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by gregmac 5y ago
> interrupting people for a realtime conversation is a feature people want and use Really? I'm dumbstruck by this sentiment. I've never met or even heard someone express they like being interrupted with a unsolicited, unexpec
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by gregmac 5y ago
High school science still (afaik) teaches the Bohr model [1] of the atom, because it works well enough for that level. This also leads to a great moment the next year when the teacher leads off with something along the lines of "Rememb
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by gregmac 5y ago
How many HN readers actually answer their phones anymore? Personally, I pretty much never answer calls from unknown numbers, unless I am specifically expecting a call (eg: from a service company coming to the house, or calling back about an
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by gregmac 5y ago
If "usually" PRs result in code style or architecture discussions, I'd suggest you have a team problem, not a process one. Start with the humans. I also object to spotting bugs as an example of misuse. I regularly point out
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by gregmac 5y ago
Have you tried to buy a GPU lately?
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by gregmac 5y ago
This has a strong possibility of making things worse by conditioning the human driver to react with "oh, it's just the auto-pilot testing me", and thus not reacting properly when it does actually malfunction.
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by gregmac 5y ago
While a good point, if the content is important to you, then you should take appropriate measures to back it up. People should really consider storing their data only on a cloud provider that they don't pay for as equivalent to stori
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by gregmac 5y ago
I totally agree; I personally hate this style of code! However, people still write it (in the same way they screw up tabs+spaces), and in some code bases it's "the style" they use. I've also seen a lot of SQL and LINQ (C
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by gregmac 5y ago
I think this is what drives a lot of the workflow usability issues with JIRA. A bug not being tested fully, a developer working on a ticket that a PM didn't approve, a fix with no time logged... these are organizational problems. Yet t
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by gregmac 5y ago
For me the problem happens as soon as tabs are used for alignment, instead of just indent. The benefit of tabs is custom tabstop. If anyone does anything that undermines that benefit, you might as well use spaces to avoid all the problems c
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by gregmac 5y ago
My team doesn't really argue about points next to each other (on the Fibonacci scale) anymore, we just pick by majority and move on. The conversation is meaningful when it's about 3 vs 8 because exactly as you say, there probably
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by gregmac 5y ago
When prioritizing, it's not always obvious which items are big vs small. How do you provide that feedback to PM during prioritization? Sometimes implementing what should be a simple feature requires a month of refactoring some old tech
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by gregmac 5y ago
True, but that still might be desirable if there's a new cable standard that is otherwise compatible -- beats making the entire laptop obsolete. As a thought experiment: If the Framework laptop existed prior to USB-C PD, it would have
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by gregmac 5y ago
In the future if another alternative to USB-C PD arrives, you could presumably swap out to that module (of course, presuming it's otherwise compatible with the internals). Also, is there any reason to believe someone wouldn't make
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by gregmac 5y ago
This is one of the key things I remember from when I was first learning to drive: Don't actually think about turning the steering wheel; just look to where you want to go and let the steering happen.
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by gregmac 5y ago
Much simpler is to just paste to a terminal: REG ADD HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search /v BingSearchEnabled /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f REG ADD HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search
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by gregmac 5y ago
> I might be onboard with a law that requires cameras and microphones to have a power indicator. Specifically, the LED should be hard-wired into the main power wire going into the camera/mic, so that it will activate any time those
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by gregmac 5y ago
I've been yelled at for taking out things besides a laptop, including a tablet with a keyboard case. I'm not even clear what the issue was; it was just a general "don't take your tablet out!!" as if it was an obviou
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by gregmac 5y ago
> Now it's crept up to 15-20% and spread to a lot of jobs that you didn't think of for tips (e.g., somebody handing you a coffee) because wages suck. A couple days ago I had my oil changed at once of those drive-through places
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by gregmac 5y ago
It's unfortunate because jira can be quite good: the key is minimal restrictions, and building out super-flexible workflow that allows almost any state transitions. It took me a couple years of using it with admin access to figure th
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by gregmac 5y ago
There's a lot of accidental "features" in products, enabled by users coming up with novel (unexpected and/or unpredicted) ways to do things. It reminds me a lot of this: https://xkcd.com/1172/ A lot
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by gregmac 5y ago
+1 for dehydrated [1]. Aside from being able to run basically anywhere, it is very easy to script: Create a file with the list of domains you want, and run `dehydrated --cron`. dehydrated will obtain certs and/or modify existing and&#x
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by gregmac 5y ago
> Contactless is very hit-or-miss for me in the US; about 1/3 the time it just doesn't work at all That's a shockingly high number. I'm in Canada, and I'd take a rough guess that maybe 1-2% of taps fail on first
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You're Doing IoT RNG(labs.bishopfox.com)
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by gregmac 5y ago
Actually I totally agree with that. I was being generous in my example, and often what I showed as "Warning" is just a informational-level message. This leads to much more insidious problems like: ....(thousand of lines)...
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by gregmac 5y ago
What often happens is you get a log like (contrived example): Warning: http timeout to package server 1 Warning: could not find x in package server 2 ..(several lines later).. Warning: could not find dependency x in cache
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by gregmac 5y ago
Yes exactly that, plus it ignores .log, .db and core.restore_state. I should note I specifically use this for doing source control of configuration and making it easy to manually edit -- I have an entirely separate process for backups of
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by gregmac 5y ago
One of my unconventional uses is to sync my HomeAssistant configuration to my desktop, where I have it in a git repository. I can edit manually from my desktop, and/or manage from the HomeAssistant UI, and either way, commit discrete,
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by gregmac 5y ago
A significant issue with this is simply designing a study or a way of measuring. First of all, define "bug". Is that a ticket filed in a system? What about the "bug" that was found and fixed by the developer testing it a
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by gregmac 5y ago
Only initially. I guess maybe I wasn't clear in my original post, but my idea was always that the system would remember any authorized device (presumably by VID+PID+capabilities, but maybe also serial or other identifying info if the d

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