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by hnbear 3y ago
jq is definitely tough to learn, I can never remember it. But, the whole argument against jq as a unitasker not worth learning and traditional unix tools being better is weird. Traditionally Unix tool mentality was “do one thing only and do
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by hnbear 3y ago
Reminds me of Irelands worst driver: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7899171.... Mr Prawo Jazdy has the most tickets in Ireland, because it means “Driving License” in Polish and cops
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by hnbear 3y ago
Write but not read in cases like this and calendar would be nice too, or limiting read/write to the apps own entries. If I book an event let an app save it and read it’s own data, but not every event ever.
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by hnbear 3y ago
Along with auto posting every article from the blogs which are popular. There’s a bunch of blogs I follow, some I found here, where every post reliably generates discussion. Just subscribe and post the RSS feed.
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by hnbear 3y ago
Harvested raw berries in general don’t travel well, and so there are plenty of instances of berries existing in specific countries. They need processing into something like jam to travel. You don’t miss what you’ve never heard of. As a Brit
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by hnbear 3y ago
Basically not available outside of specialty stores, or the occasional supermarket with an import aisle. Definitely not widely drunk. Nor is Robinson Orange Barley, which is still my fav drink, despite being somewhat older than the typical
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by hnbear 3y ago
Aren’t all buttons touch sensitive? You touch with sufficient force for it to sense and thus trigger them. My college had “touch sensitive” buttons in each elevavator. It used to drive people nuts because they were so easy to trigger by lig
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by hnbear 3y ago
London has a surprising history and love for its trees, more so than I've seen in other cities I've lived in. This means you can find a lot of fun listicles that provide history and fun facts for trees located around the city. For
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by hnbear 3y ago
As an ex-bank employee one time I needed space and was told I couldn’t get it because all the filers were full. When would we get new filers? Dunno, because the datacenter was also full.
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by hnbear 3y ago
Repeat? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37319562
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by hnbear 3y ago
This was my first thought too. I suspect lucky timing that a significant enough sequel came out with huge interest close enough to the trailer site being available drove people to it. It was the first time I remember people going to see a m
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by hnbear 3y ago
Less just theft (assault, murder, damage, etc too. General crime), and more out of existing national legal jurisdiction. That’s why it’s boat based, because all land is by a state entity. (I’m sure someone will dispute this). So, I suppose,
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by hnbear 3y ago
Given how horribly the biggest trucks drive around me (NYC suburbs), I’m all in favor of treating trucks like trucks. If you’re over 3000lb then you get speed limited to 55, require additional driving licensing for the heavier, more cumbers
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by hnbear 3y ago
I didn’t set it up yet, so can’t tell. Is this just a personal version of their janky “sso” where they store passwords and their chrome add-in pastes it into the login prompt? IE, not actual Okta-proper that’s IDP doing SAML or OIDC auth?
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by hnbear 3y ago
Personally my personal files like important docs go to: - iCloud (automatically) - Local nightly rsync to a zfs share from local Docs folder - Backblaze - Some crit stuff to OneDrive - TimeMachine on a local Linux server at home Periodicall
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by hnbear 3y ago
I’ve really enjoyed The Story of Classical in new iOS Classical music app. The app itself is a pain with how it doesn’t integrate into things like CarPlay, but the album itself is great. It’s a smart lead through classical music in 9 hour l
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by hnbear 3y ago
Aside from the obvious good desk, chair and monitor(s). I like a laptop, so a good dock is really nice to move between desk with full desktop experience and couch for more relaxed work. Good headset or speakers+mic. Make sure the audio on c
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by hnbear 3y ago
How much do people transfe me data via cable now? Power transfer needs to be high for charging but data transfers continuously over the air. Everything on my iPhone syncs via Wi-Fi and cellular all the time. It’s been years since I wanted t
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by hnbear 3y ago
Should have [2019], I think. Been around a bit. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/time-laps... Amazing video still.
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by hnbear 3y ago
[2019]
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by hnbear 3y ago
I’d never heard of Reviver till now. Seems to be solving problems I’ve never had. “ Reimagined convenience, personalization, and safety.” a metal plate I got effectively for free from the DMV and screwed to my car is very convenient, and ne
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by hnbear 3y ago
Nothing especially rational, although generally I like to minimize what I can. If I can easily reduce one form of data leak I will. Your point is correct. There are many sources that we each hemorrhage data from, and it’s likely a lost batt
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by hnbear 3y ago
Personally, it’s all the other plate readers I care about too. I’m more a privacy nut than trying to evade police detection. I’d imagine, as with so much, cops just outsource it to a data broker type service. They feed the camera footage to
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by hnbear 3y ago
Finally a reason for a custom plate: The explosion of full color images on special plates has also created some concerns for law enforcement’s use of Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs), which automatically scan the plates of cars as th
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by hnbear 3y ago
Given the discussion on abilities of historic archers, ACOUP has some good discussion, with links to testing videos: Armor vs Archers: https://acoup.blog/2019/06/21/collections-punching-through-s... Archery D
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by hnbear 3y ago
Yes. Training is amazing. This whole “guns are average” argument completely ignores the huge range of gun-toting specialists from regular army grunt up to SpecOps, with side specialists like snipers. Given how many sniper movies there are,
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by hnbear 3y ago
Maybe it’s a Linux success. Ironically though, given Chrome came from WebKit (Safari), which came from KHTML (Konqueror). The Linux browser escaped out to conquer (konquer?) the world. Konqueror was a nice browser, my fav back in the day, a
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by hnbear 3y ago
Slightly different part of the fediverse, but after Reddit killed off Apollo I wanted my own lemmy, hosted off my own domain, to see how it would interact. I’ve since spun up a vm to run voyager as my Apollo replacement, connecting to my lo
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by hnbear 3y ago
My Dad tried this when we first taught him to use an ATM and setup his PINs. He carefully wrote them in the back of his planner which he keeps in his pocket. Then he realized he needed extra security and added some extra digits before and a
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by hnbear 3y ago
TOTP is also vulnerable to good phishing attackes. You can convince someone to enter their creds and OTP code, which can be used remotely. The value of the Yubi is that you need it physically, which can't be accomplished via phishing a

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