xirdstl

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by xirdstl 9y ago
I find myself intentionally slowing down when completing forms in order to not appear too bot-like and be forced to complete a captcha.
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by xirdstl 9y ago
Agree with this. I have one freelance client that I’ve done 100-300 hours of work for per year for the last decade, at a good rate. No tight deadlines, no stress. That said, I’m not sure how to find such a client. It was luck for me.
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by xirdstl 9y ago
I thought this was a bit illuminating: > During the first two weeks of February, he tweeted, on average, more than 15 times a day. He refrained completely from tweeting on only five days—all on weekends. That’s far from obsessive, but it
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by xirdstl 9y ago
The cable company taught me that the importance of mail is inversely proportional to how important it claims to be.
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by xirdstl 9y ago
Well put. I usually refer to Twitter as the "Outrage generator".
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by xirdstl 9y ago
You don't need to. I was trying to be helpful.
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by xirdstl 9y ago
Could you create a new smart playlist for ‘Date Added’ is in the last X days and use Siri to play that?
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by xirdstl 9y ago
Which GPU are you using?
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by xirdstl 9y ago
I got a replacement battery today (free). My score went back up to the expected.
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by xirdstl 9y ago
I'm in the same situation. You can still replace the battery for free. I just got the battery replaced today for free. Geekbench CPU scores increased 2.5x. It's like I have a new phone.
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by xirdstl 9y ago
I was off Facebook for awhile but rejoined this past year. I primarily use it to follow some organizations that post updates I'm interested in. If a "friend" posts something political or something that annoys me, I just Unfol
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by xirdstl 9y ago
I have similar experiences with single player games sometimes. Though after, I might go weeks without playing anything. That is one reason why I have always avoided MMOs. I may obsess over a single player game for a few weeks, but there is
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by xirdstl 9y ago
Given the complaints about the Touch bar, and also about some of the specs, maybe they're better off ditching it and throwing in some more ram? Who knows
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by xirdstl 9y ago
When it was announced, there was a lot of backlash, but I thought I'd keep an open yet skeptical mind. Fast forward, I hear mostly indifferent or negative things. I am very curious to see what Apple does with it going forward. Can th
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by xirdstl 9y ago
Do you find the Touchbar actually useful, or are you just indifferent / don't really use it?
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by xirdstl 9y ago
Yes, I don't see the "brutally effective" part. It's just clickbait.
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by xirdstl 9y ago
I've found that most of the time I'm good with my own company, but after about 3 days I need some substantive social interaction for best mental health. Exercise can sometimes be an effective substitute, though.
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by xirdstl 9y ago
You can opt out of the Video Data sharing with the last two (Participating Studios and their affiliates and service providers; and Service Providers of Movies Anywhere) by accessing the "Video Data Sharing" section of your account
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by xirdstl 9y ago
> 1) All of your watch history on all services are shared with the other services and the studios. After signing up and looking at preferences, I see they do allow you to opt-out of sharing data with the studios and their "service p
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by xirdstl 9y ago
This seems too good to be true. What's the catch? Seriously, this sounds great.
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by xirdstl 9y ago
Does anyone use AppCode? How does it stack up to Xcode for Swift development?
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by xirdstl 9y ago
That, and they like to believe they need to scale like Facebook.
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by xirdstl 9y ago
I mostly agree. They're selling a development platform. You could look at this at marketing fluff aimed at stroking the egos of their prospective customers.
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by xirdstl 9y ago
I wonder what an RNN could generate for an episode of Twin Peaks.
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by xirdstl 9y ago
Is this like "MTV News" ?
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by xirdstl 9y ago
It is interesting game, but not incredibly useful. "Most reasonable people would agree that the average intelligence of a Hacker News commenter is only slightly higher than an insect's." 14% The addition of "reasonable&q
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by xirdstl 9y ago
I have a Shuffle, and your comment describes exactly how and why I use it.
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by xirdstl 9y ago
Maybe you can use a credit card that allows you to generate virtual card numbers with dollar limits. I use one all the time.
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by xirdstl 10y ago
I upvoted you, but I think this needs reinforcement. These are very valuable considerations when getting a ride home after drinking. In my personal experience, you call a cab, and they may not even come. There's no repercussion for t
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by xirdstl 10y ago
The worst is when you read a news "story" that is basically fluff using 3 - 4 hand-picked tweets as citation to justify its thesis. As if snarky one-liner reactions to events on Twitter somehow constitute news.

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