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jsmith12673
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Comment #41221209
Didn't geohot leave Comma like ~2 years ago
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Comment #40257822
I can corroborate this. My family was involved in a chemical manufacturing business in India from the 60s onwards. My understanding from what my family tells me is that the 80s and…
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Comment #39938059
I've had to use Google Sheets a lot recently, and it doesn't hold a candle to excel. There are a lot of basics missing esp. when it comes to charting. But I don't like excel much e…
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Comment #39569348
Janky LSP support is easily Sublime's biggest weakness. Hope they fix it in ST5 if that ever happens
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Comment #39569340
I also paid for ST3, but I switched to ST4 for the hardware accelerated rendering. I don't like their licensing policy anymore, so I just dismiss the purchase signs. I want to get …
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Comment #39471819
Rare to find a fellow ST4 user these days
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Comment #38141899
Hmm I haven't, will give it a try!
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Comment #38136760
I was curious about how many inserts Postgres could handle so I made a synthetic benchmark to measure it.
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Comment #36377754
Try BetterSnapTool. As others have mentioned, this feature is patended. `BetterSnapTool` is $3 is for a lifetime license and does what you'd expect coming from XFCE/windows etc.
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Comment #26725082
Signal is a not-for-profit organization.
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Comment #25596242
I can only speak for myself, so to me this technique is kind of like how they did colour photographs in the 20th century [1] - taking multiple photographs from the same perspective…
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Comment #25579486
It's possible that Xbox serves as a loss-leader for introducing/keeping people in the brand. For kids who may only have chromebooks at school, and macs at home, an Xbox may be the …
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Comment #24759830
I'd argue that even as engineer 2, or VP of whatever, you're still replaceable. Outside whatever thin veil of prestige your job offers you, the larger world couldn't care less abou…
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Comment #24759034
> recruiters are bottom-of-the-totem-pole, lowest-common-denominator, bottom-feeders Recruiters are just people just doing their jobs. It's a shame that you've labelled a diverse g…
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Comment #24743464
Similar experience here. The only setups I can use for >1month are the Kinesis Advantage and MX Ergo, or the butterfly keyboard and trackpad. I've chocked it up to the super low tr…
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Comment #24726355
Don't have much to add, but want to say thanks for sharing those blog posts, they were interesting reads. The slack CTO's comment about choosing RDBMS because 'familiarity' is inte…
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Comment #24689259
Could someone comment on why exactly this a poor design for their backend? Genuinely curious, I don't have any real world context on systems like this.
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Comment #24165610
For this to be effective you'll need: - Global agreement and partnership, since you need to decrease temperature globally to make a dent - Convince everyone that injecting aersols …
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Comment #23958112
That's news to me. Guess I won't be ditching my QC25's soon/or ever
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Comment #23886469
In my experience, large sales team = pushing hard into B2B
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Comment #23849579
This survey is incredibly suspect ... as the author themself states, there's an inherent bias for non-american brands. I find it surprising the FCA and GM cars are topping the list…
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Comment #23830984
I'll add that my Bose headphones have also always have trouble in the wind. That's to that there not be something wrong with the airpods/bose, but Sony's have a distinct advantage
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Comment #23719130
Your conclusion strikes me as a bit defeatist. Managed systems might be 'better' for users now, but in the long term, they leave users with almost no agency, and that becomes a gre…
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Comment #23705480
iirc you can still get the true mileage through an OBD connector right? Might not apply in Vietnam, but I think it might be the case in NA