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by gregmac 6y ago
Worse is certain code audits will find code that matches, and you have to sit in hours of discussions explaining why no in fact, that's not a copy, it's just basically the only way to escape quotes or call that library function or
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by gregmac 6y ago
Yeah, this is just a much better way to conduct meetings. I've been in many meeting rooms where there's a single projector/tv, and the person controlling it only shows either the remote cameras OR their screen (while they&#x2
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by gregmac 6y ago
Is that supposed to be disputing what the parent said? > Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuh
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by gregmac 6y ago
I think you can accomplish this by using the URL, and it would be significantly cleaner than the input pop-up. Instead of prompting for input, use URLs like http://collabuml.com/s/sessionName (the /s is just to gi
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by gregmac 6y ago
What does it have to be integrated in one app? Every git client (of the ~dozen I've used) stays synchronized. I regularly use a git GUI, terminal, and a client integrated in my ide, and it doesn't really matter where I do an opera
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by gregmac 6y ago
> A long time ago I did a bit of work on disaster alert systems. They’re not dissimilar to fire alarms. The engineered purpose of a fire alarm is not merely to let people know there is a fire. Many will have already perceived the fire. T
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by gregmac 6y ago
> The reality is that in-office workers have an inherent advantage when it comes to activities that require interaction between people, such as promotions or work assignments. I don't think those two things are an inherent advanta
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Slack CEO says Microsoft Teams only has 20% adoption rate(m.hindustantimes.com)
2 points by gregmac 7y ago|0 comments
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by gregmac 7y ago
I already use notepad++ this way. Mostly, it is my scratch pad for stuff until I figure out what to do with it (save in Evernote, create an issue, send email or slack message, etc). The killer feature that enables this is if you create a ne
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by gregmac 7y ago
"Bricked" is relative, depending on your skill level. For some consumers, if recovery mode doesn't work that might be the end of line. However, there are more advanced users that can access the storage via another system and
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by gregmac 7y ago
The Costco one is "installed". I can't tell if it's insulated, but it looks like it -- and that along with properly sealed doors/windows (like you'd have in your house), finished interior walls, electrical&#x2F
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by gregmac 7y ago
I honestly don't understand the 3rd party seller thing. I went from buying almost all PC parts from NewEgg (without even bothering to price shop), to pretty much avoiding the site entirely. If you look at almost any of the 3rd party se
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by gregmac 7y ago
SVC spatial and quality layers [1] sound like a really good solution to the bandwidth issue. From my (extremely limited) understanding, basically if you skip certain packets you get a lower resolution/quality stream. A client sends a s
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by gregmac 7y ago
> How could they guarantee end-to-end if not all gadgets support encryption?! They can't. So they shouldn't. > In light of this post it looks like for the majority of users it is end-to-end encrypted. It absolutely is not. W
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by gregmac 7y ago
Zoom! What are you doing?! > To be clear, in a meeting where all of the participants are using Zoom clients, and the meeting is not being recorded, we encrypt all video, audio, screen sharing, and chat content at the sending client, and
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by gregmac 7y ago
> Taking responsibility would be "We fired all our 'security' people who told us we had best-of-breed security, Based on what we know (not much) it's equally likely that their actual security experts completely unders
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by gregmac 7y ago
I've found the meetings I do have seem more productive with everyone remote. In my case, most meeting I attend always have someone remote. This also isn't entirely new to me, because my team has be unofficially practicing the &q
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by gregmac 7y ago
>> The problem with auto-generated voices in videos like this is as a viewer I can't distinguish between work that someone put deliberate production time into, and something churned out by a content farm. > If machine voiced v
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by gregmac 7y ago
From a technology point of view, this is really cool. From the view of someone that occasionally watches videos on YouTube, I am trying to figure out a nice way to say... I hate it. Or more specifically, I hate that it generates the voice,
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Covid-19 Testing Statistics(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by gregmac 7y ago|0 comments
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by gregmac 7y ago
I was dealing with a hard problem earlier this week, which I'm pretty sure was causing a thread to crash without logging anything, but the program to stay running. Unfortunately, only seen in production and only once every few days. Th
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by gregmac 7y ago
One thing I found quite striking was that they started allowing "optional WFH". Slack, which not only makes one of the main tools used to enable distributed work, but the most popular one, didn't allow remote work?? It'l
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by gregmac 7y ago
Consider the amount of effort collectively spent by people in that thread trying to justify not spending the time to modify a single line of code, where the fix is just to substitute in any other meaningless string placeholder. Any single p
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by gregmac 7y ago
I never see mention of Windows with Session Manager. I have a mixed infrastructure with a number of Windows (IIS) app servers running various things. We currently connect via SSH to a bastionhost, then tunnel from there to various systems,
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by gregmac 7y ago
Since there's already a pandemic, I'll assume when you're saying "pandemic" you mean more specifically "epidemic in the UK". Even then, there's some fallacy in your list. In the best case -- if action
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by gregmac 7y ago
Can someone explain the rationale of how this works? I don't get it. Does the small business take a loan (at 3.75%) to continue paying payroll, despite not having any income or any work for the employees to do? Or are all the laid-off
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by gregmac 7y ago
Yeah, I'm not sure if the original question was asked because of this, but I've had a couple conversations where we've compared the COVID-19 situation to Y2K. Even in this case, we have evidence of what happens from delaying
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by gregmac 7y ago
This is the one thing that I find lacking in trunk-based development. I work on multiple products that have a release branch for each minor release, and it works incredibly well other than this as a minor pain point. I find the easiest way
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by gregmac 7y ago
Is this even a bad thing? The users of this software are "professional" - they interact with it anywhere from dozens of times a day to literally their entire shift. As such, the primary UX concerns are going to be speed and accura
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Switching to Android after 13 years of iOS(swyx.io)
2 points by gregmac 7y ago|0 comments

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