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by phowat 5y ago
A person who makes a comment like that isn’t going to be happy with anything.
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by phowat 5y ago
What if the telemetry data went through an intermediary you trust? I’ve been thinking about this and I am similarly torn on the issue. But if I knew the data was going to pass through some organization I trust , like the eff for example, I
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by phowat 5y ago
In my case here it means either : feed me , pet me or play with this toy with me . I have to try these options to know what it really means.
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by phowat 5y ago
A few months ago I switched from macOS to windows + wsl2 and don't really miss anything from my previous workflow. This is the first time I see a mac only software that makes me wish I didn't. Congratulations !
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That $100M New Jersey deli sold just $5,305 of food in first quarter(cnbc.com)
2 points by phowat 5y ago|0 comments
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by phowat 5y ago
I'm typing this on an Ajazz Ak33 which I've owned for several years and it's still working perfectly fine. You can find it for less than $30 on aliexpress. There are quite a few options of mechanical keyboards for less than $
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by phowat 6y ago
The browser started as a document viewer. Nowadays it is much more than that.
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by phowat 6y ago
I'd love to have google meet metrics for me and my team so I could easily grasp how much and why are we spending time on meetings.
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Amazon expands gamification program to encourages warehouse workers(theverge.com)
1 points by phowat 6y ago|0 comments
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by phowat 6y ago
This, a million times this! The app stores made the most sensible model extremely cumberstone! I want to buy a software and own it forever. On the other hand, forcing the developer to provide upgrades for free forever is not sustainable. Ma
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by phowat 6y ago
I have a separate tenkey placed on the left side of my keyboard. Works pretty well for me.
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by phowat 6y ago
Yes , people who were hired as interns to work on Linux know what a text editor is.
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by phowat 6y ago
At this point, I believe if you get unlocky they are all equally shitty. Just yesterday a friend of mine lost access to his Microsoft account including his OneDrive with all his documents (all work related, by the way) due to an unspecified
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by phowat 6y ago
I just tried this very naive query: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=linux%20editor%20opene... And the first hit teaches how to close vim. No need to know what is called.
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by phowat 6y ago
For all the issues that (rightly so) affect the popularity of linux, I don't think this one is high on the list. This is something that can be figured out in a single google query.
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by phowat 6y ago
Wasn't just like 1 or 2 days ago that people here were praising Amazon's custommer support over Google's on a thread of a developer who had his google account blocked ?
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by phowat 6y ago
Same experience here. In college ( portuguese speaking country ), the teachers forbade us to buy translated books. We had to work with the english editions only, and I'm lucky this was the case having seen some of these translated book
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Please disable JavaScript to view this site(remysharp.com)
4 points by phowat 6y ago|1 comments
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by phowat 6y ago
Yeah, I still remember when people would complain on the internet that forums were a downgrade from newsgroups.
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by phowat 6y ago
Would you mind expanding a little bit on why this is bad ? I'm fairly new to TS and find myself doing it a lot.
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Carlos Ghosn escaped Japan according to the ex-Green Beret who snuck him out(vanityfair.com)
2 points by phowat 6y ago|0 comments
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Japanese decry boomer-era technology as hospitals file Covid-19 cases by fax(scmp.com)
2 points by phowat 6y ago|0 comments
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by phowat 7y ago
From this list, the thing I struggle most with is conversations with strangers. Any suggestions on how to improve that?
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Huawei denies German report it colluded with Chinese intelligence(reuters.com)
1 points by phowat 7y ago|0 comments
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by phowat 7y ago
I use DDG as my main search engine and I agree localised results are subpar ( I'm Brazilian ). I end up resorting to the !g bang most of the time but since these kinds of searches are a just small subset of my queries, it doesn't
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SoftBank sounds out Japan's top banks on $2.8B loan, sources say(reuters.com)
2 points by phowat 7y ago|0 comments
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by phowat 7y ago
Cuban cigars have this: http://verificacion.habanos.com/ The biggest issue is with people taking authentic packages, filling with fake cigars and selling it.
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Sydney startup faces cyber attack after supporting pro-Hong Kong gamer(smh.com.au)
5 points by phowat 7y ago|0 comments
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There will be little privacy in the workplace of the future(economist.com)
1 points by phowat 7y ago|0 comments
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by phowat 7y ago
I guess PR firms understand enough about PR to know taking this job would be awful PR for themselves.

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