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by emp_ 14d ago
Builders just cheap out on everything these days
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by emp_ 23d ago
I have exactly this setup and use a Macbook Air with Tailscale to just connect via High Performance Screen Sharing both at home and on the go (when not sitting at my desk, I move around a lot around the house after 3pm or so while I keep my
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by emp_ 23d ago
Great to hear! The absolute best Air Form Factor, I've debated a lot buying a used one because I dislike the square form of M2+ Air compared.
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The Instant team joins OpenAI(instantdb.com)
13 points by emp_ 26d ago|8 comments
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by emp_ 1mo ago
Just promoting a small utility for others that may need it. For us MacOS users that use Spaces and want to CMD+Tab only inside that Space, the only alternative was AltTab (that I could find) but it has so many more features and goals, plus
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by emp_ 3mo ago
I was (until this announcement/today) an annual subscriber just for the early days of Autocomplete goodness that I do not use anymore but would stick around and check from time to time their progress and always hoped we would eventuall
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by emp_ 4mo ago
I bought two Touch-ID models as gifts and while doing the setup I must say the lack of keyboard backlight is the only thing that bothered me A LOT. Great machines otherwise.
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by emp_ 4mo ago
100% but I suggest doing the 1-handed pick up test with the lid open, a 900g laptop feels weightless against the 13 air at 1200g
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by emp_ 4mo ago
> I suspect Apple is going to cannibalize some MBA sales with the Neo ... Hopefully it allows for the macbook air to return to being a ultra light machine, I held an Asus X14 ARM at 900 grams and it felt so much better. There's also
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by emp_ 5mo ago
> It was incredible man. Mold on a rock that got to think. Ha, it was amazing while it lasted
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by emp_ 2y ago
eGPU has a ton of issues on MacOS - I've used it for years, but now on Silicon its prob much worse - but let me give a shout out to the amazing (somewhat new) High Performance screen sharing mode added in Sonoma. When I connect to my M
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Skip makes your back end reactive(skiplabs.io)
3 points by emp_ 2y ago|0 comments
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by emp_ 2y ago
The Studio being the GPU-centric model, I can't wait for all these M4 Mini performance improvements to make to the Studio line.
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by emp_ 2y ago
> daydream about how you can make money off of it. I do this but mostly from trauma of having to kill things due to hosting costs (happened before), as long as its cheap/self sufficient enough the fun part dominates.
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by emp_ 3y ago
I remember one day many years ago just snapping wondering what had been the the biggest animal to ever exist on earth, and after a few searches it seems like the consensus was *NOT* a dinosaur but the Blue Whale which still exists today, st
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The Oldest Unsolved Problem in Math [video](youtube.com)
1 points by emp_ 3y ago|0 comments
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by emp_ 3y ago
Every time I hit back on an Ars article Linus is giving me the middle finger
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by emp_ 3y ago
Spotty memory but the two posts that made me check HN daily were: - How do you store data to last more than 50 years (diamonds and titanium were mentioned) - The announcement that bitcoin reached 1 USD, a great party story (TL;DR I tried bu
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by emp_ 3y ago
Had a very similar experience hosting e-sports events and buying probably the cheapest sponsor slot ever: the badge lanyards, every single interview had our logo right there around the neck of every single person at the venue, while the TV
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by emp_ 3y ago
SEEKING WORK | Canada | Remote Only Frontend Architect / Full Stack Dev, passionate about GraphQL / React / NextJS, accompanying tooling and similar platforms, been helping companies implement MACH architecture and extend the
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by emp_ 4y ago
You see it meme'd relentlessly about the concept of having "fuck you money" and the crazy things one could do. Well, it finally happened in a undisputable, greatest possible example kinda way, and now everyone is scrambling t
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by emp_ 5y ago
16 :) http://www.sedecordle.com/?mode=daily
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by emp_ 6y ago
Going to try Xoom next, looking at conversion rates plus the big name behind (Paypal) which is not short of horror stories themselves.
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by emp_ 6y ago
Great Timing! USERS BEWARE, my story I used the service for two years and just had the most surreal disastrous experience since the year flipped. I religiously send a the same (about 5k USD) to my home country every month so I can pay my mo
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by emp_ 6y ago
Around 2015/6 I went full laptop (Razer Blade 15) with an eGPU and multiple monitors after trying the same with a MacBook Pro (poor nvidia integration) and after years of crashes, overheating laptop shells and weird Wi-Fi issues when r
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by emp_ 6y ago
I just pasted a few conversations from whatsapp in portuguese and at least for that language google translate was 10x more accurate on the meaning of the very colloquial words used, mixed with English etc. Edit: thanks for the link though,
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by emp_ 7y ago
Agree with this smaller pain point in the vast peace of mind that CSS Modules bring. I try to simplify as much as possible to a single word and repeat them a lot since there’s no collision, so you can usually expect a .container, .items, .i
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by emp_ 7y ago
Your comment made me remember that every cell had a blank gif so the dimensions would be exact! Even found a wiki about it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacer_GIF
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by emp_ 7y ago
Used to draw round corners [the biggest design trend request circa 2002] using tables with cells of one pixel, painting every cell mimicking a perfect anti-aliased curve in a photoshop rectangle, a mere 32 cell table per corner, lol.
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by emp_ 7y ago
Those are allowed but have limited dimensions, doesn't matter the size of your storefront you can only have a logo of a certain size, lots of loopholes like the McDonald's M or putting huge logos inside a glass wall but in general

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