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by nxc18 6y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/science/5g-phone-safety-h...
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by nxc18 6y ago
Will Americans perceive that or will they see it as more foreign adventurism a la the Middle East to defend people that aren’t Americans in a hopeless forever war quagmire? And do Americans take that threat seriously enough to put actual li
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by nxc18 6y ago
Python help: Can’t open file ‘help’: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Python -help: Unknown option: -e Python —-help: actual help Stupid users, it’s so intuitive! (PS it always bugs me that every program uses a different option for ch
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by nxc18 6y ago
100% this. I don’t expect you to go crazy over programming, but the gulf between passionate programmers and just-collect-the-paycheck programmers is extreme. Just-collect-the-paycheck programmers are useful and necessary, but a team compose
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by nxc18 6y ago
To be fair, much of the content on TikTok is more creative, more profound, or both. I see serious media criticism, commentary on the perspective of black Americans facing the threat of police brutality, lighthearted media criticism/par
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by nxc18 6y ago
That’s also not accurate. Browsers and apps have had the ability to ask for the system-defined light or dark mode since 2015. They simply chose not to until iOS could do it, so you’re right that the popularization came from mobile. Windows
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by nxc18 6y ago
Not the point of the article at all, but the annoying part of me feels compelled to point out a factual error: Windows had dark mode long before copycats Android and iOS came on the scene with their implementations. Windows Phone 7 had it b
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by nxc18 6y ago
I just switched last week, so can confirm that as of very recently, it is still far superior to lastpass. Two notes worth highlighting - UX is much lighter and more reliable for Bitwarden on web - iOS implementation of Bitwarden is faster,
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by nxc18 6y ago
I tend to agree, and for strong performers/individuals (or just people who are willing to learn quickly/go outside of their comfort zone), it is often possible to become proficient at many ‘specialized’ roles. Especially with soft
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by nxc18 6y ago
Windows on ARM is already working on M1 Mac through parallels. The big issue now is licensing and I assume some niceties in terms of official drivers/fine-tuning support. According to recent videos, Windows in a VM on M1 Mac today has
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by nxc18 6y ago
I tend to think trying to speed up thought in general is a fool’s errand. However, as others have noted, there are clear exceptions, and training a pathway does indeed speed up thinking on that pathway. I’ll highlight another example of thi
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by nxc18 6y ago
We don’t know if that’s true because Google was also sued for Play’s unfair practices. It’s not just that iOS will be like Android, it’s that Epic is trying to force Android to be even more of a Wild West than that. Epic wants to give Micro
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by nxc18 6y ago
Of course not. Not immediately. Just like you wouldn’t move cities if the police announced they’d no longer enforce traffic laws or investigate/attempt to prevent gun violence. Then after the homicide rate doubles, there’s shootings al
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by nxc18 6y ago
If you’re going to make that claim, you’ll need to back it up with literally any evidence or even anecdote. I buy iPhone because it is basically the only reliable computer I own, and a single, reputable source of software is a big part of t
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by nxc18 6y ago
I recently dropped my NYT sub; jetbrains nonsense was the straw that broke the camel's back. I know it's a meme to bring up Gell-mann amnesia here, but I will raise it as a basic test for quality in journalism. When NYT writes abo
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by nxc18 6y ago
I interned at a securities finance company that did drug testing at some point. There were lots of management changes, so the random screen may have been an MBA/finance type who didn’t get it. Notable quality engineers who failed their
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by nxc18 6y ago
Yes but it's apparently a little complicated. https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115005890803-iOS-S... Teams also supports this well. I kind of assumed it wouldn't work well before trying it,
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by nxc18 6y ago
Watching this whole saga from the sideline (no investments aside from 401k, which I don’t look at), it has been really disappointing to watch everyone acting like lemmings. These aren’t particularly difficult patterns to spot, but I guess p
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by nxc18 6y ago
The linked thread discussing weak passwords is particularly delightful in the context of solarwinds123
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by nxc18 6y ago
I didn’t see this addressed in other comments, but I thought the music part was interesting. Fast, driving, intense techno of some sort is a game changer for me in terms of focus. Not a replacement for medication, but a useful tool with or
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by nxc18 6y ago
For me it’s ~300mg caffeine to almost be as good as 10mg Ritalin, but I have to re-dose the caffeine often. Think a gram or more a day. Both have an impact on cardiovascular health, but my impression is that Ritalin and the like are much sa
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by nxc18 6y ago
I was probably trained by my IE6/400Mhz Pentium days, but I’m the opposite. As soon as I’m done with it, I close it. I’ve never understood how people can leave tabs open when they’re not actively using them.
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by nxc18 6y ago
Yeah but there’s a very good chance that won’t work with various hardware configurations. I was able to get per-monitor scaling to work only after giving up use of half my GPUs, and still there were problems with several apps. This was on s
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by nxc18 6y ago
You beat me to it. They’ve got a bunch of cool utilities. In the windows 7 days I was a huge fan of logon studio. Microsoft could learn a lot from what they’re doing, as for the most part I still prefer not using 3rd-party utilities to mess
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by nxc18 6y ago
Stardock Groupy is a commercial supported utility that does the same thing, IIRC released during the long period when Microsoft was teasing Windows 10 Sets. https://www.stardock.com/products/groupy/ I think Micros
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by nxc18 6y ago
Which browser? I find Firefox performance unacceptable on ubunutu. I’ve got an nvidia gpu, it feels like Firefox isn’t using it. Chromium works ok, but I don’t like using chromium. Do you only have the one 4K display? I guess it depends on
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by nxc18 6y ago
It’s easy to underestimate how close we were to actual murder/kidnapping of democratically elected politicians, including folks like the Vice President. There are many clear failures that got us to this point. The fact that Twitter is
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by nxc18 6y ago
Thank you so much! I’ve had my watch for 4 months, I don’t know why I didn’t see that earlier. I have been going to the app switcher this whole time.
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by nxc18 6y ago
Unpopular opinion here, but I think the Fitbit versa (from 2018) was/is better than Apple Watch (latest) in significant ways, even when paired with iPhone. I replaced my versa with Apple Watch when the versa died. I don’t necessarily r
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by nxc18 6y ago
Completely agree about BMI ranges potentially being too wide. I just checked Fitbit and was surprised to see I’m now in the “ideal” range. I have man boobs and a muffin top. While I’m rarely the fattest person around anymore, I’m very clear

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