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by dbg31415 7y ago
I don't use Sir, or Alexa, or Cortana. I think the always-on voice recordings are terrifyingly creepy. Hate that they've been invented at all. A friend of mine came over, with his kid, and I offered to let him watch TV while we ta
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by dbg31415 7y ago
Why Austin? Why not North Dakota, or West Virginia or some place that is hurting for jobs.
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by dbg31415 7y ago
Anyone else feel like paying for everything in cash again? This is so creepy, and it's nothing compared to the data cell phone companies and credit card companies have on you.
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by dbg31415 7y ago
Aren’t these like a year old now? Feels like we’ve been using them forever.
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by dbg31415 7y ago
So it wasn't just a few bad apples. My perspective. The group on the road was the face of the protest to anyone driving through. Right? And these guys weren't locals, they couldn't tell the difference between ranchers and pip
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by dbg31415 7y ago
My family has a cattle ranch near the protest site. What I saw was that the some of the protesters didn't really know the difference between a rancher's tractor, and pipeline equipment. Now... there is some overlap there with dump
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by dbg31415 7y ago
Do people under 25 even use Facebook? I mean... most of them see it as another LinkedIn for sharing Granny Photos. I was on Bumble a little late at night... kinda mindlessly swiping... girl looked cute... little familiar... swipe... Instant
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by dbg31415 7y ago
Anyone know why they are doing this? It disappoints me as I use this functionality to keep files synced between devices. What's Dropbox's reasoning for this?
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by dbg31415 7y ago
Seems like a metric that should be made visible, no? I mean... if we see votes, we should see flags... otherwise, flags are just a way to secretly control what people can see on the site.
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by dbg31415 7y ago
Woah, WTF. It had more votes than any story above it, except one, and the votes to comments to time ratio was all better on this article. Someone at HN really hates North Dakota, doesn't feel like a coverup is something techies should
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by dbg31415 7y ago
Native North Dakotan here... and this really pisses me off.
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by dbg31415 7y ago
Thanks for the heads up! I've got different extensions running in Chrome and Firefox, but according to Activity Monitor, Firefox's energy impact is 26.29, and Chrome's is 3.25. I've got Hacker News up in both, and that&#
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by dbg31415 7y ago
I just clocked it at 16 seconds to check for new mail in Apple Mail checking against a Gmail Account on an iPhone SE connected to Google Fiber. It feels pretty slow... Meanwhile, same update vs same account in Outlook took about 6 seconds.
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by dbg31415 7y ago
I hate Chrome. But Firefox drains my battery faster trying to run a VR simulation with an a realistic crypto mining rig and a USB hair dryer. My MBP's fans kick on full-blast when I start streaming video sin Firefox. And... worst Firef
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by dbg31415 7y ago
> I'm of the mindset that code written 20 years ago should run today. It's OK if some of the more antiquated parts of the web die off. I don't want to have to support old Flash loading screens, I don't need AOL instan
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by dbg31415 7y ago
So a few years back, everything was super fast on IMAP on my phone. But now it just crawls. On the Gmail App it's still pretty fast. So I just assumed it was slow because Google was being a dick and trying to get people to use their ap
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by dbg31415 7y ago
The bar for "working" is limited to perfect-path tests then? As someone pointed out the other day, we do seem to be getting better about security -- less issues overall than there used to be. Likely a sign people are taking this s
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by dbg31415 7y ago
This kid seems a lot more responsible than I was when I was in high school. Taking about manipulating the URL parameters... yeah, I used that trick to apply discount codes way back in the day. The web form wouldn't accept them, but if
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by dbg31415 7y ago
Relevant. * Honest Government Ad | Anti Encryption Law - YouTube || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW-OMR-iWOE Also worth noting that Australia already went ahead with their anti-encryption laws. Feels inevitable that we&#
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by dbg31415 7y ago
Teams does suck, but man... it's marginally better than Skype for Business. Skype for Business was so bad, you could send a message on your phone and you'd never see it on your desktop, and vise versa. Or you'd get bombarded
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by dbg31415 7y ago
Digging costs a lot of money. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/03/dig-once-rule-re...
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by dbg31415 7y ago
Yup, always gotta watch that salary vs. cost of living ratio. That's what ruled out Seattle, SF, LA, and NYC for me. I'm in Austin -- not the cheapest place in Texas, but your buck goes a long way here. Not as far as it went 15 ye
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by dbg31415 7y ago
Hey man, first off... no judgement intended, but look on Glass Door and make sure you're being paid appropriately for your line of work in your region. And... consider moving to a region that pays more. Just saying, $50k seems low for
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by dbg31415 7y ago
Torn on this. 1) I want to be able to open and repair my own things. 2) Every time I use a non-Apple battery, or buy a refurbished phone, I have issues ranging from battery life is shorter, to battery swelling. I bought an 8s from Amazon’s
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by dbg31415 7y ago
When you find issues like this, is it a manual detection process? Or do you have a set of tools? A set of tools that could be distributed to the public? (= You could save the world! Ha.
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by dbg31415 7y ago
I'd rather companies did this, than governments. Like how some companies won't service porn-related ventures. It's fine if a company doesn't want to make their money doing this, but it shouldn't just be, "Oh so
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Twitch is running a class on how not to speak to customers(twitter.com)
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by dbg31415 7y ago
At first I was worried this was something egregious like, "We require people to stand and raise their right hand to vote..." It's just that he wants to be able to phone in to meetings... and I'm not sure that's a re
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by dbg31415 7y ago
I hate that the YouTube ads aren't at all targeted to the video that you're watching, or even your profile. Google has like every bit of data they could possibly want on me... and I literally have never seen an ad for anything I w
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by dbg31415 7y ago
Blown away they wouldn’t pause production until they knew the design issues were fixed... rather than build new planes that beat case had to be immediately retrofitted. “Let’s just do the wrong thing again, it’ll work this time.” Seems very

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