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by SomeUserName432 7mo ago
And how would you determine that the buyer intends to play on linux, and not windows like 9x% of the buyers?
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by SomeUserName432 7mo ago
Feels like every time I drop by the office there's 2-3 new faces I've never seen before. People I know seems to not take issue with them being there, so I'm sure it's probably fine. Fine enough for it not to be my issue
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by SomeUserName432 8mo ago
> Claude should have gone for native apps and demonstrated that it is possible to do anything with their AI. Using IntelliJ I actually find myself wishing for an integrated webview of Github Copilot. The native view is absolutely terribl
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by SomeUserName432 8mo ago
> I also think Steam does a great job a hiding it Steam kept pushing a game as "recommended for you" with 99% negative reviews. In what world would I possibly want to buy a game with a <1% approval rating?
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by SomeUserName432 8mo ago
> Was forced to verify to get access to a new account. Like, an interstitial page that forced verification before even basic access. I'm forced to verify to access my existing account. I cannot delete it, nor opt out of 'being
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by SomeUserName432 8mo ago
I find notepad useful for sanitising clipboard content. No bold text, italics, bullet points, invisible html.. Just get the text and can copy it to paste again somewhere else. Ala Cmd+Shift+V on Mac
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by SomeUserName432 8mo ago
My only data point from Europe is Norway, where credit cards are widely adopted. There are also official debt registries, where you (and prospective lenders) can look up how much debt you have. A bit different than the credit score concept.
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by SomeUserName432 8mo ago
> I mean it’s an obvious decision to not accept cards if you can avoid it. You’re letting a company like Amex siphon up to 3% of your income away in perpetuity. In Brazil you can easily be paying 5-6% when accepting card payments, if not
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by SomeUserName432 8mo ago
The vendors you'd pay with Pix in brazil are typically the vendors who may not even accept cards at all, it's pix or cash. (Although you CAN pay with pix at many supermarkets, I'd rate it as rare. Also useable for online paym
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by SomeUserName432 8mo ago
Yet if the airline goes under, or I never receive the product I bought online, using Visa/Mastercard I'm not left holding the bag. If I take a random loan with the bank and use those funds to do the same purchases using debit, the
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by SomeUserName432 8mo ago
I would never buy a plane ticket on debit. Airbnb reservations I also tend to do on credit. Anything related to company expenses I also do on credit and receive reimbursement prior to having to pay it myself.
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by SomeUserName432 8mo ago
Right you are.. Perhaps I recall incorrectly and it was a different command. I did try it, and it did not exist. Odd.
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by SomeUserName432 8mo ago
> Another pattern I’m noticing is strong advocacy for Opus For agent/planning mode, that's the one only one that has seemed reasonably sane to me so far, not that I have any broad experience with every model. Though the moment
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by SomeUserName432 8mo ago
I actually tried GPT 4.1 for the first time a few hours ago(1). I spent about half an hour trying to coax it in "plan mode" in IntelliJ, and it kept spitting out these generic ideas of what it was going to do, not really planning
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by SomeUserName432 8mo ago
I've run into something akin to `const int EIGHT = 7`. Courtesy of TCS.
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by SomeUserName432 8mo ago
Just your ISP, their ISP, your hosting provider (if applicable) and the browser vendor. Adding in an optional HTTPS there would not greatly increase the amount of intermediaries, though I by no means argue that it matters.
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by SomeUserName432 8mo ago
With all the hassle a government contract can bring, it's just not worth it for anything lower.
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by SomeUserName432 9mo ago
> Where do you look first? Git commit will generally explain why it was done. The task it references may or may not explain the decision process that lead to it. Usually not. It's rarely related to code, more often a business decisi
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by SomeUserName432 9mo ago
> But I am not a storage/backend engineer, so maybe I don't understand the target use of Redis. We use it to broadcast messages across horizontally scaled services. Works fine, probably a better tool out there for the job with
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by SomeUserName432 9mo ago
How odd.. I have this on my iPhone, but to my recollection the mac has never not once asked me to enable any kind of cloud stuff or sell me storage.
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by SomeUserName432 9mo ago
A whole extension? Seems like something any custom-css/custom-js plugin can handle. Stylus, or those monkey extensions. .hnuser attr=href=?user?id=rd .parent().parent().hide() Though no idea if such a plugin exists for Safari.
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by SomeUserName432 10mo ago
My main peeve with the Apple TV (device) is that the home button keeps sending me into Apple TV (App) instead of to the main screen. I have to click it twice to get back to the home screen.
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by SomeUserName432 10mo ago
> What’s the point in having smart TV without internet access? The difficulty in finding an affordable TV without smart functionality alone means that you're most likely buying a smart TV. I yet again bought a Samsung smart tv (desp
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by SomeUserName432 10mo ago
> Very easy to spoof the MAC of the TV or setup some SNI spoofing proxy server At that point you're in the 0.1% that the hotel does not really need to worry about. The other >99% will still need to pay for wifi.
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by SomeUserName432 10mo ago
> What about not sharing at all? I had windows defender want to upload a certificate to microsoft. Default behavior is to silently always allow uploading "suspicious files"
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by SomeUserName432 10mo ago
I tried this on iPhone 17 (regular), the phone became more or less unusable. ~500-2000ms lag when changing or closing an application. The liquidglass experience was bad, but reduce motion was unusable.
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by SomeUserName432 10mo ago
There are people who don't own credit cards, and the app stores rarely offers any other "cash like" alternative other than gift cards.
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by SomeUserName432 10mo ago
> It's always annoyed me that zooming in on a building will not reliably show the business that operates there. It's actually much worse than that. I will often see the business name as I'm zooming in, but if I zoom too fa
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by SomeUserName432 10mo ago
> Words mean things. "Perfectly lawful" means just that? And so, I was curious. He did prefix it with "I think", highlighting that "this is my opinion / my interpretation", not that he is issuing a ruli
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by SomeUserName432 10mo ago
> or 1Password vaults are harder to work with https://1password.com/blog/1password-environments-env-files-...

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