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mike

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About mike

meet.hn/city/53.4794892,-2.2451148/Manchester

Socials: - bsky.app/profile/michaelj.bsky.social - github.com/mikej

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    Not the author, but yep, I think there is a typo here. Should be https://vokabeln.io/ (vokabeln is German for “vocabulary”)

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    One thing it could have been is the “brushing” scam Creating fake orders to enable fake reviews for a product to be posted, boosting the product listing. https://en.wikipedia.org/w…

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    On https://account.jetbrains.com/licenses if you click "Renew" for the appropriate product then on the next page, under the Subscription dropdown there should also be a "Purchase P…

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    Nicely communicated. Everything that JetBrains does around their pricing and subscription model always feels really fair and classy to me. (perpetual fallback licensing, continuity…

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    If anyone is looking to export a list of their saved pages the links for this are on the Settings page: https://www.instapaper.com/user A list of all saved pages in all folders can…

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    > some way cross-apply the license purchase price to a subscription They did do this. From the footnote to to their original announcement[1] Recent purchases of the Mac app will un…

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    Comment #16511858

    I'd be interested in this, please do drop me an email if you do put this on GitHub. Thanks.

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    Virtual assistant[0] is an accepted term for a human assistant, but agree that with the increase it chatbots it is confusing. Definitely worth clarifying as having a real person an…

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    Not certain, but the built in setting may only be for Macs with the Touch Bar, where it's available under System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts and choosing the "Function Key…

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    For machines with the Touch Bar, this can be achieved using System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts and choosing "Function Keys" from the list of categories. You can then speci…

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    Comment #12472285

    The post you're thinking of: Strategy Letter III: Let Me Go Back! http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000052.html

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    What part of the change means that it's no longer suitable? The free dyno hours can be shared across several infrequently used apps, and apps will sleep after inactivity to prevent…

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    Either of SuperDuper! http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription... or Carbon Copy Cloner https://bombich.com/ is great for making a complete, bootable copy of a …

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    Comment #9523151

    Also available for download and streaming on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/BBS.The.Documentary (the documentary is released under Creative Commons BY-SA)

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    Comment #9501695

    see the Mozilla JavaScript docs here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... a Date can be constructed with either a number of milliseconds since the epoch…

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    I don't think there's any conflict between these. The first just means that you only get a response from a single god of your choosing for each of your three questions, as opposed …

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    Comment #8032318

    I was seeing the same a few minutes ago (also in Chrome) but it's working for me now so it's worth giving it another try.

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    No OS X version yet, but it's what they're working on next according to the last part of http://vesperapp.co/blog/vesper-2-0-and-vesper-sync/