MAGZine

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by MAGZine 3y ago
How many people need to be affected, in your opinion, to have a bonafide emergency?
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by MAGZine 3y ago
my lights turn themselves on gradually, with the sunset. They also turn themselves off if they're still on late at night, or when I leave the house.
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by MAGZine 3y ago
I was buying expensive wired earbuds long before airpods were a thing. if anything, they normalized spending $200 on audio equipment. passive audio protection > active sound canceling. Unlike most people, I don't find losing earbuds
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by MAGZine 3y ago
I'm lightly amused by the choice to include the word "limited" in the headline. Sorry, "limited" ads are still ads, no matter how you try and downplay it!
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by MAGZine 3y ago
Because software is more complicated. And more complicated software (in addition to the primary effect of being complicated) is further slowed by abstraction and indirection, which slows performance but doesn't increase functionality.
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by MAGZine 3y ago
It's a control. A baseline. That's the whole point. And especially with the therapy trials they're running, its not like it'll hurt people to have been given a placebo (unlike if you were to say, trial an HIV antiviral w
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by MAGZine 3y ago
what, like all of the palm oil that's now in chocolate?
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by MAGZine 3y ago
I don't think anybody is saying that you should have to go to jail for everytime you said something dumb! But if you are going to be acting anticompetitively, it sure is a dumb idea to send a memo about it--followup email or not.
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by MAGZine 3y ago
Is anyone surprised by this? I'm reminded of two emails zuck was famous for sending. The first email incorporated the use of such banned verbiage. The second email, sent just a handful of minute later, seemed to speak to an imaginary j
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by MAGZine 3y ago
> A senior engineer should make evidence based decisions, as should any engineer. ... sooo there is no distinction between a senior engineer and a non-senior engineer? you've really said nothing in this comment. senior engineers hav
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by MAGZine 3y ago
The latest drug epidemic was caused by the pharma industry hooking people on oxy, and then the government clamping down on legal supply. Addicted people are still addicted and will get their fix. We just forced people into expensive black m
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by MAGZine 3y ago
Not paying pensions should be illegal. I think after Sears and the rest, people prefer money now vs money later. But if I knew the money was good, I'd rather not manage it myself.
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by MAGZine 3y ago
Why edit the title? This article is barely about the hosting costs. And also yes, it's well-known wiki has very healthy revenue despite it's desperate sounding pleas for donations.
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by MAGZine 3y ago
Have you looked at how the tech giants before you have solved this issue?
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by MAGZine 3y ago
The biggest thing copilot needs is the ability to toggle it off in VSCode with a keyboard shortcut. You can trigger a 'disable copilot' popup from a command, but not a full-fledged toggle. Maybe I'm missing sometime this auth
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by MAGZine 3y ago
I find it a little strange that xdesk is so staunchly opposed to affiliate programs. I can see now they would see this as a "kickback" scheme though I don't know I personally agree with that view, at least if the program is p
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by MAGZine 3y ago
grounds are fantastic in an active composting environment. they make really great, nutrient-rich soil. less so for indoor plants with their tiny, relatively sterile environment. Indoor plants usually suffer from two problem wrt coffee groun
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by MAGZine 3y ago
imagine the turmoil that would break out in tech if there was such radical salary transparency?
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by MAGZine 3y ago
I'm sorry, you're saying that in the same way children shouldn't need to vote, women shouldn't need to, vote? Or are you arguing that children should be involved like this and more, but just doing it obtusely?
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by MAGZine 3y ago
Iirc they had amended the Constitution specifically with vague wording because Montana has historically been exploited by large corporations, and they wanted to make it easy for citizens to protect the environment.
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by MAGZine 3y ago
it sounds like you're referring to Daft Punk's "Giorgio by Moroder" from their album "Random Access Memories." The segment you're describing involves a repetitive chord progression, but the perceived varia
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by MAGZine 3y ago
because go developers are sick of being pure and like to type shorter things (and I don't mean variable names) to get their jobs done. programming is a lazy hobby. it's why as soon as generics were released, I immediately implemen
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by MAGZine 3y ago
The best I can tell, meta is deliberately overapplying the law in an attempt to rally public sentiment against a law they don't like. An example of this is where meta has basically "regionally suspended" some news accounts. S
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by MAGZine 3y ago
because there's a contention between the people developing the software and the startup community. it's obvious that for a company (money-making entity), that they're going to want to have a monopoly in providing the software
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by MAGZine 3y ago
This is a big deal. I used to work at Autodesk, trying to build software that made 3D blueprints available to everyone, everywhere. Rendering things on mobile is hard, in part because you need to writer bespoke renderers, and in part becaus
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by MAGZine 3y ago
which of these is 'operating in a cloak of darkness': - NASA informs the public immediately, and then makes the details available later after they've had time to compile the news and information into a format useful for the p
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by MAGZine 3y ago
the iphone 14 costs $800. the pixel 7a costs $500. I can refresh my pixel 1.5x as often for the same cost.
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by MAGZine 3y ago
Many states and provinces in north America have similar provisions, just fyi.
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by MAGZine 3y ago
and grocery/fresh food delivery. and then maybe put the streaming services and media production into it's own entity. you could even split kindle+audible out, too.
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by MAGZine 3y ago
> An equally important question to ask is, who is ultimately allowed to control their living environment, i.e. their land, house, and property? Society is. This is literally the basis of society--we reach consensus (in some fashion, eve

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