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by computator 2y ago
The article says that 9V batteries have fallen out of favor and links to this explanation that makes no sense to me: A 9 volt battery uses six smaller 1.5 volt cells connected in series to achieve its 9 volts. But cramming that many cells
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New DJI policy: No flight record syncing for US drone pilots(dronedj.com)
1 points by computator 2y ago|0 comments
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by computator 2y ago
Do you have a recommended list of the about:config changes to get optimal security and privacy?
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by computator 2y ago
It's not it. I tested it. Waiting several minutes after clearing everything in Firefox doesn't make it forget. But shutting down the browser and restarting allows you to try again.
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by computator 2y ago
How is this site maintaining state? It's age restricted, so if you enter an age less than 21 or 18 years or something, it'll block you and continue blocking you even if you clear cookies, cache, history, offline website data, an
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by computator 3y ago
> garbage disposal ... encourages people to put through food waste That's like saying bicycles encourage people to ride bicycles. It's supposed to encourage it. That's the literal purpose of a garbage disposal unit: &quo
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by computator 3y ago
> the combustion engine and hybrid cars are surprisingly reliable The OP brings up an interesting contradiction: appliances have become less reliable but cars have become more reliable. Cars have become worse in some of the same areas
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by computator 3y ago
"FBI wiretap transcripts" sound like very private conversations, probably including innocent people and innocent topics. Just because they had a court order for the wiretap doesn't mean the conversations are now public record
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by computator 3y ago
The site[1] claims that every time you log into a Google property, like Gmail for example, Chrome will automatically sign the browser into your Google account for you, and that means that Google Chrome can track everything you do. Does ever
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by computator 3y ago
Whether or not they are copies is irrelevant(*). Are software engineers normally allowed to keep copies of the proprietary source code of their employer after they leave the company? Do accountants normally keep copies of the financial reco
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by computator 3y ago
> Former federal prosecutor John Franke led me down the staircase to the basement of his suburban Milwaukee home, stopping at a stash of bankers boxes. “They sat in storage in different houses for the last, what is it, 40 years?” he sai
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by computator 3y ago
What is the rationale of promising to not reapply? If a company is hiring again 6 months after some layoffs, what would be wrong will rehiring an ex-employee who was one of those laid off, assuming they are the best candidate for the new jo
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by computator 3y ago
> every decision to change the spelling of your language should be the result of international comities Your use of comiti reminds me of this "joke" that committees often make things much worse: 'Committee' was the
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by computator 3y ago
It's fun to spell out 7 the different meanings you can get: - I didn't say she stole my wallet. Tom saw it happen and he's the one who said she stole my wallet. - I didn't say she stole my wallet. You're making
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by computator 3y ago
> drive to hospital instead of calling for ambulance When some hospitals reach their capacity, they'll instruct ambulances to go to another hospital, which could be a worse hospital or much further away. If you're able to dri
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by computator 3y ago
> On June 21 or so every year, Earth’s North Pole reaches its greatest tilt toward the sun. When that happens, the sun’s path across the sky takes it the highest above the horizon all year, making for the longest days of the year and gi
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by computator 3y ago
The headline in the Daily Mirror in the article says, "Mystery of Woman Novelist's Disappearance", which tells me that she was much less famous in 1926 than she is today. Any headline about her today would have used her name
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by computator 3y ago
That fact that Apple blended iMessages, SMS text messages, and email into an extremely confusing mess may also be the reason for so many security issues related to iMessage. Perhaps not directly responsible for this particular NGO exploit,
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by computator 3y ago
Another nightmare is trying to use an Apple TV with a captive portal. I travel with my Apple TV so I don't have to enter my Netflix or whatever credentials into someone else's TV. Also, Apple TV has a much nicer UI than most smart
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by computator 3y ago
> probably DeviceCheck, which gives you 2 bits to store “fraud” related flags Does resetting your iPhone ( Erase All Content and Settings ) clear out data like that? Does doing a restore from backup put that data back on your iPhone?
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by computator 3y ago
> Goodbye useless SEO spam, advertisement hell. We hated your guts. That sounds great, but are you sure that there won't be legions of LLMs generating SEO spam and advertisement hell in warfare with the LLMs that do search? Just a
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by computator 3y ago
It's intriguing that medical care is always the worst kind of service, by far, in every country in the developed world, compared to every other kind of product or service we depend on. Compare it to food, electricity, gasoline, clothin
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by computator 3y ago
> 80/20 rule: 20% of customers were responsible for 80% of revenues > Sometimes you will see a 90/10 relationship or a 75/25 split. It's funny that his examples add up to a nice round 100, but it doesn't h
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by computator 3y ago
A bunch of people are commenting here on how much of their karma comes from submissions and how much from commenting. But they are not treated equivalently for karma. Submissions give significantly less karma than comments. 100 points for a
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by computator 4y ago
May I ask what's the rationale for writing 01996 rather than 1996? I've seen this before but I haven't seen an explanation of the advantage of it.
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by computator 4y ago
Because of energy waste or some other reason?
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by computator 4y ago
Considering that this idea has been around forever and that it isn’t nearly as expensive[1] as you might initially assume, I wonder why it isn’t a standard feature of most homes in cold climates. [1] “A snow melting system that heats the ti
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by computator 4y ago
But then many people would first buy the gift card to get the 5% or whatever discount, then buy the item they were going to buy anyway. Now that I think about it, I think a gift card has to be priced at exactly a 1:1 price. (You can't
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by computator 4y ago
And the converse from The Simpsons: “gift card: just like cash but more limited”
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by computator 4y ago
Some very insightful and thought-provoking comments are under the above downvoted parent comment. I wonder what the Hacker News algorithm does with threads that have a downvoted parent but with highly upvoted replies? Does it push the thr

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