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by n8cpdx 5y ago
It’s pretty strict and won’t authenticate if I look too tired, so I think you’d have to be pretty careful about how you tape the unconscious victim’s eyes (a conscious victim would just look away from the screen) to fool it. And if someone
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
What’s a music file?
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Not just that, but with interest rates at zero and inflation at 8.5% per year (and growing!) it is incredibly stupid to pay even a single penny of federal loan debt early, unless you have a really good need to polish your credit score. Fede
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
The imagery is often already captured, so if I want to give Maxar $250 I don’t see why they wouldn’t take it. Eos (iirc it’s been a while) actually let me buy some imagery, but they would only give me pictures, not actual georeferenced rast
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Were you not burned by the many iterations of Windows Live Movie Maker? It was a 16-year product. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Movie_Maker Here’s Microsoft’s Windows blog post about ClipChamp, their latest a
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
This was an added feature, so it stands to reason that it should still be able to be turned off. Try this if you haven’t already: https://superuser.com/questions/989951/is-it-possible-to-dis...
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
I work in WPF, UWP, and Xamarin.Forms daily. I’m a little offended by the comment about WPF; WPF is stuck in 2006 but at least is about as polished as you can expect from a 16 year old product. Microsoft should aspire to make their other UI
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
I don’t think that really makes sense. There are plenty of popular/commercially successful cuisines that involve long prep times or intricate procedures. And Ethiopian cuisine doesn’t have to be super difficult to make - I took a class
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Approachable meaning it doesn’t take a giant leap for an American to consume it - it isn’t bugs (ants, grasshoppers, locusts) and it isn’t raw fish. Not that there’s anything wrong with those things - Americans do in fact eat those things,
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Is Ethiopian and Somali food taking off in the UK? I discovered Ethiopian cuisine a few years ago, and once you know about it it can be found in large-ish cities in the US, but the businesses all seemed like they were on the edge of collaps
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
> Call into the school's board meeting during public comment, and make it loud and clear that the school is installing spyware on students' Chromebooks. Share your technical credentials and the method by which you found this. J
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
People say it is blurry but I think I have pretty good eyes and do a lot of pixel peeping and don’t really see the issue. I don’t think I’ve ever run macOS at the native resolution because things are just too big, with the exception of my 1
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Have you ever actually met or heard of a user (outside of software engineers on hacker news) that cares about this? I’d think the last 20+ years of the evolution of the internet would be clear enough evidence that: a) users don’t want choic
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Underrated factor IMO: > consistency with the UI conventions of a given desktop operating system Desktop conventions sort of exist for macOS but definitely do not exist for Windows or Linux. I won’t go into Linux because I don’t want to
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
It seems very strange that these companies are spending so much on engineering resources. How many 750k engineers are actually producing 7x a 100k engineer? I look at companies like Google and aside from the core cash cow (ads) it seems lik
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Are you concerned about having so much overhead for such a small company? That’s a lot of expensive offices. I get that venture money is cheap right now, but with upcoming tightening there’s reason to suspect future funding rounds might not
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Could you not also Google the answer to fizzbuzz in 15-30 minutes?
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
jfc I work full time on .NET desktop and even I know this. This is fizzbuzz. Are you really suggesting that actual qualified web developers don’t know this stuff? This isn’t even fizzbuzz. I was inclined to think these questions were too ob
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Does anyone know of something like Otter but offline with tolerable performance? Otter is the only thing approaching affordable for individuals, but I don’t really trust it given they’re playing fast and loose with user data.
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
I think for people who take email seriously (e.g. have work or volunteering commitments) and don’t just use it as a receipt holder, the Inbox concept is horrifying. Most of the good features are already baked into GMail and Outlook already.
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
I’m shocked this kind of post is written, and there are so many comments, yet no one has mentioned spatial references. Not a single time. When you understand the underlying complexity of spatial references/datums/coordinate system
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Both, which I think is part of the problem. They’re splitting engineering effort between Office 2003 style, Office 2007 (ish) style, and Office Online style UIs. They probably have less engineering resources than Microsoft Office and it sho
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Possibly. Although it first happened when I opened a podcast (hosted with Spotify’s platform) in overcast on my phone with LGBTQ themes. Probably a coincidence, but seeing my Spotify recommendations change from the usual news and events to
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Spotify, when they made the insane decision to pivot to podcasts, revealed a deep misunderstanding of the fundamental nature of audio. Or perhaps it would be clearer to say: music is not just “audio” and podcasts are not just “audio” and yo
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
It seems like there’s been a rush to the science mindset and the art part has been ignored by many in industry for the last 5-10 years. I remember wanting to be a PM, but experience with the MBA-ification of the field has embittered me. See
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
As of Windows 10, UWP apps aren’t usable without explorer.exe actively running; window contents don’t update to match frame size changes. So the answer is surprisingly kind of no, unless you want to commit to never using “modern” apps, or m
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
I'm not sure what you're talking about. I've been using Todoist since 2013 and have never encountered a calendar open on app startup. To be honest, I'm not sure I could get a pure calendar view if I tried. In settings yo
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
That wasn’t the feature I was thinking of, but it was indeed one of Office 2007’s major innovations! That release got a lot of grief for folks used to menus, but it really was a major leap in UX. The discoverability advantages were huge. An
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
He missed one of Office’s key innovations - commands-on-selection, which is now available on the web app as well. It reinforces the story even better than the given examples and has been there since Office 2007. The web version just added s
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by n8cpdx 5y ago
Last I used it I could see multiple people simultaneously. I could even do Together Mode, but it seemed to be rendered on a server somewhere and streamed, rather than done locally. Maybe they were doing that with webcams and I just didn’t n

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