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by grvbck 2y ago
Unless you are Kai Krause and very determined to make some users love your GUI while the rest scream in agony.
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by grvbck 2y ago
> Headphones had to cross that barrier Even mobile phones! I'm old enough to remember the first "popular" models in the 80's, like the Ericsson Hotline. Sure, the phone might've been cool, but the people using th
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by grvbck 2y ago
Turning off Siri is the first thing I do on every new Apple device I get. Too many "Siri, play my gym playlist" -> "Sure, calling your boss" at 9 pm on a Sunday.
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by grvbck 2y ago
I'm still on iPhone 7+… It gets a new battery every 2-3 years and works great. I love how it has a big screen but feels much smaller and thinner in my pocket than any modern iPhone. I was really looking forward to this new "SE4&qu
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by grvbck 2y ago
> The worst thing a corporation is likely to do (other than giving your data to governments) is to sell you something. That's all they want. That's not all they want. Just look at some recent scandals, like Cambridge Analytica.
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by grvbck 2y ago
Valid question though, and the answer to what I think you wanted to know is >3 months: > the clams are “paid back after three months of work by releasing them to a place from which they will never be caught again”. [---] this is done
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by grvbck 2y ago
Also, trojan rats: > During WWII, British Special Forces considered stuffing dead rats with explosives and dispersing them over Germany. They hoped that the Germans would gather the rats and dispose of them in industrial furnaces, produc
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by grvbck 2y ago
One of my pet peeves is when rules counteract the purpose they are supposed to serve, usually because of incompetence. Two years ago, I worked for a few months for a company where time reporting was accessed through a specific web page. The
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by grvbck 2y ago
> What projects in developed countries have used cut and cover recently? Not really a new project, but parts of the subway in Stockholm are cut and cover. One of those tunnels (from the 1930s) has been leaking in water for some years and
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by grvbck 2y ago
> when I look for more elsewhere I can't find anything. The project's official sites: https://www.ivlv.org/en/project/legufoam/ https://www.ivv.fraunhofer.de/en/food/pas
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by grvbck 2y ago
> The energy when he played Comfortably Numb was absolutely indescribable. Also, the unbelieveable rendition with David Bowie in Royal Albert Hall in 2006. Bowie singing between the notes but in perfect key, Gilmour's solo grittier
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by grvbck 2y ago
> His site is up at https://mskv.in/ and if the folks here have feedback Very impressive! I loved the hangman game, and the cool graphics. A cool addition for next version would be some kind of visual progress (or anti-p
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by grvbck 2y ago
Exactly. D+1 for every digit.
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by grvbck 2y ago
Greetings from Sweden. Before switching to European standard 112 in 1996, the emergency number was… 90 000. Three reasons for that: 1) Unlike most other countries, the Swedish dials had the number nine, and not zero, at the end. So "90
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by grvbck 2y ago
I used electrical pvc tape for many years on my macbooks, no damage but I got tired of them leaving glue residue. Switched to post-its about 10 years ago, works perfectly. I've never tried them on a matte or coated screen though.
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by grvbck 2y ago
> Lonelier individuals were also more likely to use unusual language when describing well-known celebrities and to describe them in ways that were not typical for their group. How is that surprising? If they are lonely, they are not part
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by grvbck 2y ago
Yup, there is a legal concept called excessive self-defense.
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by grvbck 2y ago
> that can output devices you could 3D print Make it analog all the way by hooking it up directly to a lathe or milling machine.
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by grvbck 2y ago
> let’s say just couple of years ? Not a couple of years. The Voyagers have been doing around 38 000 mph since the late 1970's. That is rougly 17 km/s. The proposed Interstellar Probe mission aims to do 20 km/s or slightly
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by grvbck 2y ago
> you basically don't have GPS or a ton of other features in the main cameras from Japan I'm just a happy amateur photographer, but this fact has been annoying the sanity out of me for over a decade now. Mobile phones are takin
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A Definitive Guide to External Displays on macOS(griffindavidson.com)
4 points by grvbck 2y ago|0 comments
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by grvbck 2y ago
Then we had fiber (FTTH) installed in my building, the installation company delivering the routers wrote everybody's router username, password and SSID with a whiteboard marker on the outside of the door, "to make the installation
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by grvbck 2y ago
OS X used to have iPhoto, which was a really decent app in the days of early digital photography. Until Apple decided to replace it with a more "streamlined" Photos app, by removing a lot of features. I guess a lot of the editing
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by grvbck 2y ago
10-15 years ago most of the videography freelancers I worked with were on FCP. A few used Premiere. Today, almost all of them are on DaVinci. My sample size here is small, but yeah, from my horizon FCP is starting to look abandoned.
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by grvbck 2y ago
Also remember that some of those have been crippled in the past. iMovie used to be way more advanced. Older versions of Pages had (pretty basic but still) layout options that were completely removed. It's also not impossible that Apple
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by grvbck 2y ago
Never said there was. No system is foolproof, and a lot of today's security is so good that the users usually are the weakest links in a system. Still, some are more secure than others and there's a difference between a person bei
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by grvbck 2y ago
Left it running overnight. Set output to 512x512 in an attempt to speed things up. Nothing.
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by grvbck 2y ago
That was the result of social engineering though, not iCloud being compromised. AFAIK it was a phishing scam, asking the victims for their usernames and passwords.
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by grvbck 2y ago
This! It could also have a cool, youthful design, to match the iMacs. Why not round, like a hockey puck.
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by grvbck 2y ago
> A deck only has 52 cards, but you shuffle it properly, it's essentially guaranteed that nobody in human history has ended up with the same order as you just did. That fact still messes me up every time! Like, I know very well that

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