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zerkten
3y ago
I was looking at this as an upgrade pick and don't have any re-arrangement with my TESmart (TES-HDK0402A1U-USBK). What monitor(s) do you have?
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3y ago
I have a TESmart (TES-HDK0402A1U-USBK) from https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08259QL5J/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b... which works fine in this regard. This was probably the 4th DisplayPort KVM I tried due to keyboard
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3y ago
I /think/ this is related to the EDID support or configuration. What I do know is that you need specific EDID support when using a DisplayPort KVM because that switches the computer away on a regular basis. If you have multiple sc
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3y ago
It's like this right now on my phone.
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3y ago
Can you share how you are hosting it, photo library file types or size, and what the performance is like? I'm always skeptical of stated requirements and what other people are prepared to put up with. I've got an older Synology NA
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3y ago
At the very least, Twitter has an A/B test going on iOS which switches you back to the For You tab aggressively. It's as aggressive as switching to another app like email for less than a minute and you'll see a jarring switch
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3y ago
I suspect that's their point, or maybe that of their client. Following the footer you find that it's built by a company that focuses on MVPs: "A small team of high-skilled product developers has created and launched mini-star
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3y ago
Is there a relationship between the application of product management "techniques" and the outcomes for many of these sites? It seems that many of these sites hit this wall when they get acquired. It feels like they start experime
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3y ago
I've wanted this when the primary requirement was a WYSIWYG editing experience acceptable to business users. Neither HTML nor Markdown were acceptable and while it's perhaps more accepted today, there are still huge audiences whic
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3y ago
>> But this is NOT a company being sold! And not even a division or a product sold. It’s not a merger or acquisition. It is, what you described as this: “two standing independent companies exchanging personal data.” This is just seman
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3y ago
I feel like this is one of the things that Gergely has sensationalized recently to drive attention. This started with a bunch of tweets which amounted to "why wasn't I told about this immediately". I suspect that this decisi
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3y ago
>> However, that leaves a lot of C code that you can't talk to anymore because the C code requires the old Python FFI. I think this is where the main problem lies. This is exactly the problem, but people have a hard time grasping
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3y ago
This feels like it's playing out as I expected. I followed Python, and the Python community, really closely from 2008-2016 when there were tons of relatively small scale experiments happening. This all happened organically to a large e
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3y ago
You can't have in-person conversations when the community is supporting someone with a rare disease. However, many conversations don't fit into this class, and some would be better happening in-person. All of these things are true
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3y ago
I'm not sure what time period you are referring to. In the UK in the 90s you would call up Dell and talk to them about pricing and specs after seeing an ad like those on https://www.pcmag.com/news/the-golden-age-of
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3y ago
Writing Win32 programs in assembly was a niche in the late-90s. This post inspired me to do some googling for a project I was familiar with back then and discovered the author has brought it back to life at https://github.com
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3y ago
According to friends reading is still fairly prevalent for Windows and other products at Microsoft. Kind of a requirement to succeed in jobs with a C/C++ product where you might only have memory dumps to debug. It's also expected
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3y ago
I haven't looked beyond your example page, but analytics (justifying internal tooling) and compliance (mitigating bad actors) features are required to gain entry in companies who would pay a lot for your product. You can get far withou
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3y ago
It's hard to evaluate your experience without knowing more about you and the podcasts you subscribed to. Can you share more? In my experience, repeat listening is going to depend on the content and style of the podcast. Some will natur
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3y ago
In halls or an apartment? I applied for Weston Hall when I was at UMIST, but ended up in Fallowfield :( The most important thing that Manchester did was open my mind having grown up in the the bigoted hinterlands of Northern Ireland.
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I hadn't thought about the rugby club in my hometown for years. I looked it up recently and some YouTuber had sponsored them [1] for stadium naming rights [2]. It's not a surprise how it ended. [1] https://en.wikipedia.
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3y ago
Why do things in two places when you can do it all in one place? This isn't limited to computers, but unless you are getting specific benefits, it isn't wise to continue with a SPA approach. We had the same and worse problems with
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3y ago
Reddit was using Cassandra in 2010 ( https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bcqhi/reddits_... ). The experience was mentioned on HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21694461 .
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3y ago
>> Meanwhile, an enterprise running hundreds or even thousands of mac OS devices is something I've never heard of. Your experience doesn't match with reality. There are multiple sources available describing the growth in mac
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3y ago
There are also many variations on the contractor relationship that are important. Some contractors are hired through staff augmentation companies while others work through their own company. Working through your own company is a much better
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3y ago
Can archive box aggregate content "bookmarked" in different places? I want a tool that will pull saved items on Reddit, favorite posts on HN, etc. in addition to bookmarks posted to pinboard.in to a single place. In many ways, the
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4y ago
>> When did a lot of software devs stop caring? I'm not sure the devs stopped caring as much as the powers at be. Software development has become more commoditized than we want to believe. Devs following an agile workflow with ev
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4y ago
This is just one bug in the world affecting power usage with Firefox. There are loads more like https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042 which caused me to abandon it on macOS as my primary browser.
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4y ago
A friend works for a financial company that gets applicants from .NET and Linux backgrounds. He observed that the .NET devs almost always thought about solving these problems with a database and SQL that the Linux people would solve with pi
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4y ago
Individual developers paying was always an insignificant volume. It was still within reach so devs could get it and be productive. As an example, the cost was fairly insignificant to the many .NET devs who jumped to SharePoint in the 2000s
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