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by fredsted 6y ago
A little off-topic, but maybe someone can answer this. I sometimes use Excel when I want to see a CSV file formatted nicely, but apparently Excel has bad support for CSV files, opening them unparsed (e.g. each line of the CSV taking up a si
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by fredsted 6y ago
Yeah, one could make a similar argument with self-hosting: How the data is transferred physically through undersea optical cables, how internet routing works and the complexity of it down to how the hardware underlying his Nextcloud install
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by fredsted 6y ago
Don't use Paypal, or you risk randomly losing your money.
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by fredsted 6y ago
It's back up now :) (Webhook.site owner here)
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by fredsted 6y ago
I used to have a pod machine, and just found it didn't make very good coffee. It didn't really taste like espresso. In fact, it didn't taste very good at all. After that, I started using a french press, which was nice, but I
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by fredsted 6y ago
Of course it runs NetBSD.
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by fredsted 6y ago
Interesting bit: > The program which synced the host list generated by consul template with the HAProxy server state had a bug. It always attempted to find a slot for new webapp instances before it freed slots taken up by old webapp inst
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by fredsted 6y ago
Honestly surprised (and disappointed) about all the climate change denial on this site.
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by fredsted 6y ago
Your experience certainly sounds bad, but none of this is normal; mail sound, USB-C cable brittleness, 1password slowness, all of it works nicely for me.
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by fredsted 6y ago
It's time to refactor London.
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by fredsted 6y ago
Ha, I imagine it would have been almost a fulltime job to prevent takeovers on large Efnet channels!
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by fredsted 6y ago
Reminds me of taking over channels on IRC :)
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by fredsted 6y ago
Making it harder also heightens the bar so low-quality or malicious apps don't get in.
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by fredsted 6y ago
I wonder if most developers that trash on PHP for trivial issues like seen in this thread haven't been using it for many years, or had a bad experience (e.g. maintaining a legacy app). Some developers live in a kind of technical vacuum
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by fredsted 6y ago
I guess it depends. As a solo entrepreneur, I do it all the time, because I care about my customers. Working at Instagram, probably not, since it wouldn't be my job to handle support.
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by fredsted 6y ago
I think it's worth acknowledging over your customers that the bug has caused them lost time or other kinds of issues. Whether you do that with an apology, it doesn't really matter, but I know I'd personally feel better when a
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by fredsted 6y ago
> utterly unconvincing Why?
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by fredsted 7y ago
Sure, I guess you can also do that. I'd still advise to not go out and "fix" everything the minute you boot up OS X. It's worth learning how and why it works before you hack it.
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by fredsted 7y ago
It's honestly not that bad, but I'd advise to go into it with an open mind. A lot of switchers get angry at macOS when their habits from other systems don't work with it (e.g. wanting to maximize all the windows)
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by fredsted 7y ago
Feels like Apple is just continually making the Safari browser worse. I think they just want to push people towards native apps so they have full control. Apple always wants control. First they prevented plugins like uBlock, made it very ex
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by fredsted 7y ago
Depends on the environment. You can easily run Docker containers on the new Air.
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by fredsted 7y ago
12" MacBook with the i5 or i7 (it's rare now, though). I've made do with the m3 version and while PHPStorm runs slow, it's bearable.
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by fredsted 7y ago
lol, he confused gigabits with gigabytes
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by fredsted 7y ago
Embrace, extend, extinguish?
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by fredsted 7y ago
I mean, yes, that seems like how you would do it. If you've lived in your city for a while I don't think you'd really need maps all that often. I still remember printing out routes in the age before GPS! Also, regarding texts
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by fredsted 7y ago
It has happened on several different monitors and MacBooks, even putting it to sleep and waking it can sometimes switch them, so I have to go into System Preferences and drag 'em around.
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by fredsted 7y ago
Not sure what the issue is either, once you add the necessary permissions for your apps, it doesn't ask again. Only complaint is Apple seem to ignore long-standing bugs that have been there for years, like monitors switching around eve
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by fredsted 7y ago
I operate a "electronically supplied services" hobby company, https://webhook.site , and I just didn't want to deal with VAT payments to individual EU member countries. So I switched from Stripe to Paddle, who hand
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by fredsted 7y ago
Good points. Difficult and unforeseen issues like these are exactly why you'd use a framework of some kind, where thousands of users have already tested and fixed various issues.
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by fredsted 7y ago
Just something to bring up as idle conversation around the water cooler.

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