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by pault 7y ago
The problem with the touch bar is that you have to look away from the screen to use it. Physical buttons would allow you to touch type, and I don't think it's a problem to scan the keys a few times when you start using a new app.
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by pault 7y ago
If it's elitist to want your favorite communities to stay focused and full of friendly, like-minded people, then I'm an elitist.
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by pault 7y ago
Maybe GP means older as middle aged. I'm 40, moved countries four times in the last ten years, and after moving back to the US three years ago I haven't made a single friend. Since I was able to make many friends elsewhere I place
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by pault 7y ago
100%. There are many biological processes that create bonding through physical proximity and touch. You may make great friends online but the physical component can't be ignored.
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by pault 7y ago
One of the saving graces of IRC is that the technical barriers to using it (compared to discord, etc) are high enough to keep out the riff raff.
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by pault 7y ago
If you don't care about the default telemetry and ads, switch to Windows 10 with WSL. I was a die hard Mac user for a decade and since switching I haven't looked back. Windows is a different beast than it was 10 years ago, and hav
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by pault 7y ago
I don't know if it's possible with third party software (I use a hardware programmable keyboard running QMK), but I map it to tap for escape, hold for ctrl. If you use vim keybindings for your editor it's glorious.
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by pault 7y ago
That's fine, but you'll still only be able to block on one promise at a time. If you want to wait until all promises have resolved you still have to use Promise. all.
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by pault 7y ago
There are lots of testers on the market, but it's hard to differentiate them and I'm sure many of them are garbage. I need one myself, but I haven't had the time to do the research yet.
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by pault 7y ago
Personally, while I have never once used the touchbar, I do think the ability for apps to display contextual function keys has a lot of use cases. I would be happy if they released physical keys with little oled screens on them, like that o
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by pault 7y ago
That's not a very nice thing to say. I am in the position where I could take your advice but for many folks there is no plausible solution. Sure, anyone could fuck off to the woods, open a fruit stand, and tell their spouse and childre
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by pault 7y ago
My comment was mostly tongue in cheek, I know photons don't have eyes. :)
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by pault 7y ago
> why the IBM model M is still the best keyboard in the world Specifically the variants with the beam spring switch mechanism. You won't believe how much these go for on ebay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-keyboa
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by pault 7y ago
I know you probably don't want to give up your editor, but FWIW if you can find an acceptable collection of bindings and python extensions for VSCode the remote development extensions work amazingly well with WSL. I was able to set up
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by pault 7y ago
I believe the memory industry is also known for price fixing, so it's not out of the question. The oversupply is ridiculous though; the last time I shopped for an nvme they were $1000 for 500gb and the other day I bought 1TB for $500.
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by pault 7y ago
Approximately four billion years ago.
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by pault 7y ago
Does that mean a nuclear powered cruise missile could stay airborne until mechanical failure? That would make future warfare... interesting.
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by pault 7y ago
If, as clock A nears the speed of light it appears that stationary clock B is slowing down, doesn't that mean that at the speed of light is no time? Does a photon in a vacuum arrive instantly at its destination? If a photon looks at
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by pault 7y ago
FWIW I was a die hard Linux user for ten years, and I usually never ran a desktop environment in favor of tmux and vim. About a year ago I started a new job at a dotnet shop and had to switch to Windows. I dreaded it at first, and I still d
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by pault 7y ago
Is it just me or are all of the features they list on the landing page exactly what Google inbox did before they stupidly shut it down? I loved the inbox UI...
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by pault 7y ago
Technically yes, although as a specific example $100k/yr is the 80th percentile in Austin, TX[0]. My point was, if you define middle class as the middle of the income distribution, yes; if you define middle class more subjectively, lik
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by pault 7y ago
Well, given that many of the readers of this forum, including myself, never went to college yet manage to pull down a healthy six figure salary, I think the actual situation is a bit more nuanced. Developers making a cushy living are firmly
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by pault 7y ago
Also, as others have pointed out in this thread, they don't replace ads on websites with their own. It blocks ads, and if you want you can view Brave ads in exchange for their cryptocurrency and optionally donate them to participating
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by pault 7y ago
Have you tried using it recently? The quantum rewrite they released last year is incomparable to the previous releases. I use FF at home and Chrome at work and I can tell you that there is no noticeable difference in performance. The only
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by pault 7y ago
I've been using this[0] kvm with a 4k 60hz HDR monitor. The only problem I have with it is the mouse and keyboard emulation doesn't work with my more exotic QMK keyboard mappings and the fancy features on my Logitech mouse, but I
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by pault 7y ago
I just bought an Intel NUC and this is one of the bios options. Those are amazing little computers of you don't need a discreet GPU. It's the size of a sandwich, and I got an 8th gen i7, 16gb of DDR4, and a 500gb nvme SSD for unde
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by pault 7y ago
>I remember having to do something to the plugs to get Linux to enable the GPUs in my mining days. You also have to do this with certain desktop streaming solutions if the host PC doesn't have a display. You can buy fake HDMI connec
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by pault 7y ago
I agree, this plagued me throughout the years I was living in Brazil and I still can't fathom how a language (Latin in this case) could evolve with the concept of gender applied to inanimate objects!
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by pault 7y ago
One could make the argument that the US of today is far more authoritarian than it was 100 years ago before the concept of propaganda was industrialized. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
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by pault 7y ago
> But I think an equal and opposite problem is that these days people don't believe "real" news as much as they believe "fake" news. This is the endgame, and the reason fake news exists. There's no better wa

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