barnabee 4y ago
Yes! If it’s not opt in. Software should not make outgoing connections or accept incoming connections unless requested by the user.
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by barnabee 4y ago
It is necessary both to try to get rid of bad laws and to encourage, facilitate, and protect mass civil disobedience.
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by barnabee 4y ago
I have "more space" set, which still does not give me back those pixels.
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by barnabee 4y ago
I never noticed any issue on the notch/menu bar before but I notice the wasted pixels on maximised and fullscreen apps. Mac OS doesn't even use those pixels below the notch if you enable auto hide on the menu bar, which I find mid
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by barnabee 4y ago
Not sure about “worst” but I really hate that they’ve made the menu bar taller than the notch on the MacBook Pro— why on Earth would you do that?! I also don’t love the new settings app or the trend toward highly graphical, touchscreen st
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by barnabee 4y ago
A few years ago I used to install Ubuntu because it just handled hardware out of the box that Debian didn’t, or needed a lot of effort to get working. Now Debian seems to run on everything I throw it at. YMMV of course.
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by barnabee 4y ago
I suspect it could be a lot worse! - there’s going to be a museum there - keeping a lot of original structures and architecture - creating more public and pedestrian focused spaces is great Plus as I understand it this was largely driven by
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by barnabee 4y ago
I’m very against IP laws and controls in pretty much all their forms. I think if we tried to calculate the cost to humanity of the things that don’t happen or aren’t created, are very expensive to do, or are restricted to people and compani
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by barnabee 4y ago
Who cares? Making the world meaningfully better will probably break some business models. Fact is if you expose an API publicly, at that boundary you [should] lose the right to control what software interacts with it. Web browsers are calle
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by barnabee 4y ago
I always assumed that Smile was about making customers who might have clicked an affiliate link switch over to the Smile site so they could avoid paying that referral rather than trying to make charities into affilites as the article sugg
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by barnabee 4y ago
I think a good starting point would be something like a digital right to roam. So you should not be able to enforce contractual terms, ask app stores or platforms to block, or use technical measures to frustrate access to an API. If you exp
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by barnabee 4y ago
Yeah, that would have been so incredibly obvious that this whole episode is surely final and clinching proof to anyone still on the fence that he doesn't have a clue what he's doing. Pitiful.
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by barnabee 4y ago
I would donate $10 per month to a decent open source Mastodon client, at least while I was using it regularly (and would have done so for Tweetbot). I donate to a number of open source projects, a decent number of them regularly. I am lucky
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by barnabee 4y ago
Acessing APIs from 3rd party clients isn't "goodwill" and should be legally protected.
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by barnabee 4y ago
I don't think they realise the damage this change has done. I have been on board with or ambivalent about most of the changes. I don't care if there's less moderation, I think Twitter probably did have too many employees, and
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by barnabee 4y ago
Not sure about the answer to that exact question but I’d like to turn my PC on and be able to update any game I feel like playing in less than 5 minutes. Sometimes there are many 10s of gigabytes of updates.
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by barnabee 4y ago
Yes
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by barnabee 4y ago
Fighting back is not always futile. I’ve worked for a company that that was spun out again (to private equity, with only arguably better results— the original company was sufficiently damaged, too many of people long gone, and new owners to
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by barnabee 4y ago
Seconded, iA Writer does a great job of getting out of the way while having enough features to make it pleasant to edit text.
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by barnabee 4y ago
Re: VCS, I’ve found that with a small amount of setup, tools like Liquibase[0] allow you to maintain functions and views (with “CREATE OR REPLACE” or equivalent) as SQL files in a file system with full VCS, diffing, etc. just like any other

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