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by swiley 5y ago
IMO: TCL/TK definitely beats it, no one talks about it though for some reason.
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by swiley 5y ago
It's over once we don't have control of the compilers. Look at the iPhone.
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by swiley 5y ago
I'm always a little surprised the islands in the Canadian archipelago never seem to be sold.
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by swiley 5y ago
I think people like not having their physical machine tied to their dev environment. IMO "the way" to do this is with ssh and tmux, not a web app. As long as people have choices I guess it doesn't matter.
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by swiley 5y ago
That's not counter intuitive at all: Desktop VS Code is a web app running in chromium.
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by swiley 5y ago
The primary feature of DRM is that it doesn't work most of the time. Keep that in mind when you're paying to use it.
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by swiley 5y ago
Just tell them it's to protect your face from CCTV facial recognition. Most of the non authoritarian right is for that.
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by swiley 5y ago
With stuff like this the "right tool" is whatever you have and usb3 -> sata adapters aren't all that common while functioning SD cards are. Yeah there are crappy ones but if you stick to ~2GB and decent vendors (like most
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by swiley 5y ago
IMO wet bulb is much more intuitive. The parameters for heat index are subjective.
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by swiley 5y ago
My impression was that Washington (the state) was the first outbreak and they immediately took action in early march. NY was heavy handed but they also played a ton of games with it, that's why the authoritarian approach to most things
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by swiley 5y ago
I'd disagree. I think most of the states have handled it better than say Canada or Australia.
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by swiley 5y ago
It's a bummer they only barely mention emacs. I'm not really an "emacs guy" (I use vim for all my actual editing) but it has all those tools you'll miss from the GUI desktop environment (PIM, doc writer, spreadsheet
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by swiley 5y ago
I've used one for a year now, it's a UMPC running Linux that can make phone calls. What do you want to know?
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by swiley 5y ago
I wonder if I'm the only one that hears "x is the new Silicon valley" and thinks "high housing prices and naive SEs everywhere, so somewhere to avoid."
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by swiley 5y ago
>the subtext here is that Signal thinks people's phones are going to be increasingly compromised Phones are compromised by default. E2EE doesn't matter if someone else owns both ends.
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by swiley 5y ago
We did this in the 50s to Mexico and the result is the modern Mexican state. This is truly one of the worst things you can do.
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by swiley 5y ago
They could ease the housing pressure there by going permanent WFH, but I doubt they'll even do that.
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by swiley 5y ago
It's unethical in the same place where building large apartment complexes on private land is also illegal. They have to have somewhere to go and people don't want their view blocked by a building.
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by swiley 5y ago
Are there even enough vacant housing units in that area for all the homeless if you ignore the price?
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by swiley 5y ago
I wonder how long before the doughnut gets taken over or burnt down.
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by swiley 5y ago
This. Only Microsoft thinks these are subjective.
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by swiley 5y ago
Am I the only one that likes the default HN size? I'm currently reading it on a Pinephone with unit scaling and it's pretty readable.
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by swiley 5y ago
I was thinking of pine64.
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by swiley 5y ago
The cost of commuting to yourself is extremely high: 1-2 hours of unpaid time driving, requirement that you buy a house (or rent ) in extremely high CoL areas, car maintenance/insurance. It probably all ads up to over 20% of your sala
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by swiley 5y ago
SMS "2fa" almost always makes things worse, you're better off never sharing your phone number with large companies like Apple.
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by swiley 5y ago
Ironically the best alternative comes from an HK company.
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by swiley 5y ago
Or run from tmpfs without swap.
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by swiley 5y ago
IIRC those authentication apps are just TOTP which you can run on anything (the algorithm is trivial, there are even bash implementations.) There's both ungoogled android or if you like Alpine Linux a lot there's PostMarketOS.
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by swiley 5y ago
As I, and a small minority have pointed out for years: Apple's privacy marketing has always been fake; this is a PR failure more than it is a technical failure. I had nearly given up on hacker news because this idea had been so controv
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by swiley 5y ago
There's also going the opposite direction and throwing out everything that requires any non trivial amount of configuration. I've been pretty happy doing this.

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