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by rekabis 1y ago
So… it sounds like this virus needs to be extracted and explicitly injected into the cancer tumour. Simply switching your diet to one heavy in black-eyed peas isn’t going to do the trick. Which is problematic for me, as I hate needles more
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by rekabis 1y ago
I use alarms out of convenience and convention. But the weird thing is, I have been able to set my own internal alarm for decades, now. So long as I know the current time, I can focus on the idea of waking up at a specific time, visualizi
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by rekabis 1y ago
…Aaaaaand this is why I have absolutely no “connected devices”, despite having used computers since 1982 and being in the IT industry since 1997. If it cannot be 100% functional while working completely independently from the cloud, I don’t
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by rekabis 1y ago
As a security professional and Windows user of over 35 years, I always do everything within my power to steer people away from using Microsoft accounts in favour of using local accounts. 99.9999% of all users benefit exclusively from local
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by rekabis 1y ago
> You could require people mail in their resume That is supremely annoying for industries where applicants must average about 500+ submissions per successful job offer. I ran across two of those last year. Great-looking jobs, too. In a f
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by rekabis 1y ago
HN recently had an article detailing just how exquisitely designed this website is. Like, a mere rollover of a catalog item prefetches the entire page for that item in the background such that a click-through is almost instantaneous unless
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by rekabis 1y ago
> Microsoft is rolling back control Agreed. Functionality like this should be presented as a choice in an OOBE welcoming screen right after installation. And it should be _a choice,_ something that can be reversed at a later date if the
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by rekabis 1y ago
LibreOffice. It’s one of the best non-MS options out there, and lacks any of this sh*t.
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by rekabis 1y ago
> For Security Professionals (us): Stop being gatekeepers and start being enablers. Put down the "How do you not know this?" attitude and pick up the "Let me explain why this matters" approach. Eeeehhhh… gatekeeping i
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by rekabis 1y ago
Absolutely agree. I have never understood why you needed to cram 500Kb of JS down the user’s gullet just to display 10Kb of text. The vast majority of sites have absolutely no need to be responsive, and what little responsiveness would be
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by rekabis 1y ago
Steermouse is also what made my Kensington Expert Mouse shine on MacOS again. It’s worth every penny.
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by rekabis 1y ago
> I prefer my French dumb car. You are smart. I have a 2001 Mazda 626 and a 2002 Ford F-150 7700 in the driveway, and there are days I forget to lock the doors. Which is an unwise thing to do in my neighbourhood. But even after half a de
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by rekabis 1y ago
> There's just very few people working on it because it's not a priority. Right? The existence of organized crime is a policy choice by politicians. If they truly wanted to do something about it, the policies would change - bot
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by rekabis 1y ago
When the police don’t act, it’s because they’re being _incentivized_ to not act. Likely via kickbacks from the criminals themselves. There should be automatic punishments and career censures when cops fail to leap at opportunities like the
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by rekabis 1y ago
It’s why we call Billionaires the Parasite Class - because like a true parasite, they bleed the community of its vitality and vigour in favour of the obscenely fat, labour-free profit margins that they are so greedily obsessed by.
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by rekabis 1y ago
I knew sororities were “a thing” in America, but… holy sh t. This is legit insane. What is the point? For parties? Social validation? I can only imagine the mental health problems spreading like a zombie infection and breeding like coked-up
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by rekabis 1y ago
> At the very least you need to read the DB-generated ID, otherwise how do you provide stuff like editing? Most of my career has been with MSSQL, but it can provide that after an insert as a part of the confirmation that the insert was s
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by rekabis 1y ago
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by rekabis 1y ago
> But in most cases replication lag can be worked around with simple tricks: for instance, when you update a record but need to use it right after, you can fill in the updated details in-memory instead of immediately re-reading after a w
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by rekabis 1y ago
> you’re a terrible engineer if you ever store booleans in a database Anything like this is trivially dismissible as absolute hogwash. It’s a shame that titles like this actually get the clicks needed to encourage more bullshite in the s
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by rekabis 1y ago
I heartily approve of this kind of guerrilla development. The only downside is that they hold all the keys to the kingdom, so either they (or someone inside the org with political weight) will be pissed off straight out of the gate, or you’
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by rekabis 1y ago
With prices and profits at an all-time high, and wages at an all time low, if you think you saw someone shoplifting something essential no you didn’t.
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by rekabis 1y ago
> Due credit to Mozilla here: this chatbot integration is easy to turn off. You can do it via the GUI – it's on the Settings screen behind the last button, Customize Sidebar. The instructions here do not pan out whatsoever, at leas
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by rekabis 1y ago
I’m talking about not putting all your eggs into one basket. Of which OP’s nightmare is the perfect example. I wouldn’t lean on a Gmail eMail when building Android apps in the same way I wouldn’t lean on an iCloud eMail when building iOS ap
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by rekabis 1y ago
I’m not understanding the use case, here. Aren’t there plenty of no-name disposable Chinese cameras like this? For me, it’s capabilities beyond a cellphone camera, in a package not much bigger. One of the biggest frustrations is taking a ph
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by rekabis 1y ago
$200CAD. Ouch. A little cheaper than an Epson EcoTank printer, for sure (about ⅔ the price), and likely much better prints. But it’s a single-purpose machine, not something that can print off _anything_ in colour on Letter/A4 sized pap
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by rekabis 1y ago
This title seems click-baity, as the term is most frequently used for registering Windows. That was my curiosity when I clicked through. I somehow doubt it would have gotten as many clicks had it been “Window Focus”.
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by rekabis 1y ago
All professional and personal eMail through gMail? Oof, buddy. That cock-up is on you. Even if you don’t want to administer your own iron, there are plenty of third-party services that can host your eMail domain. And with a little work, the
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by rekabis 1y ago
Those that give up liberty for safety deserve neither.
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by rekabis 1y ago
> I work on academic research project that have docs that tells you basically that the code is self documented. Oh, that is just evil .

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