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by evilduck 4y ago
The article isn't stellar about explaining what they mean. FaceID and TouchID as implemented by Apple requires you to type in your password every couple of days to ensure you don't forget it. They augment your password (and weaken
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by evilduck 4y ago
> Which looks a lot like "we want to listen in even if you mute so please don't mute the mice on the OS level". This is due to the "talking while on mute notification" feature. Disabling the mic by hardware or at
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by evilduck 4y ago
User A: "They intentionally sabotage Firefox" ... no evidence of this behavior User B: "What if it's just them being cheap or incompetent?"... no evidence of this behavior either Asshole take: "You MS Apologist
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by evilduck 4y ago
About a decade ago I worked for an insurance company. It was an offshoot that was spun out of of another insurance company from another state, which itself was decades old. As best as I could infer from my vantage point, my expertise at the
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by evilduck 4y ago
Coming from the other direction, I've hired for DevOps roles a couple times and as a hiring manager one of my very first first questions to a candidate is to ask them to define DevOps, then ask them to define their previous role(s) aga
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by evilduck 4y ago
GPT-3 and AI-enhanced code completion has had a ton of hype going on, up to and including claims that software development as a job is at existential risk. Using Copilot non-stop to investigate and understand why there's so much hype a
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by evilduck 4y ago
Nuking the moon was relatively mild compared to the proposed Project Orion.
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by evilduck 4y ago
You make it sound sinister like you’re expecting to be mugged, but I’ve called 911 on behalf of others by being the first to come across their roadside accident 2 different times in my life, and the first one wouldn’t have been able to call
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by evilduck 4y ago
Cast iron does have a couple rules that are exceptions in the modern kitchen. You can’t leave them soaking in the sink or run them through the dishwasher without creating a bunch of maintenance work to remove the rust you just created but
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by evilduck 4y ago
There's a 14 hour difference in the time of day they were posted. My guess is this one caught the morning crowd and perhaps had less competition for eyeballs than something on a Monday?
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by evilduck 4y ago
AdGuard Home the pihole alternative or their end client options?
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by evilduck 4y ago
Complaining about negative karma, downvotes, or dislikes is pretty much the best way to receive more of it. Going on the attack against your imagined perception of your downvoters and then the platform itself and all of its users is also pr
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by evilduck 5y ago
For a company coming out of serious trouble in the 90's, it seems like it was a good idea even if it was a bad ergonomic design. How many other computer mice do you talk about for a quarter of a century?
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by evilduck 5y ago
Could we get tech companies to step up and beat the fashion company then? Because on many, many, many comparisons the fashion company makes them look completely inept at making tech products. I know, they've only had 20 years, it seems
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by evilduck 5y ago
I think you're speaking past each other. The comment mentioned no access to shower facilities at all. Go search Youtube for tiny apartments in Japan or Tokyo and you'll quickly find rooms for rent where bathrooms and personal or
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by evilduck 5y ago
JSX seems like a pretty common and significant DSL used in JS.
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by evilduck 5y ago
Most App Store developers have opted out of letting you run their iPadOS or iOS apps on macOS. Most of the interesting stuff is blocked and the stuff that does remain is filled with weird UX inconsistencies. From my own decade of App Store
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by evilduck 5y ago
I’ve seen garbage and exemplary sites produced with both methods. Rendering HTML with data hydrated server side and assembling it with a library client side vs rendering JSON and generating the HTML client side is a weird religious stance t
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by evilduck 5y ago
Yes, they’re sending HTML chunks over the wire. It’s the same end result though, except you’re still not exempted from learning JS.
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by evilduck 5y ago
At the risk of sounding rude, what you're describing has been the status quo for data-heavy SPA scenarios for a couple years. NextJS, NuxtJS, Angular Universal, Gatsby, they all allow you to preload data into a server side render and t
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by evilduck 5y ago
They wouldn't need to promote it forwards into the public eye like Microsoft did with Windows 8. ChromeOS being able to run linux via Crostini and Android apps isn't such a headlining feature, but it makes a Chromebook have more u
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by evilduck 5y ago
Hmm, so out of curiosity I looked up both, Apple’s are actually cheaper per centimeter than MP, but don’t sell shorter overall cheaper options if that’s what you can use.
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by evilduck 5y ago
In the same vein, every corporate "security training" email I've received that's been outsourced to a third party vendor looks indistinguishable from spam and phishing, the exact things it goes on to train you not to ope
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by evilduck 5y ago
Isn't LiveShare proprietary and closed source? Pylance is for sure, but it's built on the open source Pyright they provide, which is still pretty decent. I think there's other things too but I don't recall the comprehens
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by evilduck 5y ago
In most realities. If you list all dimensions of Apple's computing products as a radar chart and as a consumer that chart "shape" meets your needs, you will not find a competitor that meets those same needs on all of those di
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by evilduck 5y ago
I have a hard time viewing Apple's Spotlight metadata as a wrong. It's locally created and stored, it's transparently shown in File info and mdls. It can be purged and edited with xattrs. It doesn't follow the file acros
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by evilduck 5y ago
That's a slight bit different because that file metadata is being assigned on the receiving client side and not from the distributor of the file. Likewise, that info is stored in your Spotlight index, not the file itself and isn't
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by evilduck 5y ago
A few other scenarios: In an interview I don’t want to be intimidating and feigning ignorance can give the candidate opportunity to shine. If they go deep, I can keep up and keep pushing, if they veer into bullshitting I can tell and gracef
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by evilduck 5y ago
You're saying you're not taking the piss out of the choice, and then also saying only [implied lesser] web and web3 developers buy them as status symbols for the sake of peer respect, which sounds a lot like taking the piss out of
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by evilduck 5y ago
>I'm not here to take the piss out of your laptop of choice, >buying a Macbook is probably the kind of status symbol your peers will respect you for. Make up your mind.

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