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by lstamour 6y ago
But then you’ll have websites that walk you through changing the setting. At least this way you have to make a decision every time, even if it costs you a few clicks each time you do it.
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by lstamour 6y ago
Wanted to amend this list of character encodings with another one I came across recently -- GSM-7, used for SMS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM_03.38#GSM_7-bit_default_al... If a message you send includes other Unic
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by lstamour 6y ago
I probably don't need to say this, but it all depends. Many operating systems and GUI frameworks internally use UTF-16 because it was more common when they were built. Lots of old files use really obscure encodings. Sometimes you get a
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by lstamour 6y ago
Publishing containers to GitHub might be free but you have to login to GitHub to download the containers from free accounts, significantly hampering end-user usability compared to Docker Hub, particularly if 2FA authentication is enabled on
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by lstamour 6y ago
I'm using that term from now on. :) One project I worked on had almost a half dozen "lava flows" in the JavaScript alone... I had a hard time convincing folks we could rewrite it using ASTs because all the rewrites scared fol
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by lstamour 6y ago
> for that, synchronous APIs quite likely aren’t what you want, event-driven and message-based asynchronous infrastructure would come into play. Which of course what I spent a lot of time working on recently. I wonder how that fits into
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by lstamour 6y ago
That's a good idea, yes, I'll have to try DDG if I hit a reCAPTCHA: Most of my searches don't start with me using advanced operators (except if I'm buying products in Canada because I'll generally use "site:ca&
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by lstamour 6y ago
It mostly happens using "site:" queries which I use frequently to limit things to local websites (by domain) or for searching sites that have poor search engines (Amazon, for example). It rarely happens the first query, but often
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by lstamour 6y ago
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en but it's not complete. My favourite is actually the "range" operator. I don't need it often, but when combined with the exact match quo
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by lstamour 6y ago
There are many posts online on how to sideload the APK on Amazon Fire TV sticks, etc. Though I'm not personally looking forward to a future where I can't use a web browser but instead have to run iOS or Android apps on my laptop..
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by lstamour 6y ago
I’ve found that for an object-oriented web component API, you end up with less flexible rendering — yes, redux can one-way bind attributes, etc., but you’re missing half the reason why you’d want to write code that way, how React schedules
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by lstamour 6y ago
What’s funny is that’s how Opera Mini achieves its great compression for 2G and 3G network use... it renders mostly server-side, with link text and position offsets/sizes, last I used it...
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by lstamour 6y ago
Right now I’m waiting to buy a new router even though I do have 2 of 30 or so devices with support for Wi-Fi 6. Previously I did buy a few new devices to get 5GHz support from an ac router, after I moved to a location that had very poor 2.4
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by lstamour 6y ago
That’s not on Wi-Fi is it? Or your router is in the same room as your device, and it’s the only device using the signal? I agree you shouldn’t rip out 5e cables to install 6e if what you have works for you and there aren’t any substantial i
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by lstamour 6y ago
I made my statement based on when it was last updated. It appears it’s in a stable, security-fix-only mode. I consider this similar to discontinued products of other kinds — Google recognizes here that there’s more goodwill in making sure O
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by lstamour 6y ago
That may be true for most smart home gear, but I place routers in a slightly different class of home electronics. Like gaming consoles, for performance and upgrades to the latest standards (Wi-Fi 6E, for example) you’ll likely need a new ro
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by lstamour 6y ago
True. I stopped using mine because of the PPPoE support & VLAN tagging required for gigabit fiber optic internet was missing/didn’t perform well. And I remember having to reset not just my OnHub but my relatives’ too. But back when
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by lstamour 6y ago
In their defense, OnHub routers launched late 2015 and was discontinued/rebranded Google Wifi in late 2016, but they did end up supporting the older models for approx. 4 years of updates, including phone support. That was a product tha
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by lstamour 6y ago
Inevitably the long-term solution is going to be more layers of abstraction. Web application firewalls for every wifi device in your router, for example, or operating systems maintained by cloud vendors (for “edge devices”). If always trans
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by lstamour 6y ago
See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billi... for the documented behaviour. Note also it doesn’t necessarily apply to Azure Marketplace. That said, they really want you to upgrade to pay-as-y
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by lstamour 6y ago
Here’s a talk about some of Ray Dali’s ideas, one of the ways the Bridgewater system works is by voting and recording the outcomes of votes for longer term weighting/analysis: https://www.ted.com/talks/ray_dalio_ho
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by lstamour 6y ago
You could complain about the packaging, but it’s not quite as easy as using their app to take a photo. I’ll note last time I ordered a book from Amazon.com for international shipping to Canada, it arrived in the pressure-tight cardboard pac
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by lstamour 6y ago
Congratulations, you’ve invented Bridgewater’s controversial “evidence based” decision making systems as put forward by Ray Dalio. From what I’ve heard, the controversial part is that they often ignore evidence when it doesn’t suit their ca
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by lstamour 6y ago
And it reportedly had limitations, including performance: https://communities.vmware.com/thread/551842 This is something Apple and VMware are now obviously working on together for Big Sur.
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by lstamour 6y ago
You could start taking photos during the inspection of the returned item and before sending it, send a photo to the customer to confirm it’s what they ordered? You could establish a policy where you offer posted discounts (and lose money) i
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by lstamour 6y ago
I’ll admit though I ran it in Beta 2, I’m not aware of the details of which release had which API or which features VMware is using or not. It’s possible VMWare, having inside access to Apple docs, started working with private APIs that App
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by lstamour 6y ago
My understanding is the Hypervisor framework didn’t easily support file system connectivity like fuse or different networking scenarios with virtio but perhaps the new, linked, APIs here in Big Sur now offer that? I presume Apple asked VMWa
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by lstamour 6y ago
Possibly it was needed for no-driver virtualization while preserving the same functionally of https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2020/07/fusion-big-sur-t... — note there’s a newer beta if you view the commun
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by lstamour 6y ago
They also mentioned pre-release hardware in the “undisclosed location” — if I recall correctly it was before they did a demo of virtualization. Well, after Googling, I can’t find the exact quote that referenced new hardware in live blogs, b
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by lstamour 6y ago
Many IDEs, IntelliJ and Visual Studio Code among them, also have plugins for "Rainbow brackets" (the ability to use different colours for different pairs of open and close brackets). WebStorm takes this a step farther and clearly

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