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by synicalx 5y ago
Good on them for doing a relatively detailed, honest and public review like this. But goddamn that recovery time is absolutely unacceptable for a modern mission-critical product like this, especially since they've essentially forced ev
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by synicalx 5y ago
Having dealt with the pre and post sales support quite extensively over the years, I always got the impression they were a big fish in way over it's head, and with a tail that didn't work so good.
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by synicalx 5y ago
I sort of disagree on two things; 1. Video games, in moderation can be beneficial for focus in much the same way reading a book can. You have to concentrate on a single task for an extended period of time, and lack of concentration is often
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by synicalx 5y ago
On the topic of ADHD, I would STRONGLY recommend getting a second opinion of any diagnosis especially as an adult. Doctors seem to be very trigger happy when it comes to medication for ADHD and it's not always necessary. If you can aff
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by synicalx 5y ago
Strangers have always been able to cause notifications to appear on your phone - notifications for SMS, social media, calls, email etc can all originate from people you don't know.
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by synicalx 5y ago
AFAIK, this has been possible with Azure AD for a while. I think the service on Apple's end was called something like Apple for Business and you could cut a cert from it to link to Intune (an MDM) and get pre-enrolled devices directly
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by synicalx 5y ago
FWIW, I've been using a Samsung S65U monitor which has a built in USB hub, Ethernet, audio out and connects downstream via USB-C with something like 90w power delivery (it might be 65w, can't remember). So far after a couple of mo
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by synicalx 5y ago
You must never joke on HN, this is a SERIOUS site where SERIOUS 10x people talk about SERIOUS things like.... uhhh.... playing Doom in Grafana.
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by synicalx 5y ago
That point about cutting back on food before entertainment definitely rings true. Back when I first moved out of home I'd do EXACTLY that - huge TV, games consoles, flashy computer etc but also eating 2 minute noodles, and chickpeas or
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by synicalx 5y ago
I have to say, as someone who used to work in a supermarket during high school, Aldi looks like it would be a pretty good place to work in addition to the decent pay. All the cashiers have seats, and all they really have to do (at least in
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by synicalx 5y ago
We've had them in Australia for a while now and honestly.... not that amazing. Most products beyond the absolute "staples" like bread, milk, eggs etc are barely any cheaper than our other major supermarket chains. I'm ta
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by synicalx 5y ago
I feel like I might be alone in this, but I find Github + some markdown docs organised into folders to be perfectly fine. Redirect a personal domain to your github repo if you really want, I personally don't bother. People can clone&#x
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by synicalx 5y ago
Yep, it happened - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30898638
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by synicalx 5y ago
I don't agree with what MS is doing here, but "I don't like being asked to use a different browser" is going to be a hard sell to your employer if they don't already have Macs as standard. If they do offer Macs thou
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by synicalx 5y ago
I STRONGLY prefer my work to be as isolated as possible. I don't want work invading my real-life spaces - not in my living room, my study, my kitchen, or any other non-work related place I may go. Work is just work, it's the thing
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by synicalx 5y ago
Implying HN readers date
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by synicalx 5y ago
Remote hands are expensive, and in my experience in using them at DC's all over the world, they're also not very competent certainly not to the point of being able to diagnose and fix issues for you. The best you could hope for wi
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by synicalx 5y ago
It makes the availability issues largely someone else's problem. If YOUR server(s) go down for whatever reason, you're getting up at 3am and driving to the data centre to put the fire out assuming you know how to troubleshoot the
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by synicalx 5y ago
You reckon Slack and Teams don't do any of that?
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by synicalx 5y ago
First time I've heard of these and I love the idea but goddamn they're expensive! Do you feel like it was worth the cost for your use case?
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by synicalx 5y ago
Use old.reddit.com instead of regular reddit.com, RES works just as well with that and you can get various addons to automatically redirect you to old.reddit.com if you happen to click on a reddit.com link in the wild. On mobile, avoid the
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by synicalx 5y ago
IMO they shouldn't, that's the whole point of a privacy focused service like this - no one should be able to view/inspect what you're sharing on it.
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by synicalx 5y ago
Where I'm from, we already make a bit of a game out of trying to get a "high score" on the BAC checkers that are at most pubs - and that costs money. I can 100% see this turning into a game for a lot of people (me included, i
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by synicalx 5y ago
I feel like this is going to be a new popular pastime here in Australia, we already make a bit of a sport out of blowing into the BAC checkers at the pub I can't imagine how out of hand it's going to get if we've all got BAC
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by synicalx 6y ago
Genuinely thought those chips were EOL, maybe they got a good deal on a pallet of them that Intel were about to throw out?
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by synicalx 6y ago
I'd LOVE to work from an apartment in Surfers Paradise or Broadbeach in the Gold Coast (AU/QLD) with ocean views. Not necessarily a super cheap area but the lifestyle is great (to me at least) and the views are AMAZING if you can
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by synicalx 6y ago
My company won't even let us take home a keyboard from the office, let alone actually pay for anything. So I'm working entirely from the one thing they did let me take home - my laptop. Productivity loss from only having one tiny
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by synicalx 9y ago
But it's not as cheap or easy as just popping the back of your phone and slipping in a new battery. Mind you, most flagship phones these days can't be refurbished in that way.
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by synicalx 9y ago
> My SLA for responding to slack is 2 hours You have a slack SLA?! How is that even measured, does slack have some kind of reporting tool?
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by synicalx 9y ago
I mean really, I'd probably find that funny but I'd be inclined to fire the nanny. Although really I'm not sure why I'd have a nanny in the first place, that would probably be my first line of investigation in this scena

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