wayneftw

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by wayneftw 6y ago
They will never be successful with me. As soon as I see a pre-roll ad on Twitch I close the tab. Then I search for how to get around it and typically update uBlock Origin. Recently this happened regularly for about 2 weeks and then it stopp
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by wayneftw 6y ago
No, they replaced all the Google services with Microsoft implementations.
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by wayneftw 6y ago
It's coming for Linux too [0]. Unfortunately, they'll be removing the webRequest API [1] which was the only reason I would have wanted to use it. This will happen probably whenever Google deprecates Manifest v2 and Manifest v3 bec
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by wayneftw 6y ago
I got a refurbished HP desktop i7 that I bought two years ago for $300 on Amazon and upgraded the SSD and 32gb RAM for another $250 or so. I can run numerous instances of VS Code, Chrome, Slack, Postman, etc all day without even a hint of a
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by wayneftw 6y ago
I wish more companies would choose Electron instead of native apps so they could iterate faster on all platforms. I bet most people who have a problem with Electron are laptop users. I use a refurbished HP desktop i7 that I bought two years
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by wayneftw 6y ago
> Electron and Qt are not in the same league. No, they're certainly not. Qt takes a lot of effort to produce apps that look like garbage on every OS while Electron takes no effort to produce apps that look great everywhere. VLC Medi
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by wayneftw 6y ago
> That can't be said for any other desktop. The vast, vast majority of my Linux and Windows desktop apps share the same core keyboard shortcuts. `Ctrl+S` is always save, `Ctrl+X always cuts and `Ctrl+W` always closes the current win
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by wayneftw 6y ago
I'm glad that you and your cohort are not more than a very tiny minority.
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by wayneftw 6y ago
I'm allergic to signing into any Google property in a web browser. The only thing I use my Google accounts for is email and I don't want everything I do to be associated with one of my Google accounts because then they shove other
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by wayneftw 6y ago
> Ctrl-C copies if there's a selection, which is unnecessary under OSX That's because macOS uses a wholly different keyboard shortcut for copy which is only a standard for Apple. The rest of the world uses the IBM CUA standard
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by wayneftw 6y ago
I switched to the desktop view permanently for google.com on my phone. I haven’t seen an AMP page since.
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by wayneftw 6y ago
> Most startups use Macs... I doubt it. Citation?
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by wayneftw 6y ago
The answer to the direct question of "What was it [master] meant to convey?" was '"master" as in e.g. "master recording".' There's no "likeliness" or "influence" in that direc
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by wayneftw 6y ago
> ...the biggest deep learning conference has been renamed, after something like 20 years, because of this kind of pressure. This was interesting: > Of the survey respondents, 1,881 were men and 294 were women. Of the women, 44% agree
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by wayneftw 6y ago
That's incorrect. Petr Baudis explained why he picked it: > "master" as in e.g. "master recording". https://twitter.com/xpasky/status/1272280760280637441 That's straight from the h
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by wayneftw 6y ago
No, the guy who picked the name "master", Petr Baudis, explained why he picked it: > "master" as in e.g. "master recording". https://twitter.com/xpasky/status/1272280760280637441
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Meh. I'll change it back. I'm not "dying on a hill" either when I do this because nobody will care. Nobody that I work with will care and nobody that looks at my source code online will care. If and when someone does car
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by wayneftw 6y ago
> These aren’t businesses. These are websites. [...] Not everyone can build a business. That involves marketing, advertising, customer acquisition, cash flow management, legal, on and on. Incorrect. The word business is defined simply as
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by wayneftw 6y ago
I was shopping for a smart socket to turn my pool cover pump on and off from inside the house. I specifically went out of my way to find a Bluetooth one instead of one that uses Wi-Fi. Then when I receive it I find out that I have to instal
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by wayneftw 6y ago
It's amazing how nobody flags these garbage twitter posts endlessly fawning over the Apple prison complex with fake benchmarks and yet one guy posts "Farewell, macOS" yesterday [0] and it got flagged immediately. Enjoy your
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by wayneftw 6y ago
We've got a Windows 10 box at every TV. Aside from games, it's just so much faster and ad-free compared to using a Smart TV/Roku/Apple TV/etc. They're also easier to operate with a Logitech K400r keyboard and t
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by wayneftw 6y ago
You’re forced to read these... So yes, by all means let’s only allow stories that endlessly fawn over any minor shift that Apple makes! You know that hardly anyone outside of the SV bubble uses Macs right?
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by wayneftw 6y ago
LOL looks like this has become such a common tale now and this instance is the straw that broke the camel’s back. The Mac-faithful of HN have been angered with your peasant tales! You will be flagged and must never speak of this again! Wel
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by wayneftw 6y ago
> The things that annoy me about Linux are the lack of system upgrade options, you basically have to reinstall from scratch every time... Run a rolling release then like Manjaro or another Arch based system. I’ve been running the latest
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Just wanted to add the fact that Microsoft telemetry never stopped me from doing anything. Meanwhile nobody can run any apps on their Macs right now because of Apple’s telemetry. Enjoy that!
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by wayneftw 6y ago
You can only run Apple’s awful software platforms on Apple Silicon so they’re only competing with themselves and for the few people who actually run macOS in the case of the new Macbooks. Even if the rest of the PC industry never goes to AR
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by wayneftw 6y ago
The Mac mini contains a laptop-grade CPU, RAM and mainboard that lacks expansion. The only thing that makes it not a laptop is the form-factor.
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Pffft. As if you’re not paying for macOS when they charge you $400 for an SSD you could get for $200. If you insist that it’s actually free, then you’re the product and a tool for Apple to use. You can turn off all telemetry [0] in the Wind
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by wayneftw 6y ago
A huge step forward into Apple’s prison complex maybe. I’ll wait to use ARM on a desktop computer until an OS/platform with more freedom and a much better UI commonly runs on ARM. That will be Windows.
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by wayneftw 6y ago
This is a “Pro” machine though. It’s the exact opposite market, not for people who can fit on a Chromebook. Rationalize however you want for yourself - pros that choose to use Apple products are already generally aware of how their hardware

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