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by disruptiveink 4y ago
I'd like to get actual confirmation of this, but my vague feeling is that, once upon a time, Google Search would get "updates", as in, actually deployed code that would change the rule of the game and most of the previous dir
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
Wouldn't the switch just be to make it mandatory for all edits to come from a registered account? I see this the other way around, they're attempting to allow unregistered edits for most people at the cost of extra administration
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
Isn't this just for non-logged in users? Needing to sign up to edit is a non-issue, you don't even have to provide an email address. Almost no website, HN included, let you submit content without a form of registration, Wikipedia
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
Wait, you reimplemented most of GNU Readline in a single file with no dependencies? Appreciate you started from someone else's library, but yours actually looks feature complete! Wow.
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
Well, if the wind farm is needed to meet targets emissions target, then there aren't many options, are there? a) Iowa negotiates the annual guaranteed rate the private entity wants down; b) Iowa commissions another wind farm or an alte
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
I was a Terminal.app user since Tiger, only recently had to switch to iTerm 2 as since Big Sur it forces anti-aliasing on non-HiDPI displays, even when turned off in the settings (I like non anti-aliased Monaco 10pt). It looks like a bug, b
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
That is what it once meant. "Spyware" was the term used for any process that called home regarding any information about you, your computer or your usage in the background. Calling home for anything other than "Check for upda
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
This is really the only issue from that post that I would really like on macOS. SSH mounting as well, potentially. The rest are annoyances that while I believe are very important to the author, they feel rather irrelevant to me. Right now,
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
I wonder what percentage of the people who hold that opinion regarding Internet connection bandwidth hold the exact opposite opinion regarding road capacity and car usage. In those cases, I have a feeling they blame government entities for
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
These are images from the Art Bits stack from HyperCard 2.0, if I remember correctly. Interestingly, they seem to be totally different from the HyperCard 1.0 Art Bits, which are the ones that are rather nostalgic to me.
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by disruptiveink 5y ago
I click "Disagree" by default, because why would you click agree by default? If the site starts getting complicated due to my decision of clicking "Disagree", it signals to me the website doesn't really care about i
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by disruptiveink 5y ago
You're actually making the opposite argument that you think you're making: if the scp command stops working, from a "corporate" perspective, from all intents and purposes, it means that "our server no longer works w
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by disruptiveink 5y ago
My feedback as a first time user is that it took me about four relaunches to figure out how to get to any kind of preferences, I couldn't figure out how to do anything beforehand. At least on macOS, VueScan > Preferences... does not
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by disruptiveink 5y ago
That's exactly my approach as well. My devices are usually in English, as it's the "lingua franca" of the OS and the internet. For non country-specific applications, it's much harder to search for, well, any issue i
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by disruptiveink 5y ago
> Apple proposes that programs such as Tunnelblick be modified to use a different method to accomplish the function that the system extensions currently perform. The current Tunnelblick developers do not have the time or expertise to use
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by disruptiveink 5y ago
Thanks for the tips and for the more or less confirmation of my terrible technique. You're right that I pay no attention to Philips vs Pozidrive, will definitely need to start taking that into consideration. When following a guide, I d
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by disruptiveink 5y ago
My issue with most repair jobs as a hobbyist who can do amateur level of soldering is, oddly enough, stripped screws. No matter what I'm trying to do and despite my best efforts, there's a very high chance of me stripping a screw,
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by disruptiveink 5y ago
This is all about being able to invoke AWS Lambda from an IPv6-only network. Their copy states as much: "(...) removes the need for expensive networking equipment to handle address translation between IPv4 and IPv6." Use cases wil
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by disruptiveink 5y ago
Amazon is also in the easiest position to offer support, since for the bulk of support queries, if all else fails, they can just absorb the cost and refund the customer. The customer is usually not any worse than when they started if they d
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by disruptiveink 5y ago
Norm in the UK amongst most banks/card issuers these days seems to be either Visa or Mastercard Debit and Mastercard Credit. Out of all the meaningful issuers that I know of, only Barclaycard and HSBC issue Visa Credit, with everyone