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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I’ve grown to hate using a mouse, and love the MacBook trackpad. Having your hands so close to both keyboard and trackpad means less travel time between.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
https://unnecessaryinventions.com/everything-apron/ This rivals Bob's Burgers' "Spice Rack" and "Spiceps" that Bob and Linda invent in competition with each other.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Of the people I know that feel that way, many have reduced or eliminated their social media participation and consumption. And even outside the social media bubble(s), they still feel that way. May be that feeling will fade in time?
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
This was posted a couple days ago too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34956747 Couple of thoughts on this piece from someone who has been working with PHP since 1996... > Many years ago when PHP started the Web2 Mo
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
a bit OT, but I've noticed over the past 20+ years that almost every movie/tv show that shows someone playing video games will play the same 40 year old sounds. I'm always hearing the arcade Defender shooting and thrusting s
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Can't edit now, so I'll add. With my typical city/town driving, I get 32-35 mpg with 87 octane, and typically 26-30 with E85. Regular 87 octane is $3.12 around me here, and E85 is $2.71. E85 works out around 12% cheaper.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Last... year or so I've been getting E85 when possible/convenient, and defaulting to regular 87 octane when E85 isn't available. Those tend to be the only reliably available options - haven't seen E10 around here. Last
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I've been tracking my flex-fuel usage - mostly E85 fillips - for a while now, tracking price and MPG. At least with the prices I've been getting, I typically get around 15% less MPG, but the price is between 10-15% cheaper. My &
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I had a family member work at a company that blocked gmail. They were a lotus notes shop tied with MS AD, and their admin was very anti-google. "Gmail is a cesspit of spam" or something like that. But... then was all in on MS.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
"they're connected to the phone that is in my shirt pocket". Does that make you feel safer? Guess what? It also exhibits the exact same behavior even when I'm a passenger (not driving) in the exact same circumstances.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I get notifications that my AirPods are 'left behind' at the gym when I'm driving home, even though... I'm wearing them in the car and the case is in my pocket. Yet... the one time I actually forgot the case in my gym lo
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
"all available orders" might also mean there were some orders already taken by others, and "all available" means "everything that was left"?
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
It might likely need to be an additional thing and phased in. Current voting can carry on as is, but 'verified voting' would be a secondary mechanism, and... over time people could choose to ignore the non-verified votes, or the n
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Can you run modern windows on a machine from 2003? I doubt it would install. Can you run winXP on a modern machine? Possibly, but most people probably shouldn't as there's no support for it any longer.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Degree in philosophy, and ... used to read this sort of stuff for fun 30 years ago. Now... it's just like Mary seeing red; "ho-hum". I remember reading some Churchland years ago - I may have even read some of this back and
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I would probably still use a car for many things, but am somewhat open to the idea of a motorcycle, but I HATE the noise. An electric seems like it would resolve that concern, no?
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
While it sounds cynical... it doesn't strike me as 'wrong' entirely. It's a non-trivial problem, but until some service provides great tools to handle this, and makes the experience 10x better (to encourage more use&#x2
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
It's felt like any republican 'rolling back' dem-initiated legislation tends to have more negative consequences for more people than positive benefits for others. I don't have any specifics in mind - if I think of any
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Twitter replaced the 'web' portion - the publishing of content part that people used RSS to subscribe to.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> Mandating a single communication platform is absolutely the right move Is it, even if there will be productivity losses? Is making your teams less productive "absolutely the right move"?
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
To people only focused on short term dollars, perhaps. But what impact will it have? Certainly an impact on productivity in short term, perhaps longer? Are there equivalent replacements for all the slack hooks people have in place now?
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> Hard to improve without dogfooding They've been dogfooding and I don't think most of us regular users have seen any measurable improvement for years. Apparently it's hard to improve with dogfooding too?
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
For people who are not solely at one company - contractors/freelancers who perhaps need to support connectivity with multiple organizations - MS Teams is a huge hostile pita. I had 2 clients each using Teams, and I was working with eac
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Can't speak for California law, but in NC, when a local municipality set up its own fiber network, they were sued by ... Time Warner Cable (IIRC) on the grounds that cities can't use public funds to 'compete' with privat
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> I guess it depends on what the goal is, The goal was/is reduced carbon emissions.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Opening a can of worms, perhaps, but... wouldn't converting ICE cars to be able to run on flex fuel be a better intermediate stage? From what I've seen/read, many cars can be converted for under $1000. With more FF cars on
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Sure, not easy to find a good recruiter, but yes, they exist. Hence the advice "Contact 3-4 recruiting companies in your area" - you need to do some outreach to them. Get referrals from network as to who may have used someone.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Use a recruiter. I understand the general consensus here is on the 'anti-recruiter' side, and there are a lot of low quality ones. And yes, it may be hard to know up front, but... play the field. Contact 3-4 recruiting companies
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I do? Usually have a haircut either 8:30 or 9:30 am, and it’s just a few blocks walk from the office.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> The argument that comments shouldn't be made because they'll "become stale" is pretty lame IMO Better not write tests either, because those will become stale too. And any sort of user documentation/support&#x2

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