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by clinta 6y ago
But newer processors use less power at idle, and doing work faster means it can spend more time at that idle, low-power state.
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by clinta 6y ago
How does that work on the command line? Does it reject your push? Or is this only for people editing on the github website?
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by clinta 6y ago
In your search settings you can add keywords. So if you set ? as the keyword for google you can type '? foobar' into the address bar to google for foobar.
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by clinta 6y ago
Nobody said your hobbies must be productive. But some people prefer it to be, and I don't think it's right to shame those people as if they're just chasing dimes or denying part of what it is to be human. Productive is all re
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by clinta 6y ago
I work on programming projects I find fun. What makes it recreation is that it's something I want to work on, I don't have others imposing deadlines or requirements. A mechanic can enjoy working on his own project car in the off t
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by clinta 6y ago
I wish more people would maintain separate accounts for professional and personal use. It is annoying when someone you follow for their technical knowledge makes political posts that are very tempting to respond to. I think the key to healt
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by clinta 6y ago
Twitter and reddit, if you tune what you follow correctly, are invaluable for keeping up with the things that are important to you professionally. Especially if you are responsible for security, following the right people on Twitter is the
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by clinta 6y ago
That struck me as odd too. I never pick up my phone when I have my computer in front of me. Everything my phone does, my computer can do better, including taking and making calls and texts via google voice.
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by clinta 6y ago
This movie came out at the perfect time in my life to have my mind blown and develop a budding interest in philosophy. I loved that when the ultimate DVD collection came out it contained commentaries from academic philosophers who discussed
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by clinta 7y ago
If the data is to protect yourself against criminal accusations, there's not really a time limit after which data can be safely purged. They could be accused many years after the fact.
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by clinta 7y ago
Looking at the current chrome documentation it does not appear that web BLE offers the ability to enumerate. The browser pops up a dialog allowing the user to grant access to a specific device. I think this is actually superior to the secur
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by clinta 7y ago
From a security perspective you should consider what users are already doing and if introducing a feature can be better security than that. Users are already installing local applications from untrustworthy hardware vendors just to interact
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by clinta 7y ago
Notice the prompt to select a device: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/07/interact-w... I think this mitigates these security concerns and improves security around Bluetooth devices general
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by clinta 7y ago
Temporary tab containers are a great alternative to a dedicated browser or incognito mode. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...
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by clinta 7y ago
But this buys you nothing in anonymity to the sites you visit. The IP you use to access the internet is still a single IP tied to you via a billing account with your cloud provider. A commercial VPN service NATs your connection out with tho
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by clinta 7y ago
I think this should have been an issue. Open an issue with the original error, document the troubleshooting in the comments of the issue, then close the issue with the commit.
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by clinta 7y ago
Be smart enough to determine if your interests align with the company's interests before talking to HR. Sometimes they do.
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by clinta 7y ago
I'm going to ignore your last line, only because my top priority podcasts are all very short (5 minute) news briefs. SANS Internet Stormcast Linux Headlines NPR News Now
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by clinta 7y ago
I wonder if these remote working tools come from people who worked in an open office space. I have an office, and before that I always had a cube. If somebody wants to start a conversation it starts by knocking on the door, or the entry are
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by clinta 7y ago
It's just a hyperbole for packing the court. Allowing one president to appoint >50% of the justices so that the court always rules in their favor instead of waiting for seats to be vacated and re-filled.
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by clinta 7y ago
Video is good for concepts that need visualizations, though a good blog post with animations or illustrations can work too. Video is required hands on demonstrations, like how to fix something on a car. But videos showing somebody write cod
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by clinta 7y ago
I'd be a machinist. I love watching machinists on youtube turn a hunk of metal into a useful part. It looks like it has the right mix of problem solving, thinking and labor.
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by clinta 7y ago
They wanted to support the ability of others to b̶e̶ ̶a̶b̶l̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶e̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶t̶o̶ interrupt you without feeling like they were interrupting.
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by clinta 7y ago
When I ran i3 without xfce if I wanted a battery monitor, I needed to find a daemon to do that. If I wanted an icon to adjust my volume, I had to find a daemon to do that. I wasn't getting notifications from apps because I forgot to in
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by clinta 7y ago
So bookstores of old basically provided the service of Amazon? Today people who prefer bookstores to ordering online typically do so because they want to browse the shelves of books.
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by clinta 7y ago
I've never had a problem with service staff splitting bills in America. I've heard it's a problem in Europe, but then again I've also heard that tipping is not commonplace there.
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by clinta 7y ago
To add to this, if you just use i3 you may miss some niceties from a full desktop environment. Fortunately it is easy to run xfce and replace the window manager with i3.
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by clinta 7y ago
How does that work anyway? If you decline to allow the site to store a cookie on your machine, how does the site know that you already rejected the popup to avoid showing it to you on your next action?
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by clinta 7y ago
The fact that the authors death factors in at all automatically makes a young person's IP more valuable than an old person's. That's a really dumb system. It should expire x years after creation and the author's death sh
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by clinta 7y ago
Is that relevant when comparing parsing json with parsing literal objects? I don't know much about JavaScript engines but I'd expect that parsing literal objects in code is also blocks the main thread.

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