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by eric_h 10y ago
I've got the QC-35s. They're actually pretty good at lowering speaking voices to the below intelligible level, IMO. This was also my first pair of noise cancelling headphones ever, and holy shit what a difference they make on an a
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by eric_h 10y ago
Late response, but yes - there was no https support whatsoever on this thing. Authentication was some custom shit and intended to be passed over the internet in clear text.
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by eric_h 10y ago
When I first got my MacBook, I agreed with you. However, when it stopped working and I switched back to my 11" air, I found the depth of the key press actually annoyingly too much
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by eric_h 10y ago
> Cmd+esc takes you to the previous up from cmd+tab I've always used cmd+~ for that
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by eric_h 10y ago
Haha, yeah - 500/day definitely seemed low to me
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by eric_h 10y ago
Not a vim user (but I know how to use it-ish). The escape key as the key in vim always struck me as an odd choice, ergonomically. Of course, I've mapped ctrl to the caps lock key, so...
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by eric_h 10y ago
Indeed. My mom got an internet connected "security camera" kit (for cheap from one of the big wholesalers, can't remember the manufacturer) and asked me to set it up. The hardware was nice, cameras did a reliable 1080p full c
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by eric_h 10y ago
The NSFW images actually reminded me of Keith Haring's work, given the not-so-subtle phalluses in all the images.
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by eric_h 10y ago
I upvoted you because of your edit, but I thought I'd add that "race" is a completely social construct and has no basis in science. Skin tone would indeed have been a more appropriate term to use. [edit, removed a parenthetic
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by eric_h 10y ago
I think there are countless examples across government, industry and personal accounts that using insecure email is a universally bad idea. Unfortunately it has the strongest network effect at the moment, and no one's come up with a wa
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by eric_h 10y ago
Note that WSJ cookies you, so if you've already clicked the direct link, you'll need to incognito, then click on the "web" link to bypass the paywall (and I've heard some say that that doesn't always work, they
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by eric_h 10y ago
Ours was more spur of the moment and done without our parent's permission. We spent hours on the boats, and none of us had traced this particular creek that far (and the water was moving at a nice clip).
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by eric_h 10y ago
Ditto - especially when I'm halfway through the first paragraph of an article and it slides it down offscreen, so I scroll down to keep reading, then the ad goes away and the place I was reading goes back up off screen. It's crimi
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by eric_h 10y ago
Same here. I think my favorite unsupervised childhood memory was the time when (I was about ~10 years old) the day after a big rainstorm, that turned a nearby creek into more or less a river, we took a couple of inflatable rafts and went fo
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by eric_h 10y ago
From the linked website: "© 2007-2015 Bitly, Inc" - was this a subsidiary of bitly from jump, or an acquihire?
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by eric_h 10y ago
The one time I ever flew LAX->Sydney many years ago (with my parents) - we (a family of four) had the center group of seats in a 747 for that trip. So did the guy behind us. I'm still jealous that he had the whole thing to himself,
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by eric_h 10y ago
Ha! I didn't know that we'd finally invented transparent aluminum. Scotty would be proud.
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by eric_h 10y ago
I'd also recommend getting locked in the solitary confinement cell for a few minutes at Alcatraz, it's quite an experience (though it certainly takes a bit of trust to get over the fear that they won't let you out).
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by eric_h 10y ago
Yeah, you can't really argue that AMP isn't a good product, from a technical perspective. AMP sites load instantly for me.
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by eric_h 10y ago
I believe we have a presidential candidate quite well versed in conspicuous construction with negligible returns.
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by eric_h 10y ago
My team playfully makes fun of each other's code all the time. Every once in a while, someone does something stupid in code and we playfully make fun of that person, everyone on the team takes it in stride and our code is better for it
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by eric_h 10y ago
Well, arguably we currently have a safety net that is less efficient (in terms of bureaucracy/maintenance cost) than a UBI would be, so... how 'bout now? Regardless, you do make good points.
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by eric_h 10y ago
Okay, a quick googling led me to this [1] It appears that passenger side airbags that automatically disable are not required, but they were explicitly allowed ca 1997 by the NHTSA (as well as allowing a manual on/off switch). So my ori
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by eric_h 10y ago
I'm pretty sure my dad's ~2001 saab 9-5 had an indicator on the dashboard as to whether the passenger side airbag was turned on. Of course, I could be misremembering.
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by eric_h 10y ago
I was joking. And I do know that the iPhone 7 has an adapter for the 3.5mm jack, as it came in the box with my iPhone 7.
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by eric_h 10y ago
I have very little experience in SF, but I'm sure that drugs are still largely a cash business there. Of course, a drug dealer with a square reader plugged into his iPhone would happen first in SF.
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by eric_h 10y ago
It makes sense if humans were perfect. When an employee objects to unethical behavior and acts accordingly, it makes less sense.
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by eric_h 10y ago
I actually solved this with our custom deploy script. We choose the machine that runs the migrations. The necessity of building and maintaining a custom deploy script is the biggest wart for us (though I admit that the API is pretty good, a
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by eric_h 10y ago
Time is money. The actual monetary cost of training is irrelevant if you don't have the time to actually do it (learning new skills has never paid the bills in the right now timeframe).
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by eric_h 10y ago
Hahaha, that's amazing. I made a pledge to myself years ago that I would never buy another clock/watch/timekeeping device that didn't set itself. Somewhere in that car you purchased is a clock that sets itself, it just

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