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by eythian 6y ago
Yeah, I've seen it on other apps where the payment flow screens block screenshots for this reason.
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by eythian 6y ago
Thanks, I was looking to get a cheap home laser printer. Seems you and everyone recommends them, so it's ordered. Pleasingly, at least on the website I bought it from, the OS compatibility is listed as "Linux, Windows, iOS, macOS&
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by eythian 6y ago
No, they're not describing New Zealand. NZ doesn't have a national ID card. Also, they have their own system for SSO to government portals that doesn't use Google.
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by eythian 6y ago
Most people don't see these articles, or know how to buy and manage their own domain. Most people want email that is easy enough to use and generally functional and stops them having to see spam. We're all in a bit of a bubble whe
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by eythian 6y ago
I was wondering the same thing, I have quite a few years of email in Thunderbird and I generally find the search to be very effective.
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by eythian 6y ago
The company doesn't explicitly block them, they use a product that does the blocking that includes torrentfreak in its "piracy" category.
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by eythian 6y ago
And if it's not remarkable, then that is in itself remarkable.
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by eythian 6y ago
Somewhat similarly in the Netherlands, while the full address is generally used, the postcode (say 1012CK)* and the number (say 17) is sufficient to uniquely identify a place in the country. * this is a random place I found on google maps.
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by eythian 6y ago
Maybe this? https://kn100.me/improving-bluetooth-audio-linux/ I haven't tried it myself, and re-reading it suggests it may not help with your case. But perhaps useful anyway.
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by eythian 6y ago
I'm not sure if it's the same thing in Japan, but how they get signal in the metro in Amsterdam is interesting. Effectively it's coax cable running along the tunnel with holes in the shielding to let the signal leak out. Arti
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by eythian 6y ago
Well the example shows it's a problem in German too, which is spoken in parts of Switzerland, and Switzerland is a third world country due to being unaligned in the Cold War, so I think it'll be a problem in any non-US-English-spe
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by eythian 6y ago
> If you wander up to a seismograph in a museum, unless you are lucky enough to be there right during an earthquake, all you will see is a small wiggly signal being recorded. If you walk up to one and jump nearby, you'll see a fairl
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by eythian 6y ago
The speed of electricity isn't 1/100th the speed of light. IIRC it's something closer to 70% in copper. The speed electrons move is much lower, however something more like cm or m per second (presumably depends on voltage.) H
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by eythian 6y ago
Some of those I agree with, some I don't. For example, Google Listen was definitely killed. I used to use it and there was no migration path to anything else Google. I think Google Music didn't do podcasts then, and regardless it
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by eythian 6y ago
I'd hope not, that would be a completely wrong-headed decision by them as "Zwarte" isn't an uncommon surname/surname part, just like "Black" isn't uncommon in English-speaking countries. Which of cour
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by eythian 6y ago
At the bottom it says: > This article was written by Reinier Kist and originally appeared in Dutch in NRC on August 3rd, 2020. It was translated into English by Hans de Zwart. In the original source: https://archive.is/g6
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by eythian 6y ago
They're not that low, I'm working in tech in the Netherlands and earn well above the median, even excluding bonuses and equity and such. I imagine Germany is similar. It's more that the salaries in parts of the US seem unnatu
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by eythian 6y ago
Well, I was presenting as an example as to why such a thing might be the case thereby adding nuance, not really an argument per se. They can't limit me from partying on Sunday, but they are legally obliged to prevent over-work, and tha
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by eythian 6y ago
I used to do migrations between library systems, and often they'd export from the old system as CSV. One rule I gave them was "never open this file in excel", because they'd always try to be helpful by tidying something
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by eythian 6y ago
It depends, for example I have to get approval for any second jobs to my employer. This is certainly in part for competition reasons, but it's also so they can ensure that I'm not materially increasing my risk of burn-out, which w
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by eythian 6y ago
https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/ works in many cases.
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by eythian 6y ago
A bot exploiting a new SSHD vuln that my autopatching hasn't caught up with yet.
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by eythian 6y ago
I mostly work and socialise with people who have English as a second language. I have noticed myself simplifying sentences a fair bit too, reducing idiom use, and so on. But perhaps not to the same extreme :)
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by eythian 6y ago
I kinda figure that if people heard the lunchalarm going off at a different time, they'd just assume it was Monday noon and it'd confuse the rest of their week.
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by eythian 6y ago
Yes, I find the way ABN Amro implements this to be quite useful. If there's a mismatch between the name I entered and the account name, IIRC I'm required to confirm it before continuing. But it'll never stop me outright as me
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by eythian 6y ago
Technically there is, I think SMTP has 'VRFY' or similar to check if an email address exists. However I recall reading (like, over a decade ago) that it's often not supported as it makes it easier for spammers to validate rea
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by eythian 6y ago
But you're not saying "four litres of milk" that often. You're saying "a carton of milk" and typically the people understand that that is a litre or 1.5l or whatever it is you usually buy. As for beer, again, w
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by eythian 6y ago
"Randy" would be one that I see Americans have as a name that causes chuckles in most of the rest of the English speaking world.
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by eythian 6y ago
In December an Amsterdam-Vienna night train service will start.
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by eythian 6y ago
Had a similar experience getting a contract updating a mass spectrometer control system because I had extensive high school experience in Turbo Pascal.

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