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by mproud 9d ago
Yep. They came up with the solutions I would have suggested! (CMD + F1, internal/external monitor craziness, Caps Lock key as your power indicator.) Probably the battery isn’t that great because it’s old — I’d be curious what mAh it’s
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by mproud 1mo ago
America 250
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by mproud 1mo ago
I get phone calls for a guy named Randy about his business. I can’t for the life of me figure out how to make the phone calls stop. The simplest solution is to change my phone number. But a) why should I have to? it’s my number, dammit! b)
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by mproud 1mo ago
Correlation is not causation. In other words: the side effect of making more money is that you have more money to spend on your children’s education.
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by mproud 1mo ago
Where I’m from, the person who sneezes often says nothing, unless they’re accidentally sneezing near someone else. Strangers nearby however will say “bless you!” or occasionally “gesundheit!” But yes, I think people who utter the words do s
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by mproud 1mo ago
There were (and still are?) bathroom reader books. My parents leave copies of The New Yorker, Newsweek, and Nat Geo in their bathroom.
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by mproud 1mo ago
Paging John Gruber!
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by mproud 1mo ago
When I go to http://hackerne.ws I still get an error.
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Hackerne.ws Cert Needs Updating(hackerne.ws)
2 points by mproud 1mo ago|4 comments
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by mproud 1mo ago
The redirect from hackerne.ws works, but I think there’s a certificate that needs updating.
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by mproud 2mo ago
People draw horses because they want to draw horses. People draw dicks because they feel it’s funnier, it’s a form of rebellion, and/or it’s way easier than almost anything else. And because they can without repercussion.
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by mproud 2mo ago
Apple giveth, Apple taketh away.
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by mproud 2mo ago
Personally, I am enjoying using Typst.
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by mproud 2mo ago
It just happened 1300 of years ago! (Reminds me of an episode of Flight of the Conchords.) But it is really interesting to read.
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by mproud 2mo ago
How about when users accidentally click too much, or they believe the first click didn’t register? I am still reminded of a keynote where Steve Jobs was demoing how much faster PDF documents would display on the newer macOS. So he had engin
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by mproud 3mo ago
> On Apple Silicon machines, the DFU port is closest to the screen on the left side. Nope, not always: https://support.apple.com/en-us/120694
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by mproud 3mo ago
Headline typo
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by mproud 3mo ago
Quality vs. Quantity. The forums I still go to are hyperspecific, and yes, the experience is crappier. But because of that, only the diehards frequent them, meaning you generally get better, smarter discussions.
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by mproud 3mo ago
And here’s a conversation.
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by mproud 3mo ago
Is there a Radar open for this?
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by mproud 3mo ago
Anyone else watch Season 2 of Hijack?
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by mproud 3mo ago
I remember seeing a video on Jerry’s Map from nearly 20 years ago.
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by mproud 3mo ago
I don’t even remember my own GPA, for me college was a lifetime ago!
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by mproud 3mo ago
Hell yeah
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by mproud 3mo ago
And for that matter, /developing/ for one person, often yourself, is probably better than for everyone. I’ll see this with app developers when they’re trying to figure out what kind of app or game to make. Just make the thing you
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by mproud 4mo ago
Or just add an ampersand at the end and execute the command 8 times or so: yes > /dev/null&
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by mproud 4mo ago
Someone could also just make a font file that swaps all of the characters around. So like an A looks like a Z, and a Z looks like an A.
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by mproud 4mo ago
As a kid who grew up in the public schools in Minnesota, MECC was amazing, and Apple II’s were everywhere. Each classroom had a computer, and our school had an entire computer lab. We had access to every piece of MECC software — history, ma
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by mproud 4mo ago
I think the writer got the prices wrong, unless these are Canadian prices or something. It’s $599 and $699, not $599 and $799.
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by mproud 4mo ago
Very tongue-in-cheek

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