mikro2nd

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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Missing [2010] flare.
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Your reason -- respect for your readers, treating them as you wish to be treated yourself -- is the exact reason I started down this road. It took me a while to realise that there was this other, more subtle, benefit, too. +1 on joining i
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
> You'll check the analytics. Abysmal. Nobody is reading! And that, right there, is the best reason to remove all analytics from your blog/website[1]. At the risk of being held guilty of self-promotion, I wrote a little blog
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Unless it's all just strategy smoke and mirrors at this stage. Many a slip possible between now and actually starting construction.
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
I'm more entertained by the notion of having the LE chase after some car performing a random-walk around the countryside... :)
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
In the semi-dystopian scenario: Supposing I'd committed some crime likely to attract that level of tracking/response... How long do you think I'd actually walk around with that phone? Or would I be more likely to dump it&#x2F
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Just want to agree fully! I've been known to say that an "Architect" who doesn't code is no better than a bullshit artist. Architects don't necessarily write production code (they won't have the time/bandw
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
You might want to look up "Joy's Law".
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Long-lived pionic He: Exotic matter experimentally verified for the first time(phys.org)
2 points by mikro2nd 6y ago|0 comments
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
One place I was consulting to had a dev who only ever committed code in the wee hours of the night. By day he'd fiddle around with all kinds of unproductive crap, but by night he appeared to be a productivity daemon. Turned out he was
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Interesting. I've turned quite a number of non-technical friends/family into Signal users, just by telling them, "Here's the messaging app I'm using if you want to talk to me..." without mention of encryption u
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Iterated Prisoners' Dilemma
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
"It's my arc-welder, officer."
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The Tao of IETF(ietf.org)
1 points by mikro2nd 6y ago|0 comments
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
3. Employee "forgets" phone in desk drawer/locker when going home every evening.
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by mikro2nd 7y ago
Or Mr Buffett's take: "Be afraid when everybody around you is being greedy. Be greedy when everybody is being afraid." (Something like that, anyway. From memory.)
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by mikro2nd 7y ago
Not to mention that small wind turbines are quite noisy.
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by mikro2nd 7y ago
Weeks? I've made starters from scratch in the space of 3 to 4 days. One way to speed it up is to stir in a teaspoon of (good quality) honey, since honey is naturally full of wild yeasts.
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by mikro2nd 7y ago
Not so good when "Create store" fails to do anything. (Firefox, Linux)
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by mikro2nd 7y ago
Looks like UK only. Pity, I was keen to kick the tyres but can't even get that far.
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by mikro2nd 7y ago
Self-delusional marketingspeak. To me 'Vercel' sounds like a brand of cheap batteries.
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by mikro2nd 7y ago
I'm pretty sure Black Mirror covered this...
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by mikro2nd 7y ago
Why are you speechless? Your comment invites no conversation and provokes no deliberation. Please expand on it.
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by mikro2nd 7y ago
Would that be in the same way that Google gave users the option to opt out of location data collection and then went on doing it anyway ?
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by mikro2nd 7y ago
I've seen quite a few... can't remember specifics, since I just bounce at that point. But certainly common to Shiny New Startups!
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by mikro2nd 7y ago
[] Login with Google [] Login with Facebook (no other options.) Admittedly the horrorshow that is the current Trello/Atlassian trainsmash is up there in the Top 3 or so.
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Is the U.S. Empire in Jeopardy?(macleans.ca)
3 points by mikro2nd 7y ago|0 comments
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by mikro2nd 7y ago
(Quite a few people think my language was overly harsh. I'll reply to this one, but take it as read that it's much the same reply to all similar comments. Nothing personal, just this one seems to best sum up the (perfectly valid)
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by mikro2nd 7y ago
1. You have to restart the browser for changes of those prefs to take effect. 2. `browser.urlbar.update1` is going away (is already gone in nightly builds -- see my other comment elsewhere for details.)
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by mikro2nd 7y ago
Fully agree that this change is needless, gratuitous and downright ugly. But it gets worse... The pref that disables the ugly behaviour is going away. Indeed, in some sense it's already gone: ["Remove the megabar pref"]( http

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