michel-slm

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by michel-slm 9y ago
don't forget libertarians too.
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by michel-slm 9y ago
SSNs are not even supposed to be used as identifiers in the first place -- that it is being used as the key identifier to determine your creditworthiness is already mind-boggling.
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by michel-slm 9y ago
I used to do that until I discovered the Compact theme (which is now installed by default, previously only available on the developer edition without installing an add-on).
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by michel-slm 9y ago
I've known banks that don't let you change the PIN on their cards - for "security" reasons. And banks with 5-digit maximum password lengths - "oh, it's strong enough, you need to use a token to get money out an
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by michel-slm 9y ago
there's a way to be an ethical investor - pick a 401(k) fund that invests in ethical businesses (according to whatever ethical standard you hold). This might not be an option for everyone, of course.
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by michel-slm 9y ago
If WF were to fail under Amazon's tutelage, maybe we shouldn't be looking at nationwide competitors but at local stores for replacement? Here in the Bay Area I'm really happy with Draeger's. Haven't really been back
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by michel-slm 9y ago
I've worked in several open plan companies, and what I find to be a key differentiator is that the companies that make it work: a) institute a reasonable minimum amount of space per person b) have enough quiet areas for people who find
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by michel-slm 9y ago
or where the income level makes buying Macs prohibitively expensive
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by michel-slm 9y ago
The definition of "border" is surprisingly vast too -- if you're within 100 miles of any "external boundary". Two thirds (!) of Americans live within this "border" area. https://www.aclu.org&#x2
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by michel-slm 9y ago
So the trick is to persuade your children to emigrate to those countries, and then sponsor your visa.
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by michel-slm 9y ago
I wonder if the major adblockers should have whitelisted the DNT-respecting sites by default.
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by michel-slm 9y ago
I'm also on the 6P; holding off on the Pixel until the next-gen replacement is available (hopefully at saner price levels). I have some battery issues (running battery-guzzling games would often cause the phone to shut down at ~ 40% ba
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by michel-slm 9y ago
the Gnome desktop (at least on Fedora) also delays updates until shutdown/reboot time. but points taken on Javascript and Python. From what I'm seeing in Gnome Builder updates though, they're really interested in getting to a
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by michel-slm 9y ago
Hmm. Unroll.me is owned by Slice, I wonder if Slice has a different policy regarding selling aggregate user data (since it also scans your inbox, but to find shipping and delivery emails). The subsections "Vendors and Suppliers" a
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by michel-slm 9y ago
yeah, that's why in a previous job I try to stick to OpenJDK even though IntelliJ would warn that it might not be fully compatible. At least it's built and packaged by the distro so it does not leave a mess on the filesystem.
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by michel-slm 9y ago
Is there a repo / blog post detailing your work on Avian+Kotlin? I'm sure I'm not the only one keenly interested in this.
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by michel-slm 9y ago
We do that at work. Things get complicated with the latest-generation MBP of course - now we have the old MagSafe charger, ThinkPad chargers, USB C chargers, as well as HDMI, DP, and USB-C Thunderbolt video connectors.
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by michel-slm 10y ago
A bit of vendor lock-in as well at times (pragmatic reason for using Chrome and ideological reason to stay away from it). YouTube TV, for instance, currently only works on Chrome -- not on Safari and Firefox.
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by michel-slm 10y ago
you can always run the Ubuntu Gnome flavor, I think that's what the parent is saying
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by michel-slm 10y ago
That, indeed. If you want something lighter-weight than Unity or Gnome but based on the Gnome stack, running Budgie on top of your existing distro is a nice alternative. One of these days I'm going to get it packaged in Fedora too...
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by michel-slm 10y ago
The new Budgie flavor looks really tempting: https://ubuntubudgie.org/features
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by michel-slm 10y ago
what's showily bad about Jabber + OTR? Kind of curious, I know there are security issues with older OTR versions but is there a known weakness in v3?
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by michel-slm 10y ago
Before yum and dnf, dependency hell is a serious issue indeed. After that it's still a problem if you use multilib (sometimes updates get pushed for x86_64 but the i686 packages are missing) but I wouldn't really call it a depende
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by michel-slm 10y ago
Once Flatpak becomes more commonplace, the problem of distributing third-party software is hopefully solved on Linux distros.
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by michel-slm 10y ago
Will bear that in mind for next time, thanks! My other consideration is I am still trying to build a credit history, and don't really want more hard hits on my file than necessary...
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by michel-slm 10y ago
Ah, interesting. A colleague had a similar experience to me getting an Audi (his lease doesn't extend beyond the H-1B expiration) so I wonder if the regulation is tightened up by now. Then again, maybe statistically people on fiancee v
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by michel-slm 10y ago
I'm on a work visa here in the US, and I couldn't get financing on a Volt because GM Financial insisted on doing > 30 months lease on their hybrid cars (and my work visa expires before then, though it's likely to be renewe
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by michel-slm 10y ago
I wonder if Mozilla went through this: "It is possible that there may be Mozilla source files containing contributed code for which the copyright holders refuse to grant permission for relicensing under the MPL/GPL/LGPL tripl
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by michel-slm 10y ago
One Linux distribution used to let you play Breakout during installation, but I forgot which one. Caldera, maybe?
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by michel-slm 10y ago
Feeling nostalgic ... Window Maker was my window manager of choice per year (up to the GNOME 1 days when it was still easy to run gnome-panel on top of WM). The NeXTSTEP way in which menus can be triggered by right-clicking is really usable

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