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by xnyan 6y ago
I don't know if this applies to you, but I've purchased multiple pairs of airpods and airpods pro (only ever lost one bud) and I've gotten 1 very professional counterfeit (sold at a major US retailer, looked perfect) and one
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by xnyan 6y ago
Here’s the issue with your issue: if you are using WSL2 (or other various win10 configurations involving hyper-v), then windows is not running on bare metal anymore. In this scenario, windows is just another guest operating system subject t
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by xnyan 6y ago
I can’t re-create the issue with the mullvad client, or on my work-issued laptop with the Cisco Any-Connect VPN. Everything is dropped the second the VPN goes up.
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by xnyan 6y ago
>Does that mean I can finally connect to it from my phone via Bluetooth and play music that way? I don't know about this device, but what you are describing is the antitheses of how chomecast is intended to work (or at least it was,
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by xnyan 6y ago
This is not an opinion, politics is the exercise of power. If you are making decisions, you are exercising political power. Apolitical means “We’re going to make political decisions but we are not going to engage with any debate or discussi
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by xnyan 6y ago
As a software developer I am absolutely in a privileged position that allows me to have this freedom, but I simply don’t accept jobs that send constant notifications, require me to be online and available all the time, constant after hours
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by xnyan 6y ago
>But,Windows having WSL means that Developers can target Linux only without even considering Windows I've been using WSL1 and WSL2 regularly since they were in beta. They have both exceeded my expectations. I still SSH into my local
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by xnyan 6y ago
Either this is a joke, or you have not looked at any recorded history of judicial proceedings. Judges often have incredible power with few oversights. You do see it the most in situations like this, where the accused is a target of the stat
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by xnyan 6y ago
You have solved the problem of the considerable "extra" effort that web accessibility requires? Less than that, to be honest I'm not interested. If you have, well, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Would you s
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by xnyan 6y ago
Top of hacker news is a pretty low bar. Do you really think that significant purchasing decisions are going to be influenced by this? That’s not a snarky rhetorical question, I’m actually asking. I ask because I can tell you for a fact that
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by xnyan 6y ago
Large portions of both Reagan’s and Clinton’s platforms are no longer in alignment with both their respective right and left parities today. As an American leftist, that article read pretty right to me, but that’s just my personal inclinati
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by xnyan 6y ago
If I recall, there's something like 3 "tiers" of physician depending on how long you were in school? It's interesting. But anyway, I think the point is still a fair one. Major portions of her thesis were plagiarized. Eve
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by xnyan 6y ago
What this means in intent and practice is that you are not allowed to discuss social issues that the hierarchy and those that align with the hierarchy find objectionable. I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that if a facebook emp
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by xnyan 6y ago
Unfortunately, that seems like exactly the direction things are heading. What is the point developing arguably the single most complex type of application when not even an entity with the resources of Microsoft can't make the numbers w
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by xnyan 6y ago
Not long ago I worked in a lab that was still using Microsoft Windows 95 for one workstation that was a host for a microscope that had a very expensive license tied to that specific set of hardware. The system has worked great for decades.
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by xnyan 6y ago
Unless there are very significant differences that are noticeable to mass user base, the engine is not a relevant factor in browser market share. When chrome came charging in, Microsoft had let IE fall so far behind that even to my 74-year-
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by xnyan 6y ago
Even as an undergraduate polisci major, in my European Union courses she was discussed. Here is an interesting anecdote about her: the institution that granted her equivalent of an MD (she’s still a physician) acknowledged that more than 40
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by xnyan 6y ago
This is a common misconception but not correct. Namecheap offers free DNS services with your registration and there’s nothing wrong with them, but due to my individual requirements, cost and perf considerations I have my domains registered
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by xnyan 6y ago
I would hold Facebook completely blameless regarding what people read on it if they allowed the option of non-algorithmic feeds. The argument I hear against this that a raw feed would be overwhelming. This argument is bunk - no matter what,
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by xnyan 6y ago
It’s not an excuse and I’m not saying windows can work for you, but there are quite a few horrible ways to configure windows and corporate IT has figured all of them out. The state of windows in most enterprise deployments is disgusting to
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by xnyan 6y ago
Funny story about antenna lengt , I got a new job and was excited that I could at last upgrade my airpods to airpods pro. After a very frustrating couple days, I learned that my head is too big/dense/whatever for the airpods pro t
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by xnyan 6y ago
>They fit my ear and don't hurt. Nothing else ever has expect apple buds, wired or not. Same for me. I'm lucky, for my partner they hurt minutes after wearing them. The only other in-ear besides Apple's "dagger tip&qu
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by xnyan 6y ago
I know this will sound needling but it’s not, but have you ever been truly poor? By that I mean, have you been in a situation where you don’t know where your next meal is going to come from and you have no belief that anything in the future
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by xnyan 6y ago
this is probably bad but I find driving extremely boring and I don’t hear or pay attention to any noise outside the car when I drive. I can remember only two drives in the last 10 years when I was not distracting myself with an audiobook or
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by xnyan 6y ago
This is an impassioned argument that I hear frequently from those with loud engines. It’s not supported by data: http://www.maids-study.eu/pdf/MAIDS2.pdf . Because of the Doppler effect, the volume of your engine is not
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by xnyan 6y ago
I tried several times in various ways to learn languages, the only one that worked (I became and still am fluent in russian) for me was a combination of academic instruction and living in the target country. In my case this was eastern Ukra
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by xnyan 6y ago
Apple owns the platform. I'm still going to try and change how they do business because that would be better for me. Everyone is allowed to do that and there's nothing wrong with it. If you want to give up your power as a person t
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by xnyan 6y ago
Out of curiosity, what hardware? I thought pretty much everything since 2015 supported virtual machine extensions.
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by xnyan 6y ago
> On the other hand, if argument is that it's easy enough to switch from Playstation to Xbox, then how is that different from buying a new phone? Would you be willing to agree that the relative importance of a smartphone in 2020 is
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by xnyan 6y ago
I have the option of any laptop I want at my job and I picked a nice windows laptop over a MacBook Pro and regularly get made fun of for it - whatever, could care less. I’m not saying you’re wrong, but choosing tech for fashion doesn’t desc

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