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by phreack 2y ago
This is by far the best practical option! Life could be even better, but out of all options this one's great.
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by phreack 2y ago
I think the lowest hanging fruit would be doing something (anything) to improve discovery of commands. I have great grokking abilities but terrible memorization skills, and I end up forgetting how to do what I want to do and maybe even have
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by phreack 2y ago
It's extremely difficult nowadays to not fall into the temptation of letting a touchscreen be your child's plaything, but I firmly believe the damage they do in their early development stages is so drastic that even if everyone el
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by phreack 2y ago
When I handle support problems like this where unplugged cables are likely, I make the user triple check everything is plugged in and bet a coffee on it. I've got it a couple times and I feel it makes people actually check their cables
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by phreack 2y ago
But then it's not "anytime you want"
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by phreack 2y ago
I'd say a non-tech user has no idea what a server or cache is. I'd go with the word "backup" instead. Something like telling them that email is not backed up (online? where?) and if they delete it from their computer it
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by phreack 2y ago
Sooner or later only people who wear shirts with big brand logos and constantly sing music from the Beatles will be the only ones not permanently recorded by the system. Hell, add a photo of a topless woman somewhere in the mix and bam, ins
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"Pump It Up" Gets Homebrew GBA Port That Rocks(hackaday.com)
3 points by phreack 2y ago|0 comments
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by phreack 2y ago
These tools to me serve about two functions: writing regular expressions (and even then I'll tell it it's wrong once or twice before attempting to check the output), and saving me keystrokes for code I already know I'll write
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by phreack 2y ago
This is why I work at night 80% of the time. It's absolutely not for everyone, it's not for every case, and the other 20% is coordination with daytime people, but the amount of productivity that comes from good uninterrupted hours
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by phreack 3y ago
Well, that's exactly why I started using Aegis and swear by it, its backup capability. I keep it encrypted and backed up on two separate locations, so my phone can blow up safely and I'll still be able to 2FA under my own terms.
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by phreack 3y ago
For a one-button option, I think I'd like something like a knob pointing to the current state (like a label saying ON), which when clicked would point to the other state (OFF). Both labels should be visible at all times. I think people
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by phreack 3y ago
Regular meetings and calls can't go over twice a week period. For me, it's one of the biggest reasons for unproductivity. I've worked on a lot of projects and the amount of meetings was directly correlated to how much everyth
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by phreack 3y ago
Took me a bit but they're replacing the string characters which are numbers with '0' and keeping the rest. So "3 102 45" becomes "0 000 00". Once I got it I thought it was brilliant.
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by phreack 3y ago
A different point of view from a particular experience. In a country with rampant accelerating inflation, QR codes brought on by pandemic protocols were an unexpected saviour to the problem of having to mark up prices every week or month. T
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by phreack 3y ago
Yeah, QR codes should come at a minimum with a WiFi password written on them exactly because of this. Even better would be not to even bother with all of that but it's easy for owners to fall for grifters selling "the future"
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by phreack 3y ago
That's discussed on GP's link, a former Firefox vice president said > "Over and over. Oops. Another accident. We'll fix it soon. We want the same things. We're on the same team. There were dozens of oopses. Hundr
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by phreack 3y ago
I just use Sublime Text for that. It opens immediately on all OSs
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by phreack 3y ago
Law is weird, but in real life people use google as a verb meaning "search on the internet" every single time. When a public figure says something like "look it up on Google" instead of "google it" (and you an
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by phreack 3y ago
Most times, the answer to these types of questions on hobby projects is that the maker either knew more about Pies than Arduinos, or simply had a Pi lying around and not an Arduino in their home when inspiration struck, heh. I've certa
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by phreack 3y ago
Personally speaking, I would love to switch to Firefox just to use uBlock Origin, but this picture[1] shows Opera's killer feature. It's a screenshot of today's old.reddit.com/r/all. You can see how you're able
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by phreack 3y ago
I have no idea why, but my PC is very modern but still won't allow W11 to install (maybe a blessing?). So this means that I'll have to leave Windows entirely once this comes to pass. What's the angle?
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by phreack 3y ago
I hadn't read anything like that so I just checked and searched for "China" and it's not in the article. Looks like he censored the censorship. Edit: Yeah, looking at an archived version, it's been edited quite a bi
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by phreack 3y ago
I think most times you don't need to make a simile but just re-state the issue as simply and explicit as possible. Like, they heavily advertised and sold a feature and then took it away after people were used to it. They had valid rea
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by phreack 3y ago
Warning: this post is an off-topic nitpick. > The border between Panama and Columbia is where the dream faltered. Spelling Colombia as Columbia is a very infuriating error to many (not all, but many) people who speak Spanish, particularl
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by phreack 3y ago
My best experiences with pair programming have been with people that I trust a great deal, enough to know that we'll definitely still be cool after arguing code. I don't think it'd be of any use at all unless we were both com
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by phreack 3y ago
Don't worry, from experience I can assure you people will have the same reaction to the latter as well. The typical argument is that "the poors" will have tons children just to cash out and we can't have that can we. I b
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by phreack 3y ago
Yes! I'd rather not use it because it doesn't support uBlock but it's a feature I can't browse without. I try every other browser at least once every year and they're all massively uncomfortable.
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by phreack 3y ago
> Whenever I explain my research at Google into mobile text editing, I’m usually met with blank stares or a slightly hostile “Everyone can edit text on their phones, right? What’s the problem?” These people must have never used a phone.
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by phreack 3y ago
Yeah, I dislike comments on format but on mobile the site was just unusable for me. I couldn't figure out which slide was the "correct one" to move forward, and even the zooming gesture would move me to another slide. I think

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