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by firecall 3y ago
Probably a bounce due to the sad passing of Matthew Perry. :-(
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by firecall 3y ago
I stand corrected :-) Seems I unfairly bundled him in with online 'Right Wing' movement. He does have a certain reputation though in some quarters :-)
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by firecall 3y ago
I'm with you on this! Sure, I can allow users to run reports that take multiple seconds, but I'm generally not delivering that to the browser to be rendered. And if I was, I'd crash the browser tab. Which is surprisingly easy
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by firecall 3y ago
As a fellow Australian here in South Australia, I can say with certainty that I've never had it that bad! I can measure the difference between US, Singapore and Sydney based DCs, but it's milliseconds. 10 seconds is abnormal and w
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by firecall 3y ago
Just to add, what irks me is that recent culture of arrogance that enables less experienced devs to assume that all the old ways are terrible and that this new way of doing things is the only way there will ever be. What ever happened to mo
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by firecall 3y ago
Running Costs and Revenue Management is why: 1) SaaS has a running cost; servers, support, devops, and so on You generally have a minimum cost to run a SaaS business. It's significantly less than it used to be, but it's still ther
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by firecall 3y ago
And just today there is a post about the Sneakers Movie Promotional Floppy! Now, from memory I’m pretty sure there is a scene where the visually impaired / blind Hacker can work out the password by listening to the audio on the surveil
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by firecall 3y ago
Me too, I prefer the API. At the end of the day I’m delivering reliable and productive solutions for my clients, and they don’t care what the tech is. However the Django API, GraphQL with React front end stack I’ve inherited is an frustrati
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by firecall 3y ago
It does sound extreme doesn’t it! But I wonder if they have to replicate non-dev teams in multiple countries? I’d imagine they have to a seperate legal, promotional, marketing, sales and so on teams for each market. Replicating these busine
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by firecall 3y ago
For me it’s the forcing of Podcasts down my throat that I hate. No Spotify, I do not want to listen to Joe Rogan and other right wing podcasts. Just let me hide Podcasts already :-(
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by firecall 3y ago
> so today’s news pretty much means that Proton Drive is now fully cross-platform, with users able to synchronize everything across all devices they use. But yet there is no Linux release, and the end of the article mentions too a that a
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by firecall 3y ago
Not just basic programmes, anything digital can be encoded in this way. Software has even been distributed on vinyl records and flexi singles! You could connect a domestic cassette recorder up to a BBC Micro and use to save and load softwar
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by firecall 3y ago
This month in Australia the second largest Telco went down for a day. Then the next day I read a report on how they’d just dished out someone’s existing mobile number to a new customer! The same number now registered twice on the network. M
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by firecall 3y ago
Hi, I tether via a cable. Because it's my work (Dev/Tech/Nerd) I have multiple phones with SIM cards. So I physically tether a phone to the device. I don't believe the device OP linked can a bridged WiFi network as such.
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by firecall 3y ago
I love that the thread is on /r/AskHistorians! I'm not that old... but I remember watching the show! I guess it's like a show from the 60s was to me to a Gen Z or young millenial from today!
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by firecall 3y ago
I used mine with the same SSID as my home network! So when I travel I can either tether a phone and all the family devices just connect, or bridge it to the destination network and again let all the devices connect as if at home!
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by firecall 3y ago
I love this! I've never used HTMX, but it looks interesting. I just love the spirit of webrings! When I think back to early days of the web, I recall the joy and excitement of discovering websites from parts of the world I'd never
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by firecall 3y ago
Chris Coyier's Guide to Flexbox is one of the most well regarded pages on the modern web! It's a classic at this point! :-D
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by firecall 3y ago
I'd be happy to hear them :-) Ditching SwiftUI and going back to Obj-C would absolutely slash my build times ;-) But who wants to do that! The productivity gain is all about instant feedback and developer flow. It might be hard to just
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by firecall 3y ago
Xcode and SwiftUI is one answer. I’m tempted to upgrade my M1 Pro to an M3 Max. Reports suggest id halve my build times and then some.
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by firecall 3y ago
Agreed. I was there for the late 80s and 90s and my personal experience is mixed! Now if a CD fails with a horrible scratch, it fails completely sometimes. However, CDs often got kicked around the interior of cars for months and you could p
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by firecall 3y ago
Quelle Surprise.
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by firecall 3y ago
SF Mono is my goto as well. It doesn't try too hard and is legible, for me, at smaller sizes on macOS.
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by firecall 3y ago
This does look very nice! Still, I often go back to what I know and what I got used to as the default on the OS. So, as a macOS user, I work with Apple's SF Mono: https://developer.apple.com/fonts/ I tried
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by firecall 3y ago
But yet here we are!
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by firecall 3y ago
As a capitalist at the centre of the AI Revolution, I reckon he’ll be OK!
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by firecall 3y ago
Brave is ~0.05% market share. It’s probably successful in that it’s a well known project within the tech community. And 0.05% of the global browser market is a lot of users and probably a decent business. (Are they profitable?) But outside
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by firecall 3y ago
MS actually created a decent base UI for Edge. But then whoever in the company ruined it by forcing awful start pages full of horrific news stories on new users. Did they not understand what made Chrome and the simple Google homepage so pop
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by firecall 3y ago
That's basically it :-) But you can, if you want to...
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by firecall 3y ago
Yep LoL! That’s how it goes. For them, other tech works though. Wind and hydro to whatever extent. And of course Nuclear.

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