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They've updated that documentation significantly since thousands of projects were issued automatically generated Firebase API keys, pre-Gemini. See this version from Oct 2022: http…

It's all about trade offs. No one is required to use all the latest tooling and frameworks, and writing things the 'good old way' still works, it'll just come with trade offs. Pick…

Big fan of the Level 1 Tech KVMs, both the hardware and support are quite good. You're way more likely to run into issues with docks/monitors/usb devices etc than something actuall…

And now Microsoft is going to solve all those problems? This'll be interesting to see how it plays out, but all of these issues are not confidence inspiring.

I think some skepticism is a healthy thing to have, especially with multi billion dollar acquisitions. It's a little surprising to me that there's been so much kool aid drinking in…

An interesting question might be, what other ways could you allow people in the queue to jump up in position, without requiring them to share with others? Maybe a quick survey with…

I was going to say this. It's totally optional to invite more people, so if it goes against your ethical views, just don't.

*current thinkpads can also still do this. I switched from a MBP to a ThinkPad because of Apple's decisions with product design; performance sacrificed for purely aesthetic reasons…

I highly doubt this, devices with batteries are near ubiquitous in many places and have been for decades now. "Electronics" knowledge or not, people have used batteries and will ha…

Just a spooky coincidence it's on Halloween?

Really hope purism finds success with this. An open phone platform has been a long time coming, I hope they can learning from the missteps of ubuntu and firefox. I like the idea of…

When they mentioned the headphone jack being removed, I thought it was a joke. I have a 6S now and was considering getting the Pixel, in part because of the headphone jack and also…

All of these revelations read like xkcd comics. I mean really? One guy in a corp of 9000+? Critical email threads? This situation is a joke.

This reminds me how important/relevant it's becoming for people to own their data, instead of giving it up to companies to profit from and eventually sell. Big issues I see are the…

From my experience having used Robinhood for almost two years now, it's fine up until something happens with your account and you need to talk to someone. Their customer support se…

Because generalizing someone solely based on where they came from isn't also an ethical problem.

You don't think USB-C will too, one day be obsolete? Because trust me, it's going to be, and we'll all be having this argument x years down the line again. Manufacturers are going …

I've been to two "Major League" hackathons (CalHacks and YHack) and really enjoyed my experiences at both as a current undergrad studying CS. Not often do I get the chance to meet …

For desktop (and on my laptop) use, I dual boot Windows 7 and Linux Mint 13 currently. Going to upgrade to Mint 15 soon enough. Also have a lot of experience with CentOS for server…

My HP dv7 works great with Linux Mint 13 out of the box, 8GB of RAM and running just a 1TB hard drive, with another slot I want to add an SSD to.