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by nickflood 7y ago
Just in case you've not thought or knew about it, have you tried using folder symlinks on macOS? Might be an answer to those situations where you have to have files in a special folder or its subfolder, but unfortunately will require s
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by nickflood 7y ago
Hyper-V supports nested virtualization (only Hyper-V nested inside th Hyper-V, though), and seeing as VirtualBox supports a Hyper-V virtualization backend, the solution may be to just find and fix all the bugs in that backend code when unde
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by nickflood 7y ago
Microsoft said that the classic WSL will be available alongside WSL2, so you'll be able to continue using WSL1 no problem if WSL2 will have issues
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by nickflood 7y ago
I tended to agree with this, but really with the desktop setup you have to move your eyes and head much farther to see the keyboard because the monitor is not fixed to it. This may be why they don't produce keyboards with the touchbar
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by nickflood 7y ago
I'm also amazed that so many aspects of our lives are created from stuff that we extract from Earth instead of building a sustainable and renewable source of it. Oil is used in everything from asphalt that we lay on roads to polymers i
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by nickflood 7y ago
I think, this situation is the same as when you tell people to "vote with your wallet" as to not spend money on the inferior product when the issue is clearly far beyond where people can freely decide this. Edit to add: Not defend
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by nickflood 7y ago
Don't believil
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by nickflood 7y ago
I mean, I live in Russia and I ask myself the same question about our "president". And the North Korea, that's a nightmare on a country scale. It seems, once you get up there, your humanity somehow gets abstracted away by eit
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by nickflood 7y ago
I've taken part in some WPF application development and I think there are some benefits in immediate-mode rendering of the UI. Particularly when the UI changes faster than a monitor refresh rate or there's too much data complexity
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by nickflood 7y ago
You read them from a config file and fill them into the config by hand while deploying. Never push secrets embedded into code or portions of the config file to your source repo. You can hardcode the secrets to test stuff, but the first time
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by nickflood 8y ago
If you haven't already, look into spring-loaded or hydraulic articulating mounts for your monitors. MountIt makes cheap stuff that's pretty good for the money. Saves so much desk space and the monitor can be very easily moved out
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by nickflood 8y ago
So it looks like what you argue is that without UBI some people are forced to work the shitty low paying jobs that more secure people would pass on, and that's beneficial to society? So basically wage slavery of the lower income people
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by nickflood 8y ago
Writing this just in case it might help. My S8+ had started to lose contact with the charging cable as well within about a year. I thought it was wearing out because I never had any other phone's connector be clogged up, but it really
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by nickflood 8y ago
I don't intend to dispute this claim. In fact, it's still correct. And I'm biased, I've got a Samsung phone. Still, opinion improved a bit when my S8+ got a march 2019 update which upgraded it to Android 9.0 (phone shipp
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by nickflood 8y ago
They were talking about this change in 2017, and actually said it will come in 2018,so they kind of actually took too long to implement this. That said, I'd say the Store is not breaking any records. It looks like their reaction to tha
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by nickflood 8y ago
I've started to install stuff from the store when it's awailable in the past year. Stuff like WinSCP is great - it's always current, it's 1-click, and developer also got some money from me for the effort.
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by nickflood 8y ago
An M.2 SSD, like a Samsung 970 Pro. Or a SODIMM RAM stick. Or an M.2 Wi-Fi adapter. While you're at it you can also screw the battery in instead of gluing it in place. Or screw the keyboard in instead of riveting it in place. All of th
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by nickflood 8y ago
I've got a couple of friends who are Apple fans - iPhone, iPad, MacBook, Apple Watch, full loadout. Once the time came to upgrade their MacBook Airs the question was whether to go with a Windows laptop to avoid keyboard issues, or risk
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by nickflood 8y ago
You can normally enable classic sleep in Windows by setting the CsEnabled key in registry to zero. That's how I'm doing it on my XPS 15 9570. Still trash of a laptop, but now it sleeps proprly :)
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by nickflood 8y ago
As a fellow AirPods user on Android, you might like the app AirBattery which allows you to see AirPods and from my friend's experience even some of the Beats's battery status. I'm not affiliated with the app in any way, it&#x
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by nickflood 8y ago
> The 2060 handily outperforms the 1070 Ti That's not what I'm seeing in the benchmarks. > I think you better get used to that. This may be your worldview, but other people are free to think for themselves and I choose to ho
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by nickflood 8y ago
Yep, you get me. And this saddens me doubly because we saw the same kinda "upgrade" from $700 to $1000 in flagship phones not long ago and everybody was just as okay there. Maybe it's the tariffs, or inflation, or some other
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by nickflood 8y ago
The problem in my opinion is that in the past they would effectively shift performance down one SKU on each generation, and at the top you could get a 30% upgrade in performance for the same kind of money. Like the 980 Ti to 1080 Ti for exa
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by nickflood 8y ago
Nvidia is sticking to the strategy of releasing the same GPU with RTX bolted on under a lower number and charging the same price for it... 2060 ($350) is very close to 1070 ($300), 2070 to 1080, 2080 ($800) to 1080 ti ($750). Edit: not the
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by nickflood 8y ago
One thing I'm glad they didn't "rip off" from Team Fortress 2 are the gambling loot boxes where you pay $2 for one try which has a 0.02% chance of netting you a $1500 item.
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by nickflood 8y ago
Not a parent commenter, but I have some examples of upgradeability/repairability. Dell XPS line of laptops has upgradeable storage and screwed-in batteries. 15" variant has upgradeable RAM and wireless card. The keyboard is attach
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by nickflood 8y ago
It will start having real problems when Zen 2 will ship using TSMC high-performance 7nm process instead of Zen 1's low-power process from Global Foundries. I.e. Zen 2 will have clock and IPC parity with current and future Intel parts n
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by nickflood 8y ago
I'd suggest you consider the Dell XPS line whether you need 13" or 15" laptop. Both laptops have good battery sizes, surprisingly durable coating for what it is, good keyboards, trackpads, screens... And both have a fingerpri
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by nickflood 8y ago
There's quite a feature rich Btrfs kernel-mode FS driver for Windows[1]. Only heard of it, though, and never tried it myself. [1]: https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs
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by nickflood 8y ago
Both Dell XPS 13 (and 15) and Lenovo X1 Carbon are super repairable with screwed in batteries, standard SSDs and easy to remove and cheap to replace keyboards and touchpads. You are really wrong to assume that thin and light can not be repa

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