Scharkenberg

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by Scharkenberg 4y ago
> In the Brexit case, it was white Eastern Europeans coming in to UK and taking over low-paying jobs. Perhaps true in many people's minds, but it largely seems to be the case that native Brits do not want to do those jobs. Either Br
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by Scharkenberg 4y ago
> First thing productivity users do to a Win or Mac laptop is install a windows manager so they don't drag windows around. Interesting point of view, but I must either live in a parallel universe or know no "productivity user
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by Scharkenberg 4y ago
SwiftKey for iOS was just discontinued.
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by Scharkenberg 4y ago
Yes, but that's precisely because they intended to ship a (newly) cross-platform product. From my understanding, the goal is that on Windows one is supposed to find Windows Security Center + Microsoft Defender or another antimalware so
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by Scharkenberg 4y ago
In my extensive experience, it works flawlessly as advertised on Windows and Linux, but the macOS build is still quite buggy.
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by Scharkenberg 4y ago
> "Battery life" usually means how long will battery last, before you need to replace it. No, it does not. "Battery life" means how long the device lasts on a fully charged battery before it needs recharging. What you
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by Scharkenberg 5y ago
Well, it would be news if the median didn't coincide with the average.
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by Scharkenberg 5y ago
This is peak HN discussion.
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by Scharkenberg 5y ago
Yeah, in normal text it would generally be camelCase, with PascalCase for nouns and the first word of every sentence.
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by Scharkenberg 5y ago
It's the outlook.com website and the user has a free account. Paying does get rid of the ads.
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by Scharkenberg 5y ago
Related post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30077993
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Microsoft fends off record-breaking 3.47 Tbps DDoS attack(arstechnica.com)
6 points by Scharkenberg 5y ago|1 comments
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by Scharkenberg 5y ago
The title is now "Israel begins fourth Covid-19 dose vaccine rollout for people over 60 as Omicron cases surge". It is still butchered.
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by Scharkenberg 5y ago
Only in the most liberal sense of the phrase "DRM" (which IMO would be a useless definition as many platforms/apps have analogous intentional and unintentional barriers, but they're not called "DRM"), but not D
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by Scharkenberg 5y ago
The title is editorialized/sensationalized. Original title: "Protected Content, Delete by Date, Device Management and More"
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by Scharkenberg 5y ago
It doesn't prevent the user from accessing it "the wrong way", it just makes it inconvenient to save an external copy.
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by Scharkenberg 5y ago
Of course, it would be nice if every program ever were nearly perfect upon release, but that isn't necessarily a realistic expectation in every scenario. If it can be updated via the Store (which is the case with Notepad and many other
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by Scharkenberg 5y ago
> The big play button is shuffle This was the case until a few weeks ago. Now it plays the tracks in order and there is an extra shuffle button. (Allegedly requested by Adele.)
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by Scharkenberg 5y ago
> As his medical bills started piling up, the employee says he and his partner ran out of money. “We had to start selling our belongings to pay bills,” he explains. “We downsized and spent most of the summer without electricity or air co
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by Scharkenberg 5y ago
That's not what contagious means.
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by Scharkenberg 5y ago
You make some interesting points, but children are neither machines nor lab rats. Conditioning can have deep psychological effects; those successful people that complain about their parents might have done some introspection and arrived to
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by Scharkenberg 5y ago
> Windows installers are still hostile to other OSes (I think) This only happens in two specific cases: 1. MBR + same physical disk for both OSes; 2. Bad UEFI implementation on the mobo + same physical disk for both OSes. Otherwise it sh
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by Scharkenberg 5y ago
> The numbers I remember from Germany are that an unvaccinated person is 8 times more likely to land in ICU than a vaccinated person. In my state (Saxony), 90% of patients in intensive care beds are unvaccinated. Just under 60% of the po
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by Scharkenberg 5y ago
> Instead, all branches of math will be taught in an integrated approach focused around applied problems. This is how it was taught in the (European) country where I grew up. To be honest I was a bit surprised when I learnt about the app
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by Scharkenberg 5y ago
I might be interpreting it wrong, but I read it in the "gentrification"-like way, not in the "they're taking our jobs" way.
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by Scharkenberg 5y ago
Not sure about the exact numbers, but there is one thing to keep in mind: a significant part of those users were in "developing markets", where the fee was never introduced in practice. WhatsApp kept granting free extensions to th
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by Scharkenberg 5y ago
Yeah, it's a questionable move. However, those who care more about DX12 on Haswell iGPUs than about the risk coming from the patched vulnerability have the option of staying on the previous driver, at least. The way I see it is that th
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by Scharkenberg 5y ago
> Does it even have new features? To name just two examples: Windows Subsystem for Android, nested virtualization support for AMD processors.
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by Scharkenberg 5y ago
If the telemetry-based removal of a feature would turn out to be a dealbreaker for a critical mass of users, it should be reconsidered (think of Mozilla's position in the browser market nowadays: it can't afford to piss off the &q
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by Scharkenberg 5y ago
Based on their recent design changes (deprecation of compact mode, for example), they are either not collecting enough telemetry about the affected parts of the UI/UX, or they are ignoring what they have collected for whatever reason.

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