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leakycap
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1y ago
Heath centers pay unreal amounts of money for these kinds of commercial products, but in my experience the health centers themselves have very few technical resources. So the real "value" being delivered by the commercial softwa
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1y ago
What are the key factors that your extension looks for to decide whether a review is real or fake?
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1y ago
When I see technically-competent people using Substack, I wonder why? I get that it is easy, but even signing up on Wordpress.com would be preferable as you actually have some control and more ownership of your data.
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1y ago
Since it provides less info than the homepage and just links you to the stories, I'm curious: what made you want to build this? Are you wanting to add features in the future?
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1y ago
It wasn't Hinge, but I met my partner the very day I paid $15 to unlock a wider search area in a dating app. They were like 1.6km/1 mile further than the "free" account let you match with others. Best $15 ever.
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1y ago
Sounds like the extreme-couponing way of meeting a date!
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1y ago
> Warm intros will always be gold I disagree. What you're calling a warm intro is more like a lukewarm intro if people don't have a background and any experience with the person they're intro-ing. It doesn't take much
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1y ago
> "you provided a link I asked for that unambiguously proved my repeated statements completely incorrect, so I'll be signing off now but I wanted to reply and let you know I'm still gonna think I'm right even though
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1y ago
> I'm not sure I have a healthy enough fear of death. You seem to have a very healthy fear of other things, like drivers or scooters running you over, and media buttons on computers launching life-altering software. I'm betting
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1y ago
> I can distrust Google's Play Services and firmware while also distrusting Apple's entire OS for exactly the same reasons. "exactly the same reasons" undercuts your entire argument Android and iOS are more dissimilar
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1y ago
bad link
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1y ago
> Right now besides the M and A series of processors it’s hard to tell if there’s anything in the Apple stable that is genuinely superior for my actual life. Agreed. I'll likely stay on iOS 18 as long as it is reliable and useful on
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1y ago
Tests I've seen weirdly seem to show higher battery consumption when using "reduce transparency"
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1y ago
Unfortunately that took from 2016 to about 2019... and then they kept selling butterfly models for a long time after that.
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1y ago
> You saved me so much money because I won’t buy another Apple product. Same. iOS 26 and Tahoe completely rule out me purchasing. I cannot believe this shipped.
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1y ago
I'm not sure why anyone would think a connection to an investor would be easy to find. This is likely a bigger issue than whatever you're trying to build, because funding partners need to be a good fit. Unfortunately, without exis
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1y ago
What a disappointment to hear More and more companies have zero meaningful support when things go sideways I'm guessing one or more of your sites allowed user-uploads in some fashion or another and someone put a file that is hash-flagg
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1y ago
Lucky you! There are thousands of ThinkPad models and they're not magically exempt from this issue: (Not a new issue... here's the problem on an R60) https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/475968/thinkp
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1y ago
> you better trust them a whole lot more than any of us do Who are you speaking for when you say "any of us do"? I don't know many technically competent people who would choose an Android device at retail over an iOS devic
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1y ago
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/41/102-34.120 > "Motor vehicles that have been exempted from the requirement to display official U.S. Government license plates under section § 102-34.160, § 102-3
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1y ago
> Ideal for scammers and those wishing to deceive
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1y ago
All this so a handful of passengers a week can wait for the extremely small pool of vehicles in a dusty hole
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1y ago
Yep! It's basically just a button that tells the OS "open the system calculator" ~~ I looked it up, the Human Interface Devices usage "Consumer Control" code assigned to "Application Launch - Calculator" i
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1y ago
There is no evidence of Parallel construction in iOS. NSA/other baddies wants to surveil, Apple is fighting this more than any other large company I know of. Today's announcement from Apple further flies in the face of your argume
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1y ago
Listing examples in response to a question for examples is whataboutism in your estimation?
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1y ago
> I don't know where people got the impression that Apple seriously resisted government coercion I think it was either the way they added the two-button passcode lock that can be done without pulling the phone out of your pocket,
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1y ago
Paging Asia O'Hara https://www.youtube.com/shorts/e5TiEH9ZLzI
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Anyone watch the video? They don't show it flying upon release, it looks like it's free-falling to the grass when the video cuts off. I'm not a butterfly-ologist, but I don't think you can just glue a wing back on and pr
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Tim Cook has lost all credibility after his kowtowing to the trump administration. Apple needs a new leader, and not the guy who sheepishly launched the $999 monitor stand. It's hard to escape using Apple devices, but the company'
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1y ago
Are you in the US and are you familiar with things like vehicle registration? Are you unable to comprehend that if a vehicle does not have a federally-issued license plate, then it still requires a plate to be legal on the road... in which
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