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by cpcallen 6y ago
Can't really connect my phone to venue sound systems by Bluetooth when teaching dance classes. And wouldn't want to have to be forced to choose between a 3.5mm adaptor and a charger... This is the main reason I'm still on An
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by cpcallen 6y ago
I haven't directly connected my camera to a computer in over a decade. Card comes out of the camera and goes in the SD card slot on the laptop. So much easier and less fiddly.
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by cpcallen 6y ago
I think the big-picture answer is that they held a "Latency Code Yellow" back in ca. 2007, and apparently stopped inculcating the same latency-sensitivity in people hired since that finished a year or so later.
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by cpcallen 6y ago
I acquired my previous phone in 2009, and continued to use it until early 2018. I expect it's replacement will last me a comparable length of time, though it will be more expensive to keep it going as it does not have a user-replaceab
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by cpcallen 6y ago
> That said the Galileo project really looks like it is very badly managed, which is sadly rather common for European projects of this kind, especially on the military side of things. Have you heard about the new system the UK was buildi
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by cpcallen 6y ago
Hmm. 35/45 without looking anything up. I think"near impossible" might be overselling it a little.
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by cpcallen 6y ago
I am flinching while reading the article because it makes me think about the specific examples in my own mind. I'm not even sure I can finish reading the link; it is just too uncomfortable. Guess I'll have to find a different dis
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by cpcallen 6y ago
This seems like a risky strategy, what with the pending lawsuit against archive.org over their National Emergency Library: I am fully expecting that web.archive.org will go away permanently within a few years.
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by cpcallen 6y ago
In the mean time there's always Kerbal Space Program.
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by cpcallen 6y ago
Indeed; I suspect it's easier to get promoted for a "successful" deprecation than doing maintenance.
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by cpcallen 6y ago
Yes; exactly this. I'm contracted to Google, and so much of my Googler colleagues' time has been wasted in the last year porting projects off of the Python 2 APIs which are about to be shut down. Are they porting to the AppEngine
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The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing (2014)(medium.com)
147 points by cpcallen 6y ago|28 comments
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by cpcallen 6y ago
This article twice references password.google.com, but AFAICT no such site exists. What are they actually talking about?
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by cpcallen 6y ago
Ironically, if you disable cookies in your browser you won't be able to see the images in this blog post.
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by cpcallen 6y ago
Or you could solve this problem by switching to metric...
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by cpcallen 6y ago
Every time I get an update (iTunes, iMovie, and now macOS and Finder) they make the minimum size of icons / thumbnails / UI elements larger, making it impossible to see as many on the screen at a time. Would you accept your code
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by cpcallen 6y ago
I think the reduction in usable space for content is so egregious that I am quite sure I will not be upgrading—ever. Too bad: I was looking forward to ARM.
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by cpcallen 6y ago
I think he means the response frequency, not the frequency of the AC drive (which he states was 10 kHz).
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by cpcallen 6y ago
So, I've seen circuit boards with ground planes before, but what I don't quite understand is: why are the holes that are connected to the ground plane connected by two small traces (i.e., are surrounded by two C-shaped cut-outs),
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by cpcallen 6y ago
Not at the moment, it's not!: https://imgur.com/a/68M8iyN
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by cpcallen 6y ago
I believe the story goes that Bill Gates created COVID-19 to force people to accept microchip implants that will then be used to control their minds.
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by cpcallen 6y ago
> Pour cold water over incipient unionization I'm generally pro-union, but I have absolutely no problem with an employer deterring its employees from unionising by paying them well and treating them right.
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by cpcallen 6y ago
It's true they don't work so well with bagels, as bagels are thick, but there is an adjustment screw on the bottom which can normally solve any problem with regular toast not coming back up again.
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by cpcallen 6y ago
I've skimmed the article and I'm still not sure what JWT stands for.
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by cpcallen 6y ago
Lots of great comments here and on the gist. My 2¢: I graduated CS in 2000, and from 2007-2010 worked at Google. Towards the end of that time I was struggling hard to get anything done; even just dragging myself into the office was diffic
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by cpcallen 6y ago
A bit tricky when I have Caps Lock remapped to Control, like any self-respecting emacs user!
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by cpcallen 6y ago
I know that the virtual co-working rooms at complice.co/rooms/ has a similar issue, though the light goes off when you navigate away from the page. The FAQ isn't very illuminating, saying: > In the coworking rooms, when I
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by cpcallen 7y ago
Sure it does, because absent AirBnB those rooms might be let out to long-term lodgers.
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by cpcallen 7y ago
The comments here seem to be divided between two groups: 1. Those who were net denizens pre-Outlook, who grew up with sophisticated mail and news clients that properly threaded discussions, along with strong cultural norms to reply inline,
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by cpcallen 7y ago
Polish.

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