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by octorian 5y ago
> It's E2EE if you select private chat with someone. And its not E2EE if you fail to select private chat. What this means is that any conversations where you do select E2EE are the ones the "authorities" will take interest
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by octorian 5y ago
I pretty much just use Audacious on Linux/UNIX these days. I think its a descendant of XMMS, and basically the same user experience as Winamp of old. The problem I have with most "modern" players is that they seem to want to
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by octorian 5y ago
Yeah, this is something that so many of the comments here seem to miss. Simply having to pay for the standard is an enormous barrier to access for anyone doing anything of a non-professional nature with the information. It almost doesn&#x27
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by octorian 5y ago
Back in the day there were dozens of character sets that were alternatives to US-ASCII. Having once worked on an Email client, I needed to bake in a bunch of translation tables to convert stuff sent that way into UTF-8.
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by octorian 5y ago
> The no-filesystem movement Is that the movement to store all your data as an amorphous pile of crap, and then provide easy-to-use search tools to actually find the content you're looking for? On one hand, I really like the search
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by octorian 5y ago
I think this is a big part of why a lot of the US got cable a bit later than other places. Because we dropped hourly billing for ISPs and didn't really have a tradition of time-billing for local POTS calls, dial-up Internet really wasn
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by octorian 5y ago
Yeah, I'm from SE Florida, so that timing sounds about right. I recall when it was first being rolled out, it was some sort of weird hybrid service that did phone-up/cable-down. Not sure how long that nonsense lasted, because they
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by octorian 5y ago
Dial-up still very much reigned supreme in the US in '97. However, we had finally stopped saddling it with punitive pricing models that discouraged people from actually taking full advantage of the Internet. I don't remember cable
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by octorian 5y ago
But not analytics that are too good, or certain people will write a lot of inflammatory articles about how your software is nothing but evil spyware. Seriously, though, having a robust and automatic crash reporting system very much helps tr
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by octorian 5y ago
Agreed, and I'm personally struggling to decided whether to get the 6 or 6 Pro an an upgrade from my "regular" Pixel 4. The size difference between the two doesn't actually seem that substantial, but the specs difference
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by octorian 5y ago
Did I miss something, or did they forget to cover "push", "pull", and "branch"? (and possibly a few other very common things)
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by octorian 5y ago
> It's not that companies aren't hiring junior developers, it's that they _only_ hire from their college recruiting pipeline for their entry level roles. As someone who graduated shortly after the dot-com bubble burst, I&#
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by octorian 5y ago
Especially since the chips experiencing horrible shortages are the cheap simple ones used for those dumb features no one even thinks about anymore.
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by octorian 5y ago
This. Very much this. I've probably fallen into the "10x" camp myself at certain points in my career, and it was absolutely due to these factors. I should also add that having a general expertise of the problem domain and en
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by octorian 5y ago
> I’ve found women are eager to set up a meeting within the first five or so messages, sometimes even hinting at it by the 2nd message That's probably because they've had enough experience to become aware of "the great lie
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by octorian 5y ago
>> Okay, which site was this? >The site it said it was? I'm sorry, but I have absolutely no idea what sites fall under the banner of the "FooBarBaz.NET" dark web data dump.
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by octorian 5y ago
Gtk's popularity comes from a couple of things that happened about 20 years ago... - C++ dynamic linking used to be slower on Linux than C dynamic linking - A lot of Linux die-hards are simply C++ haters - Qt's licensing used to b
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by octorian 5y ago
The functional uselessness of ALL site breach notifications from EVERYONE who will send them to you is something that pisses me off to no end. "Your Email was found in the data dump from the FooBarBaz.NET hack!" Okay, which site w
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by octorian 5y ago
> My old lenses feel like quality scientific instruments, in comparison, and have long focus throws that allow me to focus very accurately. FWIW, I've noticed that Hasselblad lenses have the longest focus throws of any lens I'v
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by octorian 5y ago
In this day and age its easy to forget that even "dumb" appliances still use microcontrollers. Yes, even functions like monitoring temperature, turning a compressor on and off, and beeping if the door is left open for too long...
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by octorian 5y ago
Of course people who present you with an XY problem are often the same sorts of people who begin the conversation with my most hated trope of them all... "Asking to ask" (Often coupled with diverting the conversation from a public
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by octorian 5y ago
And why some of my past upgrades were driven by the web browser over-taxing the machine on certain sites, while nearly everything else was perfectly performant with absolutely no complaints.
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by octorian 5y ago
> It feels like when I was a kid and went from a 386SX to a Pentium at 4X the speed I remember the jump from the 486 chips to the Pentium being that dramatic. Heck, 486DX2-66 to P100 brought Linux kernel compile times from 45 minutes dow
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by octorian 5y ago
My old MacBook Pro is in desperate need of an upgrade, but I'll probably wait for the next iteration on the M1 (probably due sometime this fall) before I upgrade. Far too much stuff I use comes from outside the Apple RDF, and is likely
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by octorian 6y ago
> Edit: Windows can maintain backward compatibility with its ecosystem if they did it well, like Apple has done. Backwards compatibility with the ecosystem, especially the enormous ecosystem of software that doesn't have active main
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by octorian 6y ago
> The Linux developers don't want Linux's internal APIs to be stable documented interfaces It also has the "benefit" of making it extremely difficult to actually distribute stable device drivers that are closed source
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by octorian 6y ago
> Let's leave the general computing devices for people who actually need that power, just like the early days. With that attitude, eventually the impact of economies of scale will end up denying us the ability to afford those device
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by octorian 6y ago
Chances are that newer models (S/X with MCU2, the Model 3, etc) don't have such bad issues. Beyond that, I can easily think of a few reasons... First, this doesn't affect the parts of the car necessary to actually drive it.
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by octorian 6y ago
> Their software now detects the issue before it occurs and adds a notification alerting the driver. I've never seen this notification on my 2015 Model S, whose MCU (the center console display referred to here) has become increasing
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by octorian 6y ago
> How about things like the speedometer? The speedometer is on the dashboard display, which is a somewhat independent unit that will work fine even if the MCU (center console display) isn't working correctly.

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