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by jeremy_wiebe 4y ago
Re: movie theatres. We’re already on that road. 20 years ago I’d go to a move and see a few trailers. Now I have to sit through a bunch of ads, then trailers, and then finally we get to the movie I paid for.
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by jeremy_wiebe 4y ago
I use VS Code daily and I have never had performance issues. That obviously doesn’t apply to all folks. Also, it seems presumptuous to prescribe what appropriate solutions are for all people of all time. There are many, many places where an
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by jeremy_wiebe 4y ago
We completely renovated our apartment about 3 years ago. We used Sweet Home 3D to help visualize our kitchen as we took out a wall and rearranged things. Being able to model it and then “explore” it in 3D was really helpful to settle on our
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by jeremy_wiebe 4y ago
And the fact that the “level up quickly” promise is verbal, means they aren’t bound to anything. Get them to put it in writing if it’s important to you _before_ you sign an offer letter.
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by jeremy_wiebe 4y ago
And if you use fish, it comes with a built-in formatting function. https://fishshell.com/docs/current/cmds/fish_indent.html
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by jeremy_wiebe 4y ago
Slippers have been a game changer for staying warm. We live in a concrete apartment building and the floors are always cold in the winter. Insulating my feet is by far the easiest way to stay warm without heating the entire house to a &quot
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by jeremy_wiebe 4y ago
This post is referring to NSCalendar and Swift's Calendar class. > NSCalendar objects encapsulate information about systems of reckoning time in which the beginning, length, and divisions of a year are defined. > The Swift overla
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by jeremy_wiebe 4y ago
Here in BC there are very strict distracted driving laws. You can get a ticket even if you are sitting stopped at a stop light and you do something on your phone. I fail to see how this is _any_ different than interacting with screens on so
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by jeremy_wiebe 4y ago
I personally think that’s fine. There are still many benefits to an open source but no contributions model (such as others can see how you did things, it can be forked). Taking contributions requires effort on the part of the maintainer and
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by jeremy_wiebe 4y ago
Interesting. I only know Bendix from air brake systems. Used to install them on semi trailers.
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by jeremy_wiebe 4y ago
I'm not sure we'll ever eclipse the awesomeness of the VB6 error: "Method ~ of object ~ failed". On a more serious note, error messages is something I always try to keep in mind on in code reviews. Most error messages th
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by jeremy_wiebe 4y ago
Without a clear description of what these employees were using their iPads for, it's impossible for anyone else to use this info to determine if their scenario fits yours. Your ability to use iPad full-time depends heavily on the type
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by jeremy_wiebe 4y ago
A cord used to plug into whichever device you want to listen to would also work and be correct 100% of the time… barring user error.
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by jeremy_wiebe 4y ago
Here in BC we have fairly tough distracted driving laws (ie don’t even think of touching your cell phone while at the wheel). Yet the proliferation of touch screens in cars seems like it’s almost exactly the same type of distraction as look
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by jeremy_wiebe 4y ago
[edit] Fixed reference to Rogers. Not to mention… Rogers is actively working to secure further control over the Canadian market through its acquisition of Shaw. Related to this outage though, I found it weird that my cell had no bars during
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by jeremy_wiebe 4y ago
That number really store out to me too. I’d be very curious how they decide what becomes a separate service. I’d also be curious if the 50m lines of code included generated code.
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by jeremy_wiebe 5y ago
> 4) Student loans are a horror that needs to stop. Young people should not be put in debt-bondage. Imagine America's financial health if we let young people start families and careers debt free. Nobody has forced anyone to take a s
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by jeremy_wiebe 5y ago
I haven't heard the term ChatOps before, but at first glance, I don't think the article is stating the complete lack of Slack/Teams. Rather I think they're referring specifically to the use of chat platforms to manage op
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by jeremy_wiebe 5y ago
The title is a bit misleading. This PR is just getting the lib to compile with a C++ compiler. Seems like the bulk of the work remains. > This PR is the first incremental step of getting libtransmission to compile with a C++ compiler.
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by jeremy_wiebe 5y ago
During the recent protests this past year it seems that there were quite a number of people (including members of the press and politicians) who had no problems with theft and vandalism if done for the right reason(s).
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by jeremy_wiebe 5y ago
Raymond Chen’s blog is a very interesting blog if you do Windows development. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing
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by jeremy_wiebe 5y ago
@kdangoor’s comment reviews most of the big features of Khan Academy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27176055 TLDR; it’s more than videos and exercises.
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by jeremy_wiebe 5y ago
Nice. I have my phone muted pretty much all the time and forgot about it.
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by jeremy_wiebe 5y ago
Looks really neat. I can’t seem to get any audio on iPhone on iOS 14. Am I missing a mute/unmute feature. Also, the animation speed switching between the “menu” ans the play/pause controls feels really slow. Not sure if these are
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by jeremy_wiebe 5y ago
This is commonly referred to as a “soft ask.” The reasons for it are not always nefarious. On some platforms you cannot provide any commentary on why you want to send push notifications and so the soft ask provides a way to give more conte
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by jeremy_wiebe 6y ago
Sounds exactly like the empty homes tax in Vancouver!
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by jeremy_wiebe 6y ago
This feels closely related Plain Language [1]. An editor I worked with pointed me to this concept. We were writing documentation for a framework my company was building. [1] https://www.plainlanguage.gov/guidelines/
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by jeremy_wiebe 6y ago
Bought a Samsung TV that purports to support Airplay. It works... except for some apps can’t stream to it. Turns out that some apps can only Airplay to official Apple devices and not the Samsung TVs despite marketing. I was planning to neut
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by jeremy_wiebe 6y ago
I grew up near two villages listed in the article (Pipestone and Scarth, Manitoba). Definitely low population but growing up there I never felt I was missing out. Spent lots of time outside adventuring around. I still sometimes miss how dar
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by jeremy_wiebe 6y ago
That sentence makes no sense to me as someone who’s never used Reason/ReScript.

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