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by shirro 11y ago
I am a reluctant Mutt user. I prefer it to webmail but I prefer a good native gui client to either. It is a very flexible solution but is a big investment in configuration and keypress memory for a casual user. It is a relief to see it stil
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by shirro 11y ago
Spot on. They went chasing television viewers with 16:9 glossy screens and all the productivity types held onto their old machines and wept for the future. I don't want a paper thin Netflix viewer. I have a tablet and a huge tv for tha
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by shirro 11y ago
I don't know about disrupting the technology but there looks to be a lot of room to do things with distribution and product differentiation. Here is an Aussie startup http://tomorganic.com.au/
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by shirro 11y ago
I don't agree with this. The Internet is clearly a proper noun like America, Jesus or Associated Press. It is somewhere between a place and an idea which might confuse the AP people but it is THE big thing between a place and idea of o
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by shirro 11y ago
The tmux/iterm2 integration on Macs doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Some people might be better served by moving to a platform with a tiling window manager. The value depends on how you use your computer(s). If you are mostly w
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by shirro 11y ago
He is always like this. I think his words are generally quite precise and economical even if his delivery seems all over the place. I like it. It seems genuine. And I tend to drift off when things are too smooth and scripted. He might have
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by shirro 11y ago
He is a huge fan. He had a Roadster as well. Fun fact is he appears to be heavily involved in a company aiming to compete with Tesla's Powerwall: http://redflow.com/about-us/board-management/
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by shirro 11y ago
Not sure if the commercials are geo-targetted but if you get the Australian guy his name is Simon Hackett. He founded an Internet business here. An interesting thing is Hackett is executive chairman of a company called Redflow which claims
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by shirro 11y ago
I imagine dropping a powered board into salt water has very different results to running an unpowered one through de-ionized water so water damage probably varies wildly depending on the circumstances.
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by shirro 11y ago
I am not sure Google are still making the Pixel 2 and if they were I don't think they sell it in my country. There could be drama if I use a freight forwarder then need warranty service. Otherwise an LS would probably do me. The Surfac
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by shirro 11y ago
Got two kids and their mum been playing MCPE all day on mobile devices. I can hear her yelling instructions to her army of builders/warriors as I write. I put together a VPS instance with PocketMine (followed by ImagicalMine, a fork) f
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by shirro 11y ago
Now I just need to find someone who will sell a 3:2 aspect ratio machine with 16GB ram to me. If the computer industry hadn't dropped the ball so badly on laptops I don't think developers would even bother looking at Chromebooks.
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by shirro 11y ago
Mostly the maths just enables easy key distribution and makes encryption viable for commerce and privacy. I don't see the public benefit in restricting this. It seems more targeted at ordinary citizens than criminals or foreign powers.
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by shirro 11y ago
I confess I do run vim-airline and tmuxline so I am not entirely innocent when it comes to adding custom fonts to machines for my terminal. It makes them look a little bit nicer, doesn't cost much effort or screen space and doesn'
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by shirro 11y ago
I have a lot of negative feelings about Microsoft because of the historical baggage but they have some good products and technologies. I am also fairly negative on Oracle but when they released their database on Linux it was important for m
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by shirro 11y ago
I was at a linux and open source focussed conference once and a speaker started talking about the future for their FOSS office software. I think it was going to be some multimedia or video something or other but I turned off. It was already
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by shirro 11y ago
It is the eternal quest for hearts and minds. Developers. Developers. Developers. Microsoft have always been aggressive about getting their stack in schools here. Hook them young. To be fair other companies try and do the same. It is good t
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by shirro 11y ago
I would love to live in an unconventional house. There are schools closing in surrounding farming areas regularly but most are too much travelling time and poor Internet access. When there are some good ones with decent services not far fro
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by shirro 11y ago
Yes. Security and correctness should always come before performance. Performance first is the thinking that got us security vulnerabilities everywhere.
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by shirro 11y ago
Not really. The Mac keeps on going. I lost interest and stopped looking. I bought a nice carbon road bike instead. Much better investment for me. All those components I can adjust, swap and upgrade for the life of the bike. Jobs wanted usin
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by shirro 11y ago
I have an ancient mid-2009 MacBook. I walked out the Apple retailer and straight into a cut-price PC parts shop and upgraded the ram and hard drive to avoid some Apple tax. I am probably overdue to replace my second battery but I haven&#x27
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by shirro 11y ago
Condolences to his friends and family. Ian and the hundreds of Debian maintainers who followed have left an amazing legacy which I use and appreciate every day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines
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by shirro 11y ago
I don't know if fresh is always better. It is better at some things. I like freshly squeezed oranges at home but there have been several cases around the world where unpasteurised fresh orange juice has been the cause of salmonella inf
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by shirro 11y ago
I think it probably differs a lot around the world. Some places are far less prone to use preservatives than others.
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by shirro 11y ago
Sometimes it doesn't pay to overthink things and do more than is necessary. It doesn't seem likely that without the vendor extension "system" is going to become an official or defacto cross browser standard any time soon
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by shirro 11y ago
When I pay yearly dog registration my local council supplies numbered plastic ties (used to be disks) which must be attached to the dog's collar. They aren't attached to the dog itself so more like soldier dog tags than cattle tag
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by shirro 11y ago
Hopefully compulsory pet de-sexing will be coming to South Australia soon as well. While I appreciate that dogs can be a hazard to people and livestock, I wish my local government took animal control seriously when cats were involved. They
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by shirro 11y ago
Cats are totally out of control here and there needs to be more action both on fully feral animals and those left to roam freely by their "owners". I can't move around my yard at any time of day or night without disturbing a
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by shirro 11y ago
The US has not ratified (and will not) the treaty that would make them subject to the international criminal court. There have been many things the US has done that may well be war crimes but they aren't subject to independent oversigh
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by shirro 11y ago
Because apparently the cameras are so bad that nobody records video on them. Do you want to store your music and apps or record your kid's birthday? Tough choice.

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