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by orev 4y ago
Laptops typically get replaced every 3-4 years, and a major requirement for them is to be lightweight. Lead acid batteries are far more economical for applications where weight is not a concern.
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by orev 4y ago
I agree that making a new custom scripting language wasn’t the best move, but the release notes deal with backwards compatibility concerns (and calls out Python specifically as a lesson learned).
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by orev 4y ago
The more we assume that everyone is using the big email providers, the more it becomes a reality. And everyone agrees that a centralized Internet controlled by only a few companies is one of the worst case scenarios. I have no certainty at
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by orev 4y ago
You make an interesting point and it makes me think about what might be driving the behavior of people not taking extended time off, if by many measures they should be able to? My vote is for the industry itself that’s driving burnout; not
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by orev 4y ago
After reading that, nobody should be taking security advice from you and I would avoid using your product. Most of the piece is spent talking about UX (which is almost always in conflict with security), and ignored the extremely large probl
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by orev 4y ago
dahfizz is comparing Apple’s (allegedly) anti-competitive behavior to Microsoft’s anti-trust violations, drawing a false equivalency between to two (possibly by misunderstanding the difference). I’m clarifying the difference. Being anti-com
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by orev 4y ago
Antitrust applies only to companies in a monopoly position. Microsoft is/was a monopoly at the time. Apple is not a monopoly, even today.
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by orev 4y ago
> "only people like me contribute! the others do nothing!" - tired argument. I agree, when taken to extremes. However the amount of time spent vs actually useful work produced by people jabbering on for an hour in a meeting is
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by orev 4y ago
Going back to the office would be more palatable if employers hadn’t spent the past 15 years turning them into open-concept hellscapes full of distractions that benefit only the extroverted political operators and actively causes problems f
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by orev 4y ago
It’s NOT a good thing. I want to own my documents and not have to worry about some cloud provider mining them to sell data about me, or just disappearing one day. Sure I can see the cases where the collaboration is useful, but there are man
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by orev 4y ago
Python package management
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by orev 4y ago
You won’t find anyone saying that censorship is the type of damage to be routed around, in a serious engineering way, because that’s more of a colloquialism than a true design principle. Asserting that it was almost seems like a straw man.
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by orev 4y ago
Do you think those teams are blocking you just for fun? Or is it possible that they actually know a lot of things that you don’t, and all of that “wasted time” is actually being used to provide safety, security, and proper architecture for
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by orev 4y ago
> I actually think the biggest challenge for the leadership team at fastmail is the leadership part …and you just identified why writing code in a leadership position is a problem, so actually it wasn’t working. There’s no doubt that lea
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by orev 4y ago
Most people would define “investing” as putting money into illiquid assets, like stocks, etfs, real estate, etc. where the money cannot be used to buy things. Money sitting in a checking or savings account (even one that earns a meager inte
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by orev 4y ago
Very cool to see things like this. It reminds me of the early web when people were experimenting more. Wasm seems to have the potential to open it back up to more possibilities than the moribund JS situation we have now.
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by orev 4y ago
You do have the power. You can compile from source to any version you want. The caveat is that it breaks the primary reason most people use distributions—to get a set of packages that are consistent with each other.
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by orev 4y ago
At the time (~1999) digital photography was starting to take shape on the consumer side, the only option for viewing digital photos was on a CRT computer screen. Also at the time, the idea of anyone other than “nerds” having a computer and
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by orev 4y ago
Heathrow Express is likely used mostly by business travelers, who expense everything to their company. So the price doesn’t matter.
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by orev 4y ago
The problem with using managed services is you dump a ton of time making a solution that uses their custom APIs, and then you can be held for ransom to them because they can keep raising the price and you have nowhere to go. Having alternat
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by orev 4y ago
Things that are imitated are usually done so because the “real thing” is expensive and/or hard to get. This is like saying “why buy a fake Rolex when you can just buy a real one”. Sure, you can, but it pretty much misses the point of w
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by orev 4y ago
One of my favorites is SpeQ Mathematics (Windows) [1]. It’s free (not OSS) and doesn’t seem to be active anymore, but it still works great. It’s like a scratchpad that can calculate, without trying to emulate a physical device. [1] https:&
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by orev 4y ago
Others have mentioned some good things, so I wanted to suggest you read about Imposter Syndrome. If nothing else, you’ll realize you’re not alone in questioning your skills. It’s a very common issue in IT related fields.
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by orev 4y ago
Keychain stuck to your phone? I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone with a setup like that. Sounds incredibly annoying.
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by orev 4y ago
This seems so obvious to me that I’m surprised Stadia doesn’t already do that (not having done any real reading on how it works; just making assumptions based on the marketing I’ve seen). I just assumed it was a video stream with a touch co
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by orev 4y ago
I frequently use long options when available, and continue long lines using \. You’re usually only writing a script once, and being as descriptive as possible is usually a benefit. It’s not like most of the time is spent on programming is t
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by orev 4y ago
By “Fitness Instructor” I think you mean “Physical Therapist” (and definitely not a Chiropractor). In the US, a fitness instructor can be literally anyone who runs an aerobics class, while a physical therapist actually has medical training.
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by orev 4y ago
Searching for “Getting Things Done” will give you numerous results with summaries and the workflow diagram. But it’s a really short book. Could be read in an afternoon or two.
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by orev 4y ago
I disagree. “Goodness”, which I think is more accurately “fairness” is an emergent behavior of social species. The idea of helping others who need it, wanting to be treated (roughly) equally by peers, and avoidance of doing things that hurt
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by orev 4y ago
By the time you make it to the drying step, whatever that stuff is, should have already been removed by the soap, water, and scrubbing.

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