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by redwards510 8y ago
I agree it is an exciting phone, but what are the privacy gains versus an android phone with lineageOS and f-droid foss apps? AFAIK it's just the baseband code. Convincing regular users that opensourcing the baseband will solve any pro
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by redwards510 8y ago
I had a job where we had our normal PTO, but at the same time, my immediate boss allowed us to take PTO without removing it from the official system. In this sort of arrangement you tend to respect the business. You don't want to abuse
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by redwards510 8y ago
the comma signifies a lot tho. they did it because he was a foreigner, period? or because he was a foreigner and a terrible, mean boss?
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by redwards510 8y ago
Can you point me (regular joe c# programmer) to some resources that show how to contribute to .NET and start the path to membership? I'm guessing the simple answer is "go to github, check out the latest branch of aspnetcore, start
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by redwards510 8y ago
I like to do this but I find it difficult to go completely "free form" on a work computer that might be monitored. It's silly but but I don't like the idea of someone being able to see my inner thought processes like tha
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by redwards510 8y ago
The fact that I can't easily use a Yubikey for 2FA with KeePass has always made it a nonstarter for me. After experiencing the comfort and peace of mind I get with "master password PLUS Yubikey" in Bitwarden and LastPass, I c
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Banksy reveals how Sotheby's shredding stunt went wrong(independent.co.uk)
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by redwards510 8y ago
I don't believe in free will because of a simple thought experiment. Maybe someone with a background in ML can chime in. Imagine we could perfectly map all your brain's neural connections at an instant in time to software. This is
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by redwards510 8y ago
I gotta say I am a bit shocked that it's apparently no big deal at Google to a) use company email for non-work topics and b) openly discuss one's political views. In my experience either would be a one way ticket to HR for some &q
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by redwards510 8y ago
I'm sorry do I have this wrong? You read one story in source X from author A which you determine to be incorrect based on your own personal knowledge. Now we should assume everything published from source X is wrong because author A wa
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by redwards510 8y ago
Is there really much profit from selling a $.10 screw that the average person might need once or twice a year when they buy some unassembled product that is missing parts? I assume people who would buy bulk don't need an app to tell th
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by redwards510 8y ago
This. I've been following this product since it was first announced and I know it's been a looooooong road to travel for the team. If anyone is pondering doing a similar hardware product, you should check out the UHK blog because
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by redwards510 8y ago
> I've never really had any discomfort even typing for long periods, so have never really felt the need See, the thing about Repetitive Stress Injury, at least in my experience, is it just starts hurting one day out of the blue, and
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by redwards510 8y ago
> Doesn’t having a numeric keypad hurt ergonomics? Absolutely. I will never buy a keyboard with an attached numpad because it splays my mousing hand way out to the right in an very awkward manner. That is one of the reasons I bought the
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by redwards510 8y ago
Yes, exactly.
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by redwards510 8y ago
Pretty cool. I especially like the comparison feature which would help a lot when in a store trying to decide between two products. MyFitnessPal doesn't offer that. I think adding generic produce and fruits to the database should be a
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by redwards510 8y ago
As the author mentions in the readme, one use case is to obfuscate your online advertising profile by flooding it with random data.
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by redwards510 8y ago
While I appreciate the intent of this and other "chaff" tools, I can't help but think ten years from now I'll be seated under a single 200W light bulb hanging from a string while some federal official with 100,000 printe
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by redwards510 8y ago
Borrowed Chaos Monkeys from the library based on this post. Thanks for the recommendation, it's very engaging so far.
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by redwards510 8y ago
Your list is incomplete. From the most recent VSCode changelog @ https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_26#_offline-mode : Offline mode Some users do not want any outgoing network requests from VS Code unless they spe
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by redwards510 10y ago
Interesting. I always saw the meaning as directly related to relapse, which is a huge theme in recovery groups. That is, people get sober for a few months, think they have "fixed" their addiction and get drunk again, thinking that
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by redwards510 10y ago
This saying is spammed all over rehab and recovery (AA/NA) groups. If you hear someone saying it, odds are high that is where they picked it up, especially if they say it a lot like it conveys some deep wisdom or something.
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by redwards510 10y ago
Yes! All versions can now be easily jailbroken. The main features (to me) are installing KOReader to view epubs and pdf files, and hacking the screen saver display. The process only takes about an hour, mostly because you are reading, doubl
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by redwards510 10y ago
Tinder has another horrible UI trick, not sure if it qualifies as dark pattern or just terrible coding. On Android, they require you to enable the global option "Always allow Wifi scanning" in order to get your location. If this i
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by redwards510 10y ago
I was going to say, you could read this site, or you could just go to LinkedIn. It's an case study in obnoxious dark patterns.
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by redwards510 10y ago
When I was younger, I was perfectly happy to listen to music all day long while coding. Now I find even that distracting and need quiet. It seems insane that in order to do our job effectively we have to put headphones on and play white noi
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by redwards510 10y ago
Don't bother reading this article. The "solution"presented is to install red/green lights at your desk to signal to people not to walk up and interrupt you. That isn't the problem. The problem is NOISE, NOISE EVERYW
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by redwards510 10y ago
Can someone from the UK please explain what is up with your government officials? How do they get away with passing such unpopular, draconian bills? It just seems bizarre that they could go against the will of the average person so blatantl
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by redwards510 10y ago
> read the reviews That's another problem though. I don't want to spend an hour researching reviews for every product I want to buy on Amazon. It's ridiculous how infected they are now. The last thing I wanted to buy was a
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by redwards510 10y ago
Yeah this is galling to the point of fraud. You don't just walk into an engineering job and demand a non-junior position with no experience. You are wasting everyone's time. The company is paying that high salary because they want

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