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3y ago
To rotate, select an object and move the mouse to just outside one of the corner/anchor boundaries - the cursor will change to a curved arrow which will rotate the shape
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3y ago
To be fair, the pricing is easily locatable in the hamburger menu, without the need to log in
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3y ago
These companies are informally known as Zaibatsu[1] - massive vertically integrated conglomerates. They produce literally everything they need to sustain themselves, so you'll find them running (say) an outsourced IT services business
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3y ago
How the hell have I never come across Cmd ~ before?!! Thank you so much!!!
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3y ago
I don't recall where I read it, but this process was described best as the transition from a "start up" to an "end up"
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3y ago
Self-Employed
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3y ago
Exactly - Apple has all the pieces to absolutely nail the AR workspace experience. Reality OS Headset built on top of iOS (and MacOS) could easily allow bluetooth peripherals (keyboard/mouse) to pair with to their headset, and you'
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3y ago
Google "Data Loss Prevention"
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3y ago
Layer 2 (Ethernet) DCI will often be set up with 9000 (or larger) MTUs - the reason for this is to allow end-customers to carry their traffic using whatever encapsulation they want to internally (eg: Q-in-Q, MPLS, VXLAN, MACSEC, GRE or all
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3y ago
> And of course, IPv6 supports 65k packets out of the box, and already has an extension in case you want to send more than 65k per packet. IPv4 and IPv6 both support 65k packet lengths.
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4y ago
I grew up with Applesoft BASIC and later HyperCard - as a kid, I was never a "Developer", but I was always curious - the fact that I could take someone else's source code and change it to my will felt like a superpower. Now S
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4y ago
For old-school urbex in Australia, look no further than https://www.caveclan.org This is the Internet we came for!
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4y ago
Yes. If I was to really think about it and summarise my reasons: Curation - yes, I could probably find similar stories on the web and read them, but a print magazine does the discovery and brings them all together for me in a way that a se
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4y ago
Exactly, and the change count (add new customer with 50 sites, remove old customer with 100 sites) are big enough to warrant investment of time/money into these tools
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4y ago
Agreed - this is more or less the problem statement that OpenConfig was designed to solve (minus the making optimisation part), however the chicken-and-egg problem for vendors is always: few people are asking for it, because until every ven
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4y ago
I mostly agree with this sentiment - working for systems integrators over the years, it is very hard to convince me that most corporate customers need network automation solutions, when on average they deploy a new network maybe once every
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4y ago
Feels very snappy, but for me it's a non-starter: rejects connection to any site with a self-signed certificate, with no apparent means of override. I get the security stance, but I configure a LOT of networking hardware via WebUI (eg:
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4y ago
Australia (not to be confused with Austria) has had "anti-hoon" laws in effect for quite some time, varying by state, but with most states being able to impound your vehicle, and for repeat offenders in some states, have said vehi
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4y ago
If I could offer you one piece of advice: if/while you still have time with him, thank your Dad for everything he's done for you. I was with my Dad in his final hours, but it wasn't until after he'd passed that it occurr
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4y ago
Amazing - this is my new default, thanks!
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6y ago
Fortunately showering doesn't appear to be common in the profession
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6y ago
In no particular order: - The WWW - from a delightfully whimsical follow the rabbit-hole experience in the early 90s where discovery was hard, but content was king; to a centralised, AI-ranked, viral echo-chamber in the 00s and 10s where th
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6y ago
Blockchain of course! Only one certified copy of your consciousness allowed in production at any point in time. I'll see myself out
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7y ago
Thank you for your offer. One of the advantages of holding on to this idea for so long is that it's given me time to save a bit of a runway. Hopefully the fabled Product/Market fit materialises before this runs out :)
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7y ago
Brilliant advice. I've have been on the exact journey you described - the idea that won't leave me alone (probably 6 years old now), Googled early on to see if anyone else had built it yet; found two existing companies pursuing th
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7y ago
I think you're right - that and the security industry convincing the vast majority NOT to write passwords down on sticky notes..
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9y ago
Wow! This takes me back! HyperTalk was probably my second language after Applesoft BASIC and boy did it seem powerful at the time. Hypercard overall was just great at getting out of the way and letting you get things done. Looking back,
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9y ago
What a fantastic idea! I wish you and your team all the best. My only quibble is that the location data for one of my "Favourite Places" is wrong - it would be nice to be able to manually move the location bubbles.
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9y ago
MPLS-Enabled Applications: Emerging Developments and New Technologies by Ina Minei and Julian Lucek. There are a lot of books out there on MPLS services, but this one stands out for me because of the way it is written: the subject matter is
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9y ago
Science and thus mankind will only benefit from this experiment, regardless of the outcome.
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