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by firecall 5y ago
Tax payers didn't have a choice!
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by firecall 5y ago
Jobs candidly admitted in an interview around the time that NeXT just didnt have the scale to make a difference. I forget his exact words :-)
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by firecall 5y ago
FWIW I'd much prefer Tumblr to still be a thing than WordPress! I appreciate the achievement that is WordPress, but hate it in oh so many ways! Tumblr has everything most people needed, and should have been the blog engine of choice fo
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by firecall 5y ago
There still a certain magic to booting a computer and being presented with a BASIC prompt!
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by firecall 5y ago
Quit while you're ahead!
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by firecall 5y ago
I get that. But essentially we all have de facto accounts on Google anyway. They track and monitor usage and then map you to a user account when you finally login somewhere. I'm totally fine with that being upfront and made clear from
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by firecall 5y ago
This is super useful: https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter Removes sites that copy SO answers etc...
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by firecall 5y ago
My sense is probably not directly. Certainly there would be general political pressure to keep Big Tech in line. Australia has a history of taking tech to task: remember a decade or more ago they pulled Adobe up over local pricing! On anoth
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by firecall 5y ago
Sydney? ;-) I'm Adelaide based these days, and coming from London, the lack of day-to-day diversity is rather shocking! I'd suggest London and the South of England during the summer months!
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by firecall 5y ago
So often I cannot understand what people are saying! As an examples, I was watching the show '1883' and half the time I cannot understand the dialog! Now I have the most expensive best new Sony 65" you can buy, so I'd ex
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by firecall 5y ago
Thank you! I'd previously seen reports on the studies about gas stoves being harmful even when off, and wondered about the credibility.
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by firecall 5y ago
100%. It's the worst. The glacially slow UI performance is terrible. It's also unreliable in weird ways that are hard to explain in a sentence or two.
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by firecall 5y ago
61 2FA tokens! More via phone number 2FA as well! And a lot of passwords saved.... my app doesn't give me a count. Probably need to look on desktop :-)
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by firecall 5y ago
DisplayLink with M1 Macs is still not working properly! 4K support isn't fully capable, and scaled display modes are not hiDPI modes. If you have standard 2K or FHD displays, then DisplayLink is probably fine right now :-)
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by firecall 5y ago
He doesn't need a dongle. You can literally just buy cheap USB-C to DP cables on Amazon that work perfectly fine. No Dongles or Docks required.
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by firecall 5y ago
Thanks!
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by firecall 5y ago
But sadly 4K is still not properly supported on M1 macs! Full 4K modes lose bits making it unusable for many things. And scaled modes are not true hiDPI modes! So QHD looks very pixelated on a 4K display!
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by firecall 5y ago
Yep - this is exactly what I use! Although I plug both into the Mac directly. The article confused me too with its talk of dongles and DP ports on docks. Just get the right cables man! :-) Side note - TB docks are still stupidly expensive,
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by firecall 5y ago
My take is that we design for 24" or 27" display that are only 1080P! So very low pixel density on overly large physical displays! There's also the shitty old displays that you get in corporates.
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by firecall 5y ago
None of that is 'esoteric knowledge' knowledge! When you hire people you need to check for basic competence. I've hired plenty of FEDs and it's a nightmare, let me tell you! It's not about answering the questions as
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by firecall 5y ago
Twitter Threads are the absolute worst! Just write a blog post already! But I guess for better or worse, the Twitter Threads get people more internet points!
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by firecall 5y ago
Not the worst idea I've heard! So almost an Ad' Blocker for Spam Sites? Something that hides 'low quality' spam results from the SERPs. As an addition, I'd love to hide sites that just scrape Stack Overflow! How har
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by firecall 5y ago
Has anyone else noticed how much of a 'meme' Notion has become? It seems I'm constantly seeing templates for this, that and other all built in Notion! Are the Notion team doing an incredible astroturf marketing job? Is it peo
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by firecall 5y ago
It's all true. I can use Ubuntu, for instance, perfectly fine for web-dev. It's great. But in the end, I'm just fighting it. The UI/UX on todays Ubuntu and apps isn't as good as macOS was 10 years ago! And yes, I kn
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by firecall 5y ago
Late 40s: Life is hard and then you die Which is a useful concept to grasp! If you get it, maybe you learn to drop your ergo and focus. Nothing really matters, but feelings are real in the moment. So maybe you learn to do the right thing an
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by firecall 5y ago
This is Hacker News... So you'll need to do better than a collection of symptoms without any analysis to describe your experience! At least take a look at Activity Monitor, or run HTOP. Are your Kybrd, Mouse and Audio devices connected
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by firecall 5y ago
> Would those governments have been more forthright if one of their labs were to blame? I'd say maybe not. But the Chinese are a lot better at suppression! Defenestration is a very effective tool....
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by firecall 5y ago
I agree with that in many ways. However, I cant help but think that we do need to understand the causes of Covid-19. Our society should be able to prevent this kind of thing in future. Regardless of it's a Lab Leak or Natural Transmiss
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by firecall 5y ago
It really is. Even if you dont like the macOS GUI, I dont think any reasonable evaluation could call macOS 'crap overall'. Distros like Ubuntu, are excellent, but they just dont have feature parity with macOS.
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by firecall 5y ago
> Still think MacOS is crap overall though And you were doing so well! ;-) WRT M1 hardware, thats my experience too! I picked up an M1 Mac mini 8/256 on the Apple Refurb Store as a stop gap machine whilst I waited for the Pro laptop

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