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by jeroen 3y ago
I have written software for the Nokia 9110 (the predecessor of the 9210) and not being able to find any documentation was par for the course. There was only a forum where sometimes, with a delay of a couple of days, questions would be answe
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by jeroen 3y ago
Content moderation is hard. Analogies are also hard.
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by jeroen 3y ago
> Apple applied for a design patent for a very specific design https://www3.wipo.int/madrid/monitor/jsp/data.jsp?KEY=ROM_AC... doesn't look like a very specific design to me, but like a pretty generic
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by jeroen 3y ago
Their logo: https://www.swissfruit.ch/wp-content/themes/dudapress/dist/a...
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by jeroen 3y ago
I checked this out at 11:58. The 11 was highlighted while the clock displayed "it's almost 12". Highlighting the 12 would have been more helpful.
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by jeroen 3y ago
I don’t have a static ip-address. I am curious to see how they will deal with that.
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by jeroen 4y ago
Source: https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-...
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by jeroen 4y ago
IE usage shrank from 90% to around 60% before Chrome even existed. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Browser_...
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by jeroen 4y ago
It's gone now.
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by jeroen 4y ago
To recover from long covid. It's been almost a year and it feels like I'm half way there, so I am optimistic about getting this over with in 2023.
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by jeroen 4y ago
Yesterdays Forbes story on the same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34098132
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by jeroen 4y ago
> Google can have enormous impact on your business and personal life Only if you let them. Life without a Google account doesn’t require meaningful sacrifice.
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by jeroen 4y ago
Exor (the Agnelli's) owns 14.35% of Stellantis and 22.91% of Ferrari.
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by jeroen 4y ago
It's not uncommon to have memorials in places where they are very much present in every day life, e.g.: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_verwoeste_stad A statue remembering the bombing of Rotterdam, in a busy plac
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by jeroen 4y ago
No, it's 1 month (in a 3 month period): > For 9 euros, you can travel throughout Germany on local/regional trains for a whole month in June, July or August.
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by jeroen 4y ago
January, from another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31193320
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by jeroen 4y ago
It looks like it is supposed to be a centre of 50% grey and a ring of alternating white and black pixels. As the note says: if you're seeing a darker ring (alternating black and grey pixels) your browser is messing up.
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by jeroen 5y ago
Kyle Vogt, who co-founded autonomous driving company Cruise in 2013, has been named CEO. He has served as as interim CEO since December 2021 when Dan Ammann, who had been CEO since 2018, abruptly left Cruise. — https://www.therob
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by jeroen 5y ago
From the article: > In December, security researchers at Google analyzed a zero-click exploit they said was developed by NSO Group, which could be used to break into an iPhone by sending someone a fake GIF image through iMessage. And the
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by jeroen 5y ago
As is the readme.
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by jeroen 5y ago
Same for the banana. I would put those under "definitely not a tree".
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by jeroen 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=350968 That was more than 12 years ago, and there has been a steady stream of incidents like that one. If you're still using a Google account for critical stuff, you know what you&#
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by jeroen 6y ago
In the Netherlands, there are 207K cars for sale on marktplaats.nl (comparable to craigslist). 15K or 7% of those were built in or before 2001. That does not take into account older cars being exported to eastern Europe.
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by jeroen 6y ago
I am a bit late, but I want to add my 2 cents, because I see a pattern here. My wife had serious complications after birth, so she basically wasn't there for the first 4 months. We had help during work hours, but all the rest of the ca
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by jeroen 6y ago
That url should be .io , not /io .
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by jeroen 6y ago
A few days ago I downloaded a 4.8GB MacOS update over a 4G connection. That took 25 minutes, which is an average of 3.2 MB/s. My provider claims 30 Mbit/s, so that is pretty reasonable.
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by jeroen 6y ago
Smaller than the 2nd SE, a bit larger than the 1st one: https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/?device1=iphoneSE&devic...
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by jeroen 6y ago
Names: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-... As far as I know, that was the first one.
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by jeroen 7y ago
Source, with a list of the more than 40 exams that will be retired: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/community-blog-post...
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by jeroen 7y ago
I have the same feeling about prices, but I also remember the excavator as a big set. It’s only about 350 pieces. Even with the pneumatics, I can’t imagine a price above $100. What changed since then is that the new Liebherr excavator has m

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