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garrtton Appearing productive in the workplace

Yeah, that caught me off guard as well. Is it supposed to be a plot twist revealing the article is written/elongated with AI assistance? Didn’t immediately feel that way upon first reading, but who knows anymore.

garrtton Bringing fully autonomous rides to Nashville, in partnership with Lyft

Is there any hope of actually being able to fully own a self driving vehicle as a consumer? Seems that a concerning majority of the autonomous driving conversation is framed in the context of ride-sharing.

garrtton Kagi Search API

This is the same reason I still haven't become a paying customer. If Kagi had a similar account creation / payment processing setup as Mullvad VPN I would be all in.

garrtton Hacker News “Who is Hiring?” top-level comments over time

woah- small world. didn't expect to see a familiar username on this random HN thread. thanks for making JQBX!

garrtton How to stop junk mail

Opt-Out Department

P.O. Box 530200

Atlanta, GA

30353

garrtton Ask HN: What steps do you take to protect yourself and your family online?

Not very familiar with self hosted emails, could you explain how the subscription emails work? How does putting the website before the @ work? Does your email server then forward those emails to the corresponding family member since I’m guessing the email address doesn’t exist before subscribing.

garrtton What the world can learn from Britain’s humble hedge

Hedging (1942) https://youtu.be/WoprVhpOKIk

garrtton Sensible macOS Defaults

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26514195

I would have titled it differently had the creator not referred to the file as such. I even tried changing the title earlier today (I don’t particularly like it either), but it got changed back. Apologies!

garrtton Sensible macOS Defaults

I can change the title. I just set it to that because that is what Mathias calls it.

garrtton Sensible macOS Defaults

  defaults read

will show you all of them but it's a pretty long list

garrtton Sensible macOS Defaults

I agree that calling it sensible is subjective. Most of these I wouldn't even use myself, but I found it to be a good reference overall. I set the title for the post based on the how the creator references the file.

garrtton Sensible macOS Defaults

For clarity, I should point out that I don't believe that all of these defaults are "sensible" for every user. I gave the submission it's title because that is how the creator refers to the file.[0]

[0] https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/tree/master#sensib...

garrtton Sensible macOS Defaults

Agree 100%

garrtton Turntable.fm is back from the dead – and now there are two

The article mentions it briefly, but I've found a ton of new music through JQBX[0]. If you have a Spotify Premium account and like Turntable.fm it's definitely worth checking out.

[0] https://www.jqbx.fm/

garrtton Flutter 2

> removed feature disparity

After April 5, I will have to use the app so that I can get back functionality that I once had on the web.

garrtton Flutter 2

> Google Pay switched to Flutter a few months ago for their flagship mobile app, and they already achieved major gains in productivity and quality. By unifying the codebase, the team removed feature disparity between platforms and eliminated over half a million lines of code.

from pay.google.com

> Starting April 5, you won't be able to use pay.google.com to send and receive money from other people. To send and receive money, use the new Google Pay app.

garrtton Open source chess developers warn about a commercial engine based on Stockfish

Clicking the link with lichess installed just opens the app. Long-press to open in a new tab.

garrtton Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?

Interesting- the options in HN polls are listed in random order. You can tell by refreshing the page.