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by Spare_account 1y ago
that is covered off in the article, for what it's worth
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by Spare_account 1y ago
(Not the same guy but) I've definitely heard about this bug in the past, but I assume it is fixed now. I can't actually find a reference for it. If I find one within the hackernews comment edit window I'll add it here.
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by Spare_account 2y ago
Somewhere else in the thread, it was suggested that these 'late slips' might be useful for proving to one's employer why they were late to work. Is this the only use for them? I am reminded, once again, how lucky I am to have
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by Spare_account 2y ago
I like your future proof year numbering. Most current date formats are going to have a BIIG problem come the end of 9999 but not you!
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by Spare_account 2y ago
Are All Generalisations False?
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by Spare_account 2y ago
@dang Can you add (2023) to the title. Also, the linked reddit thread contains no concrete evidence of the alleged privacy breach in the title. This may be a candidate for re-titling / removal.
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by Spare_account 2y ago
They probably meant to write 'shameless self-promotion'
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by Spare_account 3y ago
Every time threads like this come up I am reminded that Google has ads. I don't see them, presumably because of uBlock Origin. I'm typing this response not to smugly boast, but because it's a lead in to the question that your
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by Spare_account 3y ago
In case you're interested in finding out the exact age of your Microsoft account: A few years ago I opened a support ticket with Microsoft about how old my account was and they were able to tell me the date my account was created. In m
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by Spare_account 3y ago
While attempting to help a family member register for an account on this credit/finance company, I noticed that amongst the password requirements was this statemant: " We do not accept automatically generated passwords from IOS &#
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Why would a site block automatically generated passwords?(imgur.com)
1 points by Spare_account 3y ago|4 comments
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by Spare_account 3y ago
Agreed, in the UK: - 'angled towards the ground' is 'On' ( https://cdn.aws.toolstation.com/images/141020-UK/800/10481.j... ) - 'angled towards the ceiling' is 'Off' ( htt
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by Spare_account 3y ago
It's been archived https://web.archive.org/web/20240128035720/http://www.homede...
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by Spare_account 3y ago
Not a single use of the word 'webmaster' in the whole article. Was Zach even around in the 90s? ;-)
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by Spare_account 3y ago
When I return a gas powered hire car, I'm required to return it with the same amount of fuel as I picked it up with. I sign a contract that states I'll be charged a higher-than-pump price to top up the car if I breach this require
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by Spare_account 3y ago
Well I feel pretty silly now. Thanks for pointing out the error
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by Spare_account 3y ago
The title of the post (on Hackernews, above) has the spelling "Phosphorous" (with a U). This is the spelling of the Adjective (a describing word). It is a mistake in this context, because what has been discovered in the outskirts
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by Spare_account 3y ago
>Mr. Dubrowski, the JPMorgan Chase spokesman, said the bar’s series of deposits was indeed the problem. > “We must know our customers and monitor the transactions that flow through our bank,” he said. “That includes instances where w
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by Spare_account 3y ago
>Sonos waited until 2019 to pursue claims on the invention (and until 2020 to roll out the invention in its own product line). What was the feature that Sonos introduced in 2020 that was being fought over?
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by Spare_account 3y ago
As per Betteridge's law of headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
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by Spare_account 3y ago
I wear sunglasses for driving every day of the year in the UK. Your optician will also encourage you to wear sunglasses year-round, UV damage can occur even in overcast conditions.
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by Spare_account 3y ago
> I don't think this is a US-vs-world issue. Which country are you in? I'm in the UK and we only connect dishwashers to the cold supply. Other comments in this thread from NL and DE are the same.
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by Spare_account 3y ago
So if I hook up my gmail account to this service, and I send an email via Eppie to my mom's outlook.com email, the outbound Sent Item won't show up in my gmail Sent Items folder?
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by Spare_account 3y ago
I don't understand what this is _for_? It is creating a second copy of all my email data on your cluster? For what benefit?
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by Spare_account 3y ago
But I have to clean the print heads every time I print (about once a month). I use up vast amounts of ink just keeping this thing working. I wish I'd bought a laser
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by Spare_account 3y ago
One possible view on this topic is that you're experiencing a form of confirmation bias here. You aren't aware of the numerous people who have stayed under the radar in the process of every stage of development that has ever happe
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by Spare_account 3y ago
I wonder if there is a pattern here that people who are complaining about MS Teams are also largely non-Windows users? My company is almost exclusively made up of Windows users and overall, I don't hear many complaints about MS Teams.
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by Spare_account 3y ago
As a happy MS Teams user, I'm curious about what issues you experience? Also, if you're willing, I'd be interested to hear which competing products you use and which areas those products outperform MS Teams?
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by Spare_account 3y ago
> What if Apple starts to say that we can rinse off our iPhones any time they get dirty? They already show advertisements in which iPhones get dunked in water. Semi-related: If they somehow use that loophole then they should be obliged
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by Spare_account 4y ago
Take a look at my other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35516985

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