Normille

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   by Normille 5y ago

   "a hardent" ? Do you mean "an ardent", or "a hardened", or a bit of both ?
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   by Normille 5y ago

   The irritating thing about crypto investing [I have a couple of grand's worth divided amongst about half a dozen coins and have been HODLing for about 5 years now] is that they almost always rise and fall together. So there's rare
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   by Normille 5y ago

   >"We want to develop euro banknotes that European citizens can identify with and will be proud to use as their money," said ECB Executive Board member Fabio Panetta in a statement. Yeah. I'd hate to have a huge wod
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   by Normille 5y ago

   It's the Daily Fail. Basically a joke newspaper in the UK. Take anything you read there with a mountain of salt.
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   by Normille 5y ago

   >It almost makes me want to start a meme Twitter account and build up a big follower count. That's apparently the only way to reach a human in customer support at a big tech company these days... Until your Twitter account g
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   by Normille 5y ago

   Unfortunately [UK member here] Mercari is US only. The only direct eBay alternative I'm aware of is eBid[0]. From time to time I check it out, when eBay is pissing me off more than usual. But it has always seemed like a ghost town. Al
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   by Normille 5y ago

   To be fair, I doubt you'd have got any offers for the laptop anyway. Even if eBay hadn't blocked your account. I certainly wouldn't buy a laptop from a new account with zero feedback.
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   by Normille 5y ago

   I bought some heat-shrink off Amazon once, for an electrical project. I ordered "1cm diameter". When it came, it was 2cm in diameter. I kept it as it was too cheap an item to bother returning and it would probably come in handy so
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   by Normille 5y ago

   It's not so much that the customer service people are advantaged/disadvantaged or helpful/unhelpful that, in my opinion, makes it a compete waste of time ringing them. It's the fact that they have no real ability to solv
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    by Normille 5y ago

    I posted this in another thread on the same subject: Not exactly related but: a couple of weeks ago I suddenly had my account 'restricted' on eBay and told I could no longer sell or receive payment for anything I'd sold until
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    by Normille 5y ago

    Not exactly related but: a couple of weeks ago I suddenly had my account 'restricted' on eBay and told I could no longer sell or receive payment for anything I'd sold until I uploaded a load of personal ID documents [passpor
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    by Normille 5y ago

    If your question was "Alternative to Instagram that lets me import my existing archive" then you'll find Pixelfed is 'not the droid you're looking for'. Like the vast majority of the new fediverse apps, it prov
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    by Normille 5y ago

    I think trying to piggy-back upon the success of Gorhill's uBlock and uMatrix with your naming, is a bit snidey. https://github.com/gorhill
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    by Normille 5y ago

    Oh, the irony!
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    by Normille 5y ago

    Ha! Ha! Suck it up Australia. When will these American Poodle countries wake up and realise that "they don't love you back"?
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    by Normille 5y ago

    Especially when you're so drunk you can't spell HN!
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    by Normille 5y ago

    Grey text on a slightly different grey background. Genius!
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    by Normille 5y ago

    All the usual suspects named previously: uBlock Origin, Bitwarden, ViolentMonkey, Vimium, etc. Plus: * Buster Captcha Solver --Poetic justice in browser extension form! Uses Google's speech recognition software against Google's R
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    by Normille 5y ago

    Latin is one of those languages I'd like to know but, unfortunately, not enough to invest the time in learning it. It was compulsory for my first two years in secondary school. But, at that age, pretty much everyone dropped it at the
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    by Normille 5y ago

    >Or even better, create a law that outlaws being distracted by anything while driving, requiring drivers to stop if they are distracted. Exactly! Why are companies allowed to put up those digital billboards, which are appearing
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    by Normille 5y ago

    So does Yandex Browser
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    by Normille 5y ago

    One of my [many!] bugbears is this use of 'Save the Planet' / 'Save the Earth' by the green movement, when what people actually mean is 'Save The Human Race'. Barring The Sun going supernova, 'The Pla
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    by Normille 5y ago

    They tried it before, back in the 1990s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_QuickTake [I used one at college. They were awful]
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    by Normille 5y ago

    >their large front eyes that make for adorable close-ups WTF is this latest craze for allegedly scientific articles talking to us like we were kindergarten children, by describing all manner of fauna as "adorable"? Sp
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    by Normille 5y ago

    Modal face-shitter alert
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    by Normille 5y ago

    Thinks: "I really must click on a random download link on a Github repo containing no information whatsoever".
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    by Normille 5y ago

    This must be a record, even for HN. An 11 year old article, posted as 'News'
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    by Normille 5y ago

    2017 --please put the date in the title when posting archaeology!
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    by Normille 5y ago

    >And 1 cup is a lot easier measurement for cooking than 235 ml... Really? What size cup is that... a tiny dainty bone china teacup?... big ceramic builder's mug? While we're at it, we might as well bring back spans and cubit
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    by Normille 5y ago

    >The utter superficiality of your comment is the perfect demonstration of the fashion driven nature of software development. You're not worried about the language. You're worried about the marketing and whether or not you