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by fhd2 4y ago
Recently converted to their hardware after a rather long line of Macbooks. Completely happy - everything. just. works. First Linux laptop I've had where I didn't need to fiddle with anything, way less than macOS. Regarding their b
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by fhd2 4y ago
Probably not the name you're looking for, but I typically talk about this stuff in terms of local and global maxima. Low-risk optimisation efforts typically get trapped on some local maximum over time, while bold efforts get closer to
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by fhd2 5y ago
I can't say much about recent years, given how I've left quite a while ago. But I do want to point out that ABP was always surprisingly upfront about Acceptable Ads (only users who cannot read could possibly miss it, it's pro
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by fhd2 5y ago
Disclaimer: Former ABP developer. Mozilla worked surprisingly hard to make uBO number one - for years they've actively promoted it, marked it as recommended and similar things, added weird warnings for the unwashed masses of "unre
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by fhd2 5y ago
That's saying I shouldn't have forgotten the answers in the first place - which is a fair point I suppose. What bothers me is that there _is_ a process for resetting the question in case you've forgotten them, but that very p
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by fhd2 5y ago
I don't know if this is very interesting, but I've rarely seen such a blatant example of incompetency. The axioms are like this: 1. Even with 2FA active, Apple will, apparently every couple of years, make you answer the security q
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Apple: Cannot reset security questions without knowing your security questions(discussions.apple.com)
9 points by fhd2 5y ago|4 comments
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by fhd2 5y ago
Maybe you're being downvoted because you're just not thinking big enough? How about first class SOAP support?
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by fhd2 5y ago
Them adding some conditional logic next doesn't seem like that much of a stretch now! If it wasn't for this kind of stuff, there probably wouldn't be as many jobs in IT as there are.
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by fhd2 5y ago
Having worked in a middle sized company with a bunch of lawyers on payroll, I am starstruck how someone got something like this in at a gigantic corporation like Amazon. I'd imagine this to have taken weeks at best. Unless it was the i
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by fhd2 5y ago
Pretty subjective, but I find Disney+ quite superior to Netflix in both quality of the streaming and UX - two areas I'm surprised a "non-tech company" can win in. Seems to me like the tech part (anything but the content, real
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by fhd2 5y ago
The problem with technical debt is, in my experience anyway, that decisions have such a delayed impact that it's difficult for a group of people to understand cost and benefit. To work with the example you gave: You can tell that losin
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by fhd2 5y ago
FWIW, I did that for years quite successfully in an organisation with about 80 engineers! At that scale, it works, in my experience, not worse than an org with lots of managers - they're gonna do infighting amongst each other at a cert
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by fhd2 5y ago
Not sure how technically accurate it is, but "language" usually implies more than just the syntax. I hear and say things like "compiled language", "interpreted language", "language VM", "garbage
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by fhd2 5y ago
I've noticed people bullshitting at stand ups and I've done it myself at the one somewhat toxic place I worked at that mandated them. But never consistently over a longer stretch of time. I think occasionally this is normal, and a
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by fhd2 5y ago
Wow, I never quite formalised this in my head, but I think it's true! At least for small delays, say 30s-3m, I'm not tempted to go for that (other) dopamine shot of checking messages or whatever at all. I keep thinking about the p
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by fhd2 5y ago
When it comes to extensions, they can _only_ be installed and updated through the "Chrome Web Store", so even if you were to stay on an old Chrome version that still supports V2, Google wouldn't let you download any extension
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by fhd2 5y ago
Is that actually so? In my understanding, cars that drive more break faster, mileage being the dominant factor, not age. So whether you have 10 cars serving 10 people, breaking after 30 years, or one car serving 10 people where you have to
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by fhd2 5y ago
Do VCs invest to give companies a "long runway"? Would be news to me, though it does seem plausible. But I'd expect a business strategy of: 1) Invest at a loss to become #1 2) ? 3) Profit.
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by fhd2 5y ago
I think I figured out why they called themselves that at this point :P
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by fhd2 5y ago
Bit OT, but I think I never had a venue for saying this in public: Stroustrup is absolutely one of the most inspiring programmers I'm aware of, think of C++ what you like. Stuff like const correctness and references were way ahead of i
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by fhd2 5y ago
Great tip! I wasn't quite aware, basically like compile flags with C/C++ deps (implemented somewhat similar to Cargo in Gentoo, I'd say).
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by fhd2 5y ago
> it always baffles me that most people seem to be using Rust to write ... web services? I think it's the whole x-rewritten-in-rust-now-faster hype train. Although those limitations you mention, what's easy and hard to do, do h
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by fhd2 5y ago
All those crates are actually the main thing bothering me about Rust. I've seen some fairly trivial code bases that pull down north of 1 GB of barely necessary dependencies (a couple of wrappers and utilities). It's not quite as b
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by fhd2 5y ago
I thought the same. So say you are in a situation where you can't offer people 1:1s to understand what happened - which sounds to me like the people laid off were more or less chosen at random - but let's say you literally have to
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by fhd2 5y ago
Another point for Firefox over all the other Chromium based ones: Chromium is actively working on stifling extensions, especially ad and tracking blockers, dubiously so in the name of privacy and security of all things: https://d
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by fhd2 5y ago
Well, networking always requires some sort of client software, calling it "clientless" because most systems most likely already have the required software rubbed me the wrong way. But I think I get it now, it's probably a ton
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by fhd2 5y ago
Love it! That said: "We call it clientless because no plugins or client software are required. Thanks to HTML5, once Guacamole is installed on a server, all you need to access your desktops is a web browser." So... the web browser
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by fhd2 5y ago
Not sure about "no longer worrying about that pesky 80 column limit"... For once, I have an ultra wide monitor, and having 1-2 files of code, a terminal and a space for testing and research all next to each other is quite great. F
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by fhd2 5y ago
Wow, I missed that, it's great! "The past has finally arrived" "Numbers. Colors. Eyes." They could have totally reused the same, respectable jokes from the product description in the video, but they did something ne

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