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by edent 3y ago
I've always wondered about the people who do this. Do they realise what the purpose of a headline is? It is to encourage the reader to invest time in a story. Usually that involves summarising it down to the bare minimum while still ma
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by edent 3y ago
The UK sites I've found list it as included - eg https://www.boots.com/preparation-h-ointment-25g-10094305
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by edent 3y ago
How does that help on the beach?
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by edent 3y ago
Not sure if you're joking - but vegetarians / vegans tend not use use any product which is made by killing an animal. People can argue about whether shearing a sheep or obtaining shellac is harmful - but I think everyone can agr
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by edent 3y ago
I have tried various anti-inflammatory/ anti-histamine creams in the past. But I've never found them that effective. Preparation H isn't suitable for vegetarians due to one of the ingredients being Shark Liver Oil.
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by edent 3y ago
I did look at that. Seems to be about the same price as the USB one in the UK. But it also doesn't recharge nor does it have fine-grained controls for session length / intensity.
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by edent 3y ago
I've tried the clickers but the effect only lasts a short while. I used the heater every day for about a week, no negative effect that I experienced.
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by edent 3y ago
As you can see, I didn't use that doctype. I experimented with a few older browsers (and one of those online virtual testers) and a few displayed weird results without it.
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by edent 3y ago
I have a WordPress plugin which scans for broken links and then offers to replace them with archive links. But those I did manually.
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by edent 3y ago
Sadly the domain name was from Freenom. All of the names registered with them have gone. I can't find a way to get my Mali domains back.
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by edent 3y ago
On the flip side, using PCP means that you get a brand new car and it has a warrantee. You could buy a banger for £500 - but then you're always going to be wondering if today is the day it'll cost you £££ to repair. And if you can
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by edent 3y ago
In the UK, most people don't pay the "sticker" cost for a car. They take out a PCP or similar plan. Pay £X00 per month for Y months. At the end of the period, either buy the vehicle outright or hand it back. Or, as many peop
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The UX of delivering parcels(builtformars.com)
3 points by edent 3y ago|0 comments
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by edent 3y ago
They should do, yes. But a popular post of mine was federated to over 2,500 servers - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/09/how-far-did-my-post-go-on-t... Once you have a large enough following, your instance will
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by edent 3y ago
Self-hosted is possible - but you'll be tending to your server a lot. Media cache fills up quickly, upgrades can be complex, even a moderately popular post can eat bandwidth. It is certainly possible but it's like the early days
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Russia's tax database and backups destroyed(gur.gov.ua)
49 points by edent 3y ago|19 comments
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by edent 3y ago
Spell check is probably the one which gets the most use from me.
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A list of BlockChain innovations which I would like funding for(shkspr.mobi)
1 points by edent 3y ago|0 comments
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by edent 3y ago
And it is now in Unicode thanks (in part) to HN. https://unicodepowersymbol.com/we-did-it-how-a-comment-on-ha...
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by edent 3y ago
A similar fix for Windows is to manually disable the HFP https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/09/better-bluetooth-sound-qual... On Linux, I can manually select the codec I want to use from a GUI drop down.
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by edent 3y ago
Adam Neumann of WeWork owned the trademark to "We" and a whole bunch of buildings which he leased back to "WeWork". That worked out very well for him.
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by edent 3y ago
They don't have to be the police. Cloudflare are a private company, not a public utility. They can deny service to anyone they want (within the bounds of the law). If they want to be a neutral public utility, they can rearrange their b
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Show HN: I built a "Cartographers for Social Equality" map(shkspr.mobi)
2 points by edent 3y ago|0 comments
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by edent 3y ago
Because the typical Instagram account is only followed by a handful of people. So anything unusual is unlikely to get any traction.
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by edent 3y ago
I read this earlier this year - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/02/book-review-the-mummy-a-tal... Some of its predictive power is astonishing. The plot is pure melodrama. But it also contains lawyers hacking ro
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by edent 3y ago
> The project is still at an early development stage and may be unstable. It currently lacks testing on real devices Yeah, nah.
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by edent 3y ago
I think - and it's only a think - that the author has ignored that a large part of what used to be called technical work is now commodified. I remember when a mail merge literally meant printing out lots of address labels and then ma
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by edent 3y ago
Looks nice. A few pieces of feedback. The AI voiceover is creepy and a bit naff. Either record yourself or pay someone to be enthusiastic. There's also no subtitles, which isn't very accessible. On your self-published page, lots
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by edent 3y ago
What I find interesting is that Flipboard has close to half a million followers on Twitter. Yet their announcement post from a couple of hours ago has only 13k views. That's despite it being retweeted by people also with thousands of
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by edent 3y ago
In the UK, this is common. As a hiring manager, I couldn't see the demographic information provided by candidates. If a candidate didn't volunteer the info, I also didn't know. It made zero difference to whether a CV was pass

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