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by MandieD 4y ago
I’ve never thought of it that way before, but between all the blocked ad payloads, cryptominers, and other malware that uBlock Origin stops from going onto millions of PCs every day, gorhill is probably one of the world’s greatest individua
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by MandieD 4y ago
Just spent a weekend there: I heard more English spoken in public than German, and even found myself having to backtrack and switch to English (my first language) after instinctively starting conversations in German (my second language). It
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by MandieD 4y ago
Heck, the airport was even renamed for him, as a special slap in the face to the air-traffic controllers.
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by MandieD 4y ago
Ever since I spent enough time outside of the world I grew up in (semi-rural, very Evangelical Texas), I've been a bit sad at the loss of what we could have been had Carter managed to stay in office, and increasingly in the last few ye
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by MandieD 4y ago
As the tagline for one of HN’s self-consciously frivolous ancestors says, “It’s not news, it’s Fark!”
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by MandieD 4y ago
None of the libraries I’m currently a member of has it, but the next city over does, so I’ll see if I can join that library - thanks for pointing this out!
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by MandieD 4y ago
Too late to add this edit: now that I've thought about it for a bit, I think that many of our software purchases are via software resellers. One of the main reasons is that getting a new vendor approved by Accounting for payments is a
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by MandieD 4y ago
If your company can credibly show that we knew that there were instances of your product running on several hundred of our PCs, but we can't prove that we were paying for the licenses, you can sue us for a lot more than those licenses
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by MandieD 4y ago
We built those and got them running one evening at a Meetup in Erlangen - looks like they had to switch to a temperature/humidity sensor that requires soldering the pins on, because the ones we used back then came ready to plug in, not
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by MandieD 4y ago
Big companies have people around whose sole job is to make sure that all software that needs to be licensed, is licensed, and that these licenses are the exact ones that meet the providers' rules. This usually means that you are not al
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by MandieD 4y ago
They were so blinded by giant dollar/Euro signs when insisting that we take loads of those ~20/month licenses that included a lot of things that are anti -features to most enterprises (we need to prevent people from pulling&#x2
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by MandieD 4y ago
Hey! They decided to do invoicing, after all! When they couldn't find a way to take purchase orders in the initial license obligation round and we were going to have to go through a third party licensing service to pay, we did a little
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by MandieD 4y ago
That, plus not being willing to accept Purchase Orders, doomed them with my employer. It's as if they had no idea how things work at large enterprises that are older than most Docker employees.
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by MandieD 4y ago
8 to 10 miles on a traditional bike is just enough work and time to make it impractical for a lot of people, where an e-bike reduces both margins just enough.
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by MandieD 4y ago
One major exception is that you can listen to air band from a car if you're doing so in order to be able to retrieve a balloon, glider (sailplane) or other recreational aircraft. (husband is a glider pilot who makes an "outside la
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by MandieD 4y ago
Slight correction: Norway has been part of NATO pretty much since its inception after WWII, but never joined the EU. Same for Iceland. Its neighbors Sweden and Finland are EU members whose citizens have recently come to widespread agreement
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by MandieD 4y ago
Think I heard that $75k figure bandied about when I was in college, and that was over 20 years ago when gas was about $1.25/gallon and $300k got a decent house in a Jersey suburb (or a near-mansion in my part of Central Texas). So prob
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by MandieD 4y ago
You’ve got something there. I grew up in a semi-rural Texas subdivision (housing development), and witnessed it fulfill a saying: “a subdivision is good for about 30 years: the first 10 as custom new homes, the second 10 as starter homes, a
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by MandieD 4y ago
"Compte du Whatevertheheck" and his English fellow fictional counterpart Lord Fitzwilliam, Earl of ------ (an Earl's wife is a Countess), weren't mere landed gentry - they were part of the hereditary aristocracy. An aris
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by MandieD 4y ago
We got 1.6% locked in for 15 years (and fully amortized!) in Germany, when we were lucky enough to finally beat out the wannabe landlords on our fourth offer, and then only because the seller had strong enough neighborhood ties that she did
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by MandieD 4y ago
I’ve heard this idea from a few different sources: after the breakup of a longtime partnership, give yourself at least a month per year of the relationship to recover emotionally. It’s certainly not widow(er)hood, but you’ve lost a big part
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by MandieD 4y ago
I think a lot of user frustration is caused by front end developers having relatively new, well-specced laptops connected to one or more nice monitors, but as the author pointed out, an awful lot of users have 768 x 1366, which usually impl
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by MandieD 4y ago
Greybeards and Greybuns (hey, us old ladies in tech need a catch-all)
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by MandieD 4y ago
"For men elsewhere, it's really good for them to know that women do this, and that this is why. You may know that you're not the man who does that, but they don't, and the consequences can be worse than losing your walle
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by MandieD 4y ago
Pretty pointless, but I'm not sure any of them quite beats the footgun that changing Lync to Skype for Business was - they managed to go from a short, snappy, uniquely-spelled name that clearly distinguished the product and ecosystem t
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by MandieD 4y ago
Disability is a binary in the minds of many - either you are and thus entitled to assistance, or you aren’t at all. The difference between being able to walk 500m in 30 minutes with a bench or two in the middle and being able to walk 1km in
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by MandieD 4y ago
1999 and 2000: watching older friends graduate into jobs that paid a then astonishing $80-100k, on the strength of some summer internships and part-time gigs 2001: summer internship at Microsoft testing Office for Mac, looking forward to br
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by MandieD 4y ago
"#girlboss" (and the possibly even more nauseating "#bossbabe") are what some of us feminists (oooo, scary word) describe as "empowerful": something that sounds superficially like it makes women more powerful o
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by MandieD 4y ago
You absolutely got the name and the “business” model right. If I never again see a “super cute!”, eye-searingly gaudy pair of leggings or other clothing being flogged online by one of my sweet but socially-susceptible high school classmates
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by MandieD 4y ago
For those of you too young to have used a public library much as an adult, they often carried many of the popular titles, as well as some specifically-requested ones, in large print editions precisely for their older patrons.

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