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by macNchz 6y ago
Here’s a twitter thread from a lawyer who collected hundreds of videos like these: https://mobile.twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/126675152005... In my view, these videos are evidence of serious and pervasive cul
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by macNchz 6y ago
I regularly go on multi night wilderness backpacking trips–they are a big part of my life and make me happy for many reasons, but the appreciation they bring for the comforts of modern life is big every time. After several days in the backc
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by macNchz 6y ago
Yeah I'd love if airbnbs had these. I tend to rent places in mountainy areas with bad cell service. It feels like 90% of the time we arrive bleary-eyed from a long drive, needing to look up a place to get dinner, only to find the welco
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by macNchz 6y ago
This one in particular drove me up the wall when they started doing it, because, for at least a year, the Yelp app was so buggy (on my phone at least) that it was essentially unusable. I wanted to keep using Yelp on the web, but because it
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by macNchz 6y ago
Their mobile website is terrible and intentionally crippled... I've found that when I'm having lots of meetings–whether it's sales, recruiting, or looking for work–being able to quickly pull up profiles of people I'm tal
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by macNchz 6y ago
Those kind of “nagifications” are among my biggest pet peeves on the modern internet. Almost every social platform these days abuses the notifications icon to show you a bunch of not-actually-a-notification garbage to boost your engagement.
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by macNchz 6y ago
This is still vulnerable to a DoS attack as the parent suggested. Not terribly difficult for an individual to tie up all the phone lines or overload the web voting portal. I also agree with the parent comment re hubris about this stuff: the
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by macNchz 6y ago
They presumably wouldn't call the police to report you for messing with their scam, but it's not unthinkable–if they're able to identify who you are–that they could SWAT you. I believe Brian Krebs has been SWAT'ed multip
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by macNchz 6y ago
Agreed–also personally I find the UX of Zoom to be really awful. Having helped a bunch of new-to-Zoom people get set up with it in the past few months it almost feels like they never did any user testing at all.
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by macNchz 6y ago
I’m a big remote work advocate and have worked with some amazing European engineers. That said, having worked as an engineer in the US office of a early stage startup with a European office, the 5-9 hour time difference is a not-insignifica
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by macNchz 6y ago
In NYC at least there is certainly a subset of ambitious professional types who derive some kind of pride at being incompetent at everything other than their job. I think it's humblebrag type thing where they show off a) how overworked
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by macNchz 6y ago
I have a Lenovo M93P Tiny which came with a chassis intrusion switch installed. It seems you can have it block startup/require a password when the case is opened and notify some central admin. I don’t know what happens if you open the
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by macNchz 6y ago
It sounds like your waitUntilResolved() function is effectively asyncio.gather(), which due to the nature of Python’s async implementation is not something that could be used in a Django view prior to this release.
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by macNchz 6y ago
Are Americans buying land in Scotland specifically for fly fishing? Not that I don't love visiting Scotland, it just seems unnecessarily expensive and far when Montana offers vast areas of (to my knowledge) world-class fly fishing with
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by macNchz 6y ago
Mortgages and car loan pre-approvals definitely involve a hard pull—but the effect is temporary and only a few points, so it is still very much worth shopping around for the best rate. AFAIK some credit cards will let you do a soft pull to
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by macNchz 6y ago
In the US I remember there was some variation between carriers on how locked down the devices were–my Motorola SLVR on Cingular circa 2005 ran the standard Motorola system and I had a bunch of Java games on it and could browse WAP sites for
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by macNchz 6y ago
I hate wasting window space with AC units and did a ton of research this spring while looking at portable ACs. I had the same concerns about the reviews for that LG model, but my conclusion was that most of the negative ones were for issues
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by macNchz 6y ago
BMWs have long had a feature that takes these temperature concerns one step further–a knob that controls the vents blowing towards your face, which works independently of the main climate control. So you can set the overall temperature you
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by macNchz 6y ago
Oh yeah my (boarding) high school had a dorm built in the “electricity will soon be too cheap to meter” era and had heating elements set into the concrete floors. It housed like 50 students and used more electricity than all of the other bu
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by macNchz 6y ago
I had never heard of that, but the idea of it makes me think of all my neighbors growing up in the 90s who were spending tens of thousands of dollars cleaning up contamination from leaking underground heating oil tanks. It was a major issu
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by macNchz 6y ago
If you're sending a lot of email every day, having dedicated IPs is an important piece of owning your sender reputation. A shared IP is only as good as the email service provider's ability to prevent people from sending spam on th
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by macNchz 6y ago
I found myself walking on one of these roads as the sun began to set last summer and it was actually quite terrifying. We’d made a long loop walking through the hills in the Cotswolds, and the guidebook would have had us crossing a large pa
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by macNchz 6y ago
I just put my inreach device out on my back deck and sent myself a test email and sms–seems to be working fine. I can't log in to manage my account, but their status page claims that the critical inreach services (SOS and comms) are up
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by macNchz 6y ago
Probably some kind of promotional rate situation. My 400/20 Spectrum cable connection is $45 for two years and then goes up to $70. (Edit: indeed they seem to be offering a $39.99 promo rate, marked down from $60 https://w
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by macNchz 6y ago
That’s an interesting case because it’s certainly a cool effect, but it’s kind of a cumbersome UX on mobile. It makes it hard to keep track of the columns as you scroll up and down. At a glance it seems like both the Google Sheets and Numbe
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by macNchz 6y ago
There's a once-a-summer, or really more of a once-every-few-summers level heat wave rolling through the northeast right now...not something I'd necessarily take into account when buying a house. I grew up in very old unairconditio
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by macNchz 6y ago
All the major cloud infrastructure providers have had outages of varying severity at one point or another...it's something you'd want to take into account for, say, a system that remote controls life-critical devices, but likely i
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by macNchz 6y ago
My iPhone actually popped up a message saying that my wifi didn't appear to have internet, which was strange and obviously false as I was actively using the internet on it and the laptop next to it, but now it makes sense that it must
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by macNchz 6y ago
Sell the exploit to someone with a bigger appetite for risk?
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by macNchz 6y ago
They seem to have more access than purely posting as the user, I'm seeing reports that the attacker has changed the email addresses associated with the accounts to protonmail addresses.

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