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buffet_overflow
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Comment #45905292
You have to set it up with the Steam client in Desktop Mode, but you can add arbitrary programs and executables as non-steam games. As a result, I can open Spotify in the backgroun…
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Comment #45853450
I think it’s been changed since, but wow was it weird finding out that instead of taking photos, the Android app used to essentially take a screenshot of the camera view.
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Comment #44889363
I made one for roughly $100 USD from an Arduino, steel rods, some stepper motors, and some 3D printed parts. Having an existing 3d printer is a bit “draw the rest of the owl” for t…
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Comment #44843693
That language isn’t the same language I became more proficient in, so are you sure it’s not terrible, useless, and will lose handily to the one I use for my specific purposes?
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Comment #44599287
Or perhaps we make them attractions at a theme park, but let Anthony Hopkins have admin access to the source code. What could go wrong?
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Comment #43013894
Reminds me a bit of BMWs and their infamous and persistent coolant pump woes. The running joke in those circles is "replacing the entire cooling system" counts as "basic, regular m…
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Comment #43013104
Interesting and novel take. Do you think making that would enable you to also make a better distributed note taking system, or do you think you need the distributed note taking sys…
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Comment #42963227
I'd like to see some form of regulation around % of visible screens/information presented in a public space needing to be specifically useful to the population vs pure advertising.…
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Comment #42322236
> strong consumer spending I’d like to see that plotted against average consumer debt
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Comment #42010983
I like this idea. Perhaps let them self select if they will respond or not, but they have to advertise in the posting which path they chose?
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Comment #41319986
Sounds like he got the double instead of the nothing. The last line of the article mentions he now owes close to 200k, when he had originally owed 100k at the start of the scheme. …
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Comment #41075509
Had the same reaction. I’m willing to support development for a tool like this, but would prefer to do it more….directly.
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Comment #40723043
I ended up with a preorder for the new screen instead of getting a laptop now and the upgraded screen later. Before making that call, I explored a bit around up-cycling the origina…
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Comment #40663826
Wow that’s…catastrophic. Sorry that happened to you.
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Comment #40663818
I moved my primary phone from Android to iOS and this is hands down the thing I miss the most. I ended up silencing a lot of apps wholesale, mostly rideshares, as a result.
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Comment #40660108
Currently waiting on my FW13 preorder, so if you don’t mind writing it out one more time, what issue are you having?
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Comment #40068753
I’d love to see two types of upvotes on the site. One for “thanks for answering/engaging” and another for “this answer is correct and high quality”. Not sure how you’d restrict or …
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Comment #39874237
Agreed that the vetting of private people would be invasive and not a good use of resources. It would also not work for recently compromised accounts. I’m also personally torn on h…
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Comment #39873764
> Facebook engineer and therefore have vetted Haven’t nation state actors openly infiltrated high level companies? This would provide a false sense of security imo. If anything, we…
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Comment #39691122
If OP takes this approach, please please please make this usage data easily accessible, ideally both as a (free?) API endpoint and as a timechart/table in the web UI if applicable.…
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Comment #39554453
The analogy I used back when I managed a team was that our workload was like a funnel. You need some amount of overhead to balance the pressure and keep things flowing. If you put …
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Comment #39244976
> As long as the government can keep a private key secure only they could make use of it. Well, keep in mind they would have to keep it secure in perpetuity. Any leak over the life…
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Comment #39244666
Something like this would show up in perimeter network/firewall logs correct? But if someone was mirroring traffic to the same cloud provider you deploy in, it would be less obviou…