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by mcny 3y ago
Were you previously using just the laptop mic? I can’t imagine being on a group teams/skype for business call without a USB headset with a dedicated hardware mute button. Someone will inevitably blurt my name and I have to frantically
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by mcny 3y ago
Ally remains my favorite and main bank. It is just really complex and difficult to run a national bank as seen by out darling simple bank getting passed around like a hot potato before disappearing entirely. I think simple never really h
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by mcny 3y ago
Ally Bank on the other hand has outsourced its debit card to the worst possible company out there. They called me and asked me for my social security number. I said is this a security training? Are you testing me? He said no, my card wa
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by mcny 3y ago
One time at work I forwarded what I thought was a genuine phishing attempt to abuse at stupid corporate email like I was supposed to and they dinged my manager because I had remote images enabled or something. I don't remember changing
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by mcny 3y ago
Yes, shortcuts is built into iOS. I have a shortcut to send me an email when I start charging my phone and when I stop charging my phone. I can’t get the current charge percentage though in the email body as a variable. :/ It is not fo
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by mcny 3y ago
You can’t even set the sound volume of music for example in a game separately from the volume of your alarm. If I want to lower the volume while I play a game or a YouTube video, I have to remember to increase the volume before I fall aslee
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by mcny 3y ago
This is very subjective. France may officially disagree but I think most reasonable people will at least partially agree that the Treaty of Versailles was a disaster and was the actual cause of what happened next. > Prominent economists
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by mcny 3y ago
I think this kill switch does not belong in the US. Firstly, I've seen people who have DWI get a special license to drive to work and to get groceries. We simply do not have the public transit infrastructure. Come back with this when
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by mcny 3y ago
Even Apple isn't satisfied with its own work on modems if rumors are to be believed. I'm sure Apple will gladly spend billions of dollars in research and own the modem rather than pay Qualcomm year after year. Just some napkin mat
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by mcny 3y ago
Pretty sure you can do yard work or shovel snow for someone one time and get paid like twenty dollars in cash. As far as I know, nobody gets in trouble for that. It only becomes a problem when the entity paying tries to enter it as an expe
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by mcny 3y ago
> And if it hurts, abort, abort! You're not Arnold Schwarzenegger training, it's not supposed to hurt. Yes. I absolutely detest people who tell me "pain is weakness leaving the body" as if I solicited their advice.
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by mcny 3y ago
Not just the dev team but even the "product owner" gets blind sided in "small" and "agile" companies. The CEO or someone high up the food chain sees a defect and now zomg the sky is falling. It has to be fixed
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by mcny 3y ago
> If you just say “no blockers” you’re doing it wrong in my opinion. This only works when you trust your team members. This means absolutely nobody who can fire me on the spot, not my supervisor, not my skip, not the CEO/CTO/V
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by mcny 3y ago
For us readers https://vimeo.com/27060669
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by mcny 3y ago
Windows mobile is not windows phone though and iirc from my brief time trying it out it was a mess even in 2008. My understanding was Android and open handset alliance came into being to tackle the fragmentation in the market. Clearly that
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by mcny 3y ago
From the outside, my perspective has been that Android was a free for all in the beginning and had to tighten down permissions later for battery drain problems while iPhone was too locked down initially and had to figure out how to make the
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by mcny 3y ago
>> Sam wanted to restrict Helen's free expression. > No, Sam wanted to be the first recipient of Helen's expression. If I get copy approval to what you write, that is by definition a restriction to your freedom of expres
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by mcny 3y ago
Just yesterday I was protesting unnecessary complexity in my story until my lead had a sidebar chat about an upcoming project. How was I supposed to know that?
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by mcny 3y ago
> I don't really understanding why the workforce is swinging unambiguously behind Altman. I have no inside information. I don't know anyone at Open AI. This is all purely speculation. Now that that's out out the way, he
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by mcny 3y ago
> I'm generally not a fan of GPL based licensed because it means that you create a massive dis-balance between the original copyright holder (who can dual license for commercialization) and everybody else. It might be fine for Sentr
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by mcny 3y ago
What are your thoughts on AGPL? Is it not good enough? Do you think (lets say it out loud because we all know what we are talking about) Amazon Web Services will have advantage over you if you picked AGPL as your license? At the end of th
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by mcny 3y ago
It works for things you can automate. For example, at Microsoft they have some kind of dependency bot such as when you have newtonsoft installed but have version < 13.0.1 and don't upgrade within such and such time frame, your M1 ge
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by mcny 3y ago
> I don’t know if people realise that there really isn’t any more prestigious place to work at right now than OpenAI. You don’t leave there for a better opportunity. My guess is they know something we don't Or they assume sama bein
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by mcny 3y ago
> Like clothes, carpets will also move in and out of fashion. With the introduction of easy-to-clean linoleum floors and shiny wooden panels in the 1980s, the decline of the carpet industry began. By the Nineties, the former competitors
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by mcny 3y ago
I thought the prevailing meta for why Russia attacked Ukraine was that there is a window of opportunity that is rapidly shrinking and if they don't do it now, Russia will never be able to do it again. If China PR believes the same, we
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by mcny 3y ago
I think they meant nVidia is making billions?
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by mcny 3y ago
You can also set up your own repo for fdroid. With Android 12 and above, neostore can auto update apps. It actually works now. And I believe Android 14 will bring even more updates here but I don't remember exactly what it is ..
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by mcny 3y ago
Here is the link to the conversation. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38139011 My summary, there are Two sets of bad comments: one US Americans who think all regulations are bad (shockingly common here) and Indians who
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by mcny 3y ago
> The point is that many people see just the headline, and from the headline they will only remember that turmeric kills people, and some of them will start avoiding turmeric due to this. I think until there is drastic action on behalf o
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by mcny 3y ago
It is not possible. This is the same problem I had with government fines such as traffic tickets. People can't afford to spend time away from work fighting stupid tickets So they pay to settle When the district attorney says pay a

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