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Why is Amazon selling fake 16TB portable SSD drives?(reviewgeek.com)
146 points by blowski 4y ago|191 comments
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by blowski 4y ago
The first words underneath the picture say: > This sequence of artist's illustrations…
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by blowski 4y ago
I live in Suffolk in the UK. People knowingly marry their cousins here.
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by blowski 4y ago
My friend has an Alexa. It's not an unusual for it to suddenly respond to something happening elsewhere in the kitchen, like a YouTube video on a laptop.
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by blowski 4y ago
What is it about David Hume specifically that you’d want to talk with him? His intelligence?
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by blowski 4y ago
Of course its design for the sake of design. I find it hard to imagine anybody inventing a "better clock". This is digital art and I like it.
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by blowski 4y ago
They’re probably student OEM keys provided to schools in poorer countries, which is the cheapest price Microsoft will sell a copy of Windows. They might work as keys but are not legitimate when used in the wrong country for the wrong purpos
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by blowski 4y ago
Babysitting somebody else’s kids - even close relatives - is a long way from having your own. The relentless night after night after night and you being ultimately responsible is somehow different, both positively and negatively.
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by blowski 4y ago
Next.js is a fantastic solution if you're building a SPA. Imagine I'm a very early stage startup so I start out with a simple app built on Laravel. All my engineers are relatively non-senior PHP folks, not great at JavaScript. So
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by blowski 4y ago
"Nagware"
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by blowski 4y ago
Similar problem to recruitment: recruiters need you to change jobs every couple of years to stay in business.
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by blowski 4y ago
Regarding the bugs, what makes it more of a problem in HTML attributes than with any other code?
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by blowski 4y ago
What practical difference does it make?
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by blowski 4y ago
I’m glad when tools like Alpine remain in their niche. Too many of them grow with their userbase, adding every requested feature, until they become as unwieldy as the framework they originally tried replacing. If you outgrow Alpine, migrate
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by blowski 4y ago
This is all the “administrivia” of management, and the tools you choose won’t make much difference.
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by blowski 4y ago
There is a difference between these three statements: 1. It can't be tested. 2. I don't know how to test it. 3. The tests don't give enough value given the effort required to write them. The less experience you have with test
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by blowski 4y ago
I’m always torn on this topic. On the one hand, diagrams are easy to update, track changes, and show in different contexts. On the other, a lot of automated diagrams are unclear because they miss important aspects of layout. I believe you s
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by blowski 4y ago
For framework owners that have a business built on top of their framework, that tight coupling is their "moat" that helps keep you locked in as a paying customer for longer.
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by blowski 4y ago
In general, framework owners _want_ you to become tightly coupled to the framework, whereas as a user you want to be able to move away from it more easily. I think this conflict of interests is behind recommendations like this, rather than
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by blowski 4y ago
I tend to avoid focusing on status updates on my WIP. In my 1:1s, I want to talk about me. 1. What do I need to do to get my next promotion/payrise, or how do I get onto the next bit of interesting work? Even if I'm happy with my
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by blowski 4y ago
Agreed. There are a lot of "popular business" books which are basically a blog post stretched out over 200 pages. They're full of wonkish ideas that might, at best, only work in a specific context. Kaufman's book is a th
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by blowski 4y ago
People are complicated! I like being healthy, but I also like eating pizza with mountains of cheese. Wearing my “enterprise architect” hat, I love stability. I don’t want to choose a technology that just might be the silver bullet but proba
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by blowski 4y ago
Alternative to what?
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by blowski 4y ago
I agree with the OP. Nobody should be choosing a critical dependency based on anecdotes like this, which tell only one side. If there were a post that aggregated such anecdotes with a more neutral stance, that might be more interesting.
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by blowski 4y ago
From the HN guidelines: > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".
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by blowski 4y ago
It's almost as if this hugely complex issue being summarised as "abortion - pro-life vs pro-choice" doesn't lead to a good outcome.
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by blowski 4y ago
Perhaps Microsoft's internet strategy of the late 90s changed the trajectory, just as they intended after seeing the impending doom.
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by blowski 4y ago
If you want them to be. There are plenty of personal blogs with zero advertising.
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by blowski 4y ago
Copy and paste? Seems to work well enough on HN.
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by blowski 4y ago
Yes, because it’s free and easy to manage as part of Google Apps. It works well most of the time, although lacks a few of Zoom’s bells and whistles.

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