windward

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by windward 6d ago
Smartphones are worse computing devices than laptops or desktops. Smartphones are also the most widely-used computing devices in the world, even by people sat at home with a better computing device on the other side of the room. History sug
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by windward 6d ago
Do you carry a laptop everywhere you go?
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by windward 6d ago
>in a tight pocket Oh, well there's the problem. Apple isn't catering to millennial jeans fits any more. Only half-joking.
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by windward 6d ago
It's a notebook
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by windward 9d ago
>just have Claude vomit a novel into it True, that's the other side of it: my daily work has lost the fun reward loop and I'm being alienated from my colleagues. But I still have colleagues!
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by windward 9d ago
While I'm still catastrophically worried about what AI means for my career, I've noticed that my current employer - very AI forward, and growing the team - is still facing an ever expanding backlog. High productivity is generally
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by windward 20d ago
It's not default, you have to enter a password to enable it.
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by windward 21d ago
who knows? https://i.imgur.com/PwobLhW.png (IDK if there's a more accessible alternative to imgur now)
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by windward 21d ago
> Proton Pass >> Browser Extensions: Major Outage A nice reminder to keep passwords offline.
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by windward 27d ago
I have a remote job. I get to have this one because I made contacts at a previous job. Good luck in the job market correction.
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by windward 27d ago
I blame them because they're the ones taking advantage
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by windward 28d ago
Maybe being freed from the slave mindset is the reason you haven't had the same. Maybe.
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by windward 28d ago
>you have to cart your stuff to and from the locker every day Yeah, you might. I assume you're a principled person. In my experience, the less principled simply leave their shit all over the place for us to deal with.
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by windward 28d ago
Pitching yourself as a machine that takes in requirements and spits out work is a daring proposition in today's technological environment.
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by windward 1mo ago
I don't agree with history telling us that at all. HDMI, MP3, MPEG, .docx, DirectX, CUDA, I'm sure there are more. History tells us that money wins. But I also think this is an example of a slight disingenuity in RISC-V being refe
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by windward 1mo ago
>there is no passport control There's no anything. Getting to Wales is easier than getting to Devon for most of England. You can do it accidentally.
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by windward 1mo ago
These are good questions to ask. 1) I rarely get any feedback, particularly not feedback as detailed as this, with a single reason for failure 2) Employers habitually bend the truth around interviews: interviewing for jobs that don't e
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by windward 2mo ago
>breaks entire business models So do car alarms. I'm not convinced this is a business model I want to exist. We had an internet before it, and Google, and Facebook. I'm increasingly sad we can't return to it.
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by windward 2mo ago
Well it's a problem that's existed since day one
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by windward 2mo ago
This is similar to X's model, where every reply section is full of bluetick OF bots. Cheap enough for humans and too expensive for bots have a big overlap.
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by windward 2mo ago
As an opinionated 'power user' type, I've become used to experiencing friction on web 2.0. So for example I sometimes have to make accommodations because my adblocker or user scripts aren't working with a change on a sit
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by windward 2mo ago
Absurdly, it is much faster to browse between pages using old reddit. Seriously, try it out. I wonder if the person who created a ticket for implementing the progress bar ever wondered if it was symptom of a greater problem?
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by windward 2mo ago
It's from 2019, so it's hardly a recent development. It's also very discoverable if you see it in the wild. You may be surprised that `--` doesn't work, but you won't be surprised `--end-of-options` represents the e
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by windward 2mo ago
Spending enough time drinking the kool aid means I know at least 3 ways to use registers to avoid that, and practically end up using none of them
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by windward 2mo ago
>paste multiple times Because you're trying to 'copy' it? This feels baby-duck-y. No given mental model is more right than another. There's already not even a consistent model, because: >Cut is copy and delete So c
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by windward 2mo ago
Cycling is also a marketing ploy, since it makes it sound more like a PED and less like a compound found naturally in meat. It's the same reason people say they 'take' whey, when Miss Muffet simply ate it.
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by windward 2mo ago
>I think the best thing people can do is update their firmware then disconnect it from the internet. We don't need treats this badly.
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by windward 2mo ago
'desktop Linux' is a term used when the majority of Linux users don't support your argument.
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by windward 2mo ago
>Even so, I fully expect that after this debacle MS will disable this stuff. Isn't the debacle over? MS know about this by now. What's stopping them from killing it today? A late resolution is barely a resolution at all. None o
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by windward 2mo ago
It all comes back to this. I pay for the network, I'm liable for it: I decide what comes through it.

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