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by heavymark 6y ago
For sure. Their thinking is probably let's see how popular it is before offering custom domains which are typically for businesses (or techies). The problem with that is, that the techies are the ones they really need to target first,
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by heavymark 6y ago
They mentioned that Gmail, Apple, and others don't do anything to stop you from getting emailed from people you don't want to hear from, but this new tool does. I've only gotten a probably less than 10 spam messages in the pa
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by heavymark 6y ago
As you noted they are aiming it at ‘their’ driveway. You house presumably just happens to be there, I doubt they have any desire to look in your house window. Aiming it at their driveway for most of us is not a fascination, rather you can s
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by heavymark 6y ago
There message sounds like a clear apology, unless the poster is hoping to hear the actual words "I'm sorry". They screw uped and came clean, even though like in most cases takes trending on Hacker News to get that resolution.
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by heavymark 6y ago
This is like when Apple said their Music platform would be more human curated rather than algorithms like competitors such as Spotify. But the reason why I love Spotify's recommendations and not Apple's is because Spotify focuses
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by heavymark 6y ago
On ethernet always get close to 1Gbps on Fast.com by CF shows consistently around 300-400. Wonder if CF is more accurate or Fast.com? I'm imagining CF but such a difference.
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by heavymark 6y ago
I think you mean to say PayPal temporarily stops phone support because of covid. They still accept support messages. Their phone support in the past has been aweful so I always prefer their message support.
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by heavymark 6y ago
By co-workers do you mean people in your same position or you mean you also walk in to your bosses office or your bosses bosses offie and ask them how much they make? Other than companies with unique cultures, I would imagine very few would
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by heavymark 7y ago
CarPlay obviously isn’t meant to be safer than not using tech in a car, it’s suppose to be safer than using a cell phone while driving which is most everyone at one time or another. So what masters is how safer it is using the system vs a h
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by heavymark 7y ago
Actually looks like Instapaper offers an RSS feed of latest 25 items. So once can use Feedly to organize all RSS feeds, including pulling in from HN and Twitter, and use the native save feature in Feedly, that can also sync to Instapaper. A
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by heavymark 7y ago
Was thinking about doing this via iOS 13 Automations, but certainly something I'll check out. I use Feedly which pulls in HN, my other many rss feeds and even Twitter. As use RSS to fav/save the top articles each day that I read l
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by heavymark 7y ago
What does this offer over the competition for instance like Feedly which free tier offers more than this paid tier and whose paid tier offers much more than this paid tier? Clean, modern, dark mode, etc all our standards. So curious why thi
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by heavymark 7y ago
His post is missing one important word, “My” before MacBook.
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by heavymark 7y ago
Yes, definitely not a given a new tv you buy will still have rca jacks.
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by heavymark 7y ago
That is the new news today. The previous news was they would eventually no longer continue to function, todays announcement reaffirms no new features but now says they are working on a plan to make sure they continue to function with other
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by heavymark 7y ago
Our GE fridge allows third party filters like the very popular amazon one. Is this just in the very latest GE models perhaps?
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by heavymark 7y ago
https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2019-11931
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by heavymark 7y ago
Yes, I imagine the rebranding will be as ineffective as Comcast rebranding as Xfinity, where everyone knows they are the same.
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by heavymark 7y ago
Or another maybe more likely option I guess is that I watched it because it was being featured on one of the app platforms, and then news feed apps/sites know what has been featured and that a lot of people are probably watching a cert
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by heavymark 7y ago
I literally just watched Catch Me if You Can last night. Haven't in a while. Have noticed before where I just watched or did something and the next day see a news feed item aligning with that. Is it just a coincidence? Something like t
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by heavymark 7y ago
Far more alarming is that so many US voted marked The United States as Iran.
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by heavymark 7y ago
This was from back in July right? Or is this something different? https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/product-tips/send-large-file...
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by heavymark 7y ago
Hard to call it a successor of SMS when have the world uses iOS which does not and currently has no plans to support it. So more just another service rather than a replacement for SMS which is a way for all phones to communicate with each o
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by heavymark 7y ago
URL goes to Localhost, assuming they meant o have https://getpolarized.io/2019/11/25/Dark-Mode-Should-Be-The-D...
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by heavymark 7y ago
I imagine Google views this as a positive thing, trying a million ideas, so that hopefully it increases the chances of having at least one good and popular idea. The downside is, a lot of products they killed were good ideas, but its sink o
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by heavymark 7y ago
Confused. They are saying that nearly all married couples (male:female) with joint everything and the same credit history are showing consistently the husbands having more credit? Or just one single person out of millions? As one would assu
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by heavymark 7y ago
Glad to hear. Google is known for killing products right and left, Google should charge for products people love and rely on to make sure its 100% sustainable and won't go away.
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by heavymark 7y ago
Huh? Don't all the millions of new iPhone Pro's sold this year support Wifi 6?
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by heavymark 7y ago
Another issue. When setting time of day you can choose says, but unlike Apple Calendar or any third party calendar app like Fantastical, you can't set custom. Such as Repeat Monday and Wednesday every 2 weeks, etc. Everytime I get exci
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by heavymark 7y ago
Ah, just wrote a flattering post here on it, but wasn't aware it still had the manual approval issue which is unfortunate. I understand it for some things like When I arrive home, since otherwise when I'm outside running loops by

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