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by hoherd 3y ago
Ray Ban Wayfarer's are $171 without the included tech.[1] The included 12mp camera, 5 mic system, network connectivity, battery, microelectronics small enough to be hidden in fashionable eyewear all seem to add up to more than $128 wor
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At two different companies I've worked at I have had a coworker who lived on a boat. These were both before 2007. Those two experiences both seem to harmonize with a lot of the less glamorous things people in this thread are talking ab
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It's in that place where I put that thing that time.
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Not everybody here is "under the roof of a VC". I recently read a very inspiring article here about a successfully bootstrapped company. It's too bad more companies can't get off the ground without VC funding. I also thi
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> "Omit needless words." (Rule 17.) The Elements of Style
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The "buy a blank PDF" part of that site made me chuckle. I wonder what accounting reasons there would be to do that rather than just ask for a tip, or if he did it simply for the humor.
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iOS, iPadOS, and macOS all have a built in noise feature that you can enable through accessibility settings, and quickly toggle on and off and configure through Control Center. I use it every day and there are times where is a lifesaver, es
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I have a similar beginning story, especially with the wondering what people actually used it for. "Where's the terminal?" My story diverged from yours when one of my Mac using friends said "Apple is releasing a Unix base
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FWIW, these are useful for more than styling. I don't do any front-end dev work, but I use these regularly in selenium to find components in the page to interact with.
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This is why I don't blog, and instead take notes that are publicly accessible. They're for me to refer to, but others may find them useful and I may want to share examples with my coworkers and friends, so I make them public. EG:
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> Port 80 is what commercial hosting uses Port 80 is the standard insecure http port assigned by IANA. Whether or not the site is commercial has nothing to do with it. https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-p
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I had a similar situation where I lost my brother very unexpectedly. I ended up having to run a password cracker on his windows account because nobody had a recovery email. Thankfully his windows credentials were not very strong and his gam
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Every time one of these "shell sucks" articles is posted I read the examples and think "shellcheck would catch that". Shellcheck is the main reason I have not migrated to zsh, or more generally it's because zsh does
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Adafruit makes a cyberdeck HAT for the pi400 https://www.adafruit.com/product/4863 It's definitely not the same aesthetic as what people think of as a cyberdeck, but as far as retail cyberdecks go, it might be the
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Sam Harris podcast episode 210[1] had guests William J. Perry, former Secretary of Defense and founding member of Nuclear Threat Initiative[2], and his grand daughter Lisa Perry, Communications Director at At The Brink[3], to talk in large
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True. AFAIK he had created multiple accounts to play with, so he was exploiting his own test accounts. But as I said, we all talked about how risky of a move that was.
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Hah, indeed! IIRC he decided not to take the position and stay with the company. I don't know if they made him an offer.
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While I agree, it's amusing to see this comment in a thread about an application providing a new database, and where one of the main reservations is around people needing to change the DB. > WordPress developers who do not agree wit
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This reminds me of one of my coworkers who was interviewing around for his next job. One company he was interviewing for had a website with public facing user profiles. My coworker found a SQL injection vuln and wrote a POC virus that would
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Here's another great video about Bernoulli's Principle https://youtu.be/XP6oqIic4lo
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> It means I get to play tons of games now for free, subsidized by others. The article does mention some tactics that would prevent this, such as a bottleneck in the game where a level is so difficult a user can't reasonably win wit
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> Because Mario64 doesn't care about releases Is that really true though? If it cares about holding, such as in gliding in the air, then it necessarily cares about not holding, such as being in the air but not gliding, and the way t
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The high quality screen is so important. Every time I go looking for cheap laptops, it's the screen that steers me towards higher prices.
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Depends on if it includes the RHEL srpms.
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Also `alias pbsort='pbpaste | sort | pbcopy'`
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I don't even use Time Machine for my off-machine backups, but I use tmutil to create local snapshots so I can easily back out of changes by using the Time Machine GUI to restore files from the snapshot.
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not to be confused with hdiutil: hdiutil detach /Volumes/some-usb-drive hdiutil makehybrid -joliet -o foo.iso ./srcfolder/
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Correct. > If given the choice between SMB and AFP, use SMB to back up to your external backup disk. https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/types-of-disks-you-...
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I do this with Brendan Gregg's opensnoop, which is standard on macOS. https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-07-25/opensnoop-for-l... https://github.com/brendangregg/perf-tools/blob&
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What aspects of bare git repos over ssh are uncomfortable or subpar?

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