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by funkymike 9y ago
Plunge is probably what was meant.
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That can be okay. Depending on the nature of the library it might legitimately be "done." Personally, I would rather see this than a bug fix being committed every week. That makes me question how many more bugs there are and how m
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by funkymike 9y ago
I wonder if a big part of the difference is that HN has only one stream of postings. If there were a HN-politics, HN-tech, etc. each may end up as an echo chamber like reddit.
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I've tried to get my mom to use KeePass with limited success. To her having her easily guessable passwords written in a little notebook next to the computer is fine. I think a prerequisite is getting buy in on the idea that passwords n
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by funkymike 9y ago
A bigger issue is blindly executing "curl ... | sh -" for something you are going to use to generate passwords (though it's bad in general).
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by funkymike 9y ago
I gave up on dual booting on a regular basis when Windows 10, once again, turned fast startup back on with a forced update. Now I use linux for everything at home. Windows 10 is basically malware at this point.
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by funkymike 9y ago
Even better is to create a .inputrc configuration file. This is used by readline so it will affect your shell and some other utilities. You can do even more in there too. For example I use this: set editing-mode vi # Up and down arro
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by funkymike 9y ago
Imagine if your browser history was local but every time you use the history feature to revisit a page that URL was sent to Mozilla. How private is that really? The Pocket code tells Mozilla what ads are being shown and which are clicked on
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Perhaps then the best lesson he has to teach is that execution (with a bit of luck) is more important than the idea.
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This is a genuine question. What value does bitcoin have if not as a currency? What use case is there?
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Really, it's that there is a menu, but they won't show it to you, only tell you when you ask for something they won't serve. "What would you like to eat today?" "A bacon cheeseburger with cheddar, with lettuce,
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by funkymike 9y ago
I have an example that illustrates this. Just this morning I stopped at McDonald's for breakfast. I gave my order, they entered it, and it showed up correctly on the screen at the drive through. However, the order taker read back somet
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A good day is when I delete more code than I add.
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You've hit on what I see as the big problem with stop signs in the US - they are inconsistent. Sometimes they are used at intersections where failing to stop is very dangerous, but much more often they are used when a yield sign would
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This is my tactic as well. If I can't trust them to know they have the right of way and use it, then I won't trust them enough to put myself in front of their vehicle. That goes for driving as well as walking.
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by funkymike 9y ago
The non-existence of free has huge policy implications. There are many discussions of this. For example the top result on Google for me looking for "free will justice punishment" was this: https://www.orlandocriminaldef
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by funkymike 9y ago
How many of those relationships only survived before due to lies? They could simply be lies of omission, never really saying to family and friends that their opinions are bonkers. In some sense this is at least more honest. Whether that is
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What would excite me about VR is a game like Morrowind. While it is first person, it's not exactly a shooter. The only teleportation is fast travel, but that could even use a World of Warcraft style where instead of teleporting you jus
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by funkymike 9y ago
I took it to mean that it is feasible. Instead of saying "well we used the wrong language, I guess we're screwed," you rewrite one component at a time, piece by piece, until the whole has been replaced. This is the approach I
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While it is a bit of time invested initially it can be very handy to keep a Windows VM around for this purpose. Make sure to keep a baseline snapshot after patching. This way you can install questionable software with full confidence it won
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That doesn't explain why a 20 year old movie will pop up on a streaming service for a few months then be unavailable again. Clearly they can sort these issues out. The content companies are stuck in a model of artificial scarcity. For
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by funkymike 9y ago
Both water bottles and grocery bags are recyclable. While the grocery store I go to the most removed the grocery bag recycling bins they used to have, I believe they are still accepted at the Target stores around town, along with other type
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by funkymike 9y ago
LinkedIn's purpose is not to help you as a worker. It's purpose is to scrape together as much personal information about people as possible to make money from it. Likewise Facebook doesn't exist to help connect people togethe
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I was thinking about this today after hearing a report on the radio this morning on this topic. Hospitals end up throwing away large amounts of drugs each year due to expiration, potentially hundreds of millions of dollars - although there
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by funkymike 9y ago
I have a bad habit of staying up too late at night. What has been helping me is instead of from thinking about the last time I did so and was tired the next day I try to imagine tomorrow's me, and think of how much better I will feel i
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I'm not aware of a single company in the city where I live that provides such perks. Some companies might offer a few, but not at Google or Facebook's level. This is in a metro area with over a million people.
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You may even save more than the hour commute. When I work from home I also eat lunch at home. Since I normally go out to eat just to get away from the office for a little while that's even more time before I get home vs. being done for
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This can go the other way as well. If developers can target WSL and run on both Linux and Windows it increases their user base. This could end up making it easier for users to move away from Windows since one of the big hurdles is software
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The arguments against allowing voice calls are not based on the technology but the idea of not wanting to listen to other people's conversations. > Pai told USA TODAY in a statement. “Taking it off the table permanently will be a vi
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I recall at least one instance where my mom stopped at a UAC prompt wondering what it meant. Her calling me to verify what it was doing saved her from installing some malware. So anecdotally those prompts are not completely useless. She is

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