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by hughrr 5y ago
It’s even worse for some people. They promote that they read it which gives them undue credibility for their unpalatable ways of operating.
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by hughrr 5y ago
There are time and frequency standards that people rely on for all sorts of things. This sort of equipment can be used to calibrate the current time and frequency standards. Also for high precision physics measurements etc. Clocks aren’t re
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by hughrr 5y ago
A hot drink in the morning is a good motivator and ritual. I think that’s the winning thing. I occasionally do hot chocolate instead which is equally as good thus the caffeine may not be required.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Anecdotes it is. Quit caffeine in 2015. I was drinking coffee and red bull constantly. Felt like crap for about two weeks. Measurably no difference other than bank balance. Did a crap action film montage in 2019 and went from lard ass to su
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by hughrr 5y ago
Yes it’s horrible. I actually miss the early 00’s when I did infra and code for small web design agencies. I actually could complete work back then.
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by hughrr 5y ago
I’m rather a fan of this sort of stuff but only with my middle finger firmly raised at the vendor. Electronic test equipment has been doing this for a long time. You can buy a base model item for $1000 and crack it to the $5000 part in thir
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by hughrr 5y ago
Less painful version: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1489798651375501315.html Edit: craziest mac I’ve ever owned was a graphite G3 clamshell iBook. Loved it.
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by hughrr 5y ago
I’ve never had that problem in 25 years of doing this.
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by hughrr 5y ago
I’m not plugging in anything I don’t own for security reasons.
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by hughrr 5y ago
So does dragging around all the accessories that you "need" to plug into your laptop. All I hear is the conflicting arguments: 1. I don't want to compromise on anything. 2. I want a laptop.
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by hughrr 5y ago
My laptop has all the right bits inside it. Doesn't yours?
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by hughrr 5y ago
This. People need to buy a dock and stop whining. Or buy a desktop Mac in the first place and stop whining. Oh I need Ethernet -> buy a dock (or fix your shitty wifi network). Oh I need numerous USB devices -> buy a dock. Oh I don&#x2
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by hughrr 5y ago
I carefully eviscerated windows from my life. It’s better that way if you can do it.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Pinterest is one of those sites that really makes me want to strangle someone. It’s just an abhorrent walled garden of other people’s property.
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by hughrr 5y ago
I haven’t read the article to be honest because I’m lazy and slightly drunk but I have to agree with the title. You need to give people enough rope to hang themselves with so you have a tangible reference point in which to start an opposing
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by hughrr 5y ago
Apple keychain?
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by hughrr 5y ago
For every $100k bill there’s a hundred of us with 14TB that costs SFA to roll with.
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by hughrr 5y ago
This is completely Inferior to dragging a titlebar as it requires twice as many hands.
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by hughrr 5y ago
The thing is they don't always. And in some cases they actually completely fall apart.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Linux doesn't have to tread the same path but there's no one behind it all waving a big stick when they go off track. Which is why we end up in a fragmented half baked mess every damn time and why I'm sitting here on a mac af
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by hughrr 5y ago
Well they would be if anyone actually owned them.
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by hughrr 5y ago
You can run any app on any platform. It's just going to be a shit experience. Apple want you to get 80% of the way there, then do the last 20% of tailoring it to the device. There isn't some magic unicorn toolkit which can do that
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by hughrr 5y ago
A certain $2tn+ company can't manage to pull that off and actually has different interfaces for each platform. We're making some big assumption that responsive interfaces actually work and don't push poor compromises on all u
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by hughrr 5y ago
Yeh that worked out really well for the last two platforms who tried it… Microsoft produced apps that no one used because they were horrible on all devices. Apple conceded defeat and we have different interfaces on each device class.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Why do we have to suffer it on the desktop though? It’s so damn hard moving windows on gnome without setting something off accidentally. Especially with the shitty touchpad input devices. My mac laptops aren’t touch screens and they get thi
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by hughrr 5y ago
Kill me now
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by hughrr 5y ago
Correct but only because people won’t be able to afford to replace their old cars with electric ones.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Yeah it’s horrible. I had a contract a number of years ago to fix a bug that they had been fighting for 5 years. When winter time kicked in all appointments on their booking system collapsed to zero minutes long. To fix this they ran a SQL
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by hughrr 5y ago
Streets are getting considerably better thanks to ULEZ and all the horrible busses and taxis being replaced.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Yeah tube dust is nasty. I’ll give you that. I barely ever use the tube now preferring to use overground trains and walk if possible. A lot of people don’t seem to know that a lot of tube journeys can be done in a few minutes on foot.

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