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by jon-wood 3y ago
Do their readers do contactless payment at all? Apple/Google Pay are just presenting your phone as a contactless payment card so it should work anywhere a physical card can be used that way.
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In my experience though being able to learn computer science isn't actually a very useful indicator of your ability to deliver the sort of software most companies are developing. I'd be willing to bet that even within Google or Mi
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Or people are using Facebook Auth for them. I don't really trust Down Detector, which despite the claims is really People Winging on Twitter Detector.
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It's really not. There was a little falling out that occurred in 2016, you might have heard of it.
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I hear this argument occasionally and it’s very contextual. While it’s certainly possible to rewrite any given shell script in Python, Rust, or whatever language you prefer there are some things which are just clearer in Bash. I wouldn’t wa
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I'm curious what you're using all these Pis for when you've got a server on the network to provide network boot. Can you not just use the device that's providing network boot to provide whatever you're running on th
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The bit I forgot to mention here was that alongside all that my parents were incredibly diligent in making sure I learnt how to touch type at the same time, which I can't thank them enough for. That means that I can write without think
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Hi. I had fairly severe dyslexia (and it turns out undiagnosed ADHD) in school, I could read fine, but handwriting in particular was hideously slow, to the point where I wasn't able to actually learn much because I was spending all my
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by jon-wood 3y ago
My Windows computer is connected to both a monitor on my desk, and a TV way over the other side of the room for playing games that make more sense that way. As the sibling post here mentioned, it can be kind of annoying to pick up the mouse
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At least in my experience, yes, it really is that dull. If you get senior enough it manages to be both very dull and very stressful. I managed to stick out for about a year after the startup I’d been working for was acquired by a multinat
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Likewise, I think its under appreciated just how many people got their start in this industry through tinkering with things because they seemed interesting.
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The real pros used server side includes, where you could drop specially formed comments into your HTML which then be processed by Apache and replaced with the content of another file before being sent on to the client.
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Photoshop itself would let you slice an image into sections and then export them as separate images.
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This is people climbing into the cargo cars of incredibly slow moving trains and rummaging through some packages, not putting dynamite on a bridge and blowing it up to force the thing to stop.
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Somewhat unfortunate when the police do a routine breathalyser test an hour later though.
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Sadly this is caught up in the usual conflict of interests. As someone building a PWA I would love a quick and easy method to pop up an install dialogue for the user. Unfortunately as a user of Safari on iOS the last thing I want is for eve
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by jon-wood 3y ago
I’m not sure this is true anywhere. I live in a moderately sized UK city, and have done most of my life. There’s nowhere in the city that I would intentionally avoid at night due to the risk of bad things happening to me, many decades ago a
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by jon-wood 3y ago
It’s really not. Lots of mobile providers did indeed run email to SMS bridges back in the day, but those were taking the body of the email (or sometimes just the subject) and converting it into an SMS for delivery.
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XMPP absolutely has cross server support, it was designed from the ground up to do so. You can run your own server and advertise it via DNS, which will then allow other servers to communicate back and forth with users on your server.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Getting into deep pedantry here but I’m amused by the suggestion that the following is “too prescriptive”: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over c
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by jon-wood 3y ago
If you’re on macOS: pbpaste >> ~/Scratchfile You can probably hook that up to Alfred or whatever to have a hotkey for it.
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The course explicitly states that it’s not a physics, or even really an electronics, course. It doesn’t go into the gritty details of how all this stuff works in the real world, just how once it does work you can string it all together to b
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by jon-wood 3y ago
I had a similar experience when I bought a Steam Deck recently, manifesting as the courier tracking page denying all knowledge of the package even existing right up until the morning of delivery, when I got a text message saying it would be
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By far my favourite delivery company in the UK are DPD, who provide solutions to all of these problems. On the day of delivery I get a text message from DPD giving a delivery window which is somehow both very specific and quite vague: &quot
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Making the video public is incompatible with a legal system that presumes innocence. The moment this video is publicly available someone else will be making a service to check whether your employees/ex-wife/children have had an en
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I think ecosystem is a big thing to call out here. A decent proportion of why the M* CPUs are so efficient is that the OS is built around them, with tasks being appropriately scheduled to CPU cores based on developer hints, and things like
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Something that leapt out and resonated with me here was the conscious decision not to bother with automated tests (at first? maybe they exist now). Its taken me quite a while to get over the feeling of dirtiness that comes with not writing
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This has brought back many happy memories of Machiavelli the Prince (or Merchant Prince as I believe it was called in the US, where presumably no one does European history), a late 90s DOS game in which you ran trade routes around the world
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As was everywhere else in the world, while you make a valid point its in no way exclusive to Venice.
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Key takeaways from my quick skim of this: 1. It was only uploading RSA private keys, which are pretty antiquated these days. Generate yourself an ed25519 key, which is both more secure, and not a million characters long when passing round t

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