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by gernb 4y ago
This just reminded me, resently I wanted to plug some things into a smart switch (you plug the switch into the wall, you plug something into the switch, you can now turn the thing on/off from your phone etc...) A year ago I bought a pa
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by gernb 4y ago
The value of interop is that every company will ask "Click here to allow us to access all your FB data". Agree that the article is full of hyperbole that makes it hard to take serious > Then there was the law: how could you imp
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by gernb 4y ago
The data isn't stuck. The data is available here https://archive.org/details/stackexchange It's the "official" place to get the data I've download it several times and extracted my own contribu
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by gernb 4y ago
Can I have the same for Micrsoft and Apple for both mobile and desktop? For Apple I get it's different since they don't have OEMs selling Macs/iPhones/iPads but I feel like many similar restrictions should apply Examples
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by gernb 4y ago
I went through dependency hell today. I wanted to start a new react project and someone who I was going to collaborate with said they wanted try storybook. Ok, follow the tutorial. It immediately spits out all these warnings warning "
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by gernb 4y ago
Having a good life outside of work is a great goal but I've been lucky enough that the first 25 years of my career I actually fully enjoyed going to work. I know people will dismiss this because of the reputation of the industry but I
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by gernb 4y ago
If you're sympathic to these types of ideas you might find these entertaining https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hwuRkJMo_4&list=PLBuns9Evn1... Sometimes I am and sometimes I'm not but I still find them entertai
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by gernb 4y ago
I have several married with kids friends that somehow seem to have plenty of time. One is president of 250 person company. He also writes small games for a personal website. One of his kids is old enough to participate in the creation I hav
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by gernb 4y ago
There's a ton of music apps on iOS including Garageband that comes with it. https://www.reasonstudios.com/mobile-apps https://ampifymusic.com/groovebox/ https://www.bandlab.com/ I
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by gernb 4y ago
I'd be curious if this holds up just viewing my friends kids. It seems from the outside, some enjoy their kids, some don't. Some have kids who are generally pleasant to be around, some don't. I've always wanted kids but
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by gernb 4y ago
My 2 cents, 1. I think if you don't want your code re-used in CoPilot you should have that right 2. I think if CoPilot gets smart enough that it can read your open source code and then reproduce the algorithms without copying your code
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by gernb 4y ago
what happened with auto looms is cloth became cheap which allowed more people to have clothing and expanded the fashion industry by 1000x Sure glad thse Luddites didn't get their way
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by gernb 4y ago
short programs that do something interesting https://dwitter.net https://www.google.com/search?q=bytebeat https://twitter.com/hashtag/tweetcart https://www.pouet.net/prodlis
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by gernb 4y ago
nothing. But if you go to a website, like nytimes.com, it knows your ip address, etc... that's also true of google.com, and ads served by google on nytimes.com
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by gernb 4y ago
Chrome has a guest user. Like incognito, the moment you close it deletes everything. https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/6130773 Some OSes, MacOS for instance, also have a guest mode for the entire OS. By def
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by gernb 4y ago
None. The issue is websites still collect data. Like the website knows your ip address, your time zone, and the website can fingerprint to some extent. That includes Google.com, not via Chrome when in incognito mode, but via the fact that y
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by gernb 4y ago
Pro-Tip #2, their website will tell you aisle #1, location # for every item and usually if it's in stock
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by gernb 4y ago
Ikea has solid wood furniture. Their sofas, at least the one I bought, the frame was solid wood. The table and benches I bought from them was solid wood. Some dinning room table and chairs I bought from them were solid wood. The kitchen isl
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by gernb 4y ago
Well, if the code reviewers had correctly disallowed adding all those deps to node_modules then you wouldn't be in this situation. :P I'm only half joking. :P
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by gernb 4y ago
I went ~25yrs into my coding career without code review and without tests. I wrote games, several AAA games, play testers found bugs, but otherwise there was no code based tests and no code review, none, zero, zilch. From 1983 to around 200
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by gernb 4y ago
> 4. Over time, everything degrades. In the long run, many framework-free applications either get walled off as "legacy" apps with new work done in separate services, or replaced outright. If it makes you money before that happ
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by gernb 4y ago
Aren't there several companies that do that ? Maybe https://wavexr.com/ for example?
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by gernb 4y ago
reminds me of https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KPUlgSRn6e0 but not very easy depending on where you live
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by gernb 4y ago
This is great but it requires lots of "geek" (installing dependencies, borking your system with brew, etc...) Vs DiffusionBee which just works https://diffusionbee.com/ Maybe the two projects can merge?
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by gernb 4y ago
These are all good points ... but, it's hard for me to totally accept what I perceive to be the premise. Let's imagine perfect VR (the Matrix). Would it be better to play Mahjong, Poker, Blackjack, Chess, pick your favorite board
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by gernb 4y ago
VR Games I enjoyed from a sofa/chair Trover saves the Universe: This even makes fun of the fact that you're stuck in a chair. You're called a Chairorian. No Man's Sky: Most of the time you sit in a pilot's seat Astr
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by gernb 4y ago
This is not meant to be snarky or demeaning but it's hard to judge something has bad in general by "but if you're in a wheelchair". Most of life is not friendly to wheelchairs. My shower, my kitchen sink, the top half of
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by gernb 4y ago
or from a string https://jsfiddle.net/ne0z6a7p/
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by gernb 4y ago
Meh, so many things have broken on the web over the years, the "Don't break the web" is kind of bs AFAICT. I've had to re-do so many things that were working when I shipped them but stopped because Chrome or Firefox or S
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by gernb 4y ago
Somewhat agreed. Basically I found most people learn to like the music of their latest romantic partner. I think partly it's just familiarity. There are plenty of "classics" I didn't really like when they came out but no

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