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by maratc 4y ago
> most of the paper invoices becomes a part of dustbins As paper is both degradable and renewable, I really don't see the problem here. > And mostly people are interconnected Not my parents (or their generation) that find themsel
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by maratc 4y ago
The reason paper is used for invoices is because lots of people want it that way. Paper invoice is well established and understood by everybody (your solution may not be). Paper invoice doesn't require owning a 3G-connected smartphone
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by maratc 4y ago
You had income of 6€, the bread seller had income of 1€, and the ham seller had income of 1€, so the three of you combined did have income of 8€.
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by maratc 4y ago
Prices are still increasing, and they are still increasing fast. It's just that recently, they increased even faster than now.
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U.S. tech companies reportedly lost a combined $4 trillion in value this year. To put that in perspective, that’s more than the combined GDPs of Turkey, Argentina, and Switzerland. This comparison of value to value per year sh
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by maratc 4y ago
The NES/SNES were just a stop-gap to fill between the Wii U (having bad sales) and the Switch. I don't think they need any stop-gap now.
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To add, it is readily available on eBay and costs less there than the usual price of Raspberry Pi.
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The fundamental theorem of software engineering (FTSE) is a term originated by Andrew Koenig to describe a remark by Butler Lampson attributed to David J. Wheeler: "We can solve any problem by introducing an extra level of
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The heat gun, on the other hand ...
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by maratc 4y ago
> settle for a gimmicky automatic watch You probably mean the marvel of mechanical engineering that has zero dependency on the outside world, needs no software updates, and will still continue running as new for years after all the smart
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by maratc 4y ago
My iPod nano battery expanded and cracked the whole device open. I almost literally cried, as I loved that little device too much. Getting a replacement is not an option as any iPod nano battery is about 10 years old now. A sign of what wil
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by maratc 4y ago
"Label" — if I understand GP's point — is just a random string you attach to an item. "Amsterdam" could be a label, and it can be attached to a PDF of an old map of the city of Amsterdam, to a photo of your neighbor
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by maratc 4y ago
A platform extracting 50% in "platform fees"[0] complains about a platform extracting 30% in "platform fees". [0]: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/04/13/meta-cut-on-purchases-d...
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My 2010 Macbook still works fine after I've updated the expired X3 certificate [0]. [0]: https://macresearch.org/dst-root-ca-x3-expired-mac/
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by maratc 4y ago
> Apple has had choice to allow side-loading. They had that choice, and they've chosen not to. This, on one hand, keeps you from side-loading 2GIS, but on the other hand, keeps seniors' iPhones from crapware (as per TLA). >
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To put this in context: the developer of 2GIS is a Russian company with headquarters in Novosibirsk, owned mostly by Sberbank. They have most likely been sanctioned due to Russian invasion of Ukraine. I don't think Apple had any choice
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by maratc 4y ago
@jsjohnst is talking about his one-liner[0] that has lots of bash syntax, not the GP's one-liner[1] that only calls some external program. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33254917 [1]: https://news
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by maratc 4y ago
> Could I make a bash one-liner that uses a rube goldberg machine of echo, netcat, dd, ed etc. to make a HTTP request? Yeah I could Can you paste your bash one-liner here? As previously, I’m interested in seeing your Rube Goldberg machin
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by maratc 4y ago
The problem might not be with hierarchical tagging systems, but with the specific hierarchical tagging system they use at Wikipedia. Imagine another system with the following categories: * People:ByOccupation:Creative:Writers * Time:CommonE
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Can you paste your bash one-liner here?
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That wouldn't let us also pass the microphone sound over that plug. I'm in doubt if this could ever be solved ... or could it?
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by maratc 4y ago
Or maybe someone could invent headphones that are powered by the sound-outputting device and don't have any battery at all. The signal could be transferred by a wire, for example.
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Mainstream support for Office XP ended on July 11, 2006, and extended support ended on July 12, 2011, 10 years after release.
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I have the 365 subscription (from school) and it asks for password every couple of months. The old Office was activated once, and never asked for that again.
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eInk screens are notoriously easy to break, while metal plates are mostly for the life of the vehicle. Metal plates also need no charging or batteries change. Why would anyone want this?
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by maratc 4y ago
> has only security updates for a long period. I didn't say "forever", and paying $250 for a suite that will stop getting updates in 3-4 years is not what I had in mind.
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It's not off-line, not feature-complete, and has support only up to 2026 (no extended support).
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by maratc 4y ago
Concentrate on the company's future. A big and expensive wrongful termination lawsuit is not what you need right now. Sending a message that you can fire a guy weeks before cliff is not what you need right now. In your position, I woul
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by maratc 4y ago
Now only if they could — in addition — bring Microsoft Office back, that would be great. (As in: a one-time fee, installable, off-line software that does not change the way it looks, is feature-complete, and has only security updates for a
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by maratc 4y ago
Interesting. What do they do with the grandpa/grandma population who have neither an idea nor the skills for "RFC 4226/RFC 6238"? (As my friend used to ironically say: "Is your grandma so senile that she can't

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