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by hnbear 3y ago
If you watched the video they said that existing peripherals will work too, including game controllers, keyboards, touchpads, etc. It’s a battery with magnetic attachment for power. I wonder how hard they’ll push having multiple batteries t
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by hnbear 3y ago
Depending on the role and company there might be legal limitations, regardless of hiring manager views on the crime. For example, working at a software firm focused on trading and financial systems we had contractual requirements to never s
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by hnbear 3y ago
http://www.vicemo.com/ Sadly looks like it stopped updating.
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by hnbear 3y ago
'Karp also said that while Palantir has had conversations about the platform with “hundreds” of potential partners', where it's clear partners means customers. Pretty worrying that there are hundreds of customers out there th
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by hnbear 3y ago
Interesting - I get far more Google Docs links than O365, although that's just anecdata. MS is still around, and huge, but in a less obviously pervasive and all dominant way. LinkedIn isn't branded as MS, and I don't remember
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by hnbear 3y ago
Yes, definitely, although what I meant to say, and forgot was that Android is the second mobile OS, and Microsoft doesn't even register.
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by hnbear 3y ago
One small tangent: “Microsoft realized how lucrative platforms are when it made a lot of money selling MS-DOS licenses in the 1980s, and we are all familiar with the history of Windows and Internet Explorer.” The story of Microsoft’s late 8
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by hnbear 3y ago
This seems like such a failing in both sides. DD for letting an obviously huge and important client run up a bill so crazy they have to quit DD out of shame and governance. CB for demonstrating a complete failure of financial management, ve
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by hnbear 3y ago
This is where my own internal rubric for tipping starts to break down. The delineation between "sat at a table and got service", and "payed at a counter to be handed something prepared" has a middle grey area for things
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by hnbear 3y ago
I'm curious what evidence you provided, or were certified to provide, or even if that's required for medical data. Coming from the financial field we often had staff want to do fun and destructive things with data storage as part
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by hnbear 3y ago
If I don't want to generate a lot of mess, broken glass and heavy metal residue, does anyone have a recommendation for an affordable service to securely shred old devices in a trusted and transparent way? Commercially I've used so
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by hnbear 3y ago
Apple in the 90s didn’t net itself on a single product. Apple bet on a ton of products. Then they almost all failed to generate good returns, whether good, bad or average.
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by hnbear 3y ago
Did you read it in an RSS reader? Using NNW swallows the titles on this blog in the render mode.
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by hnbear 3y ago
Back in CRT days I was given a tiny desktop fishtank with plastic fish that swam in it. I turned it on and my screen image started gently moving around. The fish swam with magnets and having the little tank next to the screen was causing th
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by hnbear 3y ago
Recently in a conversation with my daughter (16) taking about how much cash she had on hand to spend I was confused until I realized her use of “wallet” meant Apple Wallet, and physical cash is something off in her room in a drawer somewher
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by hnbear 3y ago
Thanks - yes, this is what I mistakenly referenced as Test Flight side-loading. It was the enterprise cert, not Test Flight. And yes, they already tried it it as a way around controls.
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by hnbear 3y ago
Sure - but how well do most people read scary screens? People click through pop-ups without reading them all the time. Could pop-up a "click OK to send your money to us" button and people would click OK and I'd get calls from
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by hnbear 3y ago
Yes, I find the tech illiterate tend to be less selective, and just install a ton of crap. The highly tech literate are more picky and have fewer more specific apps. Backed-up with zero data, based on anecdata from friends.
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by hnbear 4y ago
My worry here is how the big apps will just publish instructions on how to sideload and then escape the controls and safety that the App Store provides. We know from years of phishing attacks how easy it is to convince people to click links
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by hnbear 4y ago
Yes, might be right there. 9 introduced the changes to allow multiple-users on a Mac, with a log-in screen. Going off fuzzy memory. And then Classic/Carbon/Cocoa came around.
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by hnbear 4y ago
7.6 felt like Snow Leopard. Great stable OS after the flakiness of low 7s. Then 8 felt like a huge shift to the modern. Yes, would have been weird to be 7.7. An ideal break point. Seems odd the clones licensed by OS version, not duration. 9
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by hnbear 4y ago
The crunchy raw asparagus texture is incredibly off putting. I’m glad you’ve given me some pointers to detect it, and I know it’s not my cooking either. Next I hope the industry stops making it in the first place.
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by hnbear 4y ago
So glad you posted this. I’d noticed the weird texture associated with more heavily striped meat when cooking, but had no idea what it was, and wasn’t sure if I was even correct in noticing it. I’ve sent food in restaurants/fast food p
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by hnbear 4y ago
I thought it was Jobs. The clones licensed System 7, so jobs took the next version, branded it 8 and forced it out, cutting them off.
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by hnbear 4y ago
If I'm spending <$8,000 (picking $8K as 10% of your initial number) on a car I know I'm compromising on everything and buying the car for a very specific reason. There's no room for negotiation - you take what you get at t
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by hnbear 4y ago
Not a huge amount more. I loved my first-gen too, but seldom even tried to hit the buttons to do anything. It was time + looking at notifications. Everything else was too slow. I use it for things like timers, eg. cooking, quite a lot. I ha
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by hnbear 4y ago
I think Airports died out when Apple realized they didn't need to drive that segment. They were the first decent Wifi APs, and pushed wifi hard as a standard, putting 802.11 into everything very quickly. When every ISP starting bundlin
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by hnbear 4y ago
As a brit living in the US, whenever family come over and we're paying a restaurant bill it's painful to have to tell them that typical tipping is 20% here, not 10% like back home, and it's not baked into the bill either. Tha
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by hnbear 4y ago
Watches, phones, and music players also all existed for a long time, and weren't a huge leap. Sure, smart watches were called revolutionary, but the first Apple Watch told the time and was fun but mostly unusable for much else. The not
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by hnbear 4y ago
Yes, Job was very clear it was iPod, Phone, and Internet in one device. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7qPAY9JqE4 But the first couple really didn't do much more than that. Other features were rudimentary or missing,

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