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by dont__panic 4mo ago
Perhaps I was a shade too facetious. But honestly, you thought the Pi 3+ was so significantly different from the 3 that you imagined it might finally make your use case worth it? I used a Pi 4 as a home server for literal years. For a lot o
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by dont__panic 7mo ago
Still loving mine as well. I held out with the 2016 SE for 8 years. Sadly it's looking like I might have to do that again with the 13 mini! It boggles my mind that Apple thinks it's worthwhile to sell the 16, 17, 17 Pro, and 17e a
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by dont__panic 7mo ago
Much easier: switch to the Sequoia public beta channel!
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by dont__panic 8mo ago
I love the linux philosophy at work here. Pandoc is an incredible tool that every documentarian knows. Markdown is a great tool that covers 80%+ of docs requirements (admonitions and tabs are not well-defined in vanilla markdown, for instan
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by dont__panic 8mo ago
It's even sadder. Apple has some of the best-performing CPUs on the market. And even with that kind of power under the hood, iOS, iPadOS, and macOS 26 chug and choke and drop frames. What the hell hardware did they target?
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by dont__panic 8mo ago
Unfortunately for Apple, Linux has not rotted the same way that macOS has. Will Linux win the desktop wars through attrition because it won't suffer the same enshittification as for-profit software? If it wasn't for Apple Silicon
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by dont__panic 10mo ago
Have you considered that there is a difference between: - food, a thing that literally every human needs every 24 hours (really 6-12) to continue to live - GenAI, a new product with dubious value that contributes significantly to the system
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by dont__panic 1y ago
Agreed wholeheartedly about the error message. Death by a thousand cuts to indie devs. I'm not sure it's such a terrible idea to disable quarantining if you know what you're doing -- I think of it as more of a safety net for
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by dont__panic 1y ago
Quite the difference in installation procedure between iOS and Android :-)
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by dont__panic 2y ago
There's been a lot of activity on Reddit and Android tech news websites. /r/Pixel4a has been absolutely busy with activity lately, lots of people asking for help. Decent summary post here: https://www.lambdalatitud
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by dont__panic 4y ago
I feel the same way about my Subaru's EyeSight system. It helps me stay in the lane, and annoys me if I get distracted and cross a line. It slows down the car automatically when it detects an obstacle ahead. It speeds up and slows down
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by dont__panic 4y ago
I'm pretty impressed by the KVM feature -- it's a little weird that you need to use USB A for the second computer's USB hub connection, but I'm pretty happy with it in general. FYI: even now, monitors aren't necessa
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by dont__panic 4y ago
> Moreover, we demonstrate our attack at a real-world NPR located in an anonymous bioresearch facility, which is FDA approved and follows CDC guidelines. Wow indeed. A real-world life hack!
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Well said. In their docs they actually call out this exact issue, and mention that they'd like to improve it in the future, but it would require significant work and that's not necessarily worth it for them. It would be nice to se
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Adding to this: ~30% off Keychron keyboards ( https://www.keychron.com/pages/bfcm-2022 ) for those who've been burned by Razer peripheral drivers before. I love my keychron, if you use a Mac I think it's the ni
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by dont__panic 4y ago
I've gotten two great "deals" this week. The first: I bought "unlimited" worldwide maps from Osmand, which I use a TON for offline maps when I bike. It's $9.99 for unlimited worldwide offline map downloads righ
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by dont__panic 4y ago
You can remove white/back backgrounds from images as well, with the "Magic Lasso" selection tool. Adjust the selection level until it covers the object you want, cmd+c to copy that object out of the image, then cmd+n to creat
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Woah, that's wild! I've lived in mostly wooden houses in the Northeast for most of my life, and it seems to happen to one or two people in every community per year. It's mostly a problem where I come from during power outages
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by dont__panic 4y ago
That might be typical for new builds, but it varies a lot by region. Much of the northern half of the country is still burning propane, pellets/wood, or fuel oil for heat.
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by dont__panic 4y ago
For those of us who live in a place that reaches freezing temperatures for months on end, there's no choice. If I don't heat my house, my pipes will freeze and I'll be out thousands of dollars in repair work and damage. I tur
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Curiously, I actually like their reasoning behind the blog post: > With our lives so online, our digital space can get messy with inactive and unnecessary accounts — and forgetting about them can pose a security risk. This is a good mess
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Quick question: is that proper usage of "parsimoniously"? I've only seen it used as a synonym for "stingy," which is close, but not quite the same as the "succinctly" synonym usage here. But I'm aware
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by dont__panic 4y ago
A good question to ask. I think you're spot on about most tech companies. But I don't believe this kind of behavior will incentivize high performers to stick around. In fact, I would guess that the best employees have already left
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Really taking that two-pizza team idea to the extreme!
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Smart and idiot might not be mutually exclusive. I've known a lot of smart people who can act idiotic in certain circumstances. Elon could be very smart when it comes to engineering... but idiotic when it comes to running Twitter.
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by dont__panic 4y ago
No remote work is a dealbreaker for me! I also refuse to work at a company with an overall negative impact on the world. As far as I can tell, Twitter's subscription walls (for essential government services) and "bubble" effe
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Many (newly) former Twitter employees have raised concerns about essential services now left unattended. Reports indicate the internal beta build Twitter instance has slowed down significantly this week -- a sign that services, code, or oth
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Well said. I think this is where the 4-day work week and WFH pushes in the software industry get their momentum: most of us don't need to work 40 hours in an office with a manager looking over our shoulder to provide that value.
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Elon has clearly read enough Hacker News to ask the question we've all been asking for the last... 5? 10? years. "What do all of those engineers do at [Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/Netflix/Google]". That&#
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by dont__panic 4y ago
This blog post claims that they're seeing only 10% the volume of postmarket sales they usually see, and Ticketmaster isn't running any resales for these tickets. Seems like this might be a genuinely difficult supply/demand is

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