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by sapphire_tomb 10mo ago
I see this comment about how awesome Apple Trackpads are all the time here, and just assumed I was missing out because I'd never used a MacBook. But I got given a MacBook Pro recently for work, and I'm super underwhelmed. The trac
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by sapphire_tomb 2y ago
Coward. https://www.daniclodedesign.com/thevine20
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by sapphire_tomb 2y ago
Dani, whom the article mentions, has also worked on prosthetic arm replacements which are indeed modelled on tentacles. I don't have a link to hand but I'm sure some use of your favourite search engine would show this for you.
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by sapphire_tomb 2y ago
My last job was at a UK bank. All our *nix systems were configured with a specific whitelist of commands that could be run via sudo. We found this an enormous pain in the arse when the powers that be decided to deploy ansible everywhere,
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Curl project dilemmas over alerting on vulnerabilities(daniel.haxx.se)
6 points by sapphire_tomb 4y ago|0 comments
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by sapphire_tomb 4y ago
Is there an arm64 version of the docker image for the atuin server? I'd really like to be able to deploy this to my microk8s cluster.
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by sapphire_tomb 4y ago
Ah, so much this! Why do all these new utils not come with a man page? :(
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by sapphire_tomb 5y ago
Oh I don't know. I'm going to send this to a friend of mine who's an ex black cab driver. If he doesn't get full marks I'll be amazed.
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by sapphire_tomb 5y ago
Snagit got me into trouble twice at my last job, by phoning home even when I'd ticked off the preference for sending usage information (which appears you have to opt out of, rather than opt in to, which is a dark pattern in my book any
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by sapphire_tomb 5y ago
There's so many people in here saying "did you try it?" - and I signed up on the waiting list the day it was announced and still don't have access.
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by sapphire_tomb 5y ago
Absolutely love the Fermat reference at the end!
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ALpha release of new “Novus” package manager for windows. Written in Rust(novuspkg.com)
2 points by sapphire_tomb 5y ago|0 comments
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Metalink Support Removed from Curl(daniel.haxx.se)
4 points by sapphire_tomb 5y ago|0 comments
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by sapphire_tomb 5y ago
Dani did a TED talk about it https://youtu.be/UD_LwZD2Kls
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by sapphire_tomb 5y ago
Huh. I've chatted to Dani several times (we go to the same bar and share a circle of friends). She is hella smart. Sadly she's yet to have had the third thumb with her whenever we've met, but I know a bunch of our mutual frie
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by sapphire_tomb 5y ago
Weird. It let me use my Gmail address.
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by sapphire_tomb 5y ago
Still no Thunderbolt though? Unless I've missed it somewhere in the article. My wife was sent a Surface Pro (3, I think) to WFH on, and getting it to play nicely with external displays was very hit and miss. Finally found a DisplayPort
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by sapphire_tomb 6y ago
Same in the UK. The Google Pay app on my phone allows me to add credit cards and use them for NFC payments and that's about it. I can't see a way to send money to someone else using it either.
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Help Curl: The user survey 2020(daniel.haxx.se)
4 points by sapphire_tomb 6y ago|0 comments
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by sapphire_tomb 6y ago
No, the article starts with a scan of the reply.
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by sapphire_tomb 7y ago
I can't find an online source to document this - but on a recent tour of Chislehurst Caves in SE London - the tour guide mentioned that during the second world war, when it was used as a bomb shelter for some 15,000 local residents, t
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by sapphire_tomb 7y ago
There have been a number of attempts at this over the years with Rockbox (not sure about recent years though as I no longer hang out in the dev channel on freenode). All of them came to naught eventually though.
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by sapphire_tomb 7y ago
Heh - I helped out on the port to 80GB video which came with a rather odd ATA controller on it that didn't work with the first cut of the ATA driver that Rockbox had been shipping with before the 80GB model came along. Fun times. Still
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by sapphire_tomb 7y ago
I am rooting for Windows Terminal to succeed, but currently it's definitely not fast. Complete redraws of the content are in fact painfully slow for me at the moment.
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by sapphire_tomb 7y ago
Interesting. I thought the stuff people generally wrote on blackboards with was actually gypsum, and not chalk at all. Although everyone calls it chalk.
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by sapphire_tomb 7y ago
This reminds me of a (probably apocryphal) story a South African friend of mine told me once about the state of policing down there in the late nineties / early noughties. The story goes that a man wakes up in the middle of the night t
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by sapphire_tomb 7y ago
I'm from the UK and I hear crèche used way more than nursery.
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by sapphire_tomb 7y ago
I'm curious then, what did you guess it referred to?
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by sapphire_tomb 7y ago
I find most of the things you list add no value to me. Photos and reviews are of no interest to me in a navigation aid. In my home town at least (London), I frequently find their places data wrong with marked locations being several streets
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by sapphire_tomb 8y ago
Not entirely true. I was on a night out years ago for a friend's birthday, who, for whatever reason had chosen to have it at the Casino under the Empire cinema on Leicester square. The cashpoint there only gave out £50 notes. This

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