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danmur··on Security Issues with LastPass on Android
It doesn't export attached files if you have those. Didn't tell me that either (though it was over a year ago now).
danmur··on Writing a Jinja-inspired template library in Python
I seem to be in the minority but I'm not a fan of jinja2. I like mako better, I guess you have more leeway to do silly things but I never feel like I can't do what I want.
danmur··on Databricks Unity Catalog
Ha ha ha, even funnier after I read the article. I hate that kind of marketing.
danmur··on Show HN: NocoDB – Open-Source Airtable Alternative
I don't think anything would stop you dual licensing your own software if you needed to.
danmur··on Windows Package Manager 1.0
I had to use windows terminal today and I hated it. It's way better than cmd or whatever the thing before was but it still sucks.
danmur··on In praise of --dry-run
Ditto :). I use --really though.
danmur··on 64% would prefer to permanently WFH rather than get a $30k-a-year raise
It would make more sense to 'rent' the office to people who want to come in. People who don't use the office pay less rent. Seems unlikely though :)
danmur··on Woke at Work: Why tech firms are trying to run away from politics and failing
You can have fun and socialise at work without devolving it into constant arguing. At my current job everyone's fairly mature and I think that even though there are lots of radical opinions it stays very congenial because people back off when it's unwelcome. I don't think there's anything to do with the bosses being gods, or people pretending to be robots. There are plenty of places where you can have heated discussions, it doesn't have to be at work.

Additionally: my employer pays me to fulfill their requirements. That's what I'm there for. If I don't enjoy some aspect of the work (or if it's a shitshow of unrelated and unresolvable arguments that I can't opt out of) I'll leave, I'm free to do that.

danmur··on Sublime Text 4
I love Sublime, I've paid for every version and I did the same for my devs for many years (when I had a company cc!). I would just like to say remote editing is the only thing I use vscode for. If ST had remote editing I and probably a lot of other people would use it more.

Once again, love sublime, just a suggestion :)

danmur··on The Mental Benefits of Being Terrible at Something
Yeah, experimenting is the worst thing to do until you've mastered a few things like temperature, fats, amount of liquid etc. I made so many horrible experiments.
danmur··on Nearly 200K Medical Records of US Military Veterans Leaked
Scummy contractor, incompetent as well as lying about it
danmur··on Umami – An alternative to Google Analytics
Thank you, that looks really neat
danmur··on Fish shell
I personally don't use the scripting language at all (except for configuring it or whatever). I just use it as a nicer bash interface.
danmur··on The ClickHouse Community
I'm still holding a faint hope for that
danmur··on WhatsApp will progressively kill features until users accept new privacy policy
I use that too, works really well. Bit fiddly to set up but it's surprisingly resilient, and at least the WhatsApp app is stuck in it's own VM with nothing else on it.
danmur··on IBM creates 2nm chip
Haha, that was my favourite part. Wish they'd followed up by asking which fingernail and whose, when they last cut it etc.
danmur··on A Lock Picking Game Changer [video]
Obscurity through variety :)
danmur··on What's Accenture? (2020)
That's a bit unfair, they also do super shitty IT support and cloud service type stuff.
danmur··on Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland
I just came here to complain about that! It's the most obnoxious popup, ffs at least show it at the start so I don't waste my time on 1/5 of an article.
danmur··on Digital Needle: Ripping vinyl records with a scanner (2013)
Don't joke, we'll probably see web 4.0 distributed on vinyl soon enough. Just gotta get the assets down to less than 100mb.
danmur··on Prank Windows XP simulator
oh yeah
danmur··on A potato battery can light up a room for over a month (2013)
I assume I'm just being dense, but if you have to boil the potato, surely that takes a bunch of energy? Or do you burn wood to do that in this scenario
danmur··on TSMC sees chip shortage lasting into 2022
That's super interesting, thank you!
danmur··on Reuters website goes behind paywall in new strategy
That's a sweet typo
danmur··on Element Matrix Services Launches Bridging for Microsoft Teams
Yes! What is with that inline code thing? The only time single backticks seem to work is when I don't want them to.
danmur··on Nix is the ultimate DevOps toolkit
Ahh that's great, thank you. I've been running nixos on my laptop for a year but have never come across that somehow.
danmur··on Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop
I think at some point it's just hard to get used to something new. Linux to me is incredibly polished in terms of both UX and customisability, compared to both Windows and Mac (both of which I've used commercially for 5+ years). But I've been using linux on desktop and server for at least 20 years so I'm probably just not able to see some of the things people complain about (or they're just non-issues for me).
danmur··on Don’t use environment variables for configuration
Meh. Most configuration libraries I've used make all of these issues into non-issues. It's very useful to be able to set configuration with environment variables, even if you're loading from a file.
danmur··on Google is testing its new ad targeting tech in millions of browsers
I'd be happy to pay for a browser with my interests at heart at this point. Maybe this is an improvement but it's a problem that doesn't need to exist.
danmur··on Sublime Text 4
I thought I had to buy a new licence for 3 but maybe I'm misremembering
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