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rcarmo
31,678karma·6,896submissions·July 17, 2013
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I remember when 8-bit machines ruled the Earth, IOS was a Cisco thing, and e-mail bounced around via dial-up, back before the first AI winter.
I'm now enjoying the new AI spring and doing all sorts of fun stuff.
Profile and secondary social links at https://carmo.io, blog at https://taoofmac.com, @rcarmo@mastodon.social.
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/rcarmo; my proof: https://keybase.io/rcarmo/sigs/dPUWksGTynvLR6kAjasNUx4K65ETkwsM3_vFZ_dcDFA ]
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I've been doing this since Dropbox 1.0. Haven't had any serious issues since 2.x, and the benefits of having my complete working state available everywhere far outweigh the risks.
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I use DB across many machines, some "permanently" on, two laptops and a (sporadically on) home desktop. Never had a conflict I couldn't recover from - and the 5-10 minutes some of the m…
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Hmmm. I've been storing Git repos in Dropbox for... ages. Haven't tried sharing them, but for a single user I see no need to have an additional piece of software. I am, however, quite intere…
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If you use ARM devices, it might be worth pointing out that Dave Cheney has unofficial tarballs of _older_ versions here: http://dave.cheney.net/unofficial-arm-tarballs No 1.5 (yet), …
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Amazing list. I've yet to find a Laser Squad clone that was as much fun, or a Deflektor one. I did find a modern version of Highway Encounter sometime last year (I forget where, since my hard dis…
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Re: the rural angle, and considering I'm near Alentejo and only getting 384Kbps right now, allow me to explain that 3/4G at 2.1GHz won't cut it for wide-area coverage, and that it isn&#…
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That's great news, Solomon - thanks :)
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You're misunderstanding what Docker does. The most important function of Docker is dependency management (allowing you to pack your own runtime with your apps with consummate ease), followed by s…
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Let me chime in and say that getting rid of VirtualBox and moving to xhyve would be amazing. I was really sad when this PR was closed: https://github.com/docker/machine/pull&…
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Was kind of hoping they'd enable IFF_MULTICAST ( https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/3043 ), but am glad to see it's slated for 1.9.0.…
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Having used both on a Mac (where I mostly end up using the CLI anyway), I'd say that SourceTree is what you want to use for stuff like code review, whereas GitHub (other than local merges being h…
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There's an UX/affordance issue with merges. Took me a while to figure out how do do them via the UI, it's not immediately obvious that the side pane (which tries to take you to the web …
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Thanks, I'll look into it. Right now the Android boxes we're using cost €50 (less if you buy in bulk) and do both accelerated rendering and HLS video, but I'm always looking out for mor…
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This one: https://github.com/sapo/android-signage-client (of course we rolled our own :))…
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I'm curious as to the mention of a "Web Control" and how long we have to wait until we can use DirectX for graphics, seeing as I've been trying to use Pis for digital signage[1] fo…
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This is why I sometimes wish HN had an ::irony:: tag. :)
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Let's wait and see if the Streisand Effect takes hold.
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XMPP works for Google Chat in the sense that you can talk to other people who use Google Chat, but not Hangouts - at least not in my roster... So Hangouts is effectively a segregated quasi-XMPP thing …
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I, for one, am somewhat leery of people reinventing the wheel - especially for a browser-based environment, where everything has a history of being brittle and short-lived. IMAP works amazingly well i…
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I wish they'd stop guzzling battery on iOS. On my iPhone, the two top background activity apps are Facebook and Hangouts, neither of which (sadly) I can actually get rid of since I use the first …
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Biggest issue for me is that on mobile all the side notes go away (on portrait) and there is no fallback.
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I use gprof2dot together with cProfile: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2014/07/07/2030 Here's a handy command line for it: https://github.com…
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Niiice. Back when I tried doing some of this, it was pretty much an uphill struggle.
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From Arch to OSX. Riiiight. I don't get this kind of posts either, and am not at all sure it's newsworthy. I run minimalistic Linux desktops _all the time_ (even gone as far as setting up a …
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Haskell, huh? The Force is strong on this one.
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I've been on the other end of this for a few days - basically any company I do business with who has their e-mail on Google simply doesn't get my e-mails. Sometimes I get an active bounce (i…
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I've been running Rancher ( http://rancher.com ) for a week now trying out multiple configurations, and that significantly took the shine off Kubernetes for me until someone comes up wi…
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Yeah, I know: http://github.com/rcarmo/sushy ;)