vulcan01

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by vulcan01 6y ago
Look, every OS has to choose its defaults. They give you the option to change it through the defaults command: defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false and you don't need to restart your computer. Every OS is going to do
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by vulcan01 6y ago
Now only if I could set my teachers to 2x speed as well... The issue with this solution is that your brain gets comfortable watching videos at 2x speed, making it even harder to focus on people when they're discussing something with yo
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by vulcan01 6y ago
Cmd-space launches Spotlight. Ctrl-space switches the input layout. Ctrl-Cmd-Space launches the emoji viewer (even in Firefox...)
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by vulcan01 6y ago
You don't! Watch the whole movie, mate! In any case, here's an article on how to do it: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-fast-forward-on-apple... (as a side note: isn't it sad that you had to ask this q
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by vulcan01 6y ago
Competence and professionalism are not quantifiable; diversity is. Hence, when a $manager wants to improve $project (for a raise), they will invariably try to push for diversity. This is in the context of open-source projects where identity
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by vulcan01 6y ago
Email hn@ycombinator.com for any moderation questions.
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by vulcan01 6y ago
I think the 'should' is targeted at developers who want their projects to grow (which is not all open-source developers).
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by vulcan01 6y ago
The idea you propose in your edit is basically Tor, no?
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by vulcan01 6y ago
It's not the ethnicity: - If a company is based in the US, they will be under pressure from the US government. - If a company is based in Russia, they will be under pressure from the Russian government. - If a company is based in China
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by vulcan01 6y ago
If you push back, nothing happens to you. If the cashier pushes back, they may be punished (up to and including getting fired — there's more competition for cashier-level jobs than you think).
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by vulcan01 6y ago
> It annoys my wife because she thinks I'm being rude You are being rude. The innocent cashier is forced to ask you that question and has no power to change the rules. Why not be polite to them? If you really want to change things,
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by vulcan01 6y ago
I'm not that good at this stuff but Spotlight may have been attempting to index those images... you can turn off Spotlight indexing per-folder in System Preferences.
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by vulcan01 6y ago
Part of the point of Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 is being able to easily switch back to the default when necessary (like when at the office).
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by vulcan01 6y ago
> In the end, all that is being done to the “advanced” students is that they’re being offered the same education that their peers are getting. This is generally not what advanced students get. They are usually taught different, more ad
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by vulcan01 6y ago
No, I believe you've misunderstood. Apologists for the CCP often claim that there are "differences in cultural values" when trying to explain what's happening in Xinjiang.
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by vulcan01 6y ago
> It's illegal Not everywhere... only in some jurisdictions.
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by vulcan01 6y ago
Schools too have a different version: "the school version of Teams". What's terrifying about Microsoft tailoring their product to (very) large customer segments? (If you're wondering what my source is... I am a student a
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by vulcan01 6y ago
There is a "favorites" button right under the submission title, which you can then access through "favorite submissions" in your profile.
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by vulcan01 6y ago
Not the OP, but sometimes I wonder whether some of these events are effects of testing by foreign militaries, and the DoD wants to hide knowledge of foreign military technology (because maybe they're trying to copy it).
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by vulcan01 6y ago
The OP is simply recognising language commonly used by antisemites. They're not assuming by default.
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by vulcan01 6y ago
It has: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26192988 (You have a good memory!)
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by vulcan01 6y ago
HN doesn't tolerate personal attacks. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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by vulcan01 6y ago
> the burden is then on the developer to make sure that they build essentially 3 (maybe more) UI's on platforms that might change under their feet Is this really different from the current state of web development? Front-end develop
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by vulcan01 6y ago
I wasn't responding to the memory usage portion of the GP's message, but rather to the alien feel.
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by vulcan01 6y ago
If I'm not mistaken, this is just because the CSS styling isn't that good, right? Take Slack (which uses Electron) as an example: it looks almost the same on Windows and Mac, but it looks good — because the styling (through CSS) i
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by vulcan01 6y ago
> I'm presuming they tried to make logical arguments. Why would they need to make logical arguments? Money (lobbying) is far better at influencing politicians. However, the politicians that are getting lobbied sometimes try to make
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by vulcan01 6y ago
The Founding Fathers (save one) also intended that slavery would exist. All of them were very rich. All of them were men, too (as their collective name suggests). The problem with appealing to the Founding Fathers is that they were profound
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by vulcan01 6y ago
Yes, they are "worth a shit" to the millions of students they have helped, because videos being "pedestrian" doesn't matter when all you need is someone who can explain what your teacher tried to cover in class. The
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by vulcan01 6y ago
As long as we're not the commenters being interviewed, am I right? ;)
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by vulcan01 6y ago
How does Credit Karma make money? I'd feel more comfortable using them if I understood this.

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