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by brechin 3mo ago
My guess is connectivity. I was only happy with the Steam Link when it was using a wired connection. This isn't an issue in my home, but most homes don't have wired Ethernet all over. I did not love the v1 Steam Controller, but it
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by brechin 3mo ago
Based on https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/ I would imagine out of 100 Steam players, most are playing at a Windows gaming computer with an Intel CPU, a bunch with Windows/AMD, then a few with a Mac, then on
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by brechin 3y ago
So your argument is that it's coercion through implied threat, or that social media companies are so complicit that they will just do anything the "right" government official asks of them? Is that government censorship, or a
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by brechin 3y ago
I see a lot of requests to label and possibly remove content, but I see no description of how social media companies were compelled to do so. Is there any example of a social media company being impacted by refusing to comply with one of th
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by brechin 4y ago
This reminds me of the "Lock In" series by John Scalzi. In it, a pandemic virus causes lock-in in about 1% of the population which drives immense investment in technology to improve the quality of life for those folks. https:&#x2
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by brechin 6y ago
My interpretation (not a crypto buff) is that it's like he accidentally buried a locked suitcase of cash in concrete at the bottom of the ocean. It might be recoverable, but would require extraordinary efforts.
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by brechin 6y ago
This is a very misguided take, seeming to support that people saying terrible things should be left to their own devices because _some_ people "get it." I knew this author's approach was doomed when I read: > So, to defend
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by brechin 7y ago
This is my experience at the company I'm currently at which has offices in SF and other US locations, as well as a significant number (as a % of the Eng team) of remote people across the country. I don't know the origin story, as
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by brechin 7y ago
> So it is a A versus B for those people - people who are having to commute for hours to work, mandatorily sit at their computer screens . Versus others who wake up late (because no commute) and can walk about the house in their pyjamas.
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by brechin 10y ago
Some of the highways in and out of Minneapolis, MN have HOV lanes with this kind of pricing model. It currently maxes out at $8. http://www.dot.state.mn.us/mnpass/howmnpassworks.html
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by brechin 10y ago
As someone who worked at a company that used almost all of the GCP products, I agree with just about everything in this article. GCP is pretty amazing (and simple) to deal with. They offer so many features that work very well within their p
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by brechin 10y ago
Hamilton?
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by brechin 13y ago
I've been happy with this mat, often standing >5h per day. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005GZRS22
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by brechin 13y ago
The Subscribe box near the bottom of the page doesn't work. It tells me that I'm entering an invalid email address (it's a standard gmail.com address, nothing tricky). If you're interested in trying a different solution,
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by brechin 13y ago
Talk to your current employer before seeking, if that's an option. You shouldn't have to seek another job to get a raise/promotion/change from your current employer. In my opinion, seeking or accepting a counter-offer is
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by brechin 13y ago
The angle and color/temperature are wrong. He's spraying something with his left hand. Why is this on the front page of HN?
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by brechin 13y ago
Glad I could help!
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by brechin 13y ago
I've got a CLI that lets you upload a file through FileTea. I'll clean up the source and post it soon. See https://github.com/brechin/FileTeaSend Tested with Python 2.6. Only external requirement is requests.
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by brechin 13y ago
We had this same experience with my daughter around the same age. This is also an issue with Android devices that desire (require?) a Google login when setting them up. If you need to have a Google account to use a Chromebook, and the under
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by brechin 13y ago
My clock DOES have a ten-minute snooze. I know previous clocks I've used had a 9-minute snooze, but currently when my alarm goes off at 6:00, I hit snooze a few seconds later, then a few seconds after the clock displays 6:10, it alarms
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by brechin 13y ago
I am not an experienced interviewer, but since I'm in a position to interview someone whom I'll work with closely I've been facing this challenge. We're looking for a more junior level developer. We want to gauge their s
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by brechin 13y ago
Just because you can get away with it doesn't mean it's not illegal. After all, do you think you'd get away with stripping DRM from your own e-books for personal use? Probably.
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by brechin 13y ago
And plenty of discussion on how we can't trust their results any more From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5537023 The most significant result of this poll is that HN now seems to be past the point where we ca
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by brechin 13y ago
I'd consider it still active, since it was updated on 2013-06-07: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/beautifulsoup4 I prefer using lxml myself, since I like using XPath queries, but bs4 sometimes parses broken HTML bett
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by brechin 13y ago
If you're writing Python and need to do something like this, you could try using Phantompy, a Python port of PhantomJS: https://github.com/niwibe/phantompy It's still "in an early stage of development&qu
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by brechin 13y ago
Thanks for the link. I scored higher than I expected.
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by brechin 13y ago
Ahh... this brings me back to my college days (I also majored in Linguistics). I wonder what the current feelings are about the benefits/drawbacks of establishing an official US English dialect and/or declaring US English as (one of the) of
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by brechin 13y ago
Congrats!
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by brechin 13y ago
Thanks!

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