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by cwoolfe 4y ago
Yes but he doesn't say what he was trying to buy. Drugs? Guns? Money laundering? There's got to be more to the story here...
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by cwoolfe 4y ago
I had a lot of angst against stackoverflow for years. Eventually I had to come to terms with the fact that while I hated how I was treated there, they did somehow manage to create an incredibly powerful tool that helped me in my career. I h
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by cwoolfe 4y ago
I can relate. I deleted YouTube off my phone. When I'm at my best, I plan out my ideal week in 1 hour blocks. Then I try and stick to it--staying busy with things my best-self already decided would be worthwhile endeavors.
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by cwoolfe 4y ago
On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_...
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by cwoolfe 4y ago
I've noticed the same thing. I suspect it's a combination of the legacy of COVID and the rise of digital media. As humans, sometimes we are lazy and prefer the predictable, non-messy comfort of a movie, show, news outlet, or digit
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by cwoolfe 4y ago
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2622/
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by cwoolfe 4y ago
I see an emerging theme of "exercise and spend time with my kids" which is funny because I currently work 32 hours a week and I spend the "extra" time on that. I don't have to work. I do because my project pursues a
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by cwoolfe 4y ago
LastPass user experience has grown terrible over the years. The iOS app regularly freezes for over ten seconds with no response. Trying to login to LastPass on a second device, with 2FA enabled, regularly takes me over five minutes. Why?
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by cwoolfe 4y ago
What is the limit on file size? Trying to encrypt a 100MB file made it crash.
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by cwoolfe 4y ago
My wife has a PhD. She told me that universities are reluctant to hire their own PhDs because they'd rather have the cross-pollination of ideas from other institutions, in order to avoid an institutional echo-chamber.
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by cwoolfe 4y ago
It doesn't surprise me that they are not street legal...but it's interesting to me that in all practicality, they are probably safer than riding a bike; and yet bikes are legal.
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by cwoolfe 4y ago
He took the red pill!
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by cwoolfe 4y ago
Whoa! +1 for https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Hot-Sale-2022-New-Che... Is that legal to drive on US roads?!
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by cwoolfe 4y ago
Where it gets really dystopian is: How do we know the tweet is real?
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by cwoolfe 4y ago
"Finally, when the 40-hour workweek was established, two-income households were rare. Only 15.2% of married women were employed in 1940. But as of 2012, 60% of households had dual incomes. When both members of a couple work, it leaves
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Heat pump water heater 4x efficiency, free with new tax rebates(consumerreports.org)
14 points by cwoolfe 4y ago|3 comments
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by cwoolfe 4y ago
Works well with garage; may not be your choice to install indoors. Rebate is based on income.
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by cwoolfe 4y ago
Deliberately targeting layoffs based on class reminds me of Soviet Russia. https://www.britannica.com/event/Holodomor . Communists decided to take the land of wealthy and productive kulak farmers; it resulted in mass st
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by cwoolfe 4y ago
Agile Software development done well is a good way to combat BS because it makes building a product into a team sport where everything is out in the open. Grooming, planning, sprints, standups, retrospectives, demos are all ceremonies which
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by cwoolfe 4y ago
As others have said: The solution is to buy a laser printer; if you need color, order prints online or at your local drug store/print shop. I've had a laser printer for 10 years. It doesn't give me any problems. I buy toner o
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Apple security flaw allows hackers to fully control iPhones, iPads and Macs(support.apple.com)
6 points by cwoolfe 4y ago|0 comments
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by cwoolfe 4y ago
I grew up in the suburbs. By the time I was a teenager I couldn't help but ask: "Why is everything here new? And why are all the people white?" I took a look at "White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatis
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by cwoolfe 4y ago
As a consumer, I am well aware of this problem. I use Fakespot Fake Amazon Review browser extension to help weed out junk reviews and find quality products. (It seems almost all of them are 4.5 stars these days) Another strategy to counter
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by cwoolfe 4y ago
I think that lurking behind the question is an assumption that freedom and openness is better. Freedom and openness is fine until you want to build a house. Then you actually have to put walls somewhere to hold the roof up...and then you bu
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by cwoolfe 4y ago
I have experience on Upwork both hiring and being hired. From hiring perspective, the person I interviewed was not the person who actually did the work. Being hired via Upwork, it was a challenge to even land an interview; I'd bid thin
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by cwoolfe 4y ago
It's pretty easy to host your own chat server. https://twitter.com/inputmice/status/1170651869359804416
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by cwoolfe 4y ago
Two is company. Three is a crowd. If code is duplicated twice, I'm ok with that. If it's duplicated three times, then it's time to refactor.
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by cwoolfe 4y ago
So is the takeaway that data in the RAM of some server connected by fast network is sometimes "closer" in retrieval time than that same data on a local SSD?
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by cwoolfe 4y ago
"add number two to your backlog if you work on iOS or Android" I would...but as an iOS and Android developer, how do I know if it's a non-verified sender ID? The reason browsers can warn on these things is because of public
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by cwoolfe 4y ago
Doesn't Apple "deliver high-quality products with very few bugs at a fast cadence, and continue to make major changes long into the future without slowing down" ? I'm not sure how they do it; but I like their products. I

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