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by benjaminpv 5y ago
I was surprised to read that they'd both tried and discarded an e-reader due to its lack of resolution: I owned a Kindle ~5 years ago and felt like the 'reading ergonomics' were terrific and have to imagine they're eve
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by benjaminpv 5y ago
I was looking to Hackintosh an older Dell desktop I had squirreled away and in the process of gathering all the hardware every piece of documentation I found insisted that it topped out at 4GB. This was a late-era Core 2 so that seemed co
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by benjaminpv 5y ago
Yeah, same here. I don't have any intimate knowledge of it personally, but I do know it shipped on the ROM in the 601 era. Given its size, I wonder how much of it is an emulator and how much a translator between the 68k and PPC toolbox
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by benjaminpv 5y ago
In an earlier thread about this same topic[1] someone that claimed to have gone through Apple's onboarding process explained that they were told (approximately) "Log in with an Apple ID. You can use an existing one, should you hav
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by benjaminpv 5y ago
Here you go https://imgur.com/a/ARkyfuS
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by benjaminpv 5y ago
Was expecting this to say that it was blocked due to it being a reference to Los Zetas. The reality was far more dumb.
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by benjaminpv 5y ago
Alternatively, a corrupt government might want folks to dis trust their mass market phone such that they can have an individual come along and offer them a 'completely secure and private' alternative[1]. [1]: https://w
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by benjaminpv 5y ago
Several people mentioned ways you can trigger it using 'nonstandard' (by Google's expectation) methods. In my case I hit it with just regular Chrome whenever I start doing a few searches that use more than basic keywords (so
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by benjaminpv 5y ago
It feels like it's inevitable that the kind of person that would enjoy this kind of thing would already know about this, but if repairing classic Macs is something that appeals to you and you aren't already subbed to Adrian Black&
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by benjaminpv 5y ago
Most companies (and most individuals, I'd say) want to do what's necessary to not be bothered. It's doubtful these organizations have any great fear of EU regulatory bodies, but if showing a warning (that the user can subsequ
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by benjaminpv 10y ago
My job would never cotton to putting stuff on Github, so GitLab existing and being of such high quality has been fantastic. Really been impressed with it.
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by benjaminpv 10y ago
My shop relies on an Ant script for our builds. We still manage our dependencies by hand and package everything ourselves, but we've got a system that works. We're (slowly) working on doing an upgrade to all our infrastructure, so
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by benjaminpv 12y ago
I find that over time I end up with a bunch of tabs whose content seems interesting that grow over time. My working set is off to one side while the 'to read' tabs stack up over to the left. I'd found a big boon for this work
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by benjaminpv 12y ago
Coke's #makeithappy campaign ended up being pulled thanks to an effort by Gawker, that's gotta have some marketing folks upset. Here's wondering if the gossip mongers like Nick Denton might have to pay the price for their tom
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Shanley Kane wishes VC firms would invest no-strings-attached(twitter.com)
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by benjaminpv 12y ago
Don't be ashamed: for a pretty long time Seagates really were very reliable, the 7200.9 and 10 series were a staple in my systems throughout the last couple years. Seagates also used to have a 5 year warranty period. I'm actuall
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by benjaminpv 12y ago
I'd had one just last night in 8.1, it displayed the driver. Do you have the memory dump turned off, maybe?
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by benjaminpv 12y ago
This is definitely true for me: the last time (last year) we'd had a meeting regarding our insurances I specifically asked about mental health coverage and was given the information I'd mentioned above. I'll accept the downvo
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by benjaminpv 12y ago
In the United States many insurance plans don't include coverage for psychiatric help; you're forced to pay out-of-pocket. Perversely, many of the people with conditions that hamper them from earning much are the most in need of c
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by benjaminpv 12y ago
This is one of the reasons I've stopped running Linux 'bare metal' and have instead always just used an OS with good drivers to serve as a VM host. Every time I fire up a Linux VM it makes me feel a little guilty (after all,
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by benjaminpv 12y ago
>Looks cool. If you say so... http://imgur.com/HAKnRwU
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by benjaminpv 12y ago
Seconding this. I'm using plugins to have a pseudo-dark theme (a lot of the UI is standard but a lot of the editing surfaces are dark), so I was excited to give dark theme a try. Black text on a dark background, the disclosure triangle
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by benjaminpv 12y ago
I've spent a lot of time excising built-in, uninstallable plugins from Kepler so I definitely find myself agreeing with this. I won't bemoan free software and when Eclipse works it's great but boy howdy could it do with a Moz
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by benjaminpv 12y ago
Based on the notes in #812695[1] the longstanding text-corruption bug that's appeared in past releases should be fixed thanks to a change in how the layout's handled. [1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?
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by benjaminpv 12y ago
Reading the title made me think that someone wrote a script that would create sub-calendars of various colors and then schedule events using those calendars so that it'd emulate a sunset across the Google Calendar interface.
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by benjaminpv 12y ago
>People wanted to "leave their mark" TBF this had a lot to do with the stack-ranking MS was famous for. When you've got to justify your job every year making a name for yourself is mandatory.
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by benjaminpv 12y ago
That's a great point. JRebel's the kind of tool I imagine a lot of middle-sized (not startup sized, not yet enterprise) codebases probably haven't evaluated, so I'd imagine it's tied to MySQL being a frequent choice
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by benjaminpv 12y ago
I find this to be true of a lot of promising new technologies. None of my day-to-day work is the kind of flashy/bleeding edge stuff that HN tends to cater to, but I'm always on the lookout for new tools that'll make things ea
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by benjaminpv 12y ago
You might argue that the HTML 5 Boilerplate[1] is a good starting place for learning about best practices. The code & accompanying site contain a lot of comments that explain why things are the way they are. Problem is, of course, tha
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by benjaminpv 12y ago
>they perceive things I've said as being threats to their culture's exceptionalism. I find this comment very interesting in light of the recent decision by the Chrome team to excise the ability to have the browser check for cer

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