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by philsnow 4y ago
> Isn't it pretty much up to the founder and board whether you get diluted (and how much) in the future Yes, but if your grant is in the same class as all the other regular folks (vs founders, C-suite, and investors), your protectio
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by philsnow 4y ago
Strong second for A Fire Upon the Deep and its prequel, A Deepness in the Sky, both Hugo winners.
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by philsnow 4y ago
> you can’t expect others to obey your tomato This gave me a good chuckle
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by philsnow 4y ago
Thank you for mentioning skedpal. I had never heard of it, and in the last week I've been thinking through the design of a very similar thing... the shininess of which is distracting me from working on the thing I actually want to
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by philsnow 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIi74DKWErA , it's what's for dinner
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by philsnow 4y ago
This is a phone I let my kids use; it's a landline "house phone" replacement, that I can take with me on vacation. It wouldn't make sense for it to forward to my primary phone. I want a POTS landline (guess I'm
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by philsnow 4y ago
By Finder do you mean Spotlight? My gripe with Spotlight is the instability of the pre-selected item after you type a few characters. On my mac, if I'm trying to go to Finder, I get cmd+space (Spotlight Search) f F(ind
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by philsnow 4y ago
I didn't like the default cmd-tab behavior or expose so I also used hammerspoon to "fix" it: https://gist.github.com/philsnow/d6ba054f57e2d304f0d4d18f247... This is off-topic because this thing is about
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by philsnow 4y ago
The app in the screencast is Firefox; if you run Accessibility Inspector.app and try to inspect, for instance, the "NN minutes ago" link text in your comment, this is what it looks like in Firefox [0] and this is what it looks li
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by philsnow 4y ago
More or less: - prevent removal of profiles: general -> security -> "with authorization", and added a password - prevent total phone wipe: general -> functionality -> [ ] allow Erase All Content and Setti
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by philsnow 4y ago
... iOS is the spyware for the masses? I have a background in security and I prefer iOS devices over android devices because the latter is an absolute wild west in comparison. The most relevant bit I recall from the Snowden revelations i
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by philsnow 4y ago
Thank you for that first link. I stumbled across Apple Configurator when I was trying to lock down an old phone, to have at home as a pseudo-landline (but which I can take with me on trips) that is safe to leave accessible to kids. I got
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by philsnow 4y ago
also > Note that Janet’s `nil` is not the empty list. If you don’t understand why I’m calling that out here, you can safely ignore this paragraph. beautiful, succinct, and not a jab at lisp-y languages
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by philsnow 4y ago
> and you can resize and position them as you like without interfering with me Does this resize the window only locally, like scaling a video? If somebody shared a browser window with me demonstrating a responsive web site, could I drag
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by philsnow 4y ago
From a different perspective, SSO is an offboarding guardrail. I worked at a company that used Slack before they had SSO working. One person left the company and there was speculation as to reasons etc on various slack channels. Two or th
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by philsnow 4y ago
Oddly enough your comment made me think of electron apps vs native apps, because they are usually impenetrable to accessibility APIs so they appear as completely opaque apps with no a11y affordances.
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by philsnow 4y ago
> feed + discovery for short form video tailored to your specific interests no matter how niche It is this and also that young people are especially malleable, so content that they see can cause long-term psychological and emotional dama
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by philsnow 4y ago
I've seen some sketchy crap while pulling apart mac .pkg files to see their preinstall/postinstall scripts. In particular one video conferencing company's installer did some "growth hacky" things a few years ago (I
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by philsnow 4y ago
Oh, hey Mark (Not (purely) a reference to the “oh hey Mark” meme, I’m vaguely acquainted with Mark from LUG days)
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by philsnow 4y ago
> "Paradox of Tolerance" is basically just used by assholes to justify their intolerance of views they disagree with. This is exactly it. The way the snippet defines things, whichever person calls the other (illicitly-)"i
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by philsnow 4y ago
doh, I knew I was going to get some wrong, sorry
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by philsnow 4y ago
Damn yes. A lottery win fantasy of mine is to start a brewery and taproom that just does English (porters, stouts, reds, blondes, pales) and German (kölsch, bocks, hefeweizens (though these are by far my least favorite of the bunch), märze
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by philsnow 4y ago
To photoprism users: do you know how well it handles identifying photos of kids over the span of years? Google photos absolutely blows me away with its ~1% false positive rate (that is, given a photo, correctly identifying with kid(s) are i
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by philsnow 4y ago
That looks pretty good, thanks for linking to it. It doesn’t talk about not being able to access person tags. Not being able to programmatically access the data about who google thinks is in each of my photos has been an annoying pain poin
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by philsnow 4y ago
I miss it too, but it was the sharp end of the wedge in the dumbing-down of search query interpretation. Now they'll take every word of your query, find all the synonyms, word-stem everything (think "kicked" -> "kick
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by philsnow 4y ago
I think it needs to be done while the browser is flowing text, because it should look good with nearly any width, like: Ice Town Costs Renowned Ice Clown His Town Crown and Gown vs Ice Town Costs Renowned Ice
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by philsnow 4y ago
pyenv and asdf both let you manage multiple versions of python on a single machine. They're not great but I wouldn't want to try without one of them.
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by philsnow 4y ago
I don't have the same background, but it drives me nuts when I see phrases word-wrapped on awkward boundaries that don't make sense ( especially in h1 elements, titles, headers, billboards, posters, etc etc etc). I'm just go
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by philsnow 4y ago
I get the impression that you think "still subject to the speed of light" is some kind of hyperbole or something, like if you were on a freeway and saw a sign that said "end speed limit" and thought to yourself "wel
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by philsnow 4y ago
> this basically requires your language to have ergonomic support for sum types, immutable "data classes", pattern matching Not at all, the article is about pushing complexity to the "edges" of your code so that the g

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