stevecat

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by stevecat 3y ago
You have to pass a loop of wire up your nose.
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by stevecat 3y ago
We call them indicators in the UK now.
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by stevecat 4y ago
I switch between Ruby and C++ frequently. My trick, which I admit is complete unplanned fluke, is different IDEs. Sublime for Ruby and XCode for C++. They look so different that my brain just disregards the other language. I briefly tried R
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by stevecat 4y ago
I feel like the words "3dfx Voodoo Banshee" just unlocked a part of my brain, full of IRQ conflicts and blue screens, that I had been keeping firmly closed.
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by stevecat 5y ago
I think the people I'd put in "Group D" would be the ones that respond immediately and expect an ongoing conversation. I can't imagine reaching out once a year to confirm we're both still alive!
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by stevecat 5y ago
Delphi was my first introduction to programming with Borland Delphi 3 on a magazine coverdisc before we had the internet. At 12 years old and just getting into computers, I considered .exe applications with their lovely grey components to b
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by stevecat 5y ago
I love my 12" Macbook, I'm using it to write this reply, but goodness is the keyboard awful. I have a can of compressed air at hand at all times to blast the keys when they get stuck. I'm about to (if the shipping notificatio
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by stevecat 5y ago
Yep! E71, E72, and E6 were some of my most loved phones. My love of that form factor meant that my first foray into Android was the HTC ChaCha - that was a mistake.
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by stevecat 5y ago
The privacy controls in-app are pretty good with regards to who you share your posts with, etc. but I don't think that's the same type of privacy that causes people to leave.
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by stevecat 5y ago
Something seems to remain on their servers though. I own a very short gmail.com address which I'm (far too) proud of but it does receive a lot of other people's mail; there are apparently a lot of people called Steve who don'
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by stevecat 5y ago
I drove a friend's (new) Mini recently and it was somehow larger than my Polo but also had less room on the inside.
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by stevecat 5y ago
More likely on Apollo 10 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2015/5...
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by stevecat 5y ago
I'm probably underselling it but for me, markdown support and note organisation simply reflecting the directory structure is what sold me. I can then sync it whichever way I want; I've taken to having a "notes" folder in
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by stevecat 5y ago
I think it was around 2013 that I paid a busker with Bitcoin (their suggestion, not mine, I'm not that weird). That briefly felt like the future. I hope he hung onto it!
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by stevecat 5y ago
I'm a mammal.
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by stevecat 5y ago
All Is Lost[1] follows Robert Redford after a floating shipping container crashes into his yacht. It's very good but a rather harrowing film! [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2017038/
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by stevecat 5y ago
I still use Notepad and TextEdit throughout my day. Sometimes I just need to quickly note something down.
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by stevecat 5y ago
Do you mean Google Safe Browsing? If so, it looks like the URLs are hashed which preserves some privacy. So if you hit an unsafe URL, you can assume that the folks maintaining the list would know which URL you actually hit, but otherwise yo
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by stevecat 5y ago
The Nokia E72 was my favourite phone form-factor. I really wanted to try Android but was so resistive to keyboardless-phones that I bought a HTC ChaCha, regretted it immediately, and finally relented. I still miss a keyboard.
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by stevecat 5y ago
They were pushing in-app for customers to invest. I hope no inexperienced investors got burnt by this. It wasn't a really a surprise as others have mentioned.
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by stevecat 6y ago
If you work with branches, can you merge with the --squash option? This makes one neat commit on your default branch. You could even then commit without the -m option, and type a more descriptive multi-line commit message detailing the chan
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by stevecat 7y ago
I've used these apps before in the UK, and it is great being able to generate a ticket offline, but it appears they've achieved that by including the private keys in the app. Oh dear. Would there be any fool proof alternative to a
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by stevecat 8y ago
I did not expect tripod.com to still exist.