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by geor9e 2y ago
I will never use EOM, as a matter of principle. Niche jargon removes friction for a minority, and adds friction for a majority who are forced to google it. I do send one liner emails, but with a blank subject. For most email apps they show
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by geor9e 2y ago
Interesting. So the browser knows your browsing history like every browser does, but it uses it to share some distilled data. Yeah, I definitely don't want that. Looks like I already totally disabled it though, so I'm good I guess
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by geor9e 2y ago
>who actually can't be their own doctors for obvious reasons. Is it weird that I, thought by many to be a smart and worldly person, have zero clue what any of those "obvious" reasons would be? I have an engineering degree
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by geor9e 2y ago
It doesn't seem unusual to folks, because marketing teams circulate that number for the dozens of banks and startups salivating for your blood, I mean business. I'd advise you to do the compounding math in a spreadsheet to see wha
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by geor9e 2y ago
You might be completely right - stocks have historically had famous crashes. But they've always recovered in time, because they represent ownership in productive businesses. A great tool to see the exact numbers for stocks over the las
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by geor9e 2y ago
That's not Chrome's browsing history - that's an ad network, adsense, profiling you, via cookies/ip/digital fingerprinting, across every website that serves it's ads. It's like logging into facebook and sa
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by geor9e 2y ago
Chrome Sync (i.e. saving your history + everything else to the cloud so it syncs to all your devices) is an optional setting. Microsoft Edge has the same thing under another name. Safari does too.
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by geor9e 2y ago
It always baffles me when my highly paid engineering coworkers refuse to manage their own investment portfolios and insist that a professional needs to do it. All you have to do is buy a Vanguard index fund ETF at Interactive Brokers or som
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by geor9e 2y ago
You call them Chrome extensions, but they're really Chromium extensions that work on Edge, Opera, Brave, Vivaldi, Arc, etc. Those teams contribute code to the Chromium open source project too. Sure, whoever takes over Chrome won't
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by geor9e 2y ago
Capable is a interesting word choice. Capable means something meets a bare minimum for success. A and B are great. C is fantastic. D is arguably first class. E is capable. When making a free choice, I want the best one, so any lackluster re
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by geor9e 2y ago
Most English sentences can be read in different ways with different meanings, so one must always gage the probability that the author is rational and intended that meaning probably no: (successfully) prevents (all) unauthorized copying prob
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by geor9e 2y ago
At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
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by geor9e 2y ago
Oh, right. I've always had developer mode enabled to just sideload any extension without the store, so I forget about the current store V3 only drama.
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by geor9e 2y ago
Another option is Google Docs via Tools > Preferences > Enable Markdown
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by geor9e 2y ago
At a certain point, one must take responsibility for clicking "a scroll bar buddy that walks down the page when you scroll" and then being faced with exactly what it said.
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by geor9e 2y ago
It seems the author has now implemented this. Now people like me just see a pointless page of lorem ipsum. I feel like demos can be exempted from filters like this, especially when you can only get to the demo via a clearly worded link. The
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by geor9e 2y ago
Its interesting that most of Hacker News seems to use Firefox, which is such an obscure browser at this point, with just 3% market share. Now they're fleeing to even more obscure browsers. It's noble of them to incubate the compet
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by geor9e 2y ago
I think you're overcomplicating it. I assume you created this markdown file and I assume you have a preview render that shows it the way you like it to be shown. So just hit the print button, and in the print dialog select save as PDF.
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by geor9e 2y ago
It's not really a "switch" type of decision for me. That implies friction or commitment. I have every major browser installed, like a bowl of different flavored jelly beans. I pick whichever I want that day. Firefox isn'
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by geor9e 2y ago
I think the issue is Hacker News users are so deep in the space that they're surrounded by AI noise at work every day and might even be forced to use it every day. So they've essentially accepted that it's a useful invention.
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by geor9e 2y ago
Maybe a lot of things will happen. I'll downgrade when I'm forced to, and not a day earlier.
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by geor9e 2y ago
>Anyone can write programs. Anyone can play the violin. Anyone can run a marathon. Anyone can … People who spent their lifetime never quite able to sit down and write programs, for whatever reasons (time, focus, foundational knowledge, a
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by geor9e 2y ago
Or the third option "you can still make them work by clicking "Manage extension" and toggling it back"
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by geor9e 2y ago
That's neat. I'm not sure why you think hearing about this first makes you smart though, or me an idiot. Weird thing to say. I used to get G5 battery changes from a lady on Facebook who would drill and epoxy the transmitter. Once
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by geor9e 2y ago
It seems absurd that hair thin thread costs more than a whole assembly of permanent magnets and copper coiled in a stator. Just thinking from first principles. Whats driving the cost? The processing? For scale, Omnipod only makes this one p
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by geor9e 2y ago
It's pretty cheap https://www.sparkfun.com/muscle-wire-0-005-diameter-1-foot.h... It's not the wire that's precise here - it just provides enough force to get a the stamped metal piece over the tooth of the p
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by geor9e 2y ago
If you like this, you might like the Omnipod teardown as well. It's what pairs with continuous glucose monitors. It's an entire insulin pump that you throw away every three days, so the engineering to make the parts that cheap is
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by geor9e 2y ago
On the G4 through G6 generation of Dexcom sensor, there is a trick to restart the timer. So I regularly get about 20 days per sensor. The limiting factor is really just the sticker peeling off. So you have to put some kinesiology tape over
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by geor9e 2y ago
Yeah, battery life was never a problem. The Dexcom G4 battery lasted like seven months. I've heard of some people claim they can keep a sensor going a few months, by restarting the transmitter, but they're definitely outliers. For
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by geor9e 2y ago
So xDrip was created to completely skip the Dexcom APIs. With G4 we used a wixel microcontroller, to pass the proprietary radio signal to bluetooth. We'd carry it in our pockets in a tiktac case with a lipo. A graph of our blood sugar

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