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The escape is not buying an Apple computer.

No one really cares what you think when anyone in Japan can walk into a store and buy stuff with Bitcoin.

I grew up 15 minutes from Levittown, PA. I even had to do an undergrad research project on it. The development is boring and pointless but packed with lower middle class families. …

What bothers me about all these is how irrelevant they all are to actual day to day programming on a project. Like okay cool you know how to do the Fibonacci exercise. What now? Do…

And if you don't want to self-host Dropbox does this out of the box.

Eating meat is not going anywhere. Veganism is a US based fad. The rest of the world isn't cutting meat consumption. In fact it's growing... by a lot. https://www.bbc.com/news/heal…

I work out of Indyhall. Philly's most popular coworking space. I'm using Philly Whisper right now. We only use it because Comcast couldn't keep our connection working. We're litera…

I'm more tired of walled gardens than of random apps on the app store. I block advertising and tracking networks on my device by HOSTS file which you can only do on a rooted device…

So I'm a web dev but in a previous role we bought a 2 man company that made medical renders. I ended up making them a mini-SAS Raid 5 made out of SSDs. This is before M.2 started t…

This Driving in the United States is very region dependent. In cities it's everyone for themselves. Lots of speeding and general shenanigans. Especially Boston, Philly, NYC, Baltim…

Or you live in a megalopolis. I-95 between NYC and Philadelphia is 4 or 5 lanes wide at times and that's in the middle of nowhere New Jersey. Even if you build public transportatio…

If you buy their support (which isn't that expensive). Holy fuck it's good. You literally have an infrastructure support engineer on the phone for hours with you. They will literal…

I've been using Firefox for personal and Chrome for work but this will make me start using separate Firefox profiles for both.

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Out of all the things that the feds could be subsidizing. This one seems like a no brainer to me. Seriously we subsidized agriculture to avoid people starving. Why not MRI machines…

Still waiting for them to orbit literally anything...

Bitcoin itself wasn't hacked. They stole the keys from a server most likely. I don't think it's possible to harden a modern OS against some potential hacker on the internet. Especi…

The Nexus 6P has an excellent custom ROM maintained by the community based on Android 9. https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/development/rom-pi... It's an almost stock experi…

I own a 2014 MBP I use as my main work laptop. I also own a desktop running Windows 10. I currently maintain a VSCode dev environment for my coworkers who all use Windows. We switc…

The Windows disks are mounted at /mnt/c /mnt/d etc The real issue is being able to read the WSL disk from Windows which you have to access as a network share from localhost

I ordered Redkin shampoo and got a knock off just last week. Bottle was the wrong color and my girlfriend could tell right away that it wasn't the genuine product. At this point I'…

I only care about my privacy when I'm near where I live. I don't actually want to delete my experiences traveling though. I actually want Google to archive my trips so I can refere…

In my experience the percentage of students in my CS program that even had the technical expertise to even know how to use Git didn't even approach 50% by the junior year. So it's …

Mine is just screenshots of projects I've worked on and links to my LinkedIn and Github. It doesn't need to look like Geocities circa 1998.

They also de-list older versions of popular packages like PHP 7.0. A package manager should never de-list. There are many valid reasons why someone might want to install an old ver…