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by craigds 10y ago
TIL you can make Finder quittable! It has always irked me that you can't quit it.
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by craigds 10y ago
We've tried loads of them. Skype, hangouts, appear.in, zoom, ... They all sucked with voice and video all cutting out and getting regularly garbled etc. And finally Slack added video, and is amazing. No problems since then, Slack has s
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by craigds 10y ago
Why can't they show you the packets? That's crazy...
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by craigds 10y ago
Who goes to the movies more than once a week?
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by craigds 10y ago
I've had the same mobile number for the last fifteen years too. In NZ at least (not sure about other countries) it's trivial to take your number with you when you get a new SIM from any mobile provider. Though this wouldn't
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by craigds 10y ago
Apparently the way I've always tied my laces (the only way I've ever known) is the Ian knot. I had no idea that's different than what most people do. Good to know!
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by craigds 10y ago
The drones are only available after a certain tech level and require a lot of power to operate on a large scale. They have pros and cons like all the other tech. You need a balance of drones with well planned conveyer belt layouts to do rea
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by craigds 10y ago
Auckland NZ was using diesel trains until 2015
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by craigds 10y ago
Typically, but SpaceX has made rather a habit of ignoring expensive space-grade components in favour of consumer-grade ones they test themselves for a fraction of the cost. I guess we'll see.
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by craigds 10y ago
It is possible to make friends after 30, and it's very much worth doing. You have to be patient though, as friendships aren't made overnight. I'm a moderate introvert and find it difficult to talk to people and especially to
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by craigds 10y ago
As a counterpoint, every time I've tried a git GUI (I've tried lots), I end up bashing my head against it within a few minutes. They usually make very basic things easy and anything even slightly outside the box basically imposs
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by craigds 10y ago
Is there a good sql autoformatter? For cleaning up ORM-generated queries so I can read them. I've used python's sqlparse but it produces output that's often still unreadable.
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by craigds 10y ago
What's a WESTPAC? Googling it only finds the Australian bank for the first three pages.
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by craigds 10y ago
Why would you need a credit history if you don't use credit?
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by craigds 10y ago
The app store is entirely optional. I've had a Mac for years and never used it except to upgrade the OS itself. Using brew (incl. Cask) is all you need for almost everything, and you can always download anything via a browser the old s
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by craigds 10y ago
Not true, both chip and contactless are signing a challenge with a secret that doesn't leave the card.
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by craigds 10y ago
I don't see the point of using honeywords. I mean, I've used them a bit, but any spammer is going to strip them immediately, so they're useless for identifying which provider leaked your address, right? And now to login, you
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Pharmaceutical giant gets rid of all its patents in developing countries(sciencealert.com)
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by craigds 11y ago
A paywall bookmarklet I find handy for WSJ and NYT: > javascript:location.href=' https://www.google.com/webhp?%23q=' + encodeURIComponent(location.href) + '&btnI=I'
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by craigds 11y ago
Which is why you should probably avoid nesting list comprehensions. A normal for loop with a single list comprehension inside it works just as well, and is far easier to read.
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by craigds 11y ago
> If you're a woman living in the United States, you already know that getting your hands on birth control can be a complex and expensive process. I'm not a woman nor in the US, so this was news to me. It's really easy and
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by craigds 11y ago
Indeed, using an ad blocker isnt new either. Most people always channel-surfed or muted the car radio or TV when ads come on. The only difference now is that advertisers can tell you didn't see their ad.
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by craigds 11y ago
In the US, where tipping culture has thoroughly and irreversibly won, you are probably correct. In any other country, tipping is just encouraging that kind of exploitative system to take hold. I avoid tipping. On occasion people ask me if I
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by craigds 11y ago
Yes
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by craigds 11y ago
Me too. I guess I figured astronauts must get risk pay. If you're an astronaut you have a sizable likelihood of dying on the job. Then again, this is probably just supply and demand. Every kid growing up wants to be an astronaut, and v
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by craigds 11y ago
I had an S3 which never received a single update; was on Android 4.1.2 until I finally replaced the phone recently. I suspect it was my carrier's fault (Spark NZ) not Samsung. After that experience I switched to Nexus 6P, and won'
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by craigds 11y ago
I'm in NZ and bought my 6P from the Google store and it arrived safely 3 days later. I think it got shipped from Singapore (?) I was a little worried Customs would stop it and try to charge me some kind of duty but nope :) Nexus 6P is
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by craigds 11y ago
I think it's an American thing. In NZ it's pretty rare to buy a new car, far more common to get a 10-15 year old one for $5-10K. Paying cash is normal
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by craigds 11y ago
This kind of bullshit is why I'm deeply scared of the TPPA. We don't want this kind of rubbish in NZ.
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by craigds 11y ago
> if you can't keep moving with Python, where will you go? I think it's too soon to tell about the python 2 to 3 switch. I see people on here all the time making remarks about how many years its been and people still aren&#x2

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