maremp

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by maremp 3y ago
AdGuard works in Safari, and can block ads on youtube. I’ve been using this setup for years now and it’s been without problems. The experience is obviously not as good as the app, but it does what it’s supposed to, and I think the worse UX
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by maremp 3y ago
> Using a bare laptop all day will damage your health. Do you have any references to support this? A NY Times article on posture, littered with affiliate links, is not it. I am using only a laptop for the majority of my almost 10y career
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by maremp 3y ago
I would say self-help is quite unreliable already, more unreliable doesn’t make it much worse. The authority argument is pointless. The therapist must value person’s wellbeing above their continued income for this to apply. In theory they s
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by maremp 4y ago
First point is disingenuous, it’s not like you only have that one option. There’s plenty options at lower price points which are still decent. And there’s the second-hand market for the budget-conscious. You can get a decent pc for around 1
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by maremp 4y ago
What about Rtings? For tech stuff, I found the reviews to be of good quality and it does not seem like it’s biased or sponsored. > googling "reviews of X" DDG produces somewhat better results, or at least does not rank the seo
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by maremp 5y ago
> When my cloud dependency fails, I'll use another of the 400 ways to get weather data. I've already switched weather providers several times. Don't worry about me; I'll make it through. ;) > And I'd rather sp
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by maremp 6y ago
This sounds like words of a programmer. And I agree with your point to some degree, I would never consider an iPad for my work as a developer. But this point is unfair to other knowledge workers. For example, my SO would get much better wor
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by maremp 6y ago
Most of the points make sense, but this one does not > Impact on the body - prolonged unmoderated sitting in bad postures, eye strain due to constant staring into the screen, bad eating habits, etc. How does WFH change how you sit and th
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by maremp 6y ago
Also, the 1st party support and integration is something that makes me go back. For example, being able to create a new note directly from the control center on iOS. And paired with faceID it’s seamless even when doing it from a locked scre
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by maremp 6y ago
Do you have the tool somewhere to share? I was looking into writing a simple tool, preferably a bash script I can use cross-platform, which creates a new markdown file with named with today’s date and opens it with $EDITOR. This way I can a
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by maremp 6y ago
The changelog-nightly digest will send you a list of trending repos, if you care about that. I used to keep up with the trends, even on the trending page, but it’s often that a big company will release something and it comes on the top. Sta
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by maremp 6y ago
It’s not an unreasonable delay on a slow 3g hotspot. It’s problematic to have the performance tied to the network speed and suffer an overall slow performance because your network happens to be slow.
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by maremp 6y ago
The thing is that stuff like exact versions, super outdated software (especially browsers), changing passwords every N days and making it unique is a part of being allowed to pass some kind of security audits. If you combine paranoid-level
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by maremp 7y ago
> they don't have training, and the hospital itself has no plans in place I have a difficult time grasping this part. It’s not like it’s something completely new. We encounter virus infections every year during flu season. The SARS
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by maremp 7y ago
As a web developer, I just can't buy into firefox. The chrome/chromium dev tools are far superior. I also tried using chrome as a "work" browser and firefox for the rest, but it's all a big mess. Not to mention that
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by maremp 7y ago
What you’re saying sounds like a PC custom build enthusiast. I respect that, I like it too. Please be mindful of the fact that consumer products are not designed for the workstation/server type of load. It’s related to why the hardware
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by maremp 7y ago
Since you’ve invested time in this, did you ever try moving to a different time zone for some time, enough to truly adapt to the local day/night time. If yes, what did you observe about “when your brain wakes up”?
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by maremp 7y ago
FWIW if buddy #1 lives in an area where 50k/year is enough, I would say it's still better off than most of the hacker-types, which also do this, but in their free time. At least he got to build a business around his hobby. But I d
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by maremp 7y ago
Exactly. And the major version upgrades are a pain. Unless you're willing to give your weekend away to figure out how to fix the broken configs, it's better to wait a month or so to see how other, more enthusiastic people have wor
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by maremp 7y ago
Not sure what's the full story because it's behind a paywall. But I want to address the part that I got to see > Mr Moore received a prescription for opioids to help him cope with the pain; but the pain persisted, and he found
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by maremp 7y ago
For point 6, as the article mentions in a different place, there will be fewer baby boomers "dominating the conversation". Sure, that's meant mostly politically, but it applies to other sections too. Calling it a delicacy is
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by maremp 7y ago
As a programmer, I often stumble upon the performance arguments and pitching technology Y over currently used X "because of better performance, i.e. it's fast". Sure, the impressive feats of engineering accompanied by a short
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by maremp 7y ago
> I sometimes wonder if JS programmers know that with C#/VS you can just change the name of a class How exactly does this knowledge help? I know this is possible and I do miss it. But it's extremely diffcult to support it in JS
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by maremp 7y ago
> Before AMP most of the web was unusable on slower Android phones and frontenders just laughed at you and told you to drop 800$ on an iPhone if you want to see their pages. > Why do you think those developers will suddenly wake up an
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by maremp 7y ago
From your description, I fail to understand how does it depend. You're saying that the algorithm is wrong, and changing the type doesn't help. If the type is not the issue, what difference does it make?
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by maremp 7y ago
In my experience, this was true maybe a year ago or before. But nowadays ddg is quite good at providing what I was looking for. If it can't, google isn't much better either, but makes it look like it is, making me spend more time
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by maremp 7y ago
Poorly formatted link, it should be https://cryptopals.com/ .
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by maremp 7y ago
I’m always curious how people use IFTTT, Zapier or aletrnatives (e.g. Shortcuts on iOS). I’m a developer and I like to automate a lot of the stuff I do, either with bash commands/script or nodejs/python for more complex stuff, an
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by maremp 7y ago
If you’re talking gas tax in the US, I’d say that’s laughable. Using eia.gov[1] as a reference, the prices are half of what we have in the EU. We’ve observed a steady increase in the prices (mostly due to taxes). But it didn’t have the effe
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by maremp 7y ago
I can second this. It's a default with Brave browser, and I've decided to give it a go. That was about a year ago when I first started to use Brave. Back then, some search results were poor, especially localised ones, so I've

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