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by IIsi50MHz 1y ago
> and they offer opt-in (not automatic) refund. Please consider whether they can authenticate a user based on an HN comment and HN profile. The request for the user contact the company directly makes sense. > Also controversial, like,
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by IIsi50MHz 1y ago
Plus, there are backup-power lories and refrigerated trailers. If your shop doesn't have enough backup power for duration, you might see several of these pull into the carpark all at once. If not all of the chillers can be powered, sho
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by IIsi50MHz 1y ago
"The Microsoft Store" app is such a strong example of what happens when nobody cares about performance. It misses UI events most of the time, regardless of what hardware it's running on. Although, in this case, I don't t
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by IIsi50MHz 1y ago
> …conditioning success on Uncle Sam handing over money to make it work). … Are you referring to: > …basically a complete success with sufficient NGO support that vastly boosts social participation. … ? …because NGO is Non-Government
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by IIsi50MHz 1y ago
> true information presented in a way that intentionally and actually misleads readers …is also misinformation.
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by IIsi50MHz 1y ago
I seem to recall that zero-tolerance policies caused the expulsion of multiple Boy Scouts who were merely obeying the requirement that they always have a multifunction pocket tool with them (such as a Victorinox knife), and these caused the
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by IIsi50MHz 1y ago
ESD-shielded multilayer metalised polybag? Fold shut, keep until crinkled or until it has any holes?
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by IIsi50MHz 1y ago
Fortunately, the UI is quite configurable. You can disable the left sidebar, the top toolbar, edit them, and so on. Document map is also optional. But yes, my initial impression was of more UI than expected.
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by IIsi50MHz 1y ago
s/command period/command space That's Spotlight, and it's become decreasingly useful over the years, including for the flaws you mention. People seem to be relying on 3rd party replacements. ‹digression› Even those aren&
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by IIsi50MHz 1y ago
The concept of the everchanging {in-group vs. out-group} is especially present in Japanese culture. It strongly affects wordchoice, too. Within a family, father might be chichi or, in more formal families, otousan, but it speaking of father
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by IIsi50MHz 1y ago
Thanks! Now I'm inclined to watch it. I do love when shows make a point of keeping distinct accents. What with having moved a lot as a bairn, I feel that accents in many places are fading away. And also, I tend to sound like whoever I&
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by IIsi50MHz 1y ago
Kansas City airport (KCI) was replaced a few years ago. The previous design was three c-shaped terminals, each of which had a curb-to-plane distance that, before 9/11, meant coming or going was very fast. Arriving 15 minutes before tak
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by IIsi50MHz 1y ago
Still a pseudo-department, isn't it? I believe its name makes the ersatz claim of being a department, but is in fact a private entity.
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by IIsi50MHz 2y ago
I think, with appropriate adjustment of pin lengths (so that GND is always first to connect and last to disconnect), Apple Desktop Bus is hot-pluggable. There are even adapters for this purpose, made by hobbyists. May want to install a wee
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by IIsi50MHz 2y ago
Frequently, getting the desired result requires ‹‹right-click->New tab››. Trying to remember which sites require me to do that, and which ones work properly is difficult. And every once in a while, some other git makes the link to respon
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by IIsi50MHz 2y ago
Had this experience more than once, but the one that comes to mind: In high school chemistry, the teacher was reviewing what we should remember from lower school about atoms & molecules (single bonds, double bonds, slots available for s
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by IIsi50MHz 2y ago
I was going to say "or China", but then I remembered they do it differently: they say "is and always has been China".
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by IIsi50MHz 2y ago
…without charging them, and without any prior criminal record.
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by IIsi50MHz 2y ago
Similarly, I worked at a place where, before I joined, a system upgrade gone wrong had caused the retrieval of backup tapes stored in a metal safe, where the safe's temperature had been below the dew-point. Neither the tape cases nor t
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by IIsi50MHz 2y ago
But notably, during the 1990s there was a concerted push to switch books to alkaline paper. A lot of old printed books were done on acidic paper, causing them to more easily disintegrate. Disintegration of acidic books can mitigated by brus
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by IIsi50MHz 2y ago
"Gross margin" seems a suitable alternative term.
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by IIsi50MHz 2y ago
If only this worked properly in Excel! It has them, via Alt-Q, but there's always a delay before it activates. And you can't just press Enter to accept the first result, like most type-ahead command menus; no, you have to arrow do
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by IIsi50MHz 2y ago
> Take something like Excel, which many users use daily for work, but most people likely only use less than a dozen common keyboard shortcuts. Practically nobody navigates the ribbon with their keyboard. Partly, this is because: - Excel
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by IIsi50MHz 2y ago
Seems to me, the person is claiming that a linear trendline increasing causes "steadily" to be an appropriate proxy for "values went up and down some, but overall went up". If we can agree that the trendline is linear an
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by IIsi50MHz 2y ago
Can you mitigate or prevent the issue by installing something like eqMac? I use it for basic response levelling for various headphones and the built-in speakers.
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by IIsi50MHz 2y ago
If you're damaging the muscle while stretching… Okay, I'm gonna assume you're not letting any of you're stretches produce pain. You should feel tension, only, which should not be harmful. In my experience and training, s
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by IIsi50MHz 2y ago
Perhaps, after decades of application bugs caused by developers not properly accounting for taskbar position and size, random ordinary users being distressed by accident'ly moving or resizing the taskbar and unable to get it back (leav
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by IIsi50MHz 2y ago
Doesn't "dismissed with prejudice" usually mean something like "the evidence presented for the charge is so lacking that the charge should never have been brought in the first place"?
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by IIsi50MHz 2y ago
So, rather like NuBus? IIRC, cards for early Macintoshes often had at least a basic driver in ROM, written in either Forth or 680x0 assembly code.
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by IIsi50MHz 2y ago
Thanks for those recommendations. From a few minutes of searching, looks like they would cost 1.5x to 2x that in USA. We decided to start very small, because we couldn't figure out from the websites of various backup energy installers

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