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by f1refly 5y ago
Yes, that sounds totally reasonable and not at all user hostile.
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by f1refly 5y ago
Okay, but your parents had just as many light switches growing up. > But knowing and always remembering to do it are two different things. I also forget to turn them off sometimes. What is "sometimes"? You wrote "I'd
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by f1refly 5y ago
That doesn't change the problem that I can't plug my headphones in anymore.
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by f1refly 5y ago
I was lucky enough to read this article and took a look at the underlying experiment. Human bodies are fascinatingly adaptable. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4437395
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by f1refly 5y ago
Considering this is an indictment in america against a monopolistic company: Nothing will happen, amazon will continue printing money and the small guys can whine all they want.
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by f1refly 5y ago
His kids have to run to the switch every thirty minutes after the lights went out on them? That sounds horrible. Like those toilets that leave you in the dark if you're not fast enough, only the timers don't even care if you move
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by f1refly 5y ago
> it pollutes Twitter without extending any conversations or bringing anybody joy per se. Basically it's spam. Looking from the outside, this is an accurate description of 99,99% of all messages ever written on twitter. Arguably, th
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by f1refly 5y ago
We didn't have home automation when my grandparents where kids, when my parents where kids, when me and my brother where kids. We managed to turn off the lights. Have you considered to just teach your kids to turn off lights? It's
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by f1refly 5y ago
Your link doesn't suggest that paper voting doesn't work, it suggests that india is a corrupt nation that couldn't manage to enforce its monopoly on violence during that time. You could in principle also just beat up everyone
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by f1refly 5y ago
This was my first thought as well. After I got a better lock that wouldn't give after twisting the bike multiple times, they just destroyed it out of spite.
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by f1refly 5y ago
Two beers a day is very, very dangerous according to my girlfriend, a social worker.
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by f1refly 5y ago
"Just get you issue to the front page of hacker news, if you can't make it fuck off" is not a valid support strategy for one of the biggest corporations in the worls
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by f1refly 5y ago
I always thought only vendors can put in bloatware - it comes non-optional per default. Who apart from the software vendor could be responsible?
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by f1refly 5y ago
Not if you remove the phone number afterwards. It just requires the phone number before enabling the normal otp.
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by f1refly 5y ago
I'm sure that is true and sister reply rightfully pointed out the parallels to the nazi dictatorship. I personally find both rather distasteful, but I think that ironic usage would very well fall in the "joke" territory.
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by f1refly 5y ago
Googles 2fa requires the user to give google his phone number before being able to add a totp authenticatior. That alone is reason for me to never use it for my google account. The popup also doesn't come up if you haven't signed
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by f1refly 5y ago
You can just make your own list. Generate 20 links, paste them somewhere, have your list of students next to it. Delete the list if nothing happened, check which number offended if it went wrong. If you can trust the platform, in cases wher
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by f1refly 5y ago
I'm still waiting for the movie where the computer character exclaims "Oh no, they appear to have employed a crypto nerd and given him free reign for the last decade! Their systems are so hardened we couldn't get in even if t
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by f1refly 5y ago
I once read a comment chain on this website that went like > I generally feel like military equipment is of higher quality and will last longer > I've been involved in military contracts for a long time and the stuff they buy is
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by f1refly 5y ago
> To trust your national security to something that is subpar seems like a recipe for having a bad time. I'd rather trust my national security on equipment that's subpar but reliable and predictable, instead of trying to make m
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by f1refly 5y ago
> Why would anyone register a domain with such extension is beyond me Because it's fun? Most sites where probably registered before the war and aren't necessary serious. You can have a good time with a soviet styled website or
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by f1refly 5y ago
But how would we know what is hate speech and what is just nasty? Do we just ask you every time? This issue comes up? Surely everyone has his own defintion of what should be banned and what shouldn't be? What makes your definition more
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by f1refly 5y ago
How is speaking about hateful things on the internet not being nasty on the internet? Isn't that the literal definition of hate speech?
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by f1refly 5y ago
You can easily generate individual share links for every pupil and sanction the one whose link was used by a hundred random people from all over the world to join the conference. Jitsi and Big Blue Button are both able to handle this specia
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by f1refly 5y ago
I haven't read the book, but the description gives me strong diamond age vibes. Is it somewhat like the described book?
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by f1refly 5y ago
No, it won't. When rust "installs" an application, it will compile it as described in the cargo.toml, then put the resulting binary file in "~/.cargo/bin" (just looked it up to be sure). The user can then
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by f1refly 5y ago
But, as said, for it to work you have to set up yet another package manager which will works against the systems package manager, leading to out of date packages and probably broken dependencies. Rust already has a working system that will
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by f1refly 5y ago
Look, I don't have a need for this application, but from the presentation of supported platforms: > Linux > Homebrew > Arch Linux > pacman -U jless First, if you have to revert to homebrew as a package manager on gnu&#x2
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by f1refly 5y ago
Ebook formats are interchangeable anyway - and why wouldn't they be? There is only so many ways to represent the same text with the same metadata, the only marginal differences are compression, organisation and the possibility for digi
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by f1refly 5y ago
That's pretty much every reader not made by amazon. My kobo takes any epub without complaining.

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