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by Dort 5y ago
I assume you are not using Excel 2003 on your 16GB machine. May I ask which version of MS Office you are using? If I have to believe this[1] thread, then Office 365 is now an Electron app, which would explain the slowness. [1] https:/
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by Dort 5y ago
The shell logo dates back to the 19th century, when Shell traded in decorative Japanese seashells. You can read more of the logo history at (Dutch) https://www.shell.nl/over-ons/netherlands/history.html
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by Dort 5y ago
I think an emergency could also require someone going in, like ambulance crew or firefighters and the likes.
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by Dort 5y ago
I think humankind should first clean up the mess here on earth before even thinking about colonizing moons and other planets.
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by Dort 5y ago
Translators for the Dutch version of Windows 10 are definitely robots. For example, in the save webpage dialog of Edge, they translated “Webpage, complete” to “Webpagina, voltooid”. Voltooid means completed, as in a completed task. The corr
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by Dort 5y ago
Putting TouchID on the back would render it unusable for me due to my phone case.
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by Dort 5y ago
I listen to Radio Classique[1] through Apple Music. [1] https://www.radioclassique.fr/
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by Dort 5y ago
I browse with JavaScript disabled because A) I don’t see any ads and B) pages load fast on my weak devices (first gen. iPad Air, ~2009 desktop). I only turn on JavaScript to be able to use the website of my bank.
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by Dort 5y ago
This looks interesting. I browse the WWW without JavaScript and this bricks many comment systems. Are you planning to make a widget without reliance on JavaScript?
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by Dort 5y ago
I just found the following to style HN like Windows 95: https://github.com/chowderman/Hacker95
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by Dort 5y ago
Windows XP and perhaps newer versions of Windows included a setting to only redraw a window after the user has finished moving/resizing. You would instead see an outline of the new window position/size. The same applied to (un)min
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by Dort 5y ago
Would it be viable to also add a pop-up asking users to toggle Chrome settings or use another browser? Something like Google has on its homepage for downloading Chrome when visiting from another browser.
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by Dort 5y ago
I can’t remember from our previous car, but the current one is nearly at 290000km (~180000 miles) since 2007.
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by Dort 5y ago
I own and have owned several Tesla vehicles Given that Tesla hasn’t been around for very long, how long do/did your cars last, and why? Just interested, as the average (non-electrical) cars in my family last around 20 years.
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by Dort 5y ago
Our new* black TV remote includes a big, white with red text Netflix button. We don’t have Netflix and thus will never use this button. The rest of this remote is fine. *a few years back now