allenbina

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by allenbina 11d ago
I prefer solder wick over the pump most of the time. Plus it’s cheap.
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by allenbina 1mo ago
I know some higher end gaming motherboards that were targeted towards the overclocking community had two bios chips for exactly this purpose and switching between them was trivial from what I remember. If you overclocked too far, you would
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by allenbina 5mo ago
If I may address this with both skepticism and curiosity, why. I think I speak for everyone when I say I would pay to go back to facebook 2018. No algorithm, no ai.
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by allenbina 1y ago
from what I've gathered, it's a licensing nightmare. Of course it's better than the current alternative which is piracy, but it's a drop in the bucket with regards to the people who will use it in this specific licensin
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by allenbina 1y ago
This was around 10 years ago, but at the time the suggestions on the forums were more towards fidelity and 5.1 surround sound. I can't recall exactly, but something of the sort. My guess is that these were people with audio backgroun
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by allenbina 1y ago
this went out of style a long time ago. when you play videos out, everyone just stares at the screens.
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by allenbina 1y ago
I got out of DJing and into tech because of my love for dental insurance. For a while I tried to influence the direction of mixxx and was getting great feedback from other DJs but none from the developers. This was my great introduction to
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by allenbina 2y ago
I'm not going to go into details as I don't want to create a throwaway account for HN, but I can attribute a lot of people's feelings in dating apps to a few things. I got an email from Bumble a few years ago that said I was
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by allenbina 2y ago
I feel like they would make a killing if they made a pro version that would be able to dock into a simplified desktop. I’ve been wanting this for years. They love taking a semi cooked idea and polishing it and this could make Samsung dex lo
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by allenbina 2y ago
for what it's worth, I've when gnome moved from version 2, I was completely lost. I went to xfce for a while then settled on kde for a long time but when I reformatted a machine to have to the side of my work laptop, I used pop_o
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by allenbina 2y ago
I moved from lastpass to bitwarden also, but I don't see the reason to move to apple passwords. I'm mostly linux at home, and I use the bitwarden browser plugins for chrome and firefox. I wonder how they plan to integrate browse
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by allenbina 2y ago
I’ve been happy with tasmota but I imagine that this would serve the same purpose.
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by allenbina 3y ago
Begun, the clone wars have.
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by allenbina 4y ago
I tried to get this to work multiple times around 2004. This might be where I first dove into linux. I gave up every time. I ended up using windows media center which worked flawlessly for years. I moved on to plex and a hdtvhomerun whe
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by allenbina 4y ago
I'm amazed at my own programming progress over the past 10 years. I used to read these posts in awe of how people knew how to do such fascinating things that seemed so magical to me. 5 years ago I got myself a raspberry pi and an Ard
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by allenbina 4y ago
I wonder about this all the time. In the past 5 years I've learned a lot of IoT projects, electronics, arduino. I've played around with linux for decades, but my passion was originally music. I went down the music path but the m
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by allenbina 4y ago
was it due to the core or a plugin?
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by allenbina 4y ago
You would think they would be more aware of very commonly used acronyms, especially those with a negative connotation.
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by allenbina 4y ago
I would love this for 3D printers. I’m calling hacker spaces and libraries trying to find one close to me.
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by allenbina 5y ago
If not just Firefox, other related products. They seem to have the same issue as Google with starting and dropping strange products. I was actually considering using their password manager on iOS when they announced it would be discontinu
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by allenbina 5y ago
Near the beginning of the pandemic I got frustrated with the trackpad and battery life of my lenovo yoga, so I bought a ~$250 asus l204m. Aside from my 2011 15 inch MacBook Pro which also had its issues, this has become my favorite laptop.
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by allenbina 5y ago
I don’t think x64 is ever going to backtrack to the power efficiency that arm offers. The real scare is if apple comes out with a new xserve with blades of arm processors.
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by allenbina 5y ago
For the average developer, yes. As for someone who troubleshoots all of my families tech hardware / software, I don't let anyone under 60 get a pc, they are limited to iPad only. I tried to get two of my younger cousins on Linux
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by allenbina 5y ago
I took the deep dive into tech trying to fix the 2x cd drive someone gave me for my x86 pc. Part of the passion I have for tech is learning and digging deeper, and reading about topics I haven't learned yet to the point where I get a
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by allenbina 5y ago
Regarding the issue he mentions with unmounting of drives on raspberry pis, I've found the issue that fixed it for me was a reliable power supply.
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Advice for a senior level developer who makes lots of mistakes
13 points by allenbina 5y ago|10 comments
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by allenbina 6y ago
I hear this argument a lot, and I think you are missing a piece of the collective which is that we do already all agree on many things such as anything that can be misconstrued as child porn. I think there is a serious argument to be made
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by allenbina 8y ago
I found myself paying upwards of $100 monthly in these small incurring charges until my credit card was lost and they were all cancelled. I'll answer with what main services I used to pay for and what I replaced them with. Evernote g
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The Taxonomy of Terrible Programmers(aaronstannard.com)
166 points by allenbina 13y ago|130 comments
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by allenbina 13y ago
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