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by asjw 7y ago
Windows 95 came out 25 years ago and many jumped directly from DOS or typewriters to it She has +25 years of experience in using computing devices now, and computers are hundreds of times more powerful, of course things are easier for her
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And a filter for people with not enough motivation
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What's the name of the conference? I'm in Milan and I have access to a beautiful villa 10 minutes off Bellagio on Como lake, on the mountain side. it would be great to organise something together.
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> and secondarily a way for attendees to launder company training budgets into paid time off. That's the only reason I still go, making sure that the hotel has a rooftop pool at least! it also happened at a conference that some spea
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Let's play this game: If you assume that everything will turn out well, you're not going to be cautious If you assume people around you are all good you're in for some surprise, not of the good kind , especially if you are a
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A friend of mine had a discussion with Matthew Garret (Google) here on HN and his account was banned without a warning Related?
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> On the one hand, it's amazing that one person can produce a show which reaches what previously you'd have needed a multinational TV organisation for YouTube is larger than many previous TV organizations, with none of the bene
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Redlang
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Apple software is simply dumbed down defaults with hidden settings (most of the time settings are also not that useful)
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Disclaimer: I've been car free for the past three years. I agree that roads are public infrastructure, but car owners are heavily taxed in Europe, especially some parts of Europe. In Italy, excluding fuel taxes (which cover 70% of the
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Women also close the doors of their homes for safety and privacy. It doesn't deny their civic life, it simply blocks uninvited guests from entering their homes. We don't need police, when a door is more than enough
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Columns can be easily collapsed or hid; wasting vertical space is a worse solution than wasting horizontal space Also tables align nicely in a grid, recfiles do not
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Unless you browse the internet in a frameless full screen window, there are a lot of other elements stuck at the top of it (or at the bottom) It might be you're overreacting to something it's not really a big deal in general
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Mac OS global menu is okish only on Mac
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Strange, because I use plasma (and XFCE before that) and apart some minor issue with scaling it works without problems on a 4k laptop monitor plus 2 external HiDpi monitors Display port works better than HDMI though
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Linux, which is based on UNIX and implements POSIX BTW without x86 there would be no Linux and what about the Von Neumann architecture? How far back should we have to go? Elementary doesn't even force you to pay, you can use it for fre
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It doesn't take you anywhere if they always answer "you use Linux? It must be that" Assume competence if they show competence If they don't, assume they will be part of the problem, you won't get any help and they w
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I do it with the doctor! We have mandatory visits at work here in Italy and to save time when I go there, instead of following the usual routine, I say immediately: my grandfather suffered from high pressure, my mom has been curing her high
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You also have to ignore the listener that don't listen or that don't understand, despite others did or have never put themselves in the condition of needing an explanation. Basically communication is bidirectional, if the listener
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We haven't lost him out of misfortune, as many other things he made horribly wrong and nobody talks about anymore, because, you know, survival bias, he also thought cancer could be cured with diets. He was man that even his daughter de
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Not in Europe, where education is basically free (few thousands euros/year)
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When you were in high school Reddit accounted for maybe 5% of the users that Facebook and Twitter have right now Most of them were not moms or grandmothers
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That's not what's happening here. In 1984 the facts were changed, the chocolate ration is the most famous example of this. This is just the right after 30 years of jail having paid the debt to society to have a second chance. The
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> Climate change is absolutely an existential risk. So are sleeping volcanoes and space asteroids The point is that the "end of the world as we know it" has already happened in history, more than a few times already. I'm s
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How would you avoid it? I agree with your sentiment and I am probably on the lower end of the middle class now, coming from a working class family, but I can't find a way to avoid that someone will get more than me by simply not caring
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Not every place is the same They all present challenges, but they could be acceptable for you. Jira and stories are not the norm, especially if you have been doing it for a long time, most of the time your role is improving the process thro
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That's what IE did in the past with high security enabled Ironic ain't it?
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It's actually hundreds of thousands and they are paying users.
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Hardware wallets can protect your assets, but they can't protect you from bad rep. People won't make transactions with you if transactions are monitored or at risk (every business with someone having problems with the law are hine
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Have you ever tried any other system? Do you have some evidence to back up your conclusion? It looks to me that yours is plain and simple confirmation bias.

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