tomphoolery

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by tomphoolery 1mo ago
My grandfather started Mauchly Associates with John Mauchly, he was Mauchly's "business guy" because he had experience in computers while working at Remington Rand on the Critical Path Method[1] in the 50s. My mom remembers J
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by tomphoolery 2y ago
> However, in this situation it may make more sense to disable biometric authentication. In Face ID, there's a setting that requires direct eye contact in order to open your phone. Highly recommend enabling this when feeling insecur
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by tomphoolery 2y ago
Most people who make a living as a musician these days do so by being a "renaissance man" of sorts, where they make their money doing a multitude of different things. This includes playing live, but some other examples live sound,
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by tomphoolery 2y ago
> SWC was one of the earlier Rust builders, which then became absorbed into Vercel and turned into Turbopack (is my understanding) SWC and Turbopack aren't related in the sense that one is the "successor" of the other. The
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by tomphoolery 2y ago
> I was also similarly disappointed with the quality of Supabase’s auth offering considering all the praise I consistently see for Supabase on HN. Around the time you were trying it out, there were some issues with Supabase clients not a
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by tomphoolery 2y ago
I had a comment in this file for a very long time but the project lead was something of a Professional so he removed it. The comment was "# MULTIPASS!" https://github.com/workarea-commerce/workarea/blob&#
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by tomphoolery 2y ago
> The fact that those boundaries are crossed means that anyone who is in competition with Automattic might have any and all ecosystems that Matt has any control over leveraged against them if they upset Matt or Automattic in any way. The
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by tomphoolery 2y ago
This went from "hey you guys shouldn't use WP Engine because it's not Real WordPress" to "WP Engine is violating trademarks and isn't welcome in the WordPress community anymore" really f'in quick!
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by tomphoolery 2y ago
> while the WordPress people may not like it hmm i wonder why... https://wordpress.com/wordpress-hosting/ always great to see devs sh1t on other devs under the premise of "this isn't right!!!" when in
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by tomphoolery 2y ago
As someone who's made a few Electron apps in the past, I can say that it has a lot more to do with what you're putting into the app itself than the runtime shell you're working with. It's not impossible to make an Electr
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by tomphoolery 2y ago
can we do this for react native? asking for a friend...
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by tomphoolery 2y ago
What developers _should_ be doing is disabling such animations if `prefer-reduced-motion` is set in your browser. This way, both people who have trouble seeing stuff when there's too many complex color animations as well as people who
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by tomphoolery 2y ago
Finale was my first notation program, and while I switched to Sibelius out of necessity during college, I never really liked it. Will definitely check out Dorico, heard good things!
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by tomphoolery 2y ago
Is anyone else sick of the "European Parliament" deciding the rules for the rest of the Internet? I know I sound like a dumbass American here, but I feel like there's gotta be a way for the EU to get what they want without bo
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by tomphoolery 2y ago
Ugh...the tax shit in the US is so annoying. At least your e-commerce system is meant for a single kind of transaction, I worked on a more multi-purpose system (that was also open-sourced! https://github.com/workarea-commerc
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by tomphoolery 2y ago
> The team has a history of over promising and underdelivering (or scamming - depending on your perspective). Their attitude of not communicating anything and basically inventing stuff the R1 can do without actually having the engineerin
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by tomphoolery 2y ago
me to rabbit: "why don't you just give up?"
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by tomphoolery 2y ago
How does this compare to tools like Yabai? I'm pretty happy with Yabai and SketchyBar, is this any easier to use?
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by tomphoolery 2y ago
This is awesome for folks who don't use their own custom status bar! Personally, I use SketchyBar and Yabai for window management. SketchyBar is shown almost all the time, but the status bar is set to hide unless I have my cursor at th
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by tomphoolery 2y ago
After years of watching spyware make a ton of money on their platform, Microsoft took a page out of Apple's book and created their own spyware for Windows.
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by tomphoolery 2y ago
As someone who used Go since before v1, I can say that Go's approach to dependency management was basically "we don't want to touch it until we know we have the right idea". At the time, dependency management solutions w
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by tomphoolery 2y ago
get it because ducks
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by tomphoolery 2y ago
I always thought Charlieplexing was when you go on a tirade about Pepe Silvia and how Carol doesn't actually exist.
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by tomphoolery 2y ago
someone at Northrop Grumman has been watching Technology Connections...
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by tomphoolery 2y ago
yo check out this cool new program i wrote: ajksbdnfjasdnflaksdfbnf
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by tomphoolery 2y ago
Freedom Sort.
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by tomphoolery 2y ago
POV: you're the foreground art in a Tom & Jerry cartoon
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by tomphoolery 3y ago
People: "HP is a bad investment" HP: "no u" (j/k of course...i actually rather like their enterprise blade offering if you're making your own cloud)
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by tomphoolery 3y ago
Interesting take on SystemD. I personally find it very helpful, but one of its major downsides as a project is that it is, to borrow a quote from Benno Rice, "aggressively Linux-specific". That said, it appears their own software
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by tomphoolery 3y ago
> Only drawback seems to be it's gonna be difficult to get performance real-time enough to use as an actual musical instrument. Kinda depends on whether the "sound chip" is emulated. For example, the MOS6581 doesn't s

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