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Hardware Microphone Disconnect in Mac and iPad(support.apple.com)
771 points by gtufano 7y ago|312 comments
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by gtufano 7y ago
"sorcio" is a synonym (Centre Italy dialectal version, but understandable everywhere) for mouse (topo, in standard Italian), "sorcia" is the feminine and the feminine of mouse is often used (in the various dialectal vers
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by gtufano 7y ago
It's "lock rotation", not "lock portrait". If you have the device in landscape when you lock it, it will lock in landscape.
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by gtufano 7y ago
Telco operators could, that also already have network capabilities too. At least in Italy they actively try to. They are definitely inefficient, so I’ve not seen any actual result, but in some other country they could succeed.
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by gtufano 7y ago
Yeah, as literally anyone but who's using US or UK keyboards. :)
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by gtufano 7y ago
I'm always baffled by the way US (and on a lesser degree UK) people see schools. My (EU/Italian) point of view is that's something that could be improved (like anything) but not the evil I see through your words. There must b
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by gtufano 7y ago
It still works.
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by gtufano 8y ago
Beware that I deployed it in an enterprise environment (after a successful pilot and having used it successfully on my, small, network for months) and it often failed when tasked with rapidly changing files from multiple different clients.
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by gtufano 8y ago
I'm not sure if this is a good thing... You're basically conditioning yourself to not read anything that lasts more than 20 seconds...
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by gtufano 8y ago
It is free also in Rome for kids under 10 years
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by gtufano 8y ago
Aerodynamic of cars has changed, but I noticed almost the same reduction in number of insects on myself during my motorbike trips. 30 years ago after some hundred kilometers you had to wash the jacket, now there are just a couple bugs. To b
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by gtufano 8y ago
399 USD + VAT (EU prices are tax included) is ~399€ (after adding also the premium for "consumer protection laws").
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by gtufano 8y ago
I had LASEK 13 years ago and it still goes smoothly. I'm now 52 so I have presbyopia but, beside that, I still have almost perfect vision. The only drawback is that, as other also said, the pain in the immediate after surgery was horri
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by gtufano 8y ago
I have an MC68000 User's Manual edited by Prentice-Hall with the HP logo (and an HP 9800 Computer Systems sub-title) that says December 1981.
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by gtufano 9y ago
The study links to this tool (from the same authors) that seems interesting: https://fdvt.org
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by gtufano 9y ago
At least here in Italy/Europe, beside the "tech bubble", people is vaguely aware that FB is collecting information about them but they are sure "there is nothing they can do with my data beside showing me some silly ad&q
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by gtufano 9y ago
Of course they were forbidden, as it was every not authorized device. The physical security was tight. I just entered it during the building, before the certification (I was in a manager role in the building)
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by gtufano 9y ago
Years ago I was in the same building during the installation of a "NATO standard" (whatever that means) environment suitable for developing sensitive software, and the air gap was indeed pretty large, the entire 2 rooms were air g
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by gtufano 9y ago
VPN and RDP is a task you can do easily on iOS (VPN is embedded in system and Microsoft RDP client is very good, and free). There are serious real limits in using iPad+keyboard for work, but not VPN and RDP.
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by gtufano 9y ago
That's because the privacy implication of the technology should be part of the discussions on the technology... technology is not neutral, the way its used and the privacy implications are significant.
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by gtufano 9y ago
> In Europe, the 'no hate speech' idea has very quickly expanded the concept of hate speech to include any rightwing opinion around certain topics (mostly religion and immigration related). That's because last time rightwi
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by gtufano 9y ago
Yes, only with bluetooth earphones, 64K stereo only, just a single playlist that's synced with Music on the phone (last time I tried, at least).
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One man in a tiny Irish town could derail Apple’s plans for Europe(news.vice.com)
1 points by gtufano 9y ago|0 comments
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by gtufano 9y ago
I understand that the bookmark feature of NSURL is (more or less, but most more) the same. cit: "Whereas path- and file reference URLs are potentially fragile between launches of your app, a bookmark can usually be used to re-create a
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by gtufano 9y ago
You're right on most accounts but (and it's a big but) there is a world between SUNW lush-y experience, events, "primadonnas" and Oracle's "it's just extorting money from customers locked-in in any case so
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by gtufano 10y ago
I was just asking myself what the T-shaped skills were...
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by gtufano 10y ago
The changes on L-1, E-2 and B1 visas could seriously affect SV talent recruiting. It is a very significant change, in any case. edit: I'm mistaken, it seems... sorry.
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by gtufano 10y ago
Using Chrome and Atom (HTML/JS) applications takes its toll on batteries...
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by gtufano 10y ago
Yes it's possible, but it leaves a red band on top (like the blue band of hotspot active. You can see it with Shazam (or equivalent) after you quit it for a few moment (just before the system kills it).
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by gtufano 10y ago
True. The OS layer you write (and port to other OSes) is called "the standard library". :-)

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