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by ukyrgf 8y ago
Ah! Google Cloud Print. I was looking forward to actually uninstalling Chrome on my main computer, but I'd forgotten how critical that is. Like you, I just can't get My MacBook to work with my network printer.
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by ukyrgf 8y ago
I decided to finally bite the bullet and learn React yesterday. Every time they mentioned "we do it like this at Facebook" in the tutorial/docs, my eagerness died a little more. Even little tongue-in-cheek things, like their
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by ukyrgf 8y ago
> "domain.com" isn't ambiguous But that's because it's .com. Now, there are too many gTLDs, and companies will build their brand around their use of .io, .me, .cs, .es, etc. Just the other day I saw a link that
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by ukyrgf 8y ago
> Except that nobody would ever sign up for a cheaper electrical service in exchange for rolling blackouts. My power company does excatly that: https://www.fpl.com/save/programs/on-call.html
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by ukyrgf 8y ago
For some reason it wanted me to think "LIBERAL ARMY".
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by ukyrgf 8y ago
"Free" worked for me 10-20 years ago. There was the old "if you aren't paying for it, then you are the product" adage. Now, even if you pay, you are being sold.
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by ukyrgf 8y ago
https://money.cnn.com/2018/02/01/technology/paypal-ebay-paym... They've already split off.
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by ukyrgf 8y ago
It harkens back to the "Best Viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4" days, for me.
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by ukyrgf 8y ago
I spent about 3 months at my new job having to type my password multiple times before grabbing a work mechanical keyboard. It's still not as nice as my one at home, but it's a big drop in the rate of error.
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by ukyrgf 8y ago
Comcast's oauth server was down for me, so I couldn't log in to my account like they recommended.
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by ukyrgf 8y ago
I'm a c9.io user so my account is still free, but the impression I get from the Amazon acquisition is that you have to run it on an EC2 instance now. That requires some form of setup, doesn't it? And AWS is jargon all the way down
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by ukyrgf 8y ago
I have an older XPS 13, one that came with Windows 8, and putting Ubuntu on it absolutely saved its life. The touchpad driver on Windows was _terrible_ and sleep/hibernate didn't work consistently. I pretty much abandoned it, unti
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by ukyrgf 8y ago
The movie felt similar to me. It's been sitting on my In Progress list for years. I loved what I saw but it lost it's hooks in me.
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by ukyrgf 8y ago
Bank Gothic! I remember using that font so much in the 90s when I was a kid trying to make super futuristic digital art. Then I joined a company that used Eurostile for everything, left there and swore to never use it again, and forgot Bank
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by ukyrgf 9y ago
I don't know why I ever stopped using Inoreader in favor of Feedly. Feedly's Android app is atrocious and I can't open links in Android Chrome using feedly.com, which just made me stop using RSS altogether. It wasn't bro
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by ukyrgf 9y ago
Publix already sells meal kits near me, including slowcooking kits and baking bags you just open one end of and toss in the oven. Seems like any grocery store with actually fresh meat and produce could easily compete with this, right?
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by ukyrgf 9y ago
node_modules will muck up jall the big filesync applocations. It's not cloud based, but Resilio Sync supports an IgnoreList file that I use for all my dev folders (whcih are also typically backed up with Git).
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by ukyrgf 9y ago
"I will have to call them" ends after a few years. I got brickwalleded trying to renew my starter fees last time; they've raised rates so many times and don't care (and added data caps).
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by ukyrgf 9y ago
It seems a lot of computer science books I read that have been published lately talk about their build process (web, PDF, EPUB/MOBI) in the same way they would talk about compiling code. How much typesetting is really done these days?
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by ukyrgf 9y ago
> If you want to write an article, you must first send 10 headline ideas and a sample piece of satire to: Ideas@TheHardTimes.net. I can't imagine how insufferable a job it is checking that mailbox every day.
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by ukyrgf 9y ago
I checked out Sam's Learn C++ in One Hour a Day from my local library and the librarian just frowned and said, "oh this looks miserable."
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by ukyrgf 9y ago
I love seeing software that still has a "Screenshots" section of their website. It's looked the same for as long as I've been using computers to record audio, starting with my high school band's demo over 15 years a
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by ukyrgf 9y ago
Your description is a 100% spot-on description of what I inherited a few weeks ago. I wake up every morning making groaning noises I never knew my body was capable of.
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by ukyrgf 9y ago
I keep mine updated to the latest version and still love it. The 'Ignore' file that is in the top-level of each share alone is worth the admission (similar to .gitignore). Dropbox/OneDrive/etc. all lose their damn minds
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by ukyrgf 9y ago
Resilio Sync (formerly BT Sync) is a good non-cloud-based solution. It has an Ignore file that you can set up at the root level of each share. I have a number of computers, so this works for me. Just add 'vendor' and 'node_mo
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by ukyrgf 9y ago
I'd love to use Kodi with my Windows SMB shares - and I certainly can - but Amazon stubbornly hides the icon on the Fire TV interface. The added steps of going into `settings > applications > manage applications > kodi > la
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by ukyrgf 9y ago
They filter out quite a bit by default, and you have to choose to turn it off. What many subreddit mods do is have a bot that auto-approves stuff based on more specific criteria. That gives a lot of room to blame the forces that be when thi
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by ukyrgf 9y ago
Ah! I bought this book and loved it, but couldn't remember how on earth it got recommended to me. Now I recall reading up on this course and deciding to try the book instead (video courses tend to waste too much time saying what you&#x
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by ukyrgf 9y ago
> I have personally saved at least one decent laptop from landfill by installing uBlock Origin on it, and making the web usable again. For me, I'd given up on trying to browse the web on my smartphone until Firefox Focus came along.
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by ukyrgf 9y ago
Backblaze's reports on their hard drive failure rates regularly tops Hacker News' front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=backblaze.com

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