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by larrik 7y ago
Never really heard of them before. Looks like everything I bought is out of stock anyway, but it's good to know there are alternatives.
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by larrik 7y ago
I needed some surge protectors. The ones I really wanted were all May, but then the AmazonBasics one was this week. Hmm...
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by larrik 7y ago
Right when this all was starting, I had finally chosen a bass guitar I wanted. I decided to try and support a non-Amazon business in GuitarCenter (the local music shops focus a lot more on school band instruments). So, I order online, and p
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by larrik 7y ago
usually cell phones, but no one wants to install the app
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by larrik 7y ago
Most of my zoom meetings have at least 20% dial-ins.
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by larrik 7y ago
In this case, he's solving a real problem for a real person. This means you need to know people with problems, and recognize that they are problems (they may not think so!) and believe you can improve it. Of course, you can make someth
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by larrik 7y ago
If video conferencing wasn't complicated, there'd actually be a product everyone likes. So far, everyone seems to hate all of them.
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by larrik 7y ago
> the predicted move towards more voice-controlled actions in cars could eliminate the debate around touchscreens versus analogue controls in the future. Oh yuck, voice controls are the absolute worst. Anyone who thinks otherwise probabl
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by larrik 7y ago
> Yes, the iOS app has more downloads, and it got there in only a few weeks. But if the iOS market were so much larger than the Mac market, you’d have expected this to happen within a day or two of launch day. Based on what logic? Everyt
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by larrik 7y ago
I got a 503 from Google Classroom, but it seems intermittent.
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by larrik 7y ago
It seems to me that the main reason we are running out is that doctors have a lot of patients and use a new mask each and every time they move to a new patient. I'm not sure that's all that helpful (but it definitely could be abso
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by larrik 7y ago
There's a LOT of designated workers who have to go out, though.
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by larrik 7y ago
Title nitpick, "SAT Subject Tests" is in a specific case in the original title, and the lack of title-case on "Subject Tests" is making it hard to understand the true announcement. IE. SATs are staying, SAT Subject Tests
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by larrik 7y ago
It got fixed quickly because of the very high profile nature of the project. What happens when it's one of our projects, and we aren't some bigwig at Github's parent company to complain?
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by larrik 7y ago
Depends how close you are to it, though, I would think
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by larrik 7y ago
Isn't "4K" the resolution??
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by larrik 7y ago
Interesting. I've been using Firefox exclusively for a few years, mostly on Linux, and haven't actually noticed it being inferior to the Windows version. What am I missing?
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by larrik 7y ago
Overall, I think this is a good idea. a Lawsuit creates a financial incentive to behave better. However, > It’s likely that less than 5% of plastic produced today is getting recycled I've seen this repeated elsewhere, but what I rea
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by larrik 7y ago
Yet it's entirely consistent with their "we know best" attitude.
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by larrik 7y ago
> The kid won't really know what a birthday is I've never met a 4 year old who wouldn't know what a birthday is.
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by larrik 7y ago
lol, more like my kids getting eliminated and then causing trouble.
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by larrik 7y ago
Any boardgame that involves eliminating players from it is a non-starter for me.
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by larrik 7y ago
I didn't even know what the new gesture was, just kept doing it by accident.
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by larrik 7y ago
Sounds like you didn't clear the "why this over NewRelic?" threshold.
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by larrik 7y ago
> It had to take less than $1.25 worth of energy to produce and distribute. Not always, they could be subsidized to get people off of incandescents.
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by larrik 7y ago
I looked 3 times and didn't find any illustration. Maybe my ad-blocker killed it.
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by larrik 7y ago
I manually made my own grid layout, where Q,W,E,R were the bottom row of buttons, in order, and everything else stayed where it was, mostly. Worked well for all the units I remember, but buildings ended up having a manual grid layout instea
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by larrik 7y ago
I don't think Gandi.net is still loved by HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22001822
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by larrik 7y ago
I can never find anything in Confluence unless I had the foresight to link to it from the main page.
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by larrik 7y ago
The killer feature of the iPhone, for me, was the ability to use desktop webpages on the device, instead of getting "mobile-friendly" pages (which meant something pretty different back then). I still think I'd rather zoom int

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