placatedmayhem

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by placatedmayhem 5y ago
A big of black gaffers tape takes care of that for me. Electrical tape in a pinch. If I use white gaffers tape, it significantly cuts the light but is still visible when I'm looking right at it.
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by placatedmayhem 5y ago
This post was my first introduction to it too. Searching for "git.io" on github.com, including the quotes, returns a number of repositories using git.io links -- "2M+" if their search is to be believed.
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by placatedmayhem 5y ago
I do wish any time there was a service deprecation notice, the service providers would give some detail as to why it's going offline. Lack of use, difficulty to maintain, expense, etc. With that said, I don't think we're owed
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by placatedmayhem 5y ago
I believe the "8-bit" descriptor is intended to reference 8-bit video game systems like the NES, but that seems poorly communicated in the project.
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by placatedmayhem 5y ago
I do wish access times were disabled by default. In my experience, they don't generally provide any useful information, but place unneeded stress on the storage.
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by placatedmayhem 5y ago
This is the biggest issue, IMO. As I understand it, with governments, particularly the US, wanting Apple to get data off an Apple device, they couldn't because forcing Apple to write software to do this would be coerced speech, which i
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by placatedmayhem 5y ago
At the same time the hostess asks "Would you like crayons for the toddler?", it'd be simple to add "We have a digital menu, but would you like physical menus?". Or even a put "Physical menu available on request
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by placatedmayhem 5y ago
> Introduce an app whose only job is to act as a content player but has no content of its own, then have customers go to your website to buy the content, and then download it to your app. Epic can sell one game that is empty and make eve
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by placatedmayhem 6y ago
Have you got a source for that? It's the first time I've heard it and I'm interested to learn more, specifically about the kiss/pathogen response part.
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by placatedmayhem 6y ago
Discussion on this is happening over on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25285333 . Maybe worth deduping this post to that one?
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by placatedmayhem 6y ago
Iirc, those shrink wrap licenses are of questionable enforceability. The Wikipedia entry on "shrink wrap contract" agrees, but I'm not well-versed on the topic.
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by placatedmayhem 6y ago
Or maybe we simply legislate that any charger take card payments? That would allow competition in the market to continue while also providing accessibility to the general populace.
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Cnvrg.io launches a free version of its data science platform(techcrunch.com)
2 points by placatedmayhem 7y ago|0 comments
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by placatedmayhem 7y ago
I used UDF on USB media for years, and only past tense because I don't have much need of passing files between systems on physical media anymore. Iirc, there were some sharp edges, but it was an overall refreshing experience compared t
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by placatedmayhem 7y ago
That sounds like systemd-resolved. You don't have to use it, and it's easily stopped by normal systemctl commands if you want to use normal libc resolver behavior.
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by placatedmayhem 7y ago
The trouble is when your place of work is doing business that is morally hazardous or worse. It's further difficult when you otherwise believe in the company. It's especially bad when the situation goes from acceptable when you s
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by placatedmayhem 7y ago
I don't regularly use AWS services, but it would seem to me that writing operational tooling (deployment descriptors and such) to the Kubernetes API allows more control over the management of your app and more portability to other clou
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by placatedmayhem 7y ago
I'm not sure, but I think some standard shipping containers fit on semi truck beds and on special train cars.
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by placatedmayhem 7y ago
So Apple and Google are now in the personal finance game. Facebook is trying to launch its own currency. That's some big names coming from pure tech backgrounds entering the banking world. This can't be a coincidence, right?
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by placatedmayhem 7y ago
Not OP, but I think they're referring to the task-switching thin line at the bottom.
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by placatedmayhem 7y ago
It's not just green bubbles. Tapbacks are awkward and pictures and videos don't send as reliably. With my "green bubble" friends, we usually use Telegram or Signal or Keybase instead. I'd love to see a standardized
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by placatedmayhem 7y ago
Why not both? At least, it's safer to assume both when choosing a platform and where to spend dollars. Security is important yet, in my experience, even more underfunded than reliability -- features are generally king. A platform tha
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by placatedmayhem 8y ago
Isn't deriving more value from your users while limiting the ability of your competitors just vendor lock-in? Said another way, finding a rich gold vein and buying the mining rights to that vein prevents your competitors from capitali
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by placatedmayhem 8y ago
iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR base models are 64 GB.
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by placatedmayhem 8y ago
Medical equipment is expensive for reasons other than just liability. Much of it is because of some combination of being quite specialized, protected by medical patent (or other IP law), produced from expensive materials or manufacturing p
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FCC admits it was never actually hacked(techcrunch.com)
494 points by placatedmayhem 8y ago|148 comments
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IPVanish “No-Logging” VPN Led Homeland Security to Comcast User(torrentfreak.com)
231 points by placatedmayhem 8y ago|157 comments
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by placatedmayhem 8y ago
The article mentions the Windows 10 upgrade debacle, which caused data loss for some users. The video at the top of darkpatterns.org, linked by the article, discusses the LinkedIn lawsuit concerning linking to users' contact lists.¹ ¹
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by placatedmayhem 10y ago
I wouldn't count on it. There's an industry-wide SSD shortage happening and prices are actually on the rise. This is a temporary situation while SSD manufacturers retool and ramp up 3D NAND but neglected to ramp up existing 2D N
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by placatedmayhem 11y ago
Nexus uses x86, Celerons specifically (at least all of them I'm aware of). You can see it if you watch one boot over serial. It's in the example text from this upgrade notice: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/

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