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by foepys 2y ago
True. Part of the reason is aggressive saliva that just doesn't let some bacteria live and thus keeps the teeth healthy for longer. Dry mouth is literally damaging your teeth as well.
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by foepys 2y ago
Same here. I work in an office with lots of daylight and dark mode makes it actually very hard to see. Also, light theme allows for more distinguishable colors.
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by foepys 2y ago
Didn't Microsoft argue this in a US court and lost?
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by foepys 2y ago
Microsoft is getting ready to replace Azure DevOps with GitHub.
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by foepys 2y ago
Don't all AM4 CPUs feature fTPM which is a firmware-based TPM? Bitlocker at least accepts this as secure enough to boot Windows 11.
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by foepys 2y ago
How does one even do that? Browsers try quite hard to not break words and make text readable by default.
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by foepys 2y ago
It's not just old people. Younger people (and especially GenZ) are falling for (social media) scams at an astounding rate. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/data-visualizations/data-spo... https://ti
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by foepys 2y ago
I'd want more redundancy in that case. With such large HDDs zfs resilver could kill another disk and then you would lose your data.
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by foepys 2y ago
Last time I checked modern aluminum alloys made it very hard to recycle aluminum waste efficiently. That's still the case, apparently.
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by foepys 2y ago
Go probably has the last standard library I would take as a reference for my own datetime implementation. Their datetime formatting implementation is simply nuts. Why not follow standards? Why the NIH?
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by foepys 2y ago
That's because Mozilla has no interest supporting it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34588883
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by foepys 2y ago
As an Android user iOS is kind of bizarre to me. There are so many weird limitations compared to Android. E.g. I cannot choose a different default navigation app. When I attach a location to a calendar event in the Apple calendar app, I can
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by foepys 2y ago
I'd argue that Apple is operating on the same scale, at least regarding physical presence. Apple disallows disabling Bluetooth and WiFi easily because it allows them to track their air tags everywhere.
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by foepys 2y ago
EU and Russian economies are not liked in significant ways anymore. Russia was the number one natural gas supplier but has kicked itself off that position with the invasion of Ukraine. Meanwhile the EU exports massive amounts of goods and i
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by foepys 3y ago
Quite a few EU citizens travel to Denmark nowadays to get married to foreign nationals. Much less complicated and since Denmark is in the EU they won't have any problems to get it recognized in their home country.
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by foepys 3y ago
Did this bank start out as a "telephone bank"? One of the largest German consumer banks still does this because they were the first "direct bank" without locations and typing in digits on the telephone pad was the most s
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by foepys 3y ago
Not to mention that on all devices I used the official Prime Video app (yes, even Fire TV Sticks), there we massive audio latency issues up to the point where I stopped watching. On FireTV Netflix had also lagging behind audio, which it nev
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by foepys 3y ago
TikTok is one of the largest social networks. It absolutely is a gatekeeper to information for millions of EU citizens.
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by foepys 3y ago
If that's true, then it's just a plot to let Tesla's shareholders pay for his Twitter shenanigans?
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by foepys 3y ago
It is incredibly hard to beat a sugar addiction (a lot harder than nicotine or weed) but it is worth it, I promise. Going full on no -carb and taking long walks daily got a friend out of pre-diabetes type 2. No sugar, no fresh potatoes (co
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by foepys 3y ago
If you were to replace "Gen Z" with "women" in your comment, would you still think it's okay to submit it? Ageism is just as bad as sexism.
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by foepys 3y ago
Boeing's major competitor is Airbus which is largely a government effort.
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by foepys 3y ago
I assume that you only drove each car 3 years max? After 3 years a car has to be inspected for the first time by law in Germany. Maybe you just didn't know something was wrong? Because usually people have their car inspected before goi
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by foepys 3y ago
It's incredibly confusing to me that so many American tech workers were ranting on HN how the GDPR is the biggest mistake ever and will sink the EU tech scene, only to discover that GDPR is a citizen's tool against total governmen
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by foepys 3y ago
Is there really a was without increasing power? The openly available frequency bands are limited quite a bit, so can the wifi alliance do anything here?
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by foepys 3y ago
Google's marketing is sooo good. Instead of giving Mozilla the benefit of the doubt, many people are instead instantly complaining that Firefox is not better and it's worth sticking with Chrome anyways. Chrome has not been support
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by foepys 3y ago
> Github operates independently of Microsoft. (To Microsoft's detriment... they offer Azure Devops which is their enterprisey copy of Github, with entirely different UX and probably different codebase.) GitHub Actions is basically A
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by foepys 3y ago
Microsoft is luring in non-tech companies with Active Directory and Office 365 and then catches them with promises about good integration into all services. Once the companies are in the Azure dashboard, why not try those fancy services the
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by foepys 3y ago
Firefox for Android can install uBlock Origin and do this.
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by foepys 3y ago
When I was young I didn't care how much hassle I had to get through to get stuff I wanted for free. Mostly I didn't have money as a 12 y/o.

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