alexaholic

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by alexaholic 3y ago
On a reasonably large project, you accumulate sufficient dependencies that you end up doing all of that.
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New SARS‑CoV‑2 variant BA.2.86 has 30+ mutations, causes concern(theguardian.com)
3 points by alexaholic 3y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Am I the only one suffering from bullet points fatigue?
3 points by alexaholic 3y ago|2 comments
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by alexaholic 3y ago
The article is about inflation in Europe
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by alexaholic 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36484267 > I suspect what happened was rising prices because of the pandemic and the war showed companies they can increase prices without also suffering a significant decrease in sal
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by alexaholic 3y ago
I suspect what happened was rising prices because of the pandemic and the war showed companies they can increase prices without also suffering a significant decrease in sales. After all, when virtually all prices are going up, where are con
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by alexaholic 3y ago
> Companies can't arbitrarily raise prices The article suggests this is false
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by alexaholic 3y ago
I wonder what would happen if everyone in the production chain had a profit margin of 45%
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by alexaholic 3y ago
I find it hilarious when companies are following their stated goal of making profits, while everybody else is rushing to explaining rising prices by factoring in everything but profits.
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by alexaholic 3y ago
I think tipping incentivises managers to lowball workers. I'm not buying into that "service not included" bullshit. How about you just... include it, and start paying at least the minimum wage if not more? I get tipping when
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by alexaholic 3y ago
iOS/Safari
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by alexaholic 4y ago
They are paying for the product. Are you suggesting customer support should be paid for separately?
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by alexaholic 4y ago
A bank transfer would exclude the intermediaries: Visa, Mastercard, Apple, Stripe etc.
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by alexaholic 4y ago
br is an empty tag and empty tags are self-closing
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by alexaholic 4y ago
Facebook maintains a list of topics it thinks you are interested in and shows you ads based on that. You can see and manage it in the Ad Preferences section. See https://m.facebook.com/help/247395082112892 Google too h
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by alexaholic 4y ago
> You probably made your product very hilarious (and probably hard to sell) for the entirety of the Romance-speaking market... Not quite the entirety of it: "magicul" means "magical" in Romanian.
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by alexaholic 4y ago
MS Office switched to XML tentatively in 2003 and fully in 2007. The latter formats were standardized (Ecma, ISO) into Office Open XML, but even the previous version were accessible. I don’t remember whether the spec was publicly available,
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by alexaholic 5y ago
Aren't the keys encrypted with a PIN of your own chosing which you set and verify in the app? -- As a side note, it seems to me that what you call "ulterior motive" is essentially vendor lock-in and I don't think that
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by alexaholic 5y ago
This looks like spam to me. A lot of the links in the article point to pages on the same site, rather than the original sources. For example, the links for Firefox and Brave point to download pages on TechSpot.
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by alexaholic 5y ago
The walrus operator, the `match` statement, the f-strings etc. these seem like just syntactic sugar. Also note the type hints are optional. So these changes are opt in: you can still write the Python of yesterday. But, if you can afford to
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by alexaholic 5y ago
oEmbed[1] meets Schema.org[2]? [1] https://www.oembed.com [2] https://schema.org
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by alexaholic 5y ago
From the article: > In April and October 2021, the Kremlin has moved more than 100,000 soldiers towards Ukraine. > This week Putin started moving his army west from the eastern military district. > Defense expert Scollick w
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Russian trains transporting military equipment towards the western border(bild.de)
2 points by alexaholic 5y ago|1 comments
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EU push for broader scope on common charger proposal(euractiv.com)
1 points by alexaholic 5y ago|0 comments
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by alexaholic 5y ago
I was under the impression Adobe was investing heavily into Web Components. I gather that didn't work out well?
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by alexaholic 5y ago
I didn't know such laws existed. Do you have any sources? FWIW I live in the EU.
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by alexaholic 5y ago
When I canceled my Adobe subscription 2 years ago, there was no way you could do it from your account. I had to contact support, then spent about about 10 minutes with them until they confirmed my subscription will no longer renew automatic
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by alexaholic 5y ago
The new blog at https://go.dev/blog/ doesn’t seem to have a RSS feed: https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgo...
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by alexaholic 5y ago
Polaroid
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by alexaholic 5y ago
I'd be very wary of installing an app that took screenshots randomly

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