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by orev 4y ago
Before the iPhone, mobile device companies were held ransom by wireless carriers. Carriers dictated everything about the phones, down the Verizon demanding Bluetooth file transfer was disabled to force people to use data minutes to send p
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by orev 4y ago
Most of the US is solving this by building sideways (i.e. sprawl). It’s far cheaper than digging down, at least in the short term.
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by orev 4y ago
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. In that order. Each one of those has a higher cost than the one before it. Change takes getting used to. Yeah, you’ll forget your bags for a while, but eventually it will become a normal thing.
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by orev 4y ago
> I wish everything in /etc/ used a common format, like YAML, or a small set of common formats. This is what makes the Windows registry such a success. I think too many Linux people hated Windows for too long that they ignored
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by orev 4y ago
Just to help with future understanding of how threads go off the rails: eatonphil added a comment about using static files instead of dynamic, then your reply was “and caching”, meaning “in addition to static files, also use caching”. At th
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by orev 4y ago
Outside of using a CDN, just simply using static files gives you caching for free at the file system level. Linux automatically keeps files in RAM when they’re used.
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by orev 4y ago
No, this happens on Windows too, and it’s not related to auto mute or anything like that. The audio stream just drops for a second, like if there was interference or buffer issue.
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by orev 4y ago
Yes, that’s a thing with Wordpress. Any change to the URL requires some sort of migration to the new URL, as they are statically added to pages. This was done to avoid the performance hit of dynamically generating the late every time. Wordp
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by orev 4y ago
Depending on your career goals, being the person that everyone approaches for help on finding the right path is a very valuable thing. It means they see you as a leader who can work with other people to help them get things done. Having an
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by orev 4y ago
Since you’re already using Word, why not use what it has? The Developer tab provides multiple input controls, and using those values should be fairly easy in the document. You can have a section at the top where they fill in the values (or
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by orev 4y ago
> The anti trust concern was that they could abuse their position No. The antitrust concern was that they *did* abuse their position to damage the browser market, which is evidenced by how long IE11 has been around. Luckily the value pro
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by orev 4y ago
Having a passive strategy doesn’t mean you don’t test it, and you can even perform actual failovers once on a while to validate everything. Active-active is also valid, but the point is that it comes with a huge amount of increased complexi
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by orev 5y ago
iPhone browser extensions can only run in the Safari app, not inside other apps that embed it. I read HN through Feedly (which displays each article inside the app), and there’s no way to do any user customization.
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by orev 5y ago
The habit to focus on the most would be simply going to the gym. Even if you don’t do much, that’s probably the biggest thing you’d need to get into a routine.
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by orev 5y ago
Our ancestors lived in extremely harsh environments, didn’t have modern medicine, and there was a very high infant mortality rate. The last one alone causes the average lifespan to drop, however many who survived past infancy lived to sim
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by orev 5y ago
The problem with home automation companies is they have a perspective and culture of a hardware manufacturer who never understood software. They want to build a device, wire it up, sell it, then forget about it. For decades they have tried
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by orev 5y ago
Insteon has been around for longer than Cloud existed, and their devices will work with HomeSeer or HomeAssistant. But non-techie people probably wont be able to get those working. Maybe a glut of these will be on eBay soon.
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by orev 5y ago
I’ve never seen any definition of Net Neutrality that mentions CDNs co-located in ISP data centers as a problem, so the issue you’re mentioning doesn’t exist. It would be an NN issue if ISPs were to try to charge customers a different pri
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by orev 5y ago
Enabling Hyper-V on Windows currently causes problems with VirtualBox, so that’s one reason. They’re (vbox) working on fixing it, but it hasn’t landed yet.
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by orev 5y ago
> How many people here are also great sysadmins? Probably a very small number. I am. And there probably aren’t that many around here due to the extreme prejudice and derision Developers direct towards Sysadmins. We’re apparently a bunch
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by orev 5y ago
Wow, this looks amazing. I just might try to make a mod that disables apps’ ability to steal keyboard focus (unless someone beats me to it).
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by orev 5y ago
If you don’t agree to all provisions in the contract, then you can’t become a member. Nobody’s negotiating a custom contract for every customer who walks through the door.
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by orev 5y ago
You don’t see the difference between: 1) allowing anyone on the Internet to use an ssh shell on an internal server that’s protected by authentication and firewalls, vs 2) someone you know, who has already been granted physical access to you
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by orev 5y ago
No. And I find it concerning that many people seem to feel that this is a make or break feature (as this is always brought up in this discussion). It really isn’t that hard to sit down and focus for a half hour to actually look at your tax
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by orev 5y ago
> because I wasn't actually thinking about the data in the forms Then that’s not a cognitive task, or at least one that requires the full brain. I would venture a guess that you might have been able to complete that task faster if y
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by orev 5y ago
It’s physically impossible for the human brain to multitask like this (multiple streams that both require cognitive attention), and studies have shown that people who try to do this actually end up with long term damage to their ability to
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by orev 5y ago
They’re not using mobiles or land lines. They sign up with a VOIP provider in the US and then use a software phone to connect to the provider. The connection to India goes over the regular Internet, and then gets connected to the phone syst
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by orev 5y ago
Yes, this is what I (thought) I was saying, but you seem to have expressed it more clearly. Thanks. However, the fallacy I’m referring to is related to how they report on these things, usually saying something like “the price of the materia
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by orev 5y ago
I’m not following which part you’re saying is untrue. The number of users on the machine is irrelevant as each user can install apps into their own user profile. Maybe they won’t have access to the other users’ data, but it’s enough to gain
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by orev 5y ago
You may be surprised to learn that removing admin rights is no longer (and never really did) protect against app installs. Many developers have figured out they can just install into the user’s profile. Only apps that truly need admin right

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