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mannkind··on “Thank You” in Hindi and English Mean Very Different Things
> Thank you so much for raising that point.

That seems a bit sarcastic ... ;)

mannkind··on One year with the Truly Ergonomic keyboard
I love my Atreus keyboard w/the TMK-based Atreus firmware; I have not (yet) noticed that it misses keys.
mannkind··on Bitcointalk Server Compromised
> LastPass and 1Password are good choices if you don't care about letting others host your (supposedly encrypted) passwords.

That statement doesn't apply to 1Password; AgileBits does not host your data.

mannkind··on Amateur Radio in Play in Aftermath of Nepal Earthquake
Congrats!

I got mine (AF7NK) just before the 2015 new year. No HF radio yet. I'm just using an infamous boafeng plus a homemade ground plane antenna in the attic.

mannkind··on Pack arbitrary files into PNG and access them using JavaScript
A small (631 bytes) JPEG concatenated with your file of choice (preferably encrypted) accomishes what you're thinking.

But you run the risk of a ToS violating, losing your files and having your account banned.

mannkind··on “Citizenfour” Awarded Oscar for Best Documentary in 2014
Sensitive much?
mannkind··on Why I like XSLT
I completely agree; I currently maintain an old web-app that uses xmL/XSLT and it is a complete nightmare to do anything useful.
mannkind··on Amazon Echo
So what you're saying is that you don't have proof of your claims. Ok, got it.
mannkind··on iPhone 6 and 6 Plus not as bendy as believed
Obviously those tests were rigged.
mannkind··on The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy
Jesus Christ, it's glue not a impenetrable force-field.

I don't know why, but I can think of many plausible examples that don't include ridiculous conspiracy theories about a company wanting to take all your money.

mannkind··on The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy
Um... what?

The display is fused to the glass. The battery is glued to the case.

mannkind··on A message from Tim Cook about Apple’s commitment to your privacy
It must feel great to have a excuse for everything ever. Just utter his name an all your paranoia is legit!
mannkind··on A message from Tim Cook about Apple’s commitment to your privacy
plain and to the point? please, it's obvious that they're now working with Al-Qaeda because the statement didn't explicitly mention them.

Goddamn I hate the tinfoil-hat nonsense that happens here...

mannkind··on Scheduling Technology Leaves Low-Income Parents With Hours of Chaos
You state that as fact, but it seems highly unlikely. Please cite your source.
mannkind··on Show HN: Keep, an app that helps you love how you spend every dollar
YNAB is amazing. Even when you don't actually need to budget it's incredibly useful to see spending habits, trends, etc.

I used Mint for a number of years, but the automated stuff was constantly wrong and the passive downloads broke all the time after Mint switched away Yodlee's data aggregation.

mannkind··on Works With Nest
When did they ever say iMessage would be an standard? I recall them stating FaceTime would be, but didn't some patent nonsense get in the way?
mannkind··on OS X Yosemite
Ah, the mythical 2014 Macbook Pro...
mannkind··on Once again I'm disappointed
What the hell are you talking about?
mannkind··on ZFS Gotchas
You could replace all the 3TB drives with 4TB drives.

You could add another 4x3TB vdev to the pool to add more storage to the pool, but once you did you couldn't remove it.

mannkind··on Arduino Sensor Network – Bathroom occupancy detector
Interesting! I guess that I'm not using the lowest power mode[1], but for months now I have had a ATMega328P (running on 3-AA batteries) monitoring doors w/reed switches. I haven't had any trouble w/interrupts not firing on change.

1: I'm using Rocket Scream's LowPower.PowerDown for what it's worth.

mannkind··on German tank problem
Customers always act entitled.

"The customer is always right" is an incredibly broken methodology. It works great for a mom&pop shop in a small town… not so much in any other situation.

mannkind··on Important Kickstarter Security Notice
Seriously. LastPass and 1Password are light years ahead for the non-technical people. God KeePass is terrible.
mannkind··on Important Kickstarter Security Notice
It's really too bad that you recommend an app that is practically garbage user-experience-wise compared to LastPass and 1Password.

If users aren't convinced of the value of a password vault, a god-awful piece of software certainly isn't going to encourage adoption even if it's "free"

"free" if your time is worth nothing

mannkind··on FreeNAS 9.2 is out
For reference, you can also grow your pools by adding a new raidz array to an existing pool.

Edit: Looks like mbell and brianlweiner posted just before me. Bah :)

mannkind··on iMessage for Android
You're kidding right? It's trivial to turn off iMessage; it's one toggle switch in the settings.

On top of that I've had friends switch away from iPhone to Android; iOS switched to using SMS not but a day later (and I know at least some of them didn't turn it off manually because their iPhone was broken).

mannkind··on Coder for Raspberry Pi
That's not a nitpick. Zeroconf isn't even "Apple's thing" … Bonjour is just one implementation.

That guy is ranting because ranting makes him feel important.

mannkind··on 1Password and the Crypto Wars
KeePass basically only works well on Windows and you have to trust all the other implementations that make it pseudo-crossplatform.

You mention "open-source" so much one would think its a weapon.

mannkind··on 1Password and the Crypto Wars
Agreed. KeyPass was terrible the last time I used it. Once I used 1Password I never looked back.

There are other good password managers (e.g. LastPass), but KeyPass is not one of them.

mannkind··on 1Password and the Crypto Wars
From the linked article, "We have developers in four separate countries: Canada (AgileBits is a Canadian company), the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands."

... reading comprehension …

There are good password managers, then there's KeyPass. :/

mannkind··on Kids can't use computers, and why it should worry you
While I do kind of agree with parts of the article, the author proposes some seriously nonsensical "solutions".

Especially this gem:

""" Mobile [...] I use Ubuntu-Touch, and it has possibilities. [...] Okay, so I can’t use 3G, it crashes when I try to make phone calls and the device runs so hot that when in my jacket pocket it seconds as an excellent nipple-warmer, but I can see the potential. """

To learn more about "mobile" the author proposes using a something that's not functional ... yeah, that makes sense.

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