jmcphers

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by jmcphers 3mo ago
Is this still true? I am a Flickr Pro user and the few times I've let my subscription lapse, I recall that I could only see my most recent 200 uploaded photos until I paid up again. They didn't delete them, for sure! But they were
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by jmcphers 3mo ago
It's because Apple does not allow Firefox to install an actual browser on iOS. Firefox on iOS is just a skinned version of WebKit/Safari. See 2.5.6: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines
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by jmcphers 4mo ago
I have used this for almost 10 years now. It's pretty barebones but it seems like the usable lifetime of commercial password managers is 4-5 years before they get enshittified, bought, discontinued, price-jacked, or otherwise made unsu
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by jmcphers 5mo ago
Google is no better. My family mostly uses iPhones, and on a big extended family vacation, I suggested we use Google Photos to create a shared album to document the trip. Everyone installed the Google Photos app on their iPhone so they coul
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by jmcphers 8mo ago
I own the Pebble 2 Duo and the answer is "almost none". It basically just tells you how long you were still/not moving much in the evening, as you'd expect. It's a pretty good proxy for what time you went to bed and
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by jmcphers 9mo ago
Microsoft was successfully sued by the EU for creating vendor lockin with their proprietary file formats. It is for this reason that the "X" formats (docx, pptx, etc.) are "open" and thoroughly "documented", e.
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by jmcphers 10mo ago
It really is, I wish there were a version of the Time 2 that had a BW screen. I did manage to snag one of the Pebble 2 Duos before they sold out and I love it. The contrast and reflectivity is unbeatable.
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by jmcphers 10mo ago
Eric has made it clear that the Pebble 2 Duo was always going to be a limited run because it was made mostly of leftover components and there's no reasonable path towards making new copies of those components. > Pebble 2 Duo is sold
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by jmcphers 10mo ago
I was bummed to see recently that Amazfit has stopped making watches with reflective displays! They're all OLED now just like everyone else's.
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by jmcphers 10mo ago
I used a super-cheap Chinese smartwatch (Amazfit Bip S) for years and recently switched to the Pebble. The Bip's battery lasted forever and it did check a lot of feature boxes, but overall it was clunky to use and not in any way hackab
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by jmcphers 1y ago
A simple test for aphantasia that I gave my kids when they asked about it is to picture an apple with three blue dots on it. Once you have it, describe where the dots are on the apple. Without aphantasia, it should be easy to "see&quot
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by jmcphers 1y ago
I also have a Playdate! I think it's a Sharp MIP rather than TN LCD. MIP is actually pretty popular in some places -- particularly smartwatches where battery life matters more than bright colors; Garmin, Coros, Pebble etc. all use MIP
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by jmcphers 1y ago
I don't have a source for this, but I believe the term Microserfs was not minted by Coupland and predates his work. (I worked at Microsoft from 2004 - 2013)
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by jmcphers 1y ago
I had to use public chargers for a while when my house was being worked on and it was pretty miserable. They were frequently broken, and lines were common. The real problem with public charger lines is that there is no social protocol for t
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by jmcphers 1y ago
Another good place to get DRM free music is 7Digital! That's my go-to place when Bandcamp doesn't have it. Their prices are often a lot better than the sites that cater to audiophiles, though you can still buy high-res FLAC there
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by jmcphers 1y ago
I read for pleasure every day and watch very few movies, but on an airplane I often wind up watching a movie. I think it's because it helps distract my senses from the grubby discomfort of modern air travel (people packed in tightly, l
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by jmcphers 1y ago
Buying an album from e.g. Bandcamp is a better way to support a band than streaming their music on Spotify by literal orders of magnitude: https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-much-more-money-artists-e... These days I li
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by jmcphers 1y ago
I'm delighted to see that they don't make you get the biggest phone in order to get the best cameras. I've been using Pixels since the Pixel 3 and always feel like I'm making compromises in the camera department in order
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by jmcphers 1y ago
An adjacent feature we're considering for that is respecting Quarto's plot dimensions when rendering to our own Plots pane: https://github.com/posit-dev/positron/issues/3676 Inline plots are pretty
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by jmcphers 1y ago
It is among our most upvoted feature requests! It is under consideration. Inline output has proven to be a pretty divisive feature; a sizable proportion of users don't like input output at all and consider it a misfeature in RStudio. S
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by jmcphers 1y ago
It's a higher-level construct. LSP and DAP are both used by Positron! But they're a pretty small subset of everything you actually want to do with a language. For example: - discover all the interpreters on the system for the lang
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by jmcphers 1y ago
It is true. Some things you can't build in extensions for VS Code are: - core services (Positron's core language system is an API, and R and Python are extensions) - native panes (you can contribute webview panes but they're
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by jmcphers 1y ago
Positron has a setting that restores (most) RStudio keybindings, so your muscle memory should (mostly) transfer: https://positron.posit.co/migrate-rstudio-keybindings.html
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by jmcphers 1y ago
I'm surprised more hasn't been made of the difference in screen resolution between this device and other Pebbles (and even the "new" Pebble 2 Duo). Old watchfaces and apps are not going to render without black borders, a
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by jmcphers 1y ago
Same, Bip S over here. The battery life is starting to really go downhill, so I checked Amazfit and was sad to discover that they appear to have abandoned transflective watches entirely. :-( I pre-ordered one the cheaper Pebble.
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by jmcphers 1y ago
You can in fact get something "pretty close" to Positron by adding and configuring a whole bunch of VS Code extensions, adjusting the layout, etc. However it's fiddly and time-consuming work (and quite challenging for novice
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by jmcphers 1y ago
Positron inherits many ideas from RStudio, but is a separate project with an intentionally different set of tradeoffs; it gains multi-language/multi-session support, better configuration/extensibility, etc. but at the expense of R
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by jmcphers 1y ago
Support isn't built-in, but there is a third party extension that many folks have used successfully. https://open-vsx.org/extension/kv9898/open-remote-wsl
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by jmcphers 1y ago
VS Code's complexity is due in large part to its extensibility. It has the biggest, most robust extension API of any modern editor. Extensions don't get to run on the main/UI thread but run in a separate process that communic
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by jmcphers 1y ago
I own a Kia EV6 and am generally happy with it (especially compared to most peoples' experiences with their EVs), but most of this is true. The only one that really drives me nuts is the lane-keeping feature, which cannot even follow c

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