allwein

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by allwein 3y ago
++ to fastmail. Their spam filtering has been excellent and they have a good stance on privacy.
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by allwein 3y ago
Anything is possible, but I don't think judgement of visual aesthetics maps at all to quality of writing. I'm a damn good technical writer and can break down complex ideas into clear and understandable prose, but I don't know
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by allwein 3y ago
I think it's likely a sincere question. I, for one, would not wanting to be physically touching a radio that people may have been turning on/off depending on whether the device is located before or after their ability to wash thei
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by allwein 4y ago
Thimbleweed Park was highly enjoyable. Done by Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick, two of the people from the classic days at LucasArts.
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by allwein 4y ago
Facebook/Meta has a freeze through the end of the year.
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by allwein 5y ago
> and if Visual Studio ran on Mac I'd probably switch my PC out also Not sure if it supports all the features you need, but it exists. https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/mac/
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by allwein 5y ago
We use Fluent Migrator for out C# based applications. https://fluentmigrator.github.io/
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by allwein 5y ago
It's not done using dynamic SQL tables. The key insight is to note that FIELDS table actually defines the name, ordering, and config for each of the fields of a given note type, and that the actual notes data is stored in the Notes tab
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by allwein 5y ago
Reminds me of this comic. https://www.gocomics.com/getfuzzy/2003/04/27
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by allwein 6y ago
The iPhone 12 User Guide warns about this. From the online version at https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/important-safety-info... : >Medical device interference iPhone contains magnets as well as components
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by allwein 6y ago
Ah, that's from the Press Release, which is for a more mainstream audience who maybe would expect all features to work otherwise. From the tech specs page on the product itself though: > AirPods Max can be used as Bluetooth headph
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by allwein 6y ago
"Secret tunnel" is one of my favorite TikTok genres. I find these fascinating as well.
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by allwein 6y ago
I imagine that it's someone that runs either either a lot of virtual machines or a lot of Docker Containers.
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by allwein 6y ago
> Do you carry liability insurance for your company? Have a contract lawyer that you know and use? If not then you are probably not big enough for the major RFPs. I just wanted to dispute this. I highly recommend carrying liability insu
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by allwein 6y ago
Or "hide" the stuff you don't like. I like to do that so that when I come back 10 times later that day I don't continually have that annoyance when seeing the story again.
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by allwein 6y ago
Suddenly Orson Scott Card's "Speaker for the Dead" makes a lot more sense to me.
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by allwein 6y ago
1. Yes. 2. Yes. Though like anything, you get out of them what you put in. 3. Set on a per-person basis. Some people need/want to meet every week. A lot of them are younger developers and are looking for constant guidance/feedba
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by allwein 7y ago
TestFlight. The user limit is 10,000. If beta review is slowing down your dev/release cycle, you may be using it incorrectly. After initial beta review, it's usually unnecessary to have subsequent versions reviewed unless you&#
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by allwein 7y ago
I think this is a great idea, security-wise. I prefer my installations to have as few attack vectors as possible. So having as few things enabled/installed by default is awesome.
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by allwein 7y ago
You can disable WiFi quickly by swiping down (from the top right) to bring up control center and then tapping the WiFi button.
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by allwein 7y ago
Um, vegetables, fruits, nuts, dairy, soy, etc.? I've been eating a vegetarian keto diet for a while now and have not been lacking due to a loss of sugar, grains, and starch.
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by allwein 8y ago
I feel like you're glossing over several factors. In your scenario: 1: Person must have physical access and control of your phone. 2: Person must have Phone pin-code or password, in order to unlock phone and access either SMS, banking
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by allwein 8y ago
They said protein because that would also include such things as tofu, fish, and eggs; none of which are commonly called "meat". You're being overly restrictive by trying to move to the term meat.
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by allwein 8y ago
After reading this line: > Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment, focused on simplicity and immediate feedback. and seeing the initial screenshot on the announcement, I thought that this was a jo
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by allwein 8y ago
I would tend to argue that institutional racism is also bad for your health and mental well-being.
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by allwein 8y ago
The problem is that there's a little more nuance than just "utility". As an example, take clothing. I don't think that anyone would argue that a single t-shirt didn't have utility. After all, I can wear it. Howe
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by allwein 8y ago
Not "good" as in "good vs. evil", but rather "good" as in "proficient at the skill of lawyering".
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by allwein 8y ago
I find that there's tons of embedded systems work out there, especially in the medical device space.
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by allwein 8y ago
> Stakeholders should be able to talk to devs Not necessarily. The Product Owner should definitely be able to talk to devs, but not necessarily all stakeholders. What I suspect may have happened in this case, is that a dev talked to a
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by allwein 8y ago
I know you made this comment as a joke, but there actually is an entire sub-genre of geek-related romance novels.

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