iv597

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by iv597 8y ago
For audio output (the majority usecase, I'd argue), this didn't matter much. Left and right audio output _always worked_, and in my experience, at least the play/pause button worked fairly universally as well.
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by iv597 8y ago
The part that shipped was Electrolysis which splits the formerly giant-single-processed Firefox into a set of 1-9 processes which work as task pools for tabs. Locking one tab hard will lock only that tab, and any others sharing that Electro
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by iv597 8y ago
Yep, the tolling in the Seattle area works similarly - no booths, just profit, even if you're hauling ass at 85mph
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by iv597 8y ago
... and it's still a disaster that completely clogs I-5, particularly northbound, to a standstill. Wonderfully done, y'all!
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by iv597 8y ago
I was just about to say the same. This is unethical at best, probably closer to "laughably bad looking".
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by iv597 8y ago
I crunched the math earlier and it's something like... 35c a day for a reasonably standard North American tech worker workyear? Doesn't seem that bad, especially to avoid the hassles of coordinating remote teams' standups (he
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by iv597 8y ago
In a sense we already have that, in the form of the `community` repo: Trusted Users mark a package as safe, adopt it, and it gets packaged up and supported. Perhaps the answer is a few more TUs to get some of the popular AUR packages adopte
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by iv597 8y ago
We've had $1 coins for a hot minute. You can almost only ever find them at the bank, post offices, and some other government places (the Sound Transit ticket kiosks here in Seattle spit them out, I found out last week), but they exist.
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by iv597 8y ago
Name recognition, employee familiarity (I've used Slack at every job I've worked since early 2015, I pretty much know what to expect from it always), and punting maintenance costs (this is probably the biggest factor). I love IRC