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by codalan 3y ago
Kagi (paid) and Brave search have both been good to me. I never really liked DDG or Bing. They both suffer from the same SEO gaming that Google does. There are also a number of smaller search engines that have been posted to HN that are kin
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by codalan 3y ago
I know this guy. He's kind of a dirtbag. I'm friends with someone who worked at his hostel in Austin; he was in charge of various events and hanging out with the visitors, along with all the other hostel duties. After a few years
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by codalan 3y ago
Touch is supported with both. Haven't tried the stylus, though.
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by codalan 3y ago
Ubuntu and Mint work pretty well on the SP4 Pro. It's a good mix between hardware and a much better OS. Probably as close as you will get to having an independent, open source tablet.
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by codalan 3y ago
Amazing what our priorities are. But it shouldn't be surprising to outsiders, either.
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by codalan 3y ago
Even better is not doing it at all. There's so many things I'd rather do than mow. Like getting drunk and listening to podcasts with my cats.
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by codalan 3y ago
Or just get rid of grass entirely. Part way through a project to replace part of the yard with gravel and native plants, mostly because I hate mowing.
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by codalan 3y ago
I'm guessing private mercenary/security companies will become more common in the future, e.g. Blackwater
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by codalan 3y ago
Yeah, the Sprinter or some of the other clones come to mind.
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by codalan 3y ago
The problem with the Maverick (as others have mentioned) is that they squander valuable bed space by adding a cab to the design. To me, a pickup truck is a pretty utilitarian thing. I don't need a cab. I have other vehicles if I need t
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by codalan 3y ago
Sprinter vans are more practical than modern pickups. You can fit a few sheets of drywall into it, lock up your stuff, and keep everything out of the elements. If you have a windowless van, you have everything out of sight, as well.
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by codalan 3y ago
They probably share a lot of the same drivetrain/engine/etc. parts from vehicles of the same era. If you are mechanically inclined and have the right tools, you might be able to do some of the work yourself. Most auto mechanics fa
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by codalan 3y ago
Rider is pretty good. I haven't fully switched over yet, just because the rest of my team uses VS2019/VS2022.
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by codalan 3y ago
My elderly parents use a Xubuntu laptop just fine. It ended up with Xubuntu because I got pissed off at the Win 11 Home Edition registration bullshit, and all my parents really use is the web browser. If I did it again, I'd probably us
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by codalan 3y ago
It seems like they'd be better off bypassing VS altogether and just do the builds on the command line.
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by codalan 3y ago
Presumably, there were a lot of lifers at MSFT during the Windows 7 years, yet I would consider the software being delivered during that period as being pretty good. The decline happened after they fired off their SDETs and turned their cus
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by codalan 3y ago
MSFT seems to be a lost cause these days. Whenever I open up VS2022, it takes almost an entire minute to load. As I recompile things, it will fail to report errors, which means restarting the application (which seems to "fix" it).
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by codalan 4y ago
Nobody's safe when the Potato Crew comes to town.
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by codalan 4y ago
Main thread, with link to original Medium post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34799308
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by codalan 4y ago
It would be nice if they could work with Proton to get an integrated mail/calendar solution in place. Not a huge fan of the daemon I have to run to sync Thunderbird with Protonmail.
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by codalan 4y ago
These are probably invalid by now. https://grep.app/search?current=2&q=api_key%20%3D%20%22%5Ba-... As others have posted, Github implemented an alerting system for keys/passwords/etc. that have been checked in
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by codalan 4y ago
Sometimes I wonder if Mitchell Baker and the product team are paid by Google to destroy their own browser.
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by codalan 4y ago
I switched to Vivaldi for most of my browsing. I was a Firefox users for over a decade, but had to quit after they kept rearranging the UI every six months. Vivaldi isn't perfect. It takes a lot of searching around the internet to find
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by codalan 4y ago
Yep
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by codalan 4y ago
Payment via digital gift cards sold on Amazon, e.g. Mullvad Granted, this would probably be a very miniscule amount of their users.
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by codalan 4y ago
It was back in 2019. https://twitter.com/AWSSupport/status/1186735657387003904 I forget the details. I do remember half of our internal tools not working at the time due to DNS issues, though. Good times.
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by codalan 4y ago
Netflix probably lost a lot of viewers when they didn't follow through with their original content. The OA and Glow were really interesting shows that got cancelled prematurely, without any resolution to the storylines. When this becom
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by codalan 4y ago
I think their target audience isn't the typical HN reader, but the rest of the industry, where multiple staging environments are still a common thing (including my current employer). The biggest issue we had with preview/review en
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by codalan 4y ago
The main reason to attempt to stop aging is to prevent other illnesses from taking effect. People who are physically young are at a much lower risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease, Type II diabetes/Alzheimer's, etc. Stopping&#x2
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by codalan 4y ago
Canadians kind of get the best of both worlds (at least for dualies) living in the US. You can max out your 401k on a pre-tax level; IIRC, you pay taxes both ways when investing in an RRSP. If you have a Nexus card and live close to the bor

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