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bitdeveloper··on Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone
I mean, I have to figure out which peanut butter to buy from a shelf of 37 peanut butters. If anything, there's too much choice in a lot of cases. It's tiring.

I've heard way more Android users disparaging iPhones than vice versa. If anything, the fault of iPhone users is not even knowing or caring anything else exists.

bitdeveloper··on Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode
For example, if you do choose to use emacs, then you are missing out on time you could have spent learning vim.
bitdeveloper··on Gitlab phished its own work-from-home staff, and 1 in 5 fell for it
What it does mean, though, is the person who sent the email now knows, at the minimum:

1. Someone receives and reads the email sent to this email address.

2. That person is willing to enter data into a form.

This is 2 pieces of information the person didn’t have before, and it can be used in further phishing attempts in a variety of ways.

It doesn’t mean you were fooled, but that’s only half the story.

bitdeveloper··on Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together
If we're going to assume the Brave user just installed Brave and has 0 BAT, then let's be fair.

You had to spend a certain number of years on Earth to become old enough to have a credit rating and legal standing to get a credit card.

You had to obtain a credit card by filling out paperwork and being accepted by the company issuing the credit card.

You had to wait for the card to arrive in the mail.

You had to activate it the card.

I don't think it's fair to just skip over all those steps just because they're already done. Sure, for you, today, the card is probably easier. But by that token a guy with a horse in 1900 who already had a stable and a bunch of hay could say, "Why would anyone buy a car?"

And he'd be right, on that particular day, for him. But not for everyone, and not forever.

bitdeveloper··on The Disturbing Secret Behind the World’s Most Expensive Coffee (2016)
Well, if that's not enough to convince you to subscribe, I don't know what would be.
bitdeveloper··on Facebook is embedding tracking data inside the photos you download
Other than the convict organ harvesting and such.
bitdeveloper··on Cops can force your finger onto an iPhone to see if it unlocks, says judge
> They can search you because you're entering an airport, but you're free to leave at any time (though they can detain you until police arrive, as any citizen can).

If they can detain you then how are you free to leave?

bitdeveloper··on Base salaries offered to software engineers in SF, NYC, and Seattle
In fact, mentioning a History degree might make someone doubt your ability to keep your code DRY...
bitdeveloper··on U.S. Student Debt in ‘Serious Delinquency’ Tops $166B
Yep, we are pretty hosed.
bitdeveloper··on How much Americans make in wages
How would that even be statistically quantified?
bitdeveloper··on The game-day caffeine routine that powers the NBA's most frequent flyers
Still a contender for History's Greatest Monster 10 years later.
bitdeveloper··on DigitalOcean launches its container service
Any chance you can bump me up in the queue for getting managed DB beta access?
bitdeveloper··on Israel silent as Iran hit by computer virus more violent than Stuxnet – report
Turning off or modifying automated systems in any large device - buses, cars, airplanes, centrifuges, stadium roofs - would have potential for massive violence/destruction.
bitdeveloper··on Good Overview of Modern Visual Application Builders?
Search for anvil.works. I never actually used it but the demo looked pretty cool, and it seemed pretty affordable.
bitdeveloper··on MacOS Mojave removes subpixel anti-aliasing, making non-retina displays blurry
I have to disagree. I bought both a 2017 air and a 2017 mbp 13” to compare, and ended up returning the MBP. The screen on the MBP is far and away better, which made it a painful choice. On the other hand, the air was superior for the keyboard, and also for noise/heat, and of course several hundred dollars in price. The MBP didn’t really feel any faster for the type of work I was doing on it.

Most annoying was that the MBP fan was kicking on in high gear consistently when I was doing nothing of note, while the air very rarely does so. It’s always cool and quiet, which I love.

If they just threw a retina screen on it, the current Air could be a hell of a computer for several more years.

bitdeveloper··on My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force me to use a new app
If I knew how annoying that stuff was, I sure wouldn’t have bought my ps4. Absolutely.
bitdeveloper··on The Real Danger to Civilization Isn't AI. It's Runaway Capitalism
If an AI subscribes to the tribalism of its creators, then it could be the AI vs. everyone. That sounds (potentially) dangerous to me.
bitdeveloper··on Tim Ferriss found Silicon Valley was too 'closed-minded' and moved to Austin
GP just wants to keep all that sweet sweet Austin air for his/her self.
bitdeveloper··on Introducing the new Snapchat
Sure, but it's a sticky note, not a novel.
bitdeveloper··on URL to PDF Microservice
@kimmobru, would you happen to know how this would handle printing a multipage table to PDF? Specifically, I'm hoping for repeating headers per page, and not having any problems with rows printing half on one page, and half on the next page. I would love to replace a paid solution we use which handles this use cases with something based on headless chrome.
bitdeveloper··on Books I've read in the third quarter of 2017
It's great, once you remap CTRL-B to CTRL-A.
bitdeveloper··on With a $1k Price, Apple’s iPhone Crosses a Threshold
Even the slimmest of cases makes that invisible.
bitdeveloper··on Foxconn to Build $10B Factory in U.S
I heard on the news that 10,000 construction jobs would be created, so perhaps both are right - 10,000 temporary construction jobs, and 3,000 permanent/plant jobs.
bitdeveloper··on Google relaunches Glass for businesses
I wonder if there would be room for a public key / dual encryption for the video produced that both the doctor and the patient would need to sign off on to view the video, or something like that, to add some kind of viewing trail/authentication/authorization.

I mean, who's to say any given doctor's office doesn't have a hidden camera/microphone somewhere anyway.

bitdeveloper··on Historian: Because Please Stop Deleting My Bash History
I am one of the dozens. If only I was able to locate a history-related technology job. It seems like you need to be in Washington DC to find anything like that.
bitdeveloper··on Building, and Losing, a Career on Facebook
Lawful normie
bitdeveloper··on “My Code is Self-Documenting”
If comments in code are worthless.. then why aren't we all using some language that has no comment system built in?
bitdeveloper··on The Middle Class Can't Afford to Live in Cities Anymore
The essence of middle class is being able to do all those things.
bitdeveloper··on Ask HN: Interested in an e-book on building web apps with Node.js and React?
I think it's mostly because getting it wrong is a Pretty Big Deal, so people aren't sure if they can trust themselves and the scheme they came up with.
bitdeveloper··on Google Earth VR
Give me a break. A guy wants to reduce his carbon footprint on the earth and save money and just enjoy a scenic view and that makes him a bad guy?
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