vmarsy

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by vmarsy 4y ago
> Regardless, a retractable "XJACK"[0] from the PCMCIA days might have been a better choice for this Ah thanks for finding the name, I tried to describe it in an older comment [1], on the same topic of Framework laptop expansio
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by vmarsy 4y ago
For me, Sync only worked well to make phone calls ("Call Joe") And during a brief period, I also had a windows phone, where you could say "Call Cortana". Cortana was registered as a fake contact behind the scenes, and a
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by vmarsy 5y ago
It might be network slowness, one day at the rental counter all the paperwork had to be done by hand (and visa contacted by phone to process payment) because their system was down. It took a literal hour. The terminal was unresponsive and d
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by vmarsy 5y ago
Observability isn't just a rebranding of Monitoring, it's Monitoring + making it the most actionnable possible via standardization. Specifically, how to make the sum of all monitored "pillars" more useful than each of th
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by vmarsy 5y ago
> but get fed with all of their garbage "liked" content and can't filter that out. I definitely filter those out. About once every 6 months the tweets "liked" by people I follow pop up again, it's usually ve
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by vmarsy 5y ago
> The little modular port attachments seemed like a novelty at first, but now it feels absurd that you'd buy a laptop with a bunch of "hardcoded" ports that you can't ever change That's funny I remember laptops f
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by vmarsy 5y ago
If you're looking for an actual demo of the product, it seems that the weather map on https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/maps?lat=47.6032&lon=-122.... is powered by leaflet. I really like the work they&#x2
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Containers are tents(increment.com)
192 points by vmarsy 5y ago|103 comments
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by vmarsy 5y ago
Right, that's something I was wondering when Boom was announced a few years back [1]. Will radiation be even worse for the crew if the plane body is made of carbon-fiber vs thicker metal like the Concorde was? [1] https://ne
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by vmarsy 5y ago
MOOCs are really great for appeasing your FOMO in that area and giving you a more well-rounded education! You can basically take 101 intro course of any field from great universities. And if you want to go deeper, the advances courses on a
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by vmarsy 5y ago
Not familiar with old Russian system but there are oral exams for math in France when you apply to "École d'ingénieurs" (engineering school), and it still exists today: It's basically like a coding whiteboard interview,
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ProcMon for Linux (Preview)(github.com)
182 points by vmarsy 5y ago|43 comments
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Playing with Playwright – Java API(applitools.com)
1 points by vmarsy 6y ago|0 comments
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Quibi’s library will live on through the Roku Channel(theverge.com)
1 points by vmarsy 6y ago|0 comments
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by vmarsy 6y ago
> The main reason why VSCode is 'winning' the 'editor' wars is because Microsoft is spending tons of money to build a great product. Emacs, vim, and other open source projects can't compete as they don't hav
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by vmarsy 6y ago
> you would need to dig a dedicated subway tunnel The tunnels and their exits next to interstate highway already exist per the article, so at this point the construction costs are assumed to be negligible (compared to a "$2.6 bill
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by vmarsy 6y ago
Right, but like every project, "temporary" can go a long way :) from wikipedia: > The DSTT was used only by buses from its opening in 1990 until 2005, and shared by buses and light rail from 2009 until 2019 That's 15 years
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by vmarsy 6y ago
> Even with dedicated lanes (which is costly and unpopular) they still need to go around obstacles like buildings, follow the roads, yield to pedestrians, pull into stops, etc. Speed limits need to be obeyed as well. In this case, Buses
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by vmarsy 6y ago
In Seattle, underground tunnels were shared by trains and buses until March 2019[1], here's an video showing it in action, a bit older, (possibly before there were any trains?): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=etT_wVuKy_I
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by vmarsy 6y ago
> since I've moved away from an AZERTY to a QWERTY I cannot imagine ever reverting back, but on the other hand this means no accent is directly accessible You can use QWERTY with accents very easily with "International keyboard
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by vmarsy 6y ago
> They should be included in the price shown on the map. Completely agree, that would make the experience more user-friendly for the person looking to rent. This is an AirBnb platform issue, not necessarily a owner "scam". Not
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by vmarsy 6y ago
> Ugly - Alot of owners now are pulling a perfectly legal scam of listing a place at a certain price point and then charging an extremely high cleaning fee. When booking it, you are then shocked by the extreme fees, one place (5 days sta
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by vmarsy 6y ago
Same system, except for step 1 I simply email me@onenote.com [1] from gmail and it goes in the "Quick Notes" section. I like it especially when it's a single URL as OneNote automatically appends a snapshot/screenshot of
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The Bazel 4.0 Release(blog.bazel.build)
2 points by vmarsy 6y ago|0 comments
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by vmarsy 6y ago
They kept the touch bar but it seems that they added (back) a physical Esc key, isn't that the most criticized missing key? Which other key do you miss now that Esc is back?
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by vmarsy 6y ago
My guess is the most common attacker is someone sitting on a computer in a different country/continent. So: 1) Getting a mobile phone number seems much more difficult than getting an email. It provides some amount of country verificati
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by vmarsy 6y ago
> I've never been fully confident in knowing what SSR refers to https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/02/rendering-... is a great resource on the subject. You can be fully Server-side (r
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Blazor WebAssembly 3.2.0 now available(devblogs.microsoft.com)
3 points by vmarsy 6y ago|0 comments
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Twitter is migrating build tools from Pants to Bazel(groups.google.com)
1 points by vmarsy 6y ago|1 comments
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by vmarsy 6y ago
Hospitals are looking themselves how to fill the gap while supply of PPE comes back. Here's a an example of a tutorial for masks made using readily available tools: https://enmed.tamu.edu/diymasks/ There are many

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