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filmgirlcw

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About filmgirlcw

Developer Relations @ GitHub, previously @ Google DeepMind and a former tech journalist, personal writing at christina.is, lover of tech, digital media, gadgets and general geekery.

Views are 100% my own and do not necessarily represent those of my employer or my employers employer.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/film_girl; my proof: https://keybase.io/film_girl/sigs/34bemChd8D4Rb9k6vsZzb1CQv4_7YJ2BoeeqaC2mWHQ ]

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    Anyone looking at this should recognize that the hardware itself is nearly a decade old (and has performance of a mid-range Android from 11 or 12 years ago), the software is buggy …

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    Comment #48631687

    Maybe for your app, it doesn’t make sense. And if it’s a pure enterprise app, fair enough (assuming it’s an enterprise that was started more than 15 years ago and only targets regu…

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    Comment #47324273

    This is such a cool deep dive into CSS colors and color theory and finding the right way to mess with color values.

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    Comment #47323885

    Super fun game! My best is 0.0018 but am usually in the ~0.0030 range

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    Comment #46006951

    That link just unlocked a core memory I haven't thought about since I was 17 years old, so thanks for that!

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    Comment #46006425

    XMP was the first time I ever picked up a soldering iron -- so I could "hack" my OG Xbox 1.0. I will always, always love and respect it. I love that they are still committed to the…

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    Comment #45598064

    Yeah, given all the people with passion/ability for low-level reverse engineering have left the project, I don’t think we should ever expect to get greater than M2 support from Asa…

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    Comment #45597997

    They do if you want it to be “verified” (at least at bigger places) but I don’t know about smaller places or how people even check that.

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    Comment #45586732

    And you can get iPhone 14s for $99 on occasion as long as you commit to prepaid service from Total Wireless/Trac Fone for 3 months (so about $180 - so your total price for the phon…

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    Comment #45282673

    Did we learn nothing from when ABC fired Bill Maher from Politically Incorrect 24 years ago? Clearly, we did not.

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    Comment #45019982

    >I don’t think it makes sense to call the Steam Machine a misstep because there was no Proton. There would be no Proton nor Steam Deck without the ground work started with the Stea…

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    Comment #44987446

    For Mac users, ffWorks [1] is an amazing frontend for FFmpeg that surfaces most of the features but with a decent GUI. It’s batchable and you can setup presets too. It’s one of my …

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    Comment #44204023

    You’d have to check with Microsoft. OpenAI says that this doesn’t apply to customers with a Zero Data Retention endpoint policy, but my recollection is that Azure OpenAI doesn’t fa…

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    Comment #43927619

    Yeah I had a typo -- the statement should have been the mission is to push people from ADO to GitHub -- sorry. The official guidance from Microsoft since probably 2019 has been to …

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    Comment #43909012

    I can say with a high level of confidence that the goal is definitely not to push larger orgs to ADO over GitHub. ADO is and will continue to be supported and you’re right that its…

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    Comment #43795799

    100% this. It would be one thing if the only LSPs you could build came from Microsoft, but that’s just not true. It’s just that developing LSPs isn’t free. Cursor, Windsurf, etc. a…

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    Comment #43752880

    > I believe it stops it being used on iOS and (probably) Android apps. The GPL world and the permissive licence worlds are walled off from each other in significant ways for lots o…

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    Comment #43667933

    Ok, but imagine you’re in a situation where you don’t have the ability to install apps, or you’re temporarily on a platform you’re unfamiliar with and so you don’t know what GUI to…

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    Comment #43617284

    Jim Spanfeller is a herb!

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    Comment #43616014

    jj is fantastic and I love it so much. Takes the best things I liked about hg but applies it to a version control system people actually use!

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    Comment #43438682

    They don't even have the ability to group transactions together for US payments (or payments in Australia, Japan, Mexico, Malaysia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, and others [1…

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    Comment #43438620

    No and it isn't on their roadmap. Projects who want to accept crypto should probably just put a wallet address on their pages rather than trying to rely on systems like Liberapay t…

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    Comment #43438501

    Last time I checked into this, the answer was no. This is very much a more EU-focused service, based on the stuff they offer. And even then, they don't pre-collect for VAT like Pat…