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by 7777fps 7y ago
I installed webex recently and was also surprised because I didn't even sign in to webex, I just ran it as "guest" and it still pulled across my calendar from outlook somehow.
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by 7777fps 7y ago
I made sure to take the dual monitors, dock and office chair home with me when we were sent to work from home and I suspect my colleagues, who didn't do the same, regret that decision now. Seeing them hunched over their laptop screens
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by 7777fps 7y ago
IE 11 is still supported by Microsoft because it is tied to Windows 10 support. If you're B2C you can probably ignore that and just not support it, but if you're B2B where you're selling not to users it's very hard to ge
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by 7777fps 7y ago
I don't have any Mac devices or emulators or I would give it a try.
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by 7777fps 7y ago
Is it me or does "webcam hacking" really undersell the bug here? From the write up at https://www.ryanpickren.com/webcam-hacking , the bug chain appears to allow script execution in "arbitrary" domain co
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by 7777fps 7y ago
The whole post was playing down the effects of the current pandemic on society. The whole conclusion was that "a flu won't cause [society to break down]". So yes, the poster was using flu in a diminutive sense. And yes, flu i
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by 7777fps 7y ago
1. HN is not "an informed audience", it's literally the public. And it's common for software developers to mistake themselves for domain experts on any domain but they aren't. 2. It's not an informed audience i
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by 7777fps 7y ago
It's not pedantic, a lot of people will die because people were saying, "It's just a flu" and not properly preparing or isolating.
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by 7777fps 7y ago
This isn't a flu. Stop repeating misinformation.
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by 7777fps 7y ago
What's wrong with the subscription model? Vendors get recurring money and aren't incentivized to make sweeping changes to have major releases to get more money for the same product; consumers can manage cash flow by only paying wh
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by 7777fps 7y ago
You're oddly proud about not having updated your OS for 72 days.
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by 7777fps 7y ago
Here's just one: Thatcher wasn't in power when British Rail was privatised: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatisation_of_British_Rail It's one of the few industries she didn't privatise.
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by 7777fps 7y ago
I doubt it's an exact science given that in some countries the advice is 2 metres and in the US I suspect it's a round number of feet...
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by 7777fps 7y ago
I'm not surprised, they're essentially making a statement that they'll stay open unless forced to close. I'm disappointed that it's taken weeks to get to a point of just considering forcing closed the pubs.
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by 7777fps 7y ago
Yes, as someone who is isolating entirely until this is all over due to health grounds, how soon I get to go outside again (and whether I even live through this) depends largely on the efforts of others. It's frustrating that everythin
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by 7777fps 7y ago
I assume the data accessed is a heavily skewed pareto distribution. Given that, it's maybe still cheaper to build their own serving / caching layer in front to save egress costs than to have constructed the whole storage solution
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by 7777fps 7y ago
It's not normal in the UK at all to have that kind of check-up, especially not pre-emptive MRIs. Screen too early and often can lead to too much preventative medicine and procedures, which ironically while preventing specific things ar
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by 7777fps 7y ago
If it becomes very long then the data you lose to the scrollbar is the least relevant.
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by 7777fps 7y ago
That's a good observation. I think however at that point we're onto worrying about how to educate future persons or peoples unknown. Also, I'd be wary of thinking (as others down thread have done, you are not guilty of this)
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by 7777fps 7y ago
Leave history to the historians! We understand nuance from the past. For example we understand that the assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand didn't cause WW1, even if it directly led to it. Why worry that future historians won&#x2
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by 7777fps 7y ago
On this note, I still haven't found a language that does broad refactoring as well as C# (with resharper) does. From method extraction, to module, namespace, function renaming, to adding parameters to functions, it just takes care of i
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by 7777fps 7y ago
It's definitely not random. For example there is very little chance it contains a 4, and a very good chance it contains a 1.
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by 7777fps 7y ago
I often think it's a shame there isn't a "GetOrDefault" for dictionaries. An extension like > dict<k,v>.GetOrDefault(k key,v valueIfNotPresent) Would be really helpful. It's easy enough to write your own ex
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by 7777fps 7y ago
From my (admittedly limited) experience, Go has the worst story for error handling, where functions end up repeatedly checking for error return conditions from called functions. It feels trapped between "We don't want exceptions&q
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by 7777fps 7y ago
You've been wooshed, the comment was a joke about computer shells like "sh". It's the top comment for me, I'm not sure if people are upvoting because they got the joke or upvoting because they missed the joke.
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by 7777fps 7y ago
It may be a matter of perspective because from my point of view, the comment you have linked is the past to which I was referring: that is from 4 years ago. That may have flown by for you but is much of the time I have been visiting HN.
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by 7777fps 7y ago
This one is worth it, personally one of my favourite talks ever.
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by 7777fps 7y ago
It is clear that some stories are boosted up, and some are boosted down, and it is not clear the process those get chosen. It may be that "you find them interesting is enough", and it's your site so this is not a complaint, b
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by 7777fps 7y ago
It's not cynical, it's open and clear if you track HN story positions that a large part of rankings are not organic. In the past HN were more open about that fact than they are now.
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by 7777fps 7y ago
or not useful enough? Edit: Apparently HN doesn't support unicode? I was trying to say: U+1F637 or U+1F912 not good enough?

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