pixiemagic

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by pixiemagic 2y ago
What happens if there's some other reason to brake, such as an unreported fallen tree on the line ahead?
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by pixiemagic 2y ago
Only in the plural form though, right? I'm in the UK, where the usage you describe is common too, but reading "this guy" like in the comment above, I would assume they're talking about a man.
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by pixiemagic 3y ago
Understandable, thanks for the links.
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by pixiemagic 3y ago
I think they're maybe alluding the fact that if you have a backup system which fails when you need to use it (e.g. your Time Machine backup turns out to be corrupted, which quite a few people in the comments seem to have experienced),
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by pixiemagic 3y ago
It looks great but I suppose the downside, like a lot of nice native Mac apps, is that it seems to be Mac-only. So if you also want to back up non-Mac systems (e.g. to make off-site backups of NAS or server data), you'll need to set up
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by pixiemagic 3y ago
Would you be able to share those scripts? Or if not, an obfuscated/abstracted version of them? I use brew but even with brew and brew cask, I find there's plenty of GUI apps that require manual installation, which will also have t
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by pixiemagic 3y ago
Then why not just shut down their public API?
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by pixiemagic 4y ago
Ultimately they're making planes for the airlines to buy though. If the airlines say they'd rather fit in 300 people by making most of the rows cramped together than 250 people with more legroom, the aircraft manufacturers will ma
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by pixiemagic 4y ago
I don't think that's true. Pretty sure the 707 and 727 were launched and in service before the 747 even started development. The 737 was certainly in development as well, and was in service before the 74. So by the time the 747 wa
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by pixiemagic 4y ago
Indeed. I find it fascinating that the widespread modern generations of the 737 still have largely (or maybe entirely?) the same fuselage design as the now-ancient 707.
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by pixiemagic 4y ago
Going to museums like that is honestly one of the main reasons I'd like to visit the US. Unfortunately though, even just the biggest ones seem to be way too spread out to attempt in one trip, coming from Europe.
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by pixiemagic 4y ago
I think a big part of it would broadly fall under "legal and privacy concerns", especially since Apple Silicon is proprietary hardware. They need to work out which details about the hardware they might want to keep secret, and mak
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by pixiemagic 4y ago
Some (not all) of these strike me as not applying to all of the West, but being very American.
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by pixiemagic 4y ago
There's zero chance they are living alone anywhere in London for £600, let alone zone 2.
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by pixiemagic 4y ago
Yeah, I worked with TomTom a while back and you are correct, it was an acronym that was commonly used internally, but at least the people I was working with knew that nobody outside the company had any idea what it meant.
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by pixiemagic 4y ago
This is weird, because I thought that Chrome (at least semi-recently, perhaps not in the earliest days) was infamous for hogging RAM. I use Firefox and can't say that I've thought much about browser resource usage, which probably
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by pixiemagic 4y ago
It does, but I found it to drain a lot of battery on mobile (iOS). I'd say that for a simple setup you're likely to be accessing your services via their LAN IPs or their TailScale IPs, so if you have these bookmarked etc. on your
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by pixiemagic 5y ago
Deepak Chopra is a prominent and controversial figure in "wellness" and "alternative medicine", promoting "quantum healing" and claiming that it can cure cancer and so on. It's widely accused of being psue
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by pixiemagic 5y ago
I think they are saying that even the non-pro M1 machines are significantly better than the previous pro models.
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by pixiemagic 5y ago
Yeah, that bit made no sense to me. I'm not familiar with the location but clearly it's rural and only accessible by car. They also were living in Vancouver which sounds quite far away, and presumably have friends/family ther
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by pixiemagic 5y ago
I definitely agree that the second issue is tricky to get right. But for your first point, that wouldn't seem to make much sense given the time investment from the company as well. It takes time to review take home tests, much more tim
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by pixiemagic 5y ago
It's not great in Python from my experience. Much worse than PyCharm, at least.
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by pixiemagic 5y ago
It's been a little while since I've worked with C++ professionally, but the project was cross platform so I'm not sure Windows and Visual Studio was ever a feasible option. Most of us were using Xcode, but at some point I dis
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by pixiemagic 5y ago
There are some things mentioned in "Supporting readings" from that site. I can't vouch for them, but perhaps they're of interest: https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/materials/reading
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by pixiemagic 5y ago
I think they are talking about using a clustered RDMBS as storage for k3s, rather than running multiple nodes as part of your Kubernetes cluster.
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by pixiemagic 5y ago
This is true, but I think there's plenty of evidence that Bobby doesn't live like he makes $100k. The private jet alone would be many times more than that.
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by pixiemagic 5y ago
I like having them for certain sites, but in Firefox at least, you can block sites from even requesting them if you really never want to use them.
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by pixiemagic 5y ago
I find the same thing is true of most media. Of course, give things a chance, but if you're consuming media for pleasure, have already dedicated hours to something in particular, and aren't enjoying it at all, then there's no
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by pixiemagic 5y ago
I agree. I think pretty much everything (I've seen it with piano, work, exercise) becomes so much easier when you're motivated. For me, it's been more obvious with piano as it's my main skill-based hobby and, although I
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by pixiemagic 5y ago
I've always thought it looks great, but it's incredibly expensive. $700 for a lifetime license... even if it was $300 it'd be easier to stomach. What makes it worth it for you?

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