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by dbg31415 6y ago
It's all streaming. Twitch, YouTube. Running any of those on Firefox, vs. other browsers, is a lot hotter. I did a post about it and according to Apple's "Energy Usage" Firefox was like 50x higher than Safari and 30x hig
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by dbg31415 6y ago
Zoom calls in Firefox -- a lot of people don't download the software but just run it in browser.
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by dbg31415 6y ago
Cool, but when will they release a feature that makes it so I can run a Zoom call without turning my MBP into a toaster hot enough to melt diamonds?
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by dbg31415 6y ago
Cool, but like... when will they focus on battery life / performance? Every time I stream a call, my Macbook turns into a toaster and battery life goes into freefall.
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Question about Firefox Energy Use
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by dbg31415 6y ago
Totally agree, but looks like they just got Slashdotted. Hard to imagine it'll be down much longer. Shame they couldn't anticipate this, or scale better. Curious what their postmortem will have in it.
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by dbg31415 6y ago
Supreme Court Rules That About Half Of Oklahoma Is Native American Land : NPR || https://www.npr.org/2020/07/09/889562040/supreme-court-rules... Supreme Court recognizes Native sovereignty in much of Okl
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by dbg31415 6y ago
It's not just "being nice to devs" -- open source communities are utter shit for everyone. My experience working on open-source projects, from a Product Manger perspective, is it sucks too. To get it right, modern software ta
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by dbg31415 6y ago
When I worked there, about a decade ago, they were aiming for 40-50% year over year growth metrics. Anything that threatened that was drug out and shot. If you were a dev who was like, "Hey, we need to test our stuff... do proper code
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by dbg31415 6y ago
Yes, but... Having worked at SolarWinds they're especially susceptible to demands from sales and marketing. "Go faster, ignore tech best practices, etc." It's not unique, but their culture is not a dev-first, or security
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by dbg31415 6y ago
Do you work there? Or just a fan? Thanks for the response! > There's a small clock between the sending date and the (double) tick which indicates just that. Cool, I see it now. But there's still no way to change it. In Snapchat
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by dbg31415 6y ago
I really want to like Signal, just... it's so shitty at times. Discord and Slack are great. Even Microsoft Teams. Shitty things about Signal: 1) When you set "Disappearing Messages" it's for any messages that come in aft
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by dbg31415 6y ago
Seems relevant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg
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by dbg31415 6y ago
Also... man, as a junior staff member, the opposite is true. Establish yourself as someone capable, eager, and motivated. Don't come in to a new org and be like, "No, I'm going to be successful by telling people no." Oof
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by dbg31415 6y ago
The History of XCOM - YouTube || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxUVoWt2K78
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by dbg31415 6y ago
Best game ever made.
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by dbg31415 6y ago
Ha, spot on. When you find a flaw, do you fix the system or game the system?
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by dbg31415 6y ago
My neighbor in Austin is a lawyer for the police union. He would hand these cards out to everyone in the cul-de-sac along with some booze for Christmas presents. There's a little "CLEAT" sticker that you can put in your back
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by dbg31415 6y ago
I'm going to start traveling with a 10 TB Encrypted NAS full of static. They can download that and save it if they want. What sucks is that I know this is probably being stored on AWS. Tech companies enable this kind of shit, and even
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by dbg31415 6y ago
In college we had a professor who went over some of the things these guys did in their spare time. This article sums it up a bit. Really helps to put a face to the name... =P https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-11-most-depraved-thin
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by dbg31415 6y ago
You people say, "I'm in the toilet..." Eww. The bathroom (or restroom) is the room the toilet lives in. Water Closet is fine I guess, just sounds so antiquated. The toilet is the thing you poop in. When a Brit or Aussie says,
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by dbg31415 6y ago
* Ithaca Hours - Wikipedia || https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaca_Hours > Date of introduction > November 1991
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by dbg31415 6y ago
I use an Ikea Jerker desk as my main desk. I love it. You can set it to any height you want, adjust the monitor shelf height, and it's so sturdy. For my home office I got two... one for work, and one for gaming. They cost like $50 when
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by dbg31415 6y ago
> 2) Over-communicate. Make sure you ask questions, write thorough emails that explain rationale. It’s really important that you aggressively set and meet expectations. A major problem people have is expectation mismatch. Make sure both
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by dbg31415 6y ago
I want to love Signal, but it's just so meh. * Message sync is like non-existent. Messages on my phone or laptop aren't kept in sync at all. Delete one one place, they don't delete in both. * Let me edit messages, like every
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by dbg31415 6y ago
A lot of people are screaming about re-use... but man, these were never designed to be consumer bikes. You likely don't have a one-at-a-time charger, they probably have some sort of rack that charges 100 batteries at once. Similar issu
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by dbg31415 6y ago
Well, yes... but anyone who doesn't use service-oriented architecture should be fired, right? (= I mean... we've all seen some of the shit Amazon put out back in the day, the one-offs, the impossible to maintain or integrate with
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by dbg31415 6y ago
Having done a bit of time at Amazon, I'm so perplexed by some of the news coming out around them now. * Amazon.jobs || https://www.amazon.jobs/en/principles Ownership, Insist on the Highest Standards, Earn Trust,
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by dbg31415 7y ago
Whenever there's something I don't want to do, I say, "I can do it for 15 minutes." And I book in the next 15 minutes I can find. Sometimes it takes a few starts, but that approach has yet to let me down. Also, I book in
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by dbg31415 7y ago
Spot on. Amazon was able to hire over 100k employees in the last month. They did that by providing the best possible choice for those people -- the people wanted to work there. Sure, all for transparency, but let's be real. This job is

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