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by chrisan 5y ago
Wow really? I grew up in the midwest and when we first moved to SF I was amazed by all the public transit, never having access to anything before. It was definitely intimidating at first, and we somehow managed to take a bus to the port wh
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by chrisan 5y ago
London was pretty terrible for my wife & I when we vacationed in 2015. In addition to what you experienced their english & communication skills were pretty bad. We tried uber a few times then just said the black cabs were worth the
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by chrisan 5y ago
Probably even more reason they wanted to remove it along with the other scripting languages. All of which are better suited to be installed by the user to get the correct version they need.
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by chrisan 5y ago
General curiosity of mine for 4K users. Do you actually want all of the web delivered to you in 4K? I get movies/games, but day to day browsing seems like just extra slowness?
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by chrisan 5y ago
I'm sorry, but something is either up with your computer or the excel sheet you are currently using would be infinitely slower on that old 2005 machine. I've been using computers since Apple IIe and am much happier with things tod
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by chrisan 5y ago
If anyone is interested in Fantasy/Sci Fi, Brandon Sanderson has some lectures at BYU on writing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6HOdHEeosc This guy not only has amazing stories and characters, but he is able to crank
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by chrisan 5y ago
> This problem is pervasive among online password managers, you can never be sure if you’re interacting with a website or your password manager. Isn't this true for any scenario, password manager or not? If a site has been compromi
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by chrisan 5y ago
It takes a vote by the community (the ones I live in) to enact new rules. If I had that many terrible neighbors I'd want to move regardless
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by chrisan 5y ago
It didn’t used to be like that. But then people never updated their os/software and we ended up with lots of vulnerabilities. I like where Windows is now, I get notified of required updates but I can defer it for a few days/week.
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by chrisan 5y ago
I'm sure there are extremely strict HOAs out there with insane people on boards that horror stories originate from. We've always lived in HOA homes (in our 4th now) and they have all been very laid back. This kind of HOA I belong
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by chrisan 5y ago
Very true, the more features a product has the slower it opens. That middle ground is why I don't use VSCode If I want the best IDE, its something from JetBrains. It's definitely the slowest to open up, about 9 seconds on my mac
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by chrisan 5y ago
You can use it however you like, but the moment I get to so many tabs open I can't read the titles of all of them is the moment I know I have too many tabs open and just start closing old ones, likely with "close others" acti
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by chrisan 5y ago
> Don't they also come and go? Myself and most of my gaming friends have been buying nvidia cards for (soon to be) decades now. Basically since 3dfx went belly up
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by chrisan 5y ago
I'm not a user of Facebook, but is their electrical use near bitcoin levels? The quick google says facebook uses 5 while bitcoin uses 143 terawatt-hours
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by chrisan 5y ago
Having had the same problem I ended up with this nice setup https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles which is rooted in a post by HN's StreakyCobra https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by chrisan 5y ago
Also, a free market = freedom to protect my privacy
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by chrisan 5y ago
How is the lesson lost? Don't you own the same amount after the split? Isn't the total value of compounding the same after x year? I feel like I am either missing something big or Buffett just has one of those "I'm gonna
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by chrisan 5y ago
Out of all my bitcoin friends, no one I know owns an ASIC Everyone mines on GPUs because they are cheaper and casual dual purpose (play games and mine afk) Aren't ASIC normally limited to a single algo as well?
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by chrisan 6y ago
You can explain to your friends that group text messages are horrible, and there are far better ways of having daily conversations with separate threads. Nearly all of my 40 something friends from the Midwest have both telegram and discord,
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by chrisan 6y ago
Anyone know of a windows client that doensn't show unread message counts of archived (not muted) chats in the system tray?
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by chrisan 6y ago
I had no idea this was even an option to change. I love it already. I'm guessing the feedback they provided in the ticket means they will be keeping this option, thankfully
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by chrisan 6y ago
Reference Article: > But her friend and editor, Claire Banse, also 23, had told her the paper had already hit its quota on the word “retarded” and she’d objected. (What else rhymes with “departed”?) Author of post: > Wait, what does i
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by chrisan 6y ago
Windows Terminal finally replaced everything for me when they added ability to split and resize panes. Next update I believe gets your workspace at launch instead of having to split at start up
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by chrisan 6y ago
Honest question, but isn't the backup plan just to run your CI/CD locally? Github actions being down so far as only affected me once before and now today. However, like before I just ran the tests/deploy locally. I've a
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by chrisan 6y ago
Thanks for this! I'm at a point where I am way more annoyed by cookie banners all over the place than whatever tracking is being done on me that I almost wanted to go back in time before GDPR, now I don't have to :)
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by chrisan 6y ago
Headline should be single "device type". Pick computers, you get all computers. Pick mobile, you get all mobile devices (and watches) Still sad and I'll have to look at options again, it's been 5+ years since I looked.
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by chrisan 6y ago
Kinda? Workout clothes make sense, these are things that get sweaty and I don't want to sort through all my t-shirts and underwear to find a wicking ones. And fancy clothes (wedding/funeral) go together so I can just open the clo
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by chrisan 6y ago
You go through all these hoops then want to add a Gmail account???
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by chrisan 6y ago
an updated version of firefox loads fast without issue
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by chrisan 6y ago
Would it be so bad to stop believing his claim of fraud after all such claims have been proven in court to be false? At what point should a person stop believing their own claims?

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