Nition

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   by Nition 3y ago

   The Earthsea trilogy by Ursula Le Guin is another one (there are also books beyond the first three now, but they're more targeted at older readers).
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   by Nition 3y ago

   I don't know how it works in 2024, but it used to work like this: - Google would show the result, on Experts Exchange. - You'd go there and the result would be cut off, and it'd tell you to pay to see it. - Since Google requi
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   by Nition 3y ago

   They often seem to end up like this: Topic: Can't select blue wallpaper Body: Hi, for some reason I can't select blue as a wallpaper colour. I can select any other colour, just not blue. I have Enable All Colours ticked. Anything
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   by Nition 3y ago

   There's nothing worse than having a problem with a product, finding 250 other people on the feedback tracker that have had the same problem over the last three years, and the only official response is some support person on the first p
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   by Nition 3y ago

   I've noticed a lot of big products have a user feedback cycle that goes something like this: - Create new feedback tracker - Direct feedback to tracker - Stop paying any attention to tracker - Tracker is hundreds of pages of users shou
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   by Nition 3y ago

   > It is extremely difficult for programmer-users to report bugs against the Windows API (we're supposed to direct you to Feedback Hub, but you may as well transmit your message into deep space). :'‑(
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   by Nition 3y ago

   Thanks, so that does seem to confirm that when the Romans added Jan/Feb, they put them at the beginning of the year right from the start. Unfortunately it still doesn't really have an answer to why they didn't put them at the
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   by Nition 3y ago

   How did we end up with the year starting in January? If you've got eight months and they're often named like that - e.g. "oct" for the 8th month - and you decide to add a couple for the time you're not counting duri
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   by Nition 3y ago

   Well, note that they're only talking about giving refunds if there's an attack and they miss it. Doesn't mean they'll give a refund if you get $100K worth of real user traffic.
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    by Nition 3y ago

    I'd think Hacker News actually comes under #2. If 100,000 people come from Hacker News to look at your hobby site about the Aamber Pegasus, you're supposed to think of how you've improved their lives by letting them read abo
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    by Nition 3y ago

    Yeah. Elsewhere in these comments there's a link to a support thread[0] where Netlify support essentially says you shouldn't ever need an option to suspend your site at a certain point because: #1. If you think there's any ch
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    by Nition 3y ago

    > I don't think there's any control panels people are in love with. Not in the modern era, but I do love this one from Mac OS 1: https://i.imgur.com/XKfnGMl.png
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    by Nition 3y ago

    Windows really is a confusing mess right now. Especially the two different settings areas. All sorts of ridiculous stuff like Microsoft realizing people won't be able to find the options to turn system icons on and off on the Desktop a
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    by Nition 3y ago

    Yeah you'd need to level match a couple of tracks, then blind test between them. Or else turn off normalisation.
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    by Nition 3y ago

    Eventually someone will realise that it'd also be great for telling you where you left your keys, if it'd film everything you see instead of just your screen.
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    by Nition 3y ago

    > They could never have invented the iPhone I would like to mention here though that Apple eventually introduced a fair amount of things that Nokia did first with the Nokia N9 (especially once they went buttonless with the iPhone X). Onc
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    by Nition 3y ago

    Non-technical users can at least still just sign up, see the text box to chat, and start typing. You'll know the real trouble's arrived when new sign-ups get hit with some sort of unskippable onboarding. "Select three or more
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    by Nition 3y ago

    One fun list is in the default NetComm router software which still has a huge list of pre-saved port forwarding info for multiplayer PC Games that hasn't been updated since around 2001. That's quite a fun nostalgic list to browse.
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    by Nition 3y ago

    Thanks for the great answer. Reading back my comment I think I worded it too strongly really - I really don't want to imply, like, "maybe people with ADD just need to get more sleep." I'm sure anyone with a lifelong cond
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    by Nition 3y ago

    When I see symptoms of ADD/ADHD described, they always sound like the way I feel when I haven't had enough sleep. I've looked up whether there's any correlation before, and they generally say that ADD can also cause diff
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    by Nition 3y ago

    In NZ after the single-use plastic bag ban some people argued against only having high quality reusable bags available by saying "but I keep forgetting my reusable bags, and I so I keep having to buy more! Now I have 15 cloth bags at h
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    by Nition 3y ago

    Personally I can say I switched to just not lining the bin after the plastic bag ban. I have a separate compost bin for food scraps so the main bin mostly doesn't get too dirty, and if it does get some liquid or whatever on it, a quick
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    by Nition 3y ago

    That's what I mean - that's how the parent defined an "anachronym". But yeah, there was that transitional phase where they first just redefined the acronym.
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    by Nition 3y ago

    ARM might be another good one. Acorn computers don't even exist anymore.
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    by Nition 3y ago

    I suppose you could catch those like so: "What is one plus three?" candidate frantic typing "It's four" "Are you sure it isn't five?" frantic typing "I apologise, one plus three is five.&quot
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    by Nition 3y ago

    Oh funny, I actually came to this comment thread to point out that they'd accidentally used a picture of macarons instead of macaroons in the blog. But I guess not necessarily!
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    Changes in Windows to Comply with the Digital Markets Act in the EEA(blogs.windows.com)

    12 points by Nition 3y ago|5 comments
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    by Nition 3y ago

    Catapart is aware, they're just saying it's unfortunate how it ends up looking.
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    by Nition 3y ago

    There's some more info/speculation on it here: https://www.spronck.net/sloot.html
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    by Nition 3y ago

    98% of all IPv6 addresses will be set aside for self-replicating nanobots and our bodily cells will have to fight over only the remaining 2%.