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by firecall 3y ago
Recaptcha loop :-(
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by firecall 3y ago
We don't need to, and nor should we, save every photo that everyone has ever take on their smartphone. Thats madness... :-) Sometimes things get lost and destroyed, and thats OK.
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by firecall 3y ago
> Can we feel confident that an Apple HEIC sitting inside an iPhone can be read 120 years from now? As long as we are still on the same technological path, then yes, we can be confident. Chemistry and lenses are a form a technology, such
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by firecall 3y ago
What can we do?
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by firecall 3y ago
1) 16” M1 MacBook Pro. Hands down the best laptop I’ve ever owned. On average I get a new one every 18 months apparently. Doesn’t seem like it, but my purchase history says otherwise… 2) Herman Miller Aeron Chair 3) OmniDesk Electric Standi
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by firecall 3y ago
Before the Internet, Fonts in the DTP world were two things: 1) Expensive 2) A Black Market Commodity People would have SyQuest drives full of fonts. Carefully labeled and organised. A bad font would bring down your Mac. A friend with a wel
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by firecall 3y ago
This is the correct time.
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by firecall 3y ago
Used commodity jewellery is worth a small fraction of the original purchase price.
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by firecall 3y ago
Clearly the solution is to implement a larger scale. /s
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by firecall 3y ago
Loved that game! We didn’t have an Amiga, so I used to go to my neighbours house to play it! It was so good and so much fun! Great sounds as I recall. For the time.
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by firecall 3y ago
There are some solutions, such as Duet Display: https://www.duetdisplay.com/blog/how-to-use-your-imac-as-a-m... Apparently you can use a TB cable to connect it up, so it might be reasonably performant as a productivity
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by firecall 3y ago
This comes across as a cynical cash-grab to cash on the current rise in public awareness around ADHD and other Neuroatypical and Neurodiverse individuals.
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by firecall 3y ago
I wish these things worked with anything other than VSCode or JerBrains tools! VSCode is such a bloated hog of an editor! Every time I open VSCode it’s bugging with badges to update extensions… and it’s so slow!
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by firecall 3y ago
Check out those Screenshots. That is the OG Flat UI Design. MS were well ahead of the curve. Who says MS dont have any taste! ;-)
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by firecall 3y ago
As a Mac person that also used Windows NT in my day to day work, I never liked Windows 95. From a purely subjective perspective the design wasnt to my taste. But the worst thing was the Viruses! Windows 95 was a hellscape of security issues
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by firecall 3y ago
They don't seem to get surfaced in Google anymore either. At least, not for me over here in Australia! Haven't looked at Wirecutter in the longest time!
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by firecall 3y ago
How much was Eric Schmidt a factor in the culture? Ive read that a lot of the early days of Google being the Google we used to love were down to Schmidt. We dont hear much about him, so I’ve always wondered. Schmidt succeeded with Google wh
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by firecall 3y ago
Do I need to raise the blast shields?
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by firecall 3y ago
Placebo effect?
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by firecall 3y ago
If the T&Cs are at a public URL, then an alternative way is to self host changedetection.io and monitor for changes. I run it to see changes to my competitors websites. Well that’s the idea - I don’t actually monitor it LOL. I just have
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by firecall 3y ago
That's true of many companies at scale though. :-) Some of the work on Ruby and Rails that Shopify and Github have produced is available to the community as well. For instance: https://github.blog/2022-08-25-introducing
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by firecall 3y ago
I never had an issue with it! Not the greatest mouse, but totally fine to use for me at the time. I had one at home, and my day job was using grown up Macs so I was using both. I don’t get the orientation complaints; how do people not have
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by firecall 3y ago
It surprises me that employees can install anything at all on government devices! Just lock them down and set the culture such that you seperate personal and government devices. No one needs to be or should be using TikTok on a work phone,
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by firecall 3y ago
> It concluded that the nitrogen in ambient air slightly but measurable impairs human performance So would a modified cabin air mix improve the performance of pilots?
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by firecall 3y ago
You’ve struck a nerve on HN for sure! In Australia, we have similar issues. We also face geographic and population restrictions. I’m often advising clients to stop listening to advice from Unicorn CMOs from SV. America had 100s of millions
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by firecall 3y ago
A contributing factor is also that they are a Communist State with a lot of people that need jobs! You could argue that Full Employment is tenet of Communism. I'll leave debate about what Communism is and what the CCCP is and isn'
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by firecall 3y ago
Does the brain require more energy to store more information? Or is it always running at the same pace regardless of if it’s empty or not? I guess the Brian doesn’t really work like that…. But I’m curious :-)
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by firecall 3y ago
LOL - no, a bit random. I was typing on my phone and running out of time. Broadly, it was a half baked thought that our Western culture heavily promotes ideas that are anti-Earth in a way. Ideas for instance where Elon Musk is talking about
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by firecall 3y ago
Indeed, and Alan Watts’ further point was that we come out of this world, not into it. In modern western societies we learn that we born into this world, and that our mind, body and soul are seperate entities. Whereas other cultures and phi
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by firecall 3y ago
Yes, it does come across as a rather immature, unenlightened, productivity bro take on life. My reality is that all wants are illusions. So to me it’s all a game. You can’t sacrifice anything ad those other wants and desires were never real

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