samjmck

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by samjmck 5y ago
BMWs actually use a dial that you can rotate in the centre console of the vehicle. It's actually very intuitive and easy to use, and a _lot_ less distracting than a touchscreen is.
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by samjmck 5y ago
> However, it's gotten drastically better in the past few years, with at least the bigger stores accepting Visa/MasterCard now. I'm guessing this has to do with the fact that Maestro is being phased out in favour of MC deb
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by samjmck 5y ago
Are there even ethical or “official” ways to source residential IPs? I thought most of them were from botnet infected IoT devices.
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by samjmck 5y ago
No one's complaining about not being able to access shitty websites that can't be arsed to make clear which companies are tracking you.
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by samjmck 5y ago
It _wants_ to autofill, but it doesn't without the user actually confirming the autofill. Pretty important distinction to make I think
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by samjmck 5y ago
Aren't both websites British?
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by samjmck 6y ago
Is the VSCode support good? I tried using Deno with WebStorm a few months ago and it wasn't a great experience.
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by samjmck 6y ago
Congrats, but maybe work on the humbleness...
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by samjmck 6y ago
The FTSE All-World has returned 82.5% over the last 5 years, while the FTSE Developed has returned 82.9% [1]. The difference is neglible if you ask me, and 5 years isn't that long anyway. The fees depend on the ETF you buy - in Europe,
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by samjmck 6y ago
> As long as I make money too and my retirement account grows what do I care if they take some off the top? You should care because for long term investing, an actively managed fund is very likely to underperform the market. The vast maj
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by samjmck 6y ago
If you're using Firefox tracking protection (which I'm guessing using DNT as well), then Matomo by default does not track you though. So no, your tracking protections aren't being bypassed.
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by samjmck 6y ago
Ad blocking != block tracking. If you don’t want to get tracked, turn on Do Not Track in your browser. Matomo and most other privacy focused analytics scripts respect that setting.
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by samjmck 6y ago
Seems very similar to Netlify, which is a good thing. Commits get their own preview URLs and branches get their own dedicated alias. Had a quick look at their pricing as well and the main difference is the Cloudflare free plan is limited to
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by samjmck 6y ago
I assumed they had 4 ports like the current non-base model 13's, my bad.
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by samjmck 6y ago
You don't need MST to be able to connect to 2 monitors
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by samjmck 6y ago
The UX for multitasking is, in my opinion, still much better on a laptop that it is on the iPad.
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by samjmck 6y ago
That would be weird. Thunderbolt 3 supports 2x 4K60, so this should as well.
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by samjmck 6y ago
You can charge from either side though. You just don’t get all the bandwidth that USB4/TB4 normally provides.
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by samjmck 6y ago
Despite the fact that they have laid off 120 of their staff, Monzo seems pretty good. The people that got laid off seemed to only say good things about working their on Twitter, and most of the developers I follow that work there seem passi