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by slantyyz 5y ago
Oh wow, the MNT is surprisingly cool. It reminds me of the Apple PowerBook 170 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_170 ) I had in the early 90s. I loved the trackball on those early PowerBooks.
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by slantyyz 5y ago
I have the Unifi Protect doorbell and like it a lot. But the big decision point is whether you want to get stuck in the Unifi Protect walled garden. A lot of people understandably don't want that. Back in the days of Unifi Video, you c
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by slantyyz 5y ago
And the version of the slur you're talking about is a pretty old one that I have not heard used in decades (of course that may be regional, generational, etc.) But like you, I have never heard "mongo" used in the same pejorat
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by slantyyz 5y ago
I've used A.S., TopK and Melonboy without any issues.
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by slantyyz 5y ago
I use magnetic tear away cables for a lot of my gear. They have magnetic tips for lightning, USB-micro and USB-C. For stuff like charging headphones, LED lights and other random gadgets with mixed plug types, I use charge-only cables for th
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by slantyyz 5y ago
Well, if you're even remotely attached to iOS ecosystem (which I think many iPhone owners are), you're unlikely to switch to another brand of phone. Which means you're stuck with the notch, and you need to learn to accept it.
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by slantyyz 5y ago
> I think Apple's idea of a "pro" is not necessarily someone who spends time inside of a text editor all day. I think Apple's notion of "pro" includes people who spend time in front of a text editor all day.
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by slantyyz 5y ago
> That touch bar was very useful. To some people, not all. There was probably just as large a contingent of people who hated it as there was who loved it. I think Apple should have made it an optional BYO feature, but they didn't so
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by slantyyz 5y ago
I think what's happening here is "if you're going to give me 75 cents, you may as well have given me the full dollar". For most people, that notch tradeoff is fine, but there will be a segment of people who care more abo
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by slantyyz 5y ago
> Because people actually want one cable for everything. The problem is that the "industry" gave us one port for everything while giving us a confusing mess of mixed capability cables that use that port.
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by slantyyz 5y ago
Lotus Notes, if you look past it having one of the ugliest UIs ever made, was a pretty neat tool. When I look at a tool like Notion, I see it as what Notes should have become. I worked in a Notes/Domino shop pre-2000, and after some &q
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by slantyyz 5y ago
> ensures that the generation that takes over after us will not be prepared Recently there was a post on the front page here about managers making jokes about firing their employees. From what I remember, most of the comments were a vari
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by slantyyz 5y ago
> Easiest way to lose a locker room is having a manager/director who is technically inept. I think a better way to look at a manager is to compare it to the HR department. Managers aren't hired by the people they will be managi
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by slantyyz 5y ago
If your manager is clueless, doesn't it mean that the person who hired the manager (presumably the manager's manager) is clueless too? That would strike me as the larger problem, since the manager role is likely going to be filled
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by slantyyz 5y ago
HN is social, and media, but I don't consider it social media in the same way as FB, Instagram, Twitter, and their ilk. Let me put it another way, to me, one critical defining feature of a "social media" site: when you regist
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by slantyyz 5y ago
> For what little it's worth, I've been online since Compuserve and personal local BBSs... > I absolutely consider HN to be social media. I've been online for the same period of time, and I absolutely do not consider HN
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Prototyping Framework Laptop Expansion Cards [video](youtube.com)
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by slantyyz 5y ago
Fair enough. I prefer the flexibility that Windows' Hidpi implementation offers over being constrained to Apple's method, but different strokes for different folks.
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by slantyyz 5y ago
> 1080p display which would look even worse considering it would need fractional scaling That depends on the OS though, right? I don't know about Linux or Mac, but I'm pretty sure that if you scale on Windows, you're still
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by slantyyz 5y ago
50+ with bad eyes, and I think the difference between 4K and 1080p is still very noticeable on a 15.6" laptop, in terms of sharpness. Having said that, most people probably set the text magnification on a 4K screen to be the same as a
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by slantyyz 5y ago
Well, at least Apple took care of that person. That is a way better experience than many of us who had the infamous early-2011 15" MBP with overheating issues had.
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by slantyyz 5y ago
> so the story here is (a) he got a lemon Well isn't that misleading too? The OP's experience includes two replacement computers, and the original "lemon" was replaced a little after two months after purchase. Depen
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by slantyyz 5y ago
I remember following Haiku (I think it was originally called OpenBEOS) right from the get go. I used to read updates on its development progress about it on OSNews. It looks like all the posts of the Haiku's progress going back to the
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by slantyyz 5y ago
It's also used to describe a shape. For example, a "snowflake" schema.
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by slantyyz 5y ago
I use it for some stuff. The markdown shortcuts are great for formatting.
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by slantyyz 5y ago
Milkdown looks promising https://github.com/Saul-Mirone/milkdown
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by slantyyz 5y ago
FWIW, Amazon Prime Video in Canada also has the CBC coverage for free. Not quite sure what the value add is though.
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by slantyyz 5y ago
That's an interesting choice. Personally, I think I'd go with the release of the iPhone (June 2007).
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by slantyyz 5y ago
> Longest running prime time show? I'm not sure it's our job to keep adding qualifiers to the OP's bold statement that "Simpsons is not considered a sitcom, but it is the longest running show, period." until it&#
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by slantyyz 5y ago
> they basically predate the founding of Uber. So anything before the smartphone era is what... not-modern, sorta-modern? If the founding of Uber (2009?) is a milestone of some sort, man I feel ancient.

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