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by nirvdrum 7y ago
I tried to play "Sea of Thieves" and gave up entirely after about an hour. They have a feature where the majority can vote to send someone to the brig, where you can't do anything, except apparently drown if your teammates si
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by nirvdrum 7y ago
I had an employer that blocked access to lastpass.com to discourage that sort of thing. I guess the idea is you shouldn't be using a work computer for personal stuff and you shouldn't put work passwords on a 3rd part site. In real
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by nirvdrum 7y ago
Given all the other reprehensible stuff in the article, the bit about her background seemed like an unnecessary potshot. The very next sentence is "But for all of her privilege, no one denied the executive’s fanatical work ethic."
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by nirvdrum 7y ago
Lists like this make me feel like I have a fundamental disconnect with serverless. I've yet to experience this low cost of development. Granted, I have a fair bit of sysadmin experience. But, with serverless it feels like I'm trad
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by nirvdrum 7y ago
Not that I've come across or could easily find just now. Google is the one that started the rapid release cycle in browsers and extended support for anything is out of character for the company. I'm curious to see if Edge will pro
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by nirvdrum 7y ago
Just in case you were unaware, Firefox has extended support releases [1] for environments where rapid releases are too much hassle. This is a supported option from Mozilla whereby you get security fixes but the feature set doesn't chan
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by nirvdrum 7y ago
Your assumption of what Fitts's Law is isn't quite correct. Wikipedia has a description of Fitts's Law [1], some of the follow-on work in that space, and its application to HCI. There's a multitude of books, papers, and
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by nirvdrum 7y ago
Interesting. I always took ⭘ to be an open circuit and ⏽ to be a closed circuit, using the symbol for a switch as the rough guide. Perhaps they're poor symbols if people can look at them and come up with rational reasons for each inter
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by nirvdrum 7y ago
Doesn't constantly changing the tab size violate Fitts's Law? I'm sure Google did some sort of study on this, but it seems to me that Chrome's shrinking tabs break a fundamental model of usability. I personally find this
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by nirvdrum 7y ago
Thanks, but the parent seemed to imply one was a commercial offering and copied by the other as an open source project. That's the part I was looking to get clarification on.
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by nirvdrum 7y ago
What's the relationship between React and Vue? I've tried searching for it, but all I could get was code samples comparing the two.
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by nirvdrum 7y ago
It's been a while, so maybe I'll give that shot again. My experience with VNC is that it's just laggy and really doesn't like it when I connect to a multi-display desktop with a single display laptop. Windows Remote Desk
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by nirvdrum 7y ago
Does Wayland improve the remote desktop story at all? I sometimes drop to X11 forwarding because VNC and X2Go don't really work so well for me. If I think I'm going to need a remote desktop for a while, I'll reboot into Windo
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by nirvdrum 7y ago
I’m really not. And I don’t get offended by very much. Maybe you’re not a native speaker? “Poor” as it refers to quality is a negative qualifier. And it’s typically used in a subjective context. That’s the connotative meaning. Even the defi
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by nirvdrum 7y ago
The connotative meaning of “poor” isn’t really anything that isn’t the absolute best. Words have meaning beyond the dictionary definition. “Poor” in this case means you think the researchers did a bad job, not that their work was a step on
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by nirvdrum 7y ago
I don't totally follow what you're saying. Are you suggesting content creators should have no expectation of ever earning anything, let alone a living, from creating content?
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by nirvdrum 7y ago
Doesn’t Jira use textile? Or has that changed?
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by nirvdrum 7y ago
No. I mean like what the parent said where paying for premium access removes all ads. If all ads aren't removed, that's a different scenario.
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by nirvdrum 7y ago
Is paying to remove the ads a big deal? Presumably the content creator wants to earn something for putting the effort into creating something. Ads are one way to support content creation. Directly paying is another. Many advocates to remove
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by nirvdrum 7y ago
I think this distinction is a bit blurrier than you suggest. For my personal email I pay for and use Fastmail. I think it's a wonderful option and I'm more productive in it. However, when starting a new company recently, we ended
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by nirvdrum 7y ago
I'm not the OP, but it looks like it was in reply to the "cheapest way" part of the title. Incidentally, that line doesn't appear on the web site.
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by nirvdrum 7y ago
Fantastic. I hope the others follow suit, because the current system is ridiculous. I stand by my original point because many providers do engage in that sort of anti-consumer behavior.
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by nirvdrum 7y ago
Avoiding a chargeback would avoid a ban for a chargeback. That's not really in dispute. My point is it's a legitimate consumer protection that you unwittingly forfeit when you buy into a provider's digital ecosystem. Given no
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by nirvdrum 7y ago
I can't speak to Apple specifically, but a refund request and a chargeback are different things. If you receive an unexpected charge, you may request a chargeback without even realizing what is happening. It's not exactly incumben
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by nirvdrum 7y ago
I'm not really sure what's going on with Netflix and DreamWorks, but Netflix has a new kids show that looks oddly like the "How to Train Your Dragon" shows that recently weren't renewed.
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by nirvdrum 7y ago
Regardless of your feelings on DRM or access on preferred devices, I think another issue that often gets overlooked (or people just don't know about it) is that you end up forfeiting a pretty nice consumer protection. One of the benefi
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by nirvdrum 7y ago
I appreciate letting me know what the license is, but I'm not convinced I should be required to agree to the terms of it before the (Windows) installer progresses. I'm not redistributing anything as a consumer of the software.
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by nirvdrum 7y ago
Does that work okay with multiple machines connected at the same time? I've been worried about what happens when there's a write conflict to the DB. I'd really like a way to easily share and manage my eBook library from both
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by nirvdrum 7y ago
I'm in favor of a team being able to set a limit if they'd like and tools adapting. Personally, I'd rather a 90 char commit message that conveys useful info than a contorted message intended to fit in 1/3 the size of an
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by nirvdrum 7y ago
Okay. But I contend that makes the whole log worth less because the short commit messages are often devoid of useful info. Granted, I don't have an email-based patch workflow; I look at logs on both GitHub and pulled in from the CLI. O

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