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by dylan-m 9y ago
Mm, fair enough, that's my inner conspiracy theorist happening :b (Every part of the US government is obviously in cahoots with Uber as part of a complex scheme to take over the world, right?). Okay, probably not intentional on their p
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by dylan-m 9y ago
This is such a blatant attempt to manipulate public opinion before the actual data appears. Even if Uber's software is ridiculously using visible light for its decision-making, it should definitely be taking into account what it does
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by dylan-m 9y ago
And it gets worse: Apple discontinued all of their iPods except the one that looks like an iPhone because they want everyone to buy their expensive watch instead. And phones still seem to get bigger every year. We're approaching a poin
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by dylan-m 9y ago
Yeah, I'm having a hard time seeing how a company that doesn't own cars (to the point they insist they are "a software company"), pays thousands of drivers, and whose users don't need driver's licenses; is goin
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by dylan-m 9y ago
Ah, looked it up, and it seems they must have a separate protocol that they use for interconnect: https://nest.com/support/article/Are-my-Nest-Protects-still-... . And apparently it's even sort of a standard.
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by dylan-m 9y ago
Out of curiosity: are these running their own wifi mesh network, or do they actually rely on a working wifi router? Do … do people realize that power cuts occasionally coincide with house fires?
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by dylan-m 9y ago
I did the same. I tried to use the Apple mouse for a couple months, I really did, but I felt my wrists turning into frozen fish and decided enough was enough. (This was the previous generation mouse where you needed to replace the AA batter
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by dylan-m 9y ago
I was ready to be annoyed by this, and it is a ridiculous design, but the article is a pretty good discussion of CSS's round display extensions. Those have been sort of sitting around gathering dust as far as I can tell, but the idea s
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by dylan-m 9y ago
> It gives you the chance to read the article while having the vision there too. That is not a thing that an actual human is capable of doing. A human has two eyes which must be fixed in the same general direction, and one brain. As conv
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by dylan-m 9y ago
I really admire Blender's release notes. They're detailed and informative yet also fun and easy to read (thanks to pretty pictures!), and full of real working examples if you want them. It's nice to see more projects doing th
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by dylan-m 9y ago
So does it bug anyone else that the status bar around the notch looks misaligned? The rounded corners make me feel think it's sticking out past the bottom of the notch, and there's this huge empty space above it. Especially weird
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by dylan-m 9y ago
For the log files, one miraculous thing you can do is `sudo journalctl -f -u httpd -u mariadb`, which watches the log for both of those services (and should output messages in the correct order). On a desktop, the way it's designed sho
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by dylan-m 9y ago
And Ubuntu is poised to bite the bullet and do the same in a release or two :) And it works comfortably with the offical drivers for modern ATI graphics cards. (One of the earlier fears about Wayland). I really wish people would cut it out
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by dylan-m 9y ago
> It absolutely staggers me that nobody seems to bother making sure street names are actually visible on the map. That's the worst thing with Google Maps for me. It drives me mad when I'm trying to navigate on foot. I never tru
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by dylan-m 9y ago
The cognitive burden part is a really important point. I used to like it a lot more, but recently I find shopping on Amazon.ca exhausting . Even for a cheap little $4 whatsit, I routinely find myself paging through multiple options, all wi
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by dylan-m 9y ago
Better verification is well-meaning and all, but it ignores the central problem of NPM-land: there are just way too many tiny little one-off packages for any human being to possibly verify, even with the right tools. And whenever you happen
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by dylan-m 9y ago
Alas, haven't noticed much difference there. Chances are you'll find yourself in a Wayland session, so that may change things a little bit one way or another, and there's definitely some ongoing work to make animations better
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by dylan-m 9y ago
Not sure about KDE, but Fedora's version of GNOME definitely works better than Ubuntu's version of GNOME. Because of their valiant efforts to keep Unity from changing at all for six years, Ubuntu's desktop has a peculiar hodg
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by dylan-m 10y ago
Oh, funny, I'm working on something similar for a course at school, too: an IP over Avian Carrier modem. (I convinced some folks to build one with me :b). In our case we print the barcodes with a thermal printer, so there's an int
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by dylan-m 10y ago
Fun fact: their website has listings turned on and runs an ancient version of WordPress last touched in 2012. http://www.uniloc.com/wp-content/ It's like they're trying to be as obviously illiterate as they
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by dylan-m 11y ago
Not to mention maintenance. Low-hanging fruit here: left-pad, depended on by fricking everyone, <em>is owned by one guy</em>. That is not how you build a serious utility library that people should actually be using in real
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by dylan-m 11y ago
Another really handy thing is the Compose key. If you're using GNOME it's under Keyboard Settings, under Shortcuts / Typing. I have it set to Right Alt. The idea is there's just a whole bunch of memorable key sequences f
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by dylan-m 11y ago
I found it fun to listen to, but the author had this weird habit of foreshadowing everything as if there was always some huge earth-shattering reveal around the corner. "And this wouldn't be their last obstacle moving in to the la
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by dylan-m 11y ago
I don't think it's really clear that this is proper behaviour, though? If we're talking JPGs, every time you go through opening that file and "saving" it, it's going to be more and more mangled by the compressi
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by dylan-m 13y ago
I think you should change it. You won't win fans by confusing people.
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by dylan-m 13y ago
GNOME 3.10 doesn't completely support Wayland, yet. Parts of the software stack do, so you can run Weston in a window and then run individual GTK+3 apps with the Wayland backend and they'll probably work, but actual end-to-end Way
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by dylan-m 13y ago
One of the problems is we often have people doing web design was if it's print design. Find yourself a focused web designer who really understands the medium and, chances are, you won't run into this sort of problem. A good web de
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by dylan-m 13y ago
Is it weird that my first observation is that their navigation requires Javascript to function? Because it does: clicking Documentation, Community or Help doesn't get you anywhere, and there's no other way to get to those pages. A
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by dylan-m 13y ago
I worry that you're still using Nautilus 3.6, which was definitely an interim version of Nautilus. If you check out 3.8, you'll see that type-ahead search is very much there, and better than ever — especially if you happen to have Tracker i
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by dylan-m 13y ago
I don't think the voting system is particularly relevant, here. The erosion of civil rights will continue for as long as Canadians put up with their elected members of parliament representing their parties, first, instead of their constitue

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