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by magoon 3y ago
I always include Makefiles as a way of documenting useful (short) tasks for developers that are onboarding to projects. It gives them confidence in their ability to pick things up quickly. Whether or not they want to actually use make is up
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by magoon 5y ago
Plex focuses on having a server component that transcodes and their “Plex Pass” service for better connectivity, enabling lightweight native players for all of your devices. This way you can watch any of your content on anything even over c
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by magoon 5y ago
Is it possible this graph also reflects that his readers are more likely to employ Safari’s tracker-blocking?
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by magoon 5y ago
Amazon appears to allow this, judging from their inaction every time I report it.
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by magoon 5y ago
Commands are explicit and shareable. If you’ve mastered <ide> then good on you, but it makes you an island.
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by magoon 5y ago
I’m surprised to hear that bluetooth, GPS, and cellular don’t work in water. I wonder what’s the science behind this.
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by magoon 5y ago
While it comes across as an obvious cash grab, the cassette is a compelling feature if you consider that it does 30 washes and has its own memory of how many each has left. While it is 2x-3x the cost of traditional dishwasher pods, they are
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by magoon 5y ago
Having been blocked on a customer’s locked-down Windows machine where the security software breaks the update process, this isn’t a welcome change.
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by magoon 6y ago
What it takes to get through app review
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by magoon 6y ago
Looking beyond the obvious problem here, just curious why the admin ran chkdsk /f for no reason, then did it on 6 more systems after observing it caused ntfs failure.
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by magoon 6y ago
I find it hard to move from vim because of its ubiquity. Same with bash.
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by magoon 6y ago
By removing the charger from the package, you may have to buy a charger that comes in its own packaging. Net new waste. Including the charger in the package was actually the best way to prevent additional waste. Moreover, an iPhone box is p
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by magoon 6y ago
A trip down memory lane, bringing back so much just looking at the fonts. It’s amazing how much I associate each company’s historical fonts with their brand.
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by magoon 6y ago
I never call until I’ve exhausted all self service options. I don’t need to be told every time “Did you know...you can find us online to X, Y, and Z?” Verizon customers are paying more because they expect more, so this move by them is disap
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by magoon 6y ago
My electric bill has gone down over 30% per month after getting one of these. Replaced a super old electric unit. Many states have rebates that an installer can have applied when getting the part from the supplier. For me this cut the whole
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by magoon 7y ago
Not mentioned, they don’t want to support residential customers serving web sites (or anything else)
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by magoon 7y ago
Little-known fact: Windows of today is an entirely different OS than early DOS-based Windows because Microsoft took ownership of the 386-based “OS/2 3.0” codebase it jointly developed with IBM, forming the foundation for Windows NT 3 w
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by magoon 7y ago
Running a FidoNet-connected BBS meant I had direct access to read every EchoMail group I could subscribe my BBS to. At the time it was a great source of real, insightful written conversation. Because the readers were text-based, and it was
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by magoon 7y ago
This is overblown. Disney+ was mostly fine all day for everybody I know. I consider it a successful launch by any measure.
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by magoon 7y ago
When this technology can exist in space, earth will have orbiting shipyards building space craft.
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by magoon 7y ago
My series 0 is my “silent” alarm clock. I wear it every night and wake up with nearly 100% battery. Try shutting some of the extras off, and you’ll be surprised at how long it lasts. Also, your morning alarm won’t wake anybody else up!
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by magoon 7y ago
You’ll be delighted with the elements you can mix to make new elements. I love this game, and the original. To start, Try mixing air with earth, then add fire to the result.
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by magoon 7y ago
So every landlord will now raise 5% annually even if they hadn’t in the last. That’s often the effect of governments regulating increases, from what I have seen of stage utility regulation.
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by magoon 7y ago
CDs were supposed to eventually be cheaper than tapes, but the industry kept raising prices. Even Blu-ray discs were grossly overpriced before people turned to digital sales.
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by magoon 7y ago
This is a religious debate. Some people are delighted by additional features, others by thoughtful design. It’s hard to see the other viewpoint and how this can be mutually exclusive.
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by magoon 7y ago
MTA’s printed NYC Subway maps are a hallmark of great design. I hope this isn’t prelude to the end of an era in usability.
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by magoon 7y ago
Ice is the battery. Freeze the ice using solar when the sun is beaming.
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by magoon 7y ago
Major improvement over loadavg for troubleshooting, given the difficulty in identifying when a system is io-bound.
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by magoon 7y ago
Hold the home button briefly (lower-left corner) for Siri on CarPlay. It’s actually fantastic.
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by magoon 7y ago
This reminds me of Adam Osborne, who tanked sales of his new Osbourne 1 by prematurely bragging about the future Osbourne 2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect

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