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by mcny 3y ago
Looks like this is in the EU only --- Requirements To qualify for the entitlement, your app must: Be available on iOS in the European Union only Be a separate binary from any app that uses the system-provided web browser engine
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by mcny 3y ago
but think logically for just a second, why would advertisers advertise their turd if they could just have their turd show up on the search results for free? For a turd sandwich to work, you have to wrap your turd (ads) with high quality res
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by mcny 3y ago
There are feature requests and there are what I would think of as design decisions / genuine defects depending on how you see it. For example, ctrl shift v is how you paste unformatted in ms teams. You’d think by that logic, ctrl shift
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by mcny 3y ago
Nobody should take VC money unless they absolutely have no other option.
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by mcny 3y ago
I usually have all windows maximized so normally this is not a problem for me but I've noticed other people, (especially mac people), don't like to maximize their windows. Here is one screenshot to show an example on Windows where
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by mcny 3y ago
Why is compliance costlier? There are companies that don't comply with GPLv2 for months and there is no cost as far as I can tell previously on HN, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31713525
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by mcny 3y ago
Sorry, so I must have misunderstood AGPL then? Assuming a well written software, your configuration values can still be secret, right? As long as you give all your users the source code you got and the changes you made to the code (not the
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by mcny 3y ago
Like a spherical cow, there are some assumptions we need to make in a 101 class. For example, I remember my database professor saying that I need to assume my entire database does not fit in memory (RAM) because if it does, all bets are off
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by mcny 3y ago
I don't know how the federal government works but I am positive that in the private sector evidence of extramarital affairs can cause your clearance application to be rejected.
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by mcny 3y ago
Using Lotus Notes was the only thing that finally convinced me how grateful I should be to use exchange and outlook at work. Edit: this was in 2013.
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by mcny 3y ago
> Odd that you singled out aspdotnet programmers. I was talking about myself but didn't want to admit I am the problem. (:
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by mcny 3y ago
1. It gets worse. Often in aspdotnet we have programmers who will only remove loader on success so you could get a 500 internal server error response and the loader never goes away. 2. I think it makes it easier to get to your website witho
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by mcny 3y ago
I don’t mind two step authentication using TOTP but as soon as you sign in to an android device with a google account, google decides to use that device for two step authentication and there’s no way to stop that short of signing out of goo
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by mcny 3y ago
> China especially has a huge demographic problem and this would be an attractive solution for Xi et al. I practically know nothing about history other than some talking points but How did Imperial Japan go from allegiance to one's
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by mcny 3y ago
Mantras are good for orgs that are not mature enough to do actual analysis. A lead developer left recently where I work and while it was likely higher pay that was the biggest decision to move, I suspect the real reason he left is higher u
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by mcny 3y ago
It is just something I would have never thought about otherwise.
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by mcny 3y ago
It is kind of amazing how random conversations give you a window into how other people think. I remember talking to a radiologist who in the middle of a conversation dropped this nugget - if we knew when people in chronic health problems w
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by mcny 3y ago
The problem isn't how good overseas talent is (I worked with Avanade developers from Poland and they are excellent, need zero ramp up time) but rather is our own management good enough to work with them if management can't even wo
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by mcny 3y ago
I don't have any private information but I am convinced it is NOT just one rogue employee. The company is clearly throwing this person under the bus. You're in denial.
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by mcny 3y ago
I am pretty sure ALL phones that are on sale today have better glass than my Nexus 4 which had a beautiful glass panel on its back. Gorgeous but not strong at all. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8&#
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by mcny 3y ago
> For AI customers, there's already specialized cards like H100 I don't know anything about machine learning but I think that is the question. Isn't nVidia professional tier like the H100 rare and expensive? I remember s
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by mcny 3y ago
I'd be called insane if I suggested it. I work with dotnet and I'd rather not add all the code in newtonsoft json and manually review each line. I mean where does it stop? Why not have everyone in the world code review asp.net
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by mcny 3y ago
I anal but as far as I know you can’t copyright facts. I think this came up in some tennis thing where people were sneaking in phones to gamble on games as early knowledge of facts could theoretically make a difference. I imagine the same
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by mcny 3y ago
> This is a good point. The Google calendar actually has a gap in the week view too. I just didn't understand why. Do you think it would look better if the gap exists in the week view as well? The gap is functional in Google Calend
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by mcny 3y ago
I think we are pretty aligned on this topic. My ulterior motive for pushing for high property taxes is to satisfy a mental curiosity I have -- will raising property taxes to sky high rates (my ideal cap is about seven to eight percent of t
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by mcny 3y ago
I think we are saying the same thing. I am not calling for California to end its state income tax either. I am suggesting that prop 13 was a disaster. Hot take: One possible compromise is limit prop 13 to a single property maybe two bed two
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by mcny 3y ago
Is Tennessee expanding municipal fiber? A casual search shows that Tennessee receives USD 1.46 for every USD 1 it sends to the federal government. The rest of us seemingly pay for Tennessee's refusal to increase personal income and pe
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by mcny 3y ago
What worries me is California refuses to raise property taxes. That and strip local government of any and all say in where and how to build homes and buildings. I think that's what is a necessary part of any solution. Raise property ta
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by mcny 3y ago
my guess YouTube either purposefully or accidentally failed to serve an mp4 for this because looks like webm download works > date; yt-dlp.exe --restrict-filenames --trim-filenames 30 --format "bestvideoext=mp4+bestaudioext=m4a&#x2F
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by mcny 3y ago
that worked. strangely enough. ---snip--- yt-dlp.exe --restrict-filenames --trim-filenames 30 --format "bestvideoext=mp4+bestaudioext=m4a/mp4" -i "JQgKhZZyBYg" Monday, January 1, 2024 10:46:45 AM [youtube] Extractin

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