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by bityard 1y ago
I use Vivaldi which has had excellent support for tab groups (as "Workspaces") for quite a while now. At work and at home, I always have multiple projects ongoing at the same time. I use one tab group per project. I typically have
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by bityard 1y ago
> Ultimately people tend to have a fairly personal relationship with their local mechanic. This is the money line. And it goes for all skilled trade work. Mechanics, plumbers, building contractors, roofers. Most of the people doing this
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by bityard 1y ago
This needs to be highlighted: Everyone who does anything at all in the realm of business or tech should basically never sign an NDA unless it is already positively guaranteed they are getting something out of it. You might be required to si
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by bityard 1y ago
"Don't lie, just omit the truth" is not even close to what I said. (It could be argued that putting words in someone's mouth is a form of lying...) If you ask me for some information that I don't want to share and I
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by bityard 1y ago
I wouldn't worry about taking every single one of these literally. A rule like this is meant as a compass bearing, not a precise set of directions to a perfect life. Besides, it's totally possible to negotiate in good faith withou
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by bityard 2y ago
I have done quite a lot of self-directed hobbyist research on diets, obesity, and metabolic health over the last decade or so. My takeaway was that mainstream dietary advice is ridiculously upside-down and even most of the niche subcultures
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by bityard 2y ago
Good. Across much of the US, Comcast is the only realistic option many households have. Where this is true, they offer slow speeds at high prices. And they have successfully lobbied in many states to make grassroots municipal broadband ille
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by bityard 2y ago
Agreed. It's not a matter of _if_ product placement and affiliate links will happen in LLM output, it's a matter of when. The business incentives are too strong for this not to happen.
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by bityard 2y ago
This is not only fairly hard to find, but in my experience, it also only shows you posts from the last three days. So if you don't log into Facebook at least every other day or so, you'll miss things.
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by bityard 2y ago
Somehow, your feed is different from everyone else's. I don't even go on Facebook all that often (maybe once a week to post a pic or two) and my feed is basically: 1. 2-3 posts from actual friends 2. "Reels" of young wom
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by bityard 2y ago
Right in the article, the author states that their feed (and mine too) only ever contains a handful of updates from friends, the rest of it is infinite doomscrolling garbage. If yours is not the same, then you haven't been on facebook
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by bityard 2y ago
Because those pages also make Google a lot of money via ads. "Show me the incentives, I'll show you the outcome."
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by bityard 2y ago
It has been a long time since double quotes worked reliably for me on Google. It has also been a long time since Google showed me any search results that weren't 100% ad-laden blogspam with wordy vague (and often incorrect) content wit
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by bityard 2y ago
I think what fascinates me the most about all of this is how there are wide gaps in how much design and engineering documentation from that time period has survived to present day. For a long time, I just assumed that NASA owned and archive
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by bityard 2y ago
He mentioned a few times that writing an assembler was a no-go. It would have taken much more time than they had available, and since an assembler would be a new tool, it would have required certification. (So, even more time and paperwork.
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by bityard 2y ago
I didn't think it was controversial that SSDs are terrible at long term storage?
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by bityard 2y ago
Wow, that extension is a gold mine of much needed GitHub functionality
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by bityard 2y ago
How have hackers restricted the flow of information?
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by bityard 2y ago
The "memory effect" of NiCad batteries is an urban myth that got supercharged with a dose of confirmation bias. Nobody has replicated the memory effect in consumer batteries. When people think they are observing the memory effect,
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by bityard 2y ago
Interesting... I may have to give that a shot in the near future.
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by bityard 2y ago
One Christmas, I was given a shiny new 14.4V Craftsman NiCad drill with two batteries. These were not cheap and I was young and broke and very grateful for the thoughtful gift. It worked great and I enjoyed it immensely. For about a year. A
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by bityard 2y ago
Okay, so I started reading this and got excited to see what this was all about. I've been wanting a web browser that can turn the "regular web" (as much as possible) into something more like an e-book that happens to have hyp
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by bityard 2y ago
I see that there is a timeline for progressive shortening, so if anyone has any "inside baseball" on this, I'm very curious to know: Given that the overarching rationale here is security, what made them stop at 47 days? If th
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by bityard 2y ago
I tried to get those too, but they were already marked as "sold" by the time I got there. :(
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by bityard 2y ago
For anyone reading the description of the NES's copy protection scheme in this article and thinking, "that doesn't sound right," you would be correct. The somewhat oversimplified version of how it works is that the conso
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by bityard 2y ago
I was under the impression that RadioShack went bankrupt a few years back? Were the existing stores just "squatting" on the name? Sometimes these kinds of things escape my notice, but I recall RadioShack because the minute I heard
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by bityard 2y ago
For your partner's sake I hope you're right but is z/OS as a platform actually continuing to grow, or are they just having a hard time filling seats because it's hard to see a long and profitable future working on (what
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by bityard 2y ago
The fetish that unfortunately is not yet fading is `p { font-size: 23px; }`
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by bityard 2y ago
I thought it was some kind of trendy alcohol that I hadn't heard of, that probably comes in a brown bottle
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by bityard 2y ago
I'll buy parm wedges if I'm making a sauce or salad dressing, but where/when I grew up, you weren't living unless you dumped at least a half cup of Green Tube Mystery Powder on top of your plate of spaghetti.

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