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by chrsstrm 10y ago
Stay away from anything that says Master on it and absolutely stay away from combination locks, both the dial and the wheel style. You want a lock that uses ball bearings in the shackle, not the spring loaded latch type (you can easily tell
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by chrsstrm 10y ago
If you try to swipe a chip card then yes, the terminal will reject the swipe and tell you to insert the chip. If your chip fails three successive tries, the terminal will accept a mag swipe instead. I don't know if this is true everywh
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by chrsstrm 10y ago
Hangouts does not ship with the Pixel, you have to download it separately. IIRC it was also not easy to find in the Play Store. The Pixel pushes you to use Allo which is based on phone numbers and your phone's contact list, not your Go
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by chrsstrm 10y ago
No, I'm not complaining that they are updating yearly. Like I said above, I'm bitter that a mid-generation update like this would be so big as to make my 2016 model obsolete. These things don't exactly sell for pocket change.
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by chrsstrm 10y ago
An article, in which the author spends a good amount of space explaining why the title itself is not true. You're right, you can't win. Maybe I'm just bitter that I spent a good chunk of change on a new system that isn't
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by chrsstrm 10y ago
If true, this is a big fuck you to everyone who spent ~$3K+ just a couple months ago (not to mention it will totally stall any informed purchases of MBP's for the rest of the year). They better also be considering a generous trade-in p
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by chrsstrm 10y ago
That's strange. I swore last year I would never use a non-LTS version for a server. Unless I'm missing something, it seems to be more headaches than it is worth to roll with the XX.10 vs XX.04.
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by chrsstrm 10y ago
Is this a new-ish feature or did I just not read the docs thouroughly when I first used it almost a year ago? Thanks for the tip either way.
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by chrsstrm 10y ago
Why is this better than Certbot, which has more options and more support? Set up a daily cron to run the certbot-auto `--renew` flag and forget about it. Done. https://certbot.eff.org/
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by chrsstrm 10y ago
The scenario described is almost literally a modern interpretation of yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater. [0] Speech used to incite panic or create a riot can absolutely land you jail. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by chrsstrm 10y ago
I can say this as someone who knows for certain, most of the products on the shelves are the same, regardless of the label. They came off the same line from the same factory. Want to know how they are different? The line operator stopped fo
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by chrsstrm 10y ago
You're right. That detail was left out of another article I read about the case, which must have been what I used as my source. It seems strange that attorneys would waive fees in a suit against a billionaire that has dragged out f
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by chrsstrm 10y ago
You forgot to take the attorney's fees off the top first. Even at the low end of the scale ~30%, that brings the individual payouts to less than $3K.
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Ask HN: First 10 minutes on new MacOS machine?
5 points by chrsstrm 10y ago|1 comments
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by chrsstrm 10y ago
I've started remapping certain file types to open with Notepad instead of the default. I covered all the .js variants but does anyone have a more comprehensive list of file types to address?
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by chrsstrm 10y ago
I am one of those guys who can do that kind of custom setup for large scale high volume sites and the actual setup is not as complicated as it sounds. The maintenance is literally a day a month, if that. You can even automate it if you like
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by chrsstrm 10y ago
>It's f* insane to pay more than $400 per month to run a blog. No matter the traffic. It's insane if your site isn't being monetized at all and downtime doesn't cost you anything. What you spend on infrast
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by chrsstrm 10y ago
> I sincerely doubt that primitive human tribes widely tolerated healthy adults who contributed absolutely nothing to the group. It's certainly not hard to imagine that no, they would not have tolerated such behavior. Bu
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by chrsstrm 10y ago
>I think humanity is literally evolving to lie and cheat at a biological level. It's naive to think we were not already born with these core qualities. "Survive at all costs" is a demonstrated maxim that all li
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by chrsstrm 10y ago
If anyone from Google is listening, this is probably a better place to vent than submitting a support ticket. I don't care what it looks like, +'s functionality has been broken for me for almost a year and it has killed how my ent
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by chrsstrm 10y ago
>will forget all bluetooth paired devices on reboot OT but asking because I'm genuinely curious, if your goal is to have a "secure phone," why would you be pairing it to peripherals via Bluetooth? Or maybe am I misundersta
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by chrsstrm 10y ago
If I were you, I would rethink your "beta invite" flow. Adding an email address and clicking on the "Request Invite" button doesn't send you an invite, it adds you to their MailChimp newsletter list and sends an ema
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by chrsstrm 10y ago
Even the opt-out seems backwards. I checked the setting, immediately saw that the button was disabled and thought, "Oh, I'm good." Until I read the description and thought about it. The switch needs to be "on" t
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by chrsstrm 10y ago
Homebrew is opt-out post-install by setting a flag as well (no option or warning pre-install). But they do remind you afterwards that they are tracking and give you a link to learn how to disable it. As long as no data is sent until fir
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by chrsstrm 10y ago
>You can also file for "intent to use". Yes, and then after the mark is approved you have to provide evidence of use, which can be nothing more than a screenshot of a webpage (plus a $250 filing fee). Filing evidence of use can
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by chrsstrm 10y ago
What a strange coincidence, this seems related to two new hobbies of mine: 1. Collecting any high-quality selfie I find on the internet 2. Preserving the fingerprints of anyone I "meet" All in the name of art, of
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by chrsstrm 11y ago
Same scenario three weeks ago trying to help out my brother on his brand new Asus that came with Win 10. The wireless hardware just disappeared from the control panel so the option to update the driver wasn't available. I was about to
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by chrsstrm 11y ago
I'd like one if you have any left to spare, thanks.
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by chrsstrm 11y ago
So I wouldn't advocate abusing this, but... If you have a Freshbooks account and you use it for sending your clients invoices, Freshbooks has recently partnered with a company called Fundbox which provides advances on your outstanding
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by chrsstrm 11y ago
What about offering a whitelabel product where I am the account owner and can spin up an independent database for each of my clients with their own login credentials while I still have master access to each? I would literally sign up to

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