pwinnski

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by pwinnski 10y ago
For some values of "everyone," sure. I find myself nodding along with the list, but then, I'm also incredibly privileged to be able to make some of those choices.
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by pwinnski 10y ago
This claim is untrue.[0] [0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/01/...
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by pwinnski 10y ago
Android doesn't have 88% of the US market, only the world market.[0] Also, what got MS in trouble was their contracts with hardware vendors. Companies like Compaq were required to pay MS for a Windows license even on computers they sol
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by pwinnski 10y ago
Your experience is literally unbelievable to me. I don't doubt you, I just cannot believe there isn't more to the story. In another comment you seemed to indicate that you are perhaps uninsured and paying cash for everything? That
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by pwinnski 10y ago
You seem to be literally the only person who has been able to get straight answers from anyone on anything related to health care. As you can probably see from this thread, most of us would have the same reaction: impotent frustration. I ca
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by pwinnski 10y ago
For another perspective, I wouldn't spend ten seconds reading yet another announcement of yet another software product, but I'll read a post by and about Anil Dash repeatedly. I don't know you, and you certainly don't kn
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by pwinnski 10y ago
That Apple might expect to sell fewer phones in the post-holiday quarter than the holiday quarter, that I buy. That sales are more sluggish than expected, I don't. At least not based on unsourced claims. I've seen reports like thi
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by pwinnski 10y ago
It's so weird that the Dodge Caravan is considered the first minivan. I remember the Dodge Colt Vista pre-dating it by a year. I guess the Vista wasn't called a minivan, though.
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by pwinnski 10y ago
Next to the "tiny preview rectangle," there's a gray arrow indicator that suggests swiping right. If you do that, you'll find a button you can tap for the old functionality. So now it's tap-swipe-tap instead of just
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by pwinnski 10y ago
I'm sorry, what? They want to... force you to spend $160? Huh?
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by pwinnski 10y ago
No company or government in the history of humanity has managed to foresee the myriad ways dishonest people will try to get away with dishonest things. Many, many, many, many, many companies have severely underestimated the high cost of fra
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by pwinnski 10y ago
One person in a group must have a CostCo card. The turnstile in the video suggests that all people in a group must have the Amazon Go app running. I'm not installing Amazon Go on devices for each my children, so does Amazon Go let them
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by pwinnski 10y ago
I never let my browsers store a password to anything, ever. I rely on 1Password to supply all passwords, and having my browser also store a password doubles the attack surface.
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by pwinnski 10y ago
I think all of this talk about "fake news" in the abstract is unhelpful, because I suspect we all have something different in mind for "fake news." I mean, if there's a widespread belief that Secretary Clinton is ru
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by pwinnski 10y ago
Today I learned that many people on Hacker News have really insecure web security practices. :( I don't understand the resistance to using a vault-based password manager. Is it inertia? I mean, if you're using the same one or two
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by pwinnski 10y ago
If your browser is caching all of your passwords, I think you've got security problems well outside the scope of your choice of password managers.
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by pwinnski 10y ago
One tell of someone who supports the goals of the alt-right is use of oddball terms like "kek." So you're not a disinterested bystander curious about the labeling of the alt-right, you are most likely a member of the alt-righ
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by pwinnski 10y ago
Some of those are great questions! Some seem less questions than jabs, but I'm not sure if that's intentional or not, so I'll assume the best. On diversity, we have ample evidence that it makes us smarter[0] and more producti
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by pwinnski 10y ago
Anything is possible, but cars very rarely hit pedestrians, although they very often hit cyclists.
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by pwinnski 10y ago
How does cycling well prevent someone else from colliding with me? At least in the US, cars and bikes share the same roads, and there's not much one can do while cycling to prevent cars from injuring cyclists.
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by pwinnski 10y ago
I keep seeing Google Chrome Helper over and over and over in these screenshots. And sure, none of them are the biggest single memory user, but... In my experience, quitting Chrome lowers the memory usage of kernel_task dramatically, so that
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by pwinnski 10y ago
When it was first introduced, I used it very rarely. With iOS 10, I've started using it frequently, many times per day. So the answer, at least for me, has changed dramatically very recently. If I were already considering a move away f
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by pwinnski 10y ago
The article states that he only wants 16 GB anyway, so I'm a little puzzled, too.
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by pwinnski 10y ago
That used to happen to me weekly or so, but then I switched the majority of my browser workload from Chrome to Safari, and I haven't had that issue in the several months since. I don't use a lot of tools that embed Chromium, thoug
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by pwinnski 10y ago
I am currently using a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014), and am running: a Docker VM, IntelliJ IDEA (two instances, one large and one medium Java project), Slack, Safari, Chrome, iTerm configured with unlimited screen buffer, a VPN,
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by pwinnski 10y ago
Texas resident here. There's a guy who's been riding a Segway around my neighborhood looking for weather damage from recent storms, and his pitch to homeowners is that they don't need to replace the entire roof, just the se
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by pwinnski 10y ago
The accumulated evidence isn't significant, then? There's certainly a risk of some running off with very little evidence, but the trail in this case seems very clear without any election hysteria involved.
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by pwinnski 10y ago
As a single, and lactose-intolerant, person, I've tend to search out milk that lasts a bit longer than one week, but I've still thrown quite a bit away. I eventually switched to lactose-free milk, which lasts longer and theoretica
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by pwinnski 10y ago
"On average it is $60 cheaper per month to drive on electricity than gasoline." So far in 2016 I've spent less than $87/month on fuel. In February I spent less than $60, while some long road trips in July pushed me up to
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by pwinnski 10y ago
It makes a nice headline to reduce the prediction to "a 54% chance vs an 84% chance," but most of these sites are predicting not just the statistical probability of a future event in "happens or doesn't" form, they&

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