pschastain

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by pschastain 6y ago
"Advertising is psychological manipulation at its worst" Hyperbole is unbecoming. Off the top of my head I'd say grooming someone for sexual abuse is a significantly worse form of psychological manipulation. I speak from havi
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by pschastain 6y ago
I'm still bitter over the changes made to Preview.app post-Mavericks. Apple has hobbled some of their built-in apps for no apparent reason.
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Ghost of Tsushima devs to be made permanent ambassadors of the real island(videogameschronicle.com)
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by pschastain 6y ago
The man page on macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 states: "The tdelete() function deletes a node from the specified binary search tree and returns a pointer to the parent of the node that was deleted. It takes the same arguments as tfind
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by pschastain 6y ago
This is a topic that has come up before (i.e. HN thread from 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2326790 ), and while GoDaddy continues to deny this practice ( https://www.godaddy.com/community/Dom
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by pschastain 6y ago
Kudos to Powell's, I've spent literally thousands of dollars over the years at that magnificent store and will continue to do so; spent hour upon hour there in my childhood getting lost in wonders it holds. They don't try to
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by pschastain 6y ago
I don't use IOS (yet) so "no" on that front. I tried Brave and was happy with it until these recent revelations, so upon hearing about Braver I simply decided to keep an eye on it.
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by pschastain 6y ago
Brave Browser continues to behave in ways that are contrary to their stated principles. I dropped the browser a couple of months ago on the heels of the bitcoin affiliate link scandal and went back to Safari and Firefox. I am keeping an eye
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by pschastain 6y ago
Completely over-looked the 3rd - that they're human and made an honest mistake that they're attempting to rectify. But from your attitude I'm guessing that think you've never made a mistake...
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by pschastain 6y ago
Braver ( https://github.com/braver-browser/ ) is a Brave fork meant to address this and other issues.
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by pschastain 6y ago
https://github.com/braver-browser/ A Brave fork meant to address this issue. Time will tell.
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by pschastain 6y ago
From elsewhere in this thread: https://duckduckgo.com/settings#appearance Uncheck the very last option "Site Icons"
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by pschastain 6y ago
Kinda what voting is for - to change the current gov't.
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by pschastain 7y ago
And then Apple went and borked Preview by rewriting it post-Mavericks. Used to keep a VM just for it. Not sure why they decided to "fix" something that wasn't broken but to this day Preview lacks a lot of functionality it onc
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by pschastain 7y ago
I remember reading some time ago an old story about folks recovering accidentally deleted system files from the currently running system. Can't find it, I think it was Ritchie who told it but I'm not sure. The long and short is
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by pschastain 7y ago
Full article is behind a paywall :-/
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by pschastain 7y ago
Just another example of why I want to be done with Google. Between privacy concerns and the way they drop their own hardware I simply no longer trust them. Time to start migrating away...
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by pschastain 7y ago
I don't need a thinner MBP; I need ports, a reliable keyboard and a large battery. I'm still using my old early '11 because I don't want to buy a new laptop only to have to send it off for repairs or have to buy a bunch
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by pschastain 7y ago
Click that little "x" in the upper left corner of the pop-up.
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by pschastain 7y ago
How is Brave shady? Or are you just trolling?
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by pschastain 7y ago
Personally found the post interesting. I don't use Discord but I also refuse to give my number out for verification purposes - as you noted there are other ways to verify a users identity. Hopefully you don't get too much grief fo
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by pschastain 7y ago
Paywall; site wants a subscription to read the article.
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by pschastain 8y ago
Went to check it out, and it requires you to jump thru Captcha hoops just to use. I'm not going to spend time clicking on pics training some AI.
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by pschastain 8y ago
Bummer that they don't support Nokia (yet). I have a first-gen 6, it's a fine phone, but I've been thinking that my next phone will be an iPhone because I'm tired of Google and their invasive tactics. I don't mind a
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by pschastain 9y ago
The keycodes listed in the article are wrong. F4 is 118; F5 is 96. Not sure why it worked for the author. For any interested, a full list of macOS keycodes can be found here: http://macbiblioblog.blogspot.com/2014/12&#x
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by pschastain 9y ago
What about general-purpose software? I've been toying with a software idea for years that has as guaranteed a user base as you could get.
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by pschastain 10y ago
Case-sensitive HFS+ is an option when formatting a disk.
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by pschastain 10y ago
I haven't had a Facebook account for years, and my phone number was never associated with it. Yesterday I visited the site on my laptop to look up the page for a tavern that's re-opening. 1/2 hr later I got a text from 32665
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by pschastain 10y ago
> Who are we as programmers to decide what works best for our users? Where did I say that? You seem confused. And your argument regarding publishing and banking software is a strawman intended to shift the focus away from the real argu
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by pschastain 10y ago
> an arbitrary habit that you've grown comfortable with You mean a workflow? Who are you (or anyone else) to decide what works best for me? Am I not capable of making my own decisions? Do I really need a hardware company making thos

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