mikelward

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by mikelward 4y ago
IIRC they are just as loud and annoying as an earthquake alert. This makes earthquake alerts less useful. Amber/Silver/Blue alerts should be more like a regular notification.
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by mikelward 4y ago
It's not the user's job to figure out that it only happens in Florida on Tuesdays. They may not even be able to change all the relevant variables. Apple developers should look at the stack trace that should either be sent automati
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by mikelward 4y ago
They did here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33582027
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by mikelward 4y ago
Zshrc is slow if you put slow things in it. In the article, the author was running kubectl in their zshrc. kubectl was slow. This doesn't prove zsh is slow.
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by mikelward 4y ago
I used to think that Australian preferential voting was the best practical method. Though the Ranked Choice Voting debate in the US has taught me that STAR voting and approval voting are both easier to count and avoid some edge cases.
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by mikelward 4y ago
It looks like there's a process for every state. Not sure if fax is always supported. https://www.fvap.gov/
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by mikelward 4y ago
This would be easier if there was an easy way to write the zero value, irrespective of type. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19642 was a proposal to have e.g. return _, _, err as an alternative to
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by mikelward 4y ago
Didn't know that, thanks. I've only just deleted my Twitter account.
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by mikelward 4y ago
Do you have a link that doesn't require sign-in, maybe Nitter?
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by mikelward 4y ago
Gboard manages to do a good job on a 1.4" watch screen.
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by mikelward 4y ago
I had that feeling on Windows Phone years ago. Gboard on Android works pretty well most of the time though.
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by mikelward 4y ago
I think you're supposed to press on the .?123 key, keep holding, and then slide your finger to the comma or period. I assume pressing space twice inserts a period, too. Disclaimer: it's been a while since I used an iPhone, this mi
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by mikelward 4y ago
*Sensible
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by mikelward 4y ago
Not in the FAQ: "If this is so important, why don't these changes apply to special stamps?" and "You're designing new stamps, but you're putting the Late Queen on them, not the new King?"
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by mikelward 4y ago
Where are you seeing that? asus.de and asus.fr both say from €799.
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by mikelward 4y ago
I test drove a used 2019 BMW. It didn't have features that are quite common, such as Android Auto and adaptive cruise control. On the one hand, I would have liked the option to turn those features on. On the other hand, once you factor
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by mikelward 4y ago
Opt-in? That would make it substantially less useful, and would favour incumbent review sites/services.
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by mikelward 4y ago
It says it's a problem carrying around more battery than you need most days. And implicitly argues it's better to carry around a combustion engine (and gearbox) you don't need most days. I guess that means less rare metals, b
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by mikelward 4y ago
Try to help out as much as you can. There's a lot of pressure on new moms to do everything right, that she should just know what to do. She'll be physically exhausted from feeding and lack of sleep, not to mention emotionally exha
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by mikelward 4y ago
When I try to attach a file in Chrome on Linux, it shows a file picker that defaults to only showing files I recently uploaded, which is the exact opposite of what I want.
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by mikelward 4y ago
It gets even more interesting. The Tasmanian Greens are often thought of as the first green party, and they started out as an anti- hydro party. (Well, against a specific dam.) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Ta
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by mikelward 4y ago
I would buy your phone, but I don't really like the iPhone mini industrial design. The square edges make it a bit hard to hold. I also don't mind if it's a bit larger than iPhone mini. Pixel 3/iPhone 13 size is my limit.
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by mikelward 5y ago
Every customer service call I make, the first thing I hear is "We're experiencing unusually high call volumes".
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by mikelward 5y ago
I want to come into the office. It's nice to get to know coworkers better. And I like the commute and the routine. But it sucks. There aren't enough meeting rooms for all the meetings. When I do get a meeting room, I have to wai
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by mikelward 5y ago
Company-owned devices can be provisioned in "fully-managed mode" a.k.a. "device owner mode". Sounds like they didn't do that? https://developers.google.com/android/work/requirements/fu
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by mikelward 5y ago
(2019)
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by mikelward 5y ago
I find it sometimes zooms in or out when it shouldn't. And I sometimes bump the AR button accidentally. And reporting some types of map errors, such as incorrect lane guidance, and temporary street closures, never seems to be acted on.
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by mikelward 5y ago
AirPods don't support LDAC, aptX HD, or aptX LL. According to reviews, LDAC is better than AAC, and is Apache 2.0 licensed.
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by mikelward 5y ago
Veterans Day is not a day off for US Googlers.
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by mikelward 5y ago
It still is, but it used to be, too.

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