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by dave78 3y ago
Agreed, though I recognize that they need income too to avoid Mozillas's problems, so I can tolerate some amount of them experimenting with revenue strategies. That said, I turned off the crypto stuff on day 1 and it has stayed off and
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by dave78 3y ago
I did not notice that, thanks for pointing it out.
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by dave78 3y ago
I hadn't heard of sqinn before. According to these benchmarks it beats Cgo-based solutions most of the time, which makes it a very interesting candidate. Anyone have real-world experience using it?
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by dave78 3y ago
> Flutter is sort of dying Do you have a citation or data to back that up? We've recently launched several cross-platform app rewrites in Flutter and from our perspective it seems like Flutter is really hitting its stride.
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by dave78 3y ago
The article is also misleading (IMO) as to the scope of the project. It amounts to about 5 blocks of road in the downtown area. The article says "5 miles" but that must be counting the length of all the sidewalks. It's certai
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by dave78 3y ago
> But you're also getting the commuting time back, which might be worth some money too. Not necessarily - a lot of people (myself included) essentially give that time to their employer. I drop my kids off at school and start work wh
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by dave78 3y ago
Sounds that way!
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by dave78 3y ago
I suppose earlier generations had telegraph, telephone, radio, TV, airplane travel, rockets, etc. but yes, the rate of change of technology was incredible, to us anyway, in the 80s and 90s. I guess it remains to be seen if AI eventually evo
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by dave78 3y ago
It really was magical. I'll not forget the first time I sent an email. My cousin had just gone to college and his parents were visiting my parents and I. I somehow got his email address at college, and figured out how to send him an em
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by dave78 3y ago
Thanks, though I'm not sure I have a lot of hope. Even most adults (myself included) can't seem to exercise enough self control over all the screens in our lives.
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by dave78 3y ago
Not to mention all the commercials, which if nothing else the commercial break was sometimes enough to dislodge us and get us to think about doing something else. Now with streaming, kids can just go from one show to the next without any in
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by dave78 3y ago
Not sure where you grew up or if you had cable. My family did not. 5-7pm was news on every channel ( all 4 that we received), and most nights after 8pm were adult dramas that kids under 10 wouldn't generally want to watch. Weekends onl
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by dave78 3y ago
I was a kid 30 years ago. I may have wanted to watch TV all the time, but it was self-limiting back then. Much of the time the stuff on TV wasn't anything a kid would want to watch. There were only certain times of the day that you cou
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by dave78 3y ago
Every Thinkpad I've bought in the past 15 years has had an integrated modem option. I don't travel much so I've never bought it, but it seems to be a common option for business laptops. I've definitely seen others using
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by dave78 3y ago
I'm very aware of why it initially broke up. But once that started, the range safety officer did activate the FTS system. The point is that rockets carrying crew do indeed have FTS systems - presence of a crew doesn't negate that
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by dave78 3y ago
I'm pretty sure Falcon 9 carrying crew has an AFTS. Challenger was destroyed by an FTS system as well despite having crew on board. I think it's just a risk you have to take to go on a rocket ride.
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by dave78 3y ago
I think it was more that we had a different notion of how much money we were willing to spend on it back then.
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by dave78 3y ago
This immediately made me think of the commercial in Back To The Future 2 where they're advertising hover conversions for older cars. And the price was "only" $39,999.95 which is probably pretty close to what these places are
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by dave78 3y ago
They weren't discouraged because it was an almost entirely unique product in the market at the time. It was Raspberry Pi or nothing. Demand for such a product was obviously huge (even bigger than RPi anticipated), so with no other opti
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by dave78 3y ago
Nebula is such a great tool. If you haven't tried it yet, you should really give it a shot. It's easy to self host and to set up, and has been absolutely rock solid. I have it on all my devices, plus several Raspberry Pis set up a
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by dave78 3y ago
My understanding is this test will be a Presidental Alert, which cannot be disabled. I guess we'll all find out soon enough.
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by dave78 3y ago
Huh, I never gave that sentence much thought, and I guess I never realized it conveniently covered the whole alphabet. It makes so much more sense now!
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by dave78 3y ago
At my current employer, it is quite difficult to get a new supplier approved into the system, so any time you need to acquire something for work that is not from one of the usual places it is nearly impossible. Someone must have spotted the
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by dave78 3y ago
There was recently a flareup on HN about PlatformIO trying to make money by charging a fee to vendors to be supported ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36090536 ). Maybe Arduino wants in on that. I honestly don't se
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by dave78 3y ago
Same thing at my company, only it was a former Microsoft employee who brought along all his buddies. They screwed up a bunch of stuff because they didn't understand our market or customers, and then all slowly got let go before having
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by dave78 3y ago
I guess I'm making an assumption that the 850 or so missing people are dead. I don't know that, but unfortunately it seems like a safe assumption. Reporters who have managed to get near the affected area are saying that there are
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by dave78 3y ago
Your comment seems woefully out of touch given what happened in Hawaii. Water was not denied because "saving lives was more important than saving houses". ~1000 people burned to death and the fire department requested more water t
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by dave78 3y ago
And of course there was the time when Dan Rather got busted using forged documents in "Memogate" due to something very similar - fonts from Word pretending to be a document from the 70s. The Wikipedia article has a nice animated G
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by dave78 3y ago
There's another dead comment saying the same thing, but take a look at Nebula. I set it up over a year ago and haven't really thought about it much since - it just works. The open source version doesn't have any fancy GUIs or
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by dave78 3y ago
Depending on your definition, I think Brave does this already doesn't it?

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