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by ufmace 6y ago
Well I chuckled at least. But yeah, a car spontaneously catching on fire is completely unacceptable and should never ever happen. A phone's battery life getting worse after 2.5 years of use is pretty normal and expected. The other one
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by ufmace 6y ago
I won't be forever certainly. But it's entirely possible that large-scale gatherings like that will be discouraged for at least the timeframe of the next generation of phones, i.e. 1-2 years.
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by ufmace 6y ago
Maybe you've had bad luck with devices? I've stuck with Google phones for a while, and mostly had good experiences. Nexus 5X, Pixel 2, Pixel 4a lately. The Nexus 5X was great, until it bricked itself. Fortunately, freezing it (lit
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by ufmace 6y ago
It's an interesting application, but with Covid-19, it may be a while before places with huge crowds are happening again.
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by ufmace 6y ago
I'm kind of sympathetic to your plight, at least until I get here: > Now, if you can’t unsubscribe (because there’s no link, it’s broken, or simply doesn’t actually unsubscribe), and this is a legit company, please please please let
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by ufmace 6y ago
Here's a congressional democrat calling for lists to be drawn up of those who worked with Trump. https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1324807776510595078 What do you think they intend to do with those lists?
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by ufmace 6y ago
I'm inclined to think that in order for another search engine to thrive, there needs to be a segregated market created by a different language. The kind that creates a culture gap that can't be bridged easily. Ex - Google dominate
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by ufmace 6y ago
Also vim user. I use fairly minimal plugins. Mostly Nerdtree and the tabs plugin for that, formatting plugins for various languages, and CtrlP. I've tried autocomplete a few times, but never found it worth the trouble. Might be because
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by ufmace 6y ago
It helps that a lot of the photoshops going around the internet are either super-sloppy or depict things that are obviously ridiculous. I actually can't think of any time somebody tried to alter a photo in a way that would change the m
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by ufmace 6y ago
Mostly agreed. I think it's an interesting technology with a lot of potential. We're still learning a lot. One of the things we've learned is that people seem to like the way that the conventional banking system has a lot of
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by ufmace 6y ago
It's easy to do Bitcoin transactions, true. Everything else you might want to do with money is what's hard. Like: * Move all of the payments you've received into a normal bank account to pay operating costs * Allow a number o
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by ufmace 6y ago
Has anybody else actually clicked through some of the links to the topics that are supposedly ready? Authentication/Authorization - for me, this means something like Rails Devise, which gets you a full set of routes, controllers, and v
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by ufmace 6y ago
I guess it depends on what kind of tools you see yourself building with a compiled systems language. I feel like I'd prefer Rust, due to being simpler and more straightforward. It doesn't have decades of history, so there's l
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by ufmace 6y ago
Your assistant is probably smart enough to remember what kind of pizza you like and from where, and will just order that unless you tell them something else. In theory, there's no reason your phone auto-assistant couldn't do the s
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by ufmace 6y ago
Jokes aside, the police probably want to know whether your complaint is that there is a burglar holding you at gunpoint, or that you're trying to order a pizza. They probably get both types of calls at about the same frequency.
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by ufmace 6y ago
This feeds into some of my less charitable interpretations of SBC - he delights in dunking on the hated and powerless to amuse the powerful, but folds instantly at the slightest indication of real danger.
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by ufmace 6y ago
This. I wonder if dang can change the title to be less misleading? I was already suspicious why a hosting company needs a relationship with Paypal.
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by ufmace 6y ago
QAnon is consistently claimed to be "dangerous" and "violent". The only justification for this is the guy who went into Comet Ping Pong with a rifle in search of a supposed basement dungeon. But Comet Ping Pong is a Pizz
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by ufmace 6y ago
I agree. IMO, being frugal is more like being careful to spend extra money only when it makes a real difference in what you're getting than getting the cheapest version of everything no matter what. By all means, don't buy a $30k
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by ufmace 6y ago
What seems odd about this to me is his complaint that what he wants is out there, in the form of laptops built for linux and set up exactly like he wants, but they're "overpriced". Uh what? If you're gonna be that picky
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by ufmace 6y ago
What's already out there is disturbing enough, but I don't think even 10% of what's really going on has come to light yet. Ex - how did Epstein die in jail? No way that's a legit suicide IMO. Some very powerful people mu
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by ufmace 6y ago
AIUI, the key part of QAnon is "the storm", the idea that some secretive group in the Trump administration is preparing some kind of mass indictments, possibly involving military tribunals, to bust all of the secret pedophiles. Th
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by ufmace 6y ago
Man, I never cared much for QAnon, but the way so many mainstream institutions are joining together, using the exact same misleading talking points, to censor something off the internet makes me wonder if they're onto something after a
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by ufmace 6y ago
Regardless of whether this is real or not, it sounds like it's long past time that Twitter implemented proper user controls for the use-case of multiple securely-authorized users who have the ability to control one high-visibility Veri
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by ufmace 6y ago
Well yeah, but that just makes the business rules even more complex. That makes it more like - reject the transaction if it would move the account balance below zero, unless the account has a flag to allow overdrafts (which is over on the a
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by ufmace 6y ago
The usual for this would be to have a table of transactions instead of balances. The balances would be computed dynamically by summing the full transaction history for a particular account. Of course this gets a bit unwieldy with large tran
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by ufmace 6y ago
I don't play video games at all, and I'm on a dozen or so Discord servers for various open-source projects, meetup groups, private projects, Reddit subs, groups of friends, etc.
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by ufmace 6y ago
Accusations like that can be a bad look, but I can understand the frustration of your website being snuffed out by the whims of Google, and there's no way to figure out what happened and nobody who can tell you what really went wrong o
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by ufmace 6y ago
Well that's extremely interesting to have hard confirmation that they do this. I wonder what other sites have secret artificial boosts and penalties locked away in Google's systems somewhere, and for what reasons.
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by ufmace 6y ago
Oh yeah. More likely they'd come based on you going to an event they don't like, or having a hobby they don't like. And they probably won't be interested in any claims that you weren't there or didn't do that o

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