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by danudey 4y ago
> The technology firm had already been working on a system to meet the needs of allergy sufferers who wear masks Yes, it's the needs of the allergy sufferers that drove this project from the start. Hi NEC, I wear a mask because of
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by danudey 4y ago
You're not turning the tables on them, you're turning the tables on the random gig economy worker who got assigned your delivery. It's not like the CEO of the pharmacy chain is delivering your case of red bull or something.
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by danudey 4y ago
As an Apple fanboy, I can easily say that Linus does not hate Apple. Linus DOES hate a lot of what Apple does; cases where they make things more unrepairable for no real reason, or various socio-political causes (like opposing Right to Re
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by danudey 4y ago
I go with LTT if I want to know if a laptop is good to use or not. I go with Gamer's Nexus if I want to know if a GPU used the wrong kind of thermal interface for their VRMs and what effect that has on core clocks second by second, bac
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by danudey 4y ago
> After Dark! I would pay a frankly distressing amount of money for reproductions of After Dark screensavers, even if it was just videos I can set my TV to play when it gets tired.
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by danudey 4y ago
Can you elaborate on what part of docker is a security nightmare?
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by danudey 4y ago
A few years ago I bought my wife a 15" Spectre x360 as a present (and then upgraded it to 32 GB of RAM once she fell in love with it after a day or two). I went with the Ryzen model, because of how awesome their mobile processors are.
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Amazon is telling their workers to stay in warehouses during tornadoes, Google is firing their AI ethics people for complaining about the ethics of Google's use of AI, Instagram is running a service that their own data shows is damagin
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by danudey 4y ago
I've yet to see an explanation of "autodevops", or what it does or how it works, that actually makes the feature make sense to me.
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by danudey 5y ago
It feels like a restaurant where the chef loves creating new dishes and has ADHD and rearranges the menu every time you go. Oh, the prosciutto eggs benny? Yeah, we don't do that anymore, but I can get you a tofu scramble! I'm rapi
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by danudey 5y ago
Another commenter pointed out that 2x markup is reasonable, but I want to point out that, without iFixit, 99% of those parts would be useless to 99% of their customers. I can't count how many gotchas I would have missed, or how much pe
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by danudey 5y ago
This discussion immediately brings to mind all of the iOS apps that become completely unusable the day a major iOS update is released, and then take a week to fix. I get that not everyone has spare time and energy, but it doesn't take
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by danudey 5y ago
A few random ideas: The world could use an open-source project to manage restaurants; content management backend, let people add in all of their menu items with photos, descriptions, etc. and then surface that to the website (or not). Mobil
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by danudey 5y ago
> the idea is not fullfilled or not useful for humanity, community, at least for me Facebook, for all its faults, didn't start out as a social network to connect people and collaborate; it started out as some sexist objectifying bul
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by danudey 5y ago
If there's one rule of adding paid features, it's "Don't make previously-free features paid". They set the anchor price to "free" and then changed their minds later. Human psychology does not appreciate th
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by danudey 5y ago
He's also been suspended from YouTube (according to his own tweets). He's also pushed disinformation on his own channels, most notably (for me) around the so-called "freedom convoy" occupation of Ottawa, very much pushin
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by danudey 5y ago
I see the distinction here. In South Africa you could be a citizen regardless of your race, but how you were treated depended on your race; citizens were not equal. In Israel, they are trying to prevent people of a certain race from becomin
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by danudey 5y ago
In this context, it means "this workaround happens without the user having to perform any additional steps"; not necessarily that they're unaware, but that it happens without their involvement and it doesn't seem that
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by danudey 5y ago
> Slashdot No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
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Canada (and, since 2014, Vancouver specifically).
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by danudey 5y ago
Can you share a btrfs pool between Windows and Linux? That would be a game-changer.
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by danudey 5y ago
In 2019 I was setting up my new computer at my new job, and the Ubuntu installer had btrfs as an option. Figuring that it had been ages since the last time I'd heard about btrfs issues, I opted for that. A week later, the power failed
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by danudey 5y ago
> If I wrote that requirement in a classroom programming assignment and you presented me with that code, you'd get a failing grade. It's a good thing operating systems aren't made up entirely of classroom programming assig
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by danudey 5y ago
I knew a guy ages ago who wrote blog posts and ebooks and gave talks, all about how to "get famous on the internet". He started making them back when no one had ever heard of him. His Twitter bio even said "I got famous on th
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by danudey 5y ago
0.117% of everyone who streams on Twitch, even people who just stream one game to some friends every now and then.
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by danudey 5y ago
IIRC gzip can't handle this, but bzip2 can; a guy I know wrote an offline Wikipedia app for the original iPhone and had to crunch things down a lot, and he used bzip2 because you can skip ahead to a chunk without having to process the
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by danudey 5y ago
It does irritate me that the media are referring to it by their own name, "The Freedom Convoy", when it should be something more neutral and objective, like "the Harassment Convoy".
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by danudey 5y ago
Well yeah, it's not like we lost a hockey game or anything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Vancouver_Stanley_Cup_rio... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Vancouver_Stanley_Cup_rio...
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> it seems that the protests are essentially peaceful, citizens living in these cities are in support in large numbers This is not true in any of the relevant cities; it is an extremely vocal, and very small, minority of people who are i
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I kind of miss those awful games, honestly. There was one my girlfriend at the time was playing, and I thought it was interesting but kind of tedious, the UI reacted too slow, etc. So I opened up my editor and wrote a Python client to autom

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