patrickserrano

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Comment · 2 years ago
I just recently switched the email associated with my Xbox account from the Hotmail I created in '98 or '99 to my current email address. That Xbox account is probably the oldest account I'm actively using since it's from around when Halo 2 launched.

I'm sure I have logins for older accounts stored in 1Password, but none of them would be anything actively used.

Comment · 2 years ago
There is a setting to allow location for the "Networking and Wireless" system service. I wonder if disabling that would prevent this from working?
Comment · 3 years ago
Came here to say the same thing! Whenever I'm using my work PC the alt-tab behavior of windows drives me nuts.
Comment · 3 years ago
If you're in a city, get a dog assuming you're ok with the responsibility that comes with having one.

About 5 years ago my wife finally wore me down and we got an English Bulldog. The friends that we made at the dog park have become some of our closest friends, and it's great having friends that you don't work with because you don't end up talking about work.

I'm not a very extraverted person by any means but whenever I'm out with the dog I end up talking to people I never would have. Especially when I take him to a dog friendly bar (shoutout to DBA in the East Village!)

Comment · 3 years ago
> Ninety-eight percent of drivers who try Lyft’s maps stick with them — rather than switching to Google, Apple, Waze, or any other app.

I find this surprising because my personal experience is the exact opposite. At least in NYC, drivers use the Lyft (or Uber) app for managing riders but use a dedicated mapping application for navigating to the destination once you're picked up.

Comment · 3 years ago
I have ADHD, and this is how I use Slack too. Works wonders and makes it manageable.

Another thing I've found useful is just leaving channels where I find little to no value. If there's something important you need to be involved in, 99% of the time you'll get added back and can catch-up to contribute. In my experience with Slack, you end up in channels for "visibility" on things that have no impact on you and you have no impact on.

Comment · 4 years ago
I live in Manhattan and my wife and I just had our first kid a few weeks ago. We've been talking about it for months now, but we want our kid to have that kind of independence and familiarity with the city. On one hand it's good for their development and on another hand it just seems practical that they be able to navigate the city on their own for safety reasons.

I've offended a lot of suburban friends and family though, because they don't understand how we could raise a child in NYC let alone give them any kind of independence. I've been told that it's irresponsible, that I'll be endangering him, and that I'm crazy to think the city is a safe place for a child, among other things.

Comment · 4 years ago
how does that work for controllers through?
Comment · 4 years ago
At a past job for a while we did Kanban with the sprint as a time box and it worked really well for the constraints we were working in. When we had work with deadlines, we'd flag that work as needing to be done in the sprint time box and put it on the top of the pile. Otherwise the team just kept picking up the next item, and we'd do a single review meeting at the end of the sprint to check in and see how everyone felt and what was accomplished. It was less of a retro and more of a temperature check.

It worked really well for a team that served a lot of different stakeholders and also had to field requests from customers since the priority of the work was always changing even if the deadlines for the work didn't.

Comment · 4 years ago
I've been using Overcast (iOS) since it launched. Marco has done a lot of work with his Smart Speed and Voice Boost features over the years and they're a core part of what keeps me using the app.
Comment · 4 years ago
I struggled with trigonometry in high school, to the point that I had to repeat the class twice. Each time I took the class it was the exact same lesson, and I struggled.

During my senior year I was able to take a course through BOCES on audio production. That course related some of the trigonometry I was struggling with to a subject I was deeply interested in.

I don't expect Math teachers to start teaching audio production, but it would have been nice if the teacher had seen me struggling and at least attempted to approach the subject from a different angle ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Comment · 4 years ago
I'm currently working on an MVP and moved it over to railway.app

Overall the process was smooth, the React + Vite frontend app was up and running as soon as I connected GitHub and added the envars. But the dotnet backend took a little bit of trial and error to get running because it didn't like my initial Dockerfile.

Overall the process has been pretty smooth though I wish the docs were a little more robust and had more examples.

Comment · 4 years ago
If you don't mind using MDM you can get something akin to roaming profiles on iPads. It's an enterprise feature, but it was introduced sometime during iOS 13.

I agree though, native multi-user support would be great. Though, I'd hope it's better than what we got on tvOS.

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