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by omar_alt 4y ago
A simple low energy computer that does one task like word processing or act as a terminal client with an ink display would be a useful for focusing on one task without distraction. I personally would love to have a low energy terminal devic
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by omar_alt 4y ago
This is why it is important to not depend on a single commercial IDE to do all your work. Datagrip has been my go to for sql but would be willing to switch back to dbeaver if I had to. I also use Pycharm when a client has me working with Te
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by omar_alt 4y ago
It seems that of all of the contracts that businesses sign the ones they are most keen to terminate abruptly is the employment contracts with their staff.
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by omar_alt 4y ago
Most big name champagne is priced to cover the marketing and sponsorship, small estate champagne can sometimes be better value for money as they have smaller overheads. At the same time the big names can produce more at scale or rely on dee
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by omar_alt 4y ago
Yes I have used the old usb sk-8855 and even bought the Tex Shinobi mechanical keyboard. I still prefer the feel of typing and using an x220 over anything else. When a client sends me a dedicated machine to work on I still get round this by
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by omar_alt 4y ago
Yeah I have to agree here. The first gen SE size was good for me to use for one handed control which was very useful where the device acts as a remote control for a few devices in my home. The screen for the 2nd gen SE is an inch taller and
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by omar_alt 4y ago
I wonder what this will do for concentrating when using the terminal or writing code?
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by omar_alt 4y ago
If more people are becoming dependent on playlists will future generations even be able to recall their favourite songs from memory as they enter middle age?
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by omar_alt 4y ago
I remember a running something in the Terminal around 10.5 that put up and down scroll buttons at the the top and bottom of the scroll bar. They were useful for the time.
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by omar_alt 4y ago
Finding the people who can code is one thing, inventing a device that causes most peoples attention span to reset every 30 seconds is another thing. A lot of people would switch to coding compared to other 21st century jobs but they are inh
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by omar_alt 4y ago
I distinctively remember around 1994 two family run stores in the UK town I grew up in disappearing and the reason was the same, Blockbuster. I didn’t play games much but I recall them also renting out Japanese nintendo games and also sold
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by omar_alt 4y ago
i3 was pretty instant for me and made me go from casually using Linux at home to making Ubuntu 20 LTS a stable daily driver at work. I think I needed one tutorial to get my config and status bar then I was good to go. It took a little while
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by omar_alt 4y ago
Children of the 60s and 70s were probably the last in the UK that could get away with long lunches, client meetings in the pub and no work Friday's. I worked in IT sales and marketing in my twenties and saw this quite often and it was
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by omar_alt 4y ago
I had not seen Mixxx for quite a few years but good to see it has kept up with the pace. It would be fun to dj out with an old Tux stickered Thinkpad
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by omar_alt 4y ago
Soon the average laptop will be lighter than the average smartphone
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by omar_alt 4y ago
Yes it would be significant for me, inserting a one pixel thick faint grey horizontal line per row in vimscript should be possible
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by omar_alt 4y ago
I found it significant for readability but have only seen it so far in github gists. I use vim and sometimes sublime text so a plugin could probably insert a faint line per row similar to how it is done indicate character length.
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by omar_alt 4y ago
I’m still waiting for a text editor to incorporate a line paper effect which I think would help for code readability
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by omar_alt 4y ago
Will bookmark this. I yearn for some type of Fairlight based OS with a distinct audio engine that can be installed on a homebrew mishmash of cpu and midi architecture. Rather than an open source pro-tools but something different using circu
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by omar_alt 4y ago
It would be interesting to show the market capitalisation of all major record labels vs Apple over the last 25 years. File sharing was given a massive leg up at the expense of recorded music and looking back it was really the underground an
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by omar_alt 4y ago
Growing up in the 80s it seemed like there was a whole host of serious music and films made for my parents whether it was Phil Collins, Luther Vandross, Out of Africa or MASH. There was a market back then whether it was considered less than
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by omar_alt 5y ago
Music has moved further away from the idea of the album since Loudness became a really big thing in the noughties. The one positive is that vinyl masters means that engineers have to consider some dynamics as a lot of albums since the mid 9
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by omar_alt 5y ago
Most late 20th century western musical movements and the cultural changes that came with them was down to manufacturers of instruments. It was usually a box, synthesizer or effects unit. Surely the R&D for new sounds is what music depen
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by omar_alt 5y ago
Fond memories of What.cd, waffles.fm amongst others. I remember 12 years ago trying to get 30 or so FLAC albums into Foobar on a windows laptop I was taking with me on holiday. In order to display them as one collection the only obvious way
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by omar_alt 5y ago
Browser based IDE's are not great for those that want a customised terminal or depend on applications that have key-bindings. For example Cloud 9 was good for getting started in the AWS account I was granted access to but was unable to
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by omar_alt 5y ago
Having a Mastercard and an Amex can be useful if you are dealing with some payment gateways that throw a fit at visa during checkout (Scottish whisky sites on Stripe payment gateways is a recurring theme). However this is completely impract
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by omar_alt 5y ago
Another medium was FM and the advent of specialist DJ’s playing deep album cuts on certain US radio stations. This for most listeners would have been a step up in audio quality from jukeboxes and AM even if they couldn’t afford a full syste
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by omar_alt 6y ago
I am interested to know how people feel about whether working inside of Cloud9 on dedicated AWS development is a plus when it comes to pen-testing/security auditing. A colleague of mine on a public sector contract was keen for us to mo
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by omar_alt 6y ago
Owning old vinyl to play on well made second hand gear is far more sustainable than streaming music which has a poor EULA or storing terabytes of audio where you only listen to roughly 1%. You can argue the same with CD’s but disc rot is an