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I always include Makefiles as a way of documenting useful (short) tasks for developers that are onboarding to projects. It gives them confidence in their ability to pick things up quickly. Whether or not they want to actually use make is up to them, but it’s one more thing they can reference.

Plex focuses on having a server component that transcodes and their “Plex Pass” service for better connectivity, enabling lightweight native players for all of your devices. This way you can watch any of your content on anything even over cellular, even if it’s a weird format that the device wouldn’t easily support.

This is a departure from the traditional XBMC-on-device that also acts as the client trying to play any format of content.

Kodi is amazing and I’d use it if it weren’t for the fact that I don’t want a new interface, I simply want my “owned” content to show up as Yet Another App on my stream boxes and phones. Plex fits that bill.

Is it possible this graph also reflects that his readers are more likely to employ Safari’s tracker-blocking?

Amazon appears to allow this, judging from their inaction every time I report it.

Commands are explicit and shareable. If you’ve mastered <ide> then good on you, but it makes you an island.

I’m surprised to hear that bluetooth, GPS, and cellular don’t work in water. I wonder what’s the science behind this.

While it comes across as an obvious cash grab, the cassette is a compelling feature if you consider that it does 30 washes and has its own memory of how many each has left. While it is 2x-3x the cost of traditional dishwasher pods, they are focusing on convenience — all the way down to automatic delivery and return — which deserves to be recognized as innovation in end-to-end product design, service, fulfillment, and product lifecycle.

Having been blocked on a customer’s locked-down Windows machine where the security software breaks the update process, this isn’t a welcome change.

What it takes to get through app review

Looking beyond the obvious problem here, just curious why the admin ran chkdsk /f for no reason, then did it on 6 more systems after observing it caused ntfs failure.

I find it hard to move from vim because of its ubiquity. Same with bash.

By removing the charger from the package, you may have to buy a charger that comes in its own packaging. Net new waste.

Including the charger in the package was actually the best way to prevent additional waste.

Moreover, an iPhone box is potentially an item people will not throw out, while the charger packaging is.

A trip down memory lane, bringing back so much just looking at the fonts. It’s amazing how much I associate each company’s historical fonts with their brand.

I never call until I’ve exhausted all self service options.

I don’t need to be told every time “Did you know...you can find us online to X, Y, and Z?”

Verizon customers are paying more because they expect more, so this move by them is disappointing.

My electric bill has gone down over 30% per month after getting one of these. Replaced a super old electric unit. Many states have rebates that an installer can have applied when getting the part from the supplier. For me this cut the whole cost in half. It paid for itself in less than a year. And now my basement is dry and cool in the summer without running a dehumidifier.

You might ask, if these are so great then why aren’t people yelling it from the hilltops? They are, but nobody’s listening.

Not mentioned, they don’t want to support residential customers serving web sites (or anything else)

Little-known fact: Windows of today is an entirely different OS than early DOS-based Windows because Microsoft took ownership of the 386-based “OS/2 3.0” codebase it jointly developed with IBM, forming the foundation for Windows NT 3 which all modern Windows is based on. This gave them the huge head start in having a modern enterprise-grade operating system that allowed them to dominate the market.

Running a FidoNet-connected BBS meant I had direct access to read every EchoMail group I could subscribe my BBS to. At the time it was a great source of real, insightful written conversation. Because the readers were text-based, and it was all on my hard drive, I could consume postings at such great speed. (spacebar, spacebar, spacebar...)

The memories.

This is overblown.

Disney+ was mostly fine all day for everybody I know. I consider it a successful launch by any measure.

When this technology can exist in space, earth will have orbiting shipyards building space craft.

My series 0 is my “silent” alarm clock. I wear it every night and wake up with nearly 100% battery.

Try shutting some of the extras off, and you’ll be surprised at how long it lasts. Also, your morning alarm won’t wake anybody else up!

You’ll be delighted with the elements you can mix to make new elements. I love this game, and the original. To start, Try mixing air with earth, then add fire to the result.

So every landlord will now raise 5% annually even if they hadn’t in the last. That’s often the effect of governments regulating increases, from what I have seen of stage utility regulation.

CDs were supposed to eventually be cheaper than tapes, but the industry kept raising prices. Even Blu-ray discs were grossly overpriced before people turned to digital sales.

This is a religious debate. Some people are delighted by additional features, others by thoughtful design. It’s hard to see the other viewpoint and how this can be mutually exclusive.

MTA’s printed NYC Subway maps are a hallmark of great design. I hope this isn’t prelude to the end of an era in usability.

Ice is the battery. Freeze the ice using solar when the sun is beaming.

Major improvement over loadavg for troubleshooting, given the difficulty in identifying when a system is io-bound.

Hold the home button briefly (lower-left corner) for Siri on CarPlay. It’s actually fantastic.

This reminds me of Adam Osborne, who tanked sales of his new Osbourne 1 by prematurely bragging about the future Osbourne 2.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect