rikkus

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by rikkus 8y ago
You can reduce this a huge amount by simply using it in a tab in a browser. When I'm travelling I use it this way, as it eats much less battery - I just pin a tab.
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by rikkus 8y ago
For a few years the 'captcha' on my site asked, 'What's the capital of Georgia?' I had a couple of irate emails from people entering 'Atlanta' and wondering why it didn't accept their answer.
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by rikkus 8y ago
When I graduated I had already decided that software development was too painful and not rewarding enough - in my experience up to that point. I chose to pursue system admin - networking, scripting, installing, configuring. This was a good
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by rikkus 8y ago
Whatever happened to the custom endorsements? It only seems to allow ones that 'match' your declared skills now.
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by rikkus 8y ago
Just curious: What's different about the processors in the current MBPs vs those in the 2015s in terms of how it affects your work - or whatever else you're using your MBP for?
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by rikkus 8y ago
That's quite a cynical way of explaining this. Is it possible to interpret this as it being allowed to use evidence seized illegally if, on balance, justice would be better served?
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by rikkus 8y ago
Instead of calling this a 'respect' for authority, I'd call it a combination of submissiveness and deferring of all decision making, partly through a desire to avoid accountability. If you look at your situation where somethi
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by rikkus 9y ago
Storage is cheap indeed, though it takes some effort to make it cheap. 99% of the digital data I'm keeping for the long term is family photos and videos. All my photos go to Dropbox (easy copy-from-device and access anywhere) and are t
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by rikkus 9y ago
Correct. I often walk down a road with a 20mph 'limit' where most cars are doing around 40 - and some appear to be doing more like 50. There's simply no economically viable way to enforce it, so it will continue like this unt
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by rikkus 9y ago
Perhaps services that help build mailing lists will offer a feature of handling GDPR requests on your behalf.
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by rikkus 9y ago
I have a couple of t430s models. One is a backup server and I use the other for coding mini projects. It’s fine, but my work laptop is a 15” rMBP and I know which screen, pointing device and battery life I prefer.
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by rikkus 9y ago
If we were to work with an assumption that fusion happens soon (<20 years) and power is now cheap, what would we now be able to achieve that was previously prohibitively difficult / expensive?
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by rikkus 9y ago
I use the remote control for one thing on our TV: volume. That’s just because all the sound goes in there via HDMI then off to an amp with no remote control.
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by rikkus 9y ago
Which one was that? Sounds great.
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by rikkus 9y ago
What’s breathing through one like when working hard? I’m imagining I would feel suffocated.
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by rikkus 9y ago
After watching various films where organisations are able to pull up feeds from cameras absolutely anywhere in the world, I'm wondering how long it will be before there's a mandatory internet connection and back door on all '
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by rikkus 9y ago
Performance is also a feature. .NET version of the same (with benchmark): https://github.com/benaadams/System.Ben
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by rikkus 9y ago
It happened on my 6s after less than a year. Despite what's said about how it was only done 'during intensive operations' or something like that, it was apparent and a major pain all the time, making every operation seem slow
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by rikkus 9y ago
I spent too long being exasperated at the clueless BBC ‘Technology reporting’ before I realised that if it was this wrong about tech (a domain I humbly believe I know fairly well - at least when it comes to hard facts) then how wrong might
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by rikkus 9y ago
Looking at CVs, everyone knows git. Using anything else would require not just licence costs. Also training and potentially reducing the pool of possible hires.
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by rikkus 9y ago
Giving them the benefit of the doubt, if they're asking for a phone password, hopefully they're just keying it into their systems for verification against a hash, not manually comparing to a plaintext copy.
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Firefox auto-installs extension 'Looking Glass' without explanation(reddit.com)
15 points by rikkus 9y ago|0 comments
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by rikkus 9y ago
I was most of the way through last year's in C# when I decided now was the time to properly learn (algorithmic programming in) Elixir. That set me back in terms of speed, but it was well worth it. I'm now fairly fluent and I'
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by rikkus 9y ago
This is one of the major pains that tore me away from Android (where I had several ‘flagship’ phones and kept them free of crap). If iOS keeps heading this way, what’s left? Back in the 90s I decided we needed a real-time UX - hard real-tim
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by rikkus 9y ago
One reason I moved from Android to Windows phone was because of the massively unpredictable performance (lag due to background stuff happening). One reason I moved from Windows phone was the massive delay in switching apps. Now on iPhone th
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by rikkus 9y ago
Except that I say “The first of January 1970”
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by rikkus 9y ago
Does the touchpad work properly now? Last time I checked was 2010 so obviously it might have improved.
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by rikkus 9y ago
I’m not really bothered about speed. Just reliability. If my home broadband could actually stay up then I’d be able to work from home without tethering to a phone in order to get a reliable connection.
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by rikkus 9y ago
Battery life seems to be almost entirely down to how much you're actually using it. My work Samsung Galaxy A5 (2017) lasts several days (really) because I only look do email and calendar stuff on it, a few times a day. My iPhone 6s oft
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by rikkus 9y ago
Relevant part: "Each storage server contains 36 hard drives, each with 6 TB capacity. These are configured as three 11-disk RAID 6 arrays plus 3 global hot swap spares."

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