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by mcny 3y ago
Good point, I was using Firefox on both but as you said Firefox on iOS is just Safari. To be fair to Mozilla, I am running Firefox nightly on Android.
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by mcny 3y ago
How come on the iPhone I get a prompt saying " would like to access motion and orientation" but not on Android?
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by mcny 3y ago
At the risk of stating the obvious, I want to add a quote that I found very informative > If you're given the choice between a low bandwidth private connection, or a small share of a larger bandwidth connection, take the small share
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by mcny 3y ago
Yes, we will need to evaluate and approve each acquisition but I am not sure if it is even possible to break up Google. I don't have a solution to the problem but I know this — we can't do the stupidity of breaking alphabet into a
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by mcny 3y ago
> I'm pretty sure I'm misunderstanding the value-add of having TLS for localhost connections... It often feels like the noose is tightening tbh. There are things that contemporary "evergreen" web browsers just flat o
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by mcny 3y ago
The people who have used GPT-4 seem to unanimously agree that the GPT-4 today is not the same as GPT-4 as released. Open ai is clearly holding back...
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by mcny 3y ago
> To relieve eye strain. I think this will expose another, possibly larger, problem. My room is too poorly lit other than the screen. If there is no light coming from the screen, I am forced to turn on a light to read the screen. Maybe
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by mcny 3y ago
> I echo your concerns, and add that I find it slightly humorous Edge is also being offered on Linux. I've spent hours working to remove it from Windows; why would I willingly install it? because you have a choice :) I installed i
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by mcny 3y ago
> So much time, money and CO2 could be saved by another/bigger atick of RAM. I did eventually get a 256 MB stick of RAM. iirc I was already out of high school at that point. One point I don't hear being talked about too much
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by mcny 3y ago
> windows didn't really get any more usable after that... The old UI is good but I am not a fan of the everything is folders and files idea of the start menu. Maybe I'm misremembering but iirc as a child I used to forget which
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by mcny 3y ago
I believe I read some article how in Switzerland, a particularly insufferable woman applied for citizenship and the people voted no. I have no ax to grind in this story, I just thought it was pertinent given your questions. https:/&#x
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by mcny 3y ago
> (My city is using QuantAQ sensors, which weren't cheap) will your data be publicly available in near real-time? as far as I can tell, airnow.gov only has data from airports. will you share this data with the epa somehow?
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by mcny 3y ago
We, the taxpayers, pay for it. If we cannot afford it, we don't have any business running a prison. On a more selfish note, I don't want (let's call it like it is) slave labor to dilute the value of my labor.
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by mcny 3y ago
I am talking from a US perspective. At a minimum we must: 1. Guarantee safety for the imprisoned. No more fear of physical / sexual violence. The way people joke about "don't drop the soap" is maddening. 2. No forced lab
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by mcny 3y ago
I still have not been paid for my iPhone 6 battery.
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by mcny 3y ago
If we say "security updates only" for the kernel, does that mean we won't support new processors and graphics cards? When Intel and AMD say they have a patch that enables new processors and peripherals, do we decline it? Why?
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by mcny 3y ago
This is a great way to make everyone angry. People asking questions will be angry because the bot okayed the question, why did the mods close it without discussion? Mods will be angry because why did the bot okay stupid questions? And it do
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by mcny 3y ago
Reminds me of the xkcd joke in 1015: if you really hate someone, teach them to recognize bad kerning. https://xkcd.com/1015/ I tried a few of the fonts. I never really liked monospace but I really dislike making deci
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by mcny 3y ago
I'm so sorry to hear that. :( I tried it out on an alternate Yahoo! email address that I don't need and sure enough I got this message > Setting up your mailbox > A fresh mailbox is being created, since the old one was inact
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by mcny 3y ago
> Buying a movie from google for that certainty sounds pretty good huh. I wonder if the purchase might also dissuade any accidental deletions of a google account. I feel like I must mention here: I anal. I am not a lawyer. That being sai
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by mcny 3y ago
> Maybe they updated their TOS to allow them to do something new with the users data (selling it, storing it in another region, etc) and they want to get rid of accounts that haven't accepted the change. My Yahoo! Mail account is fr
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by mcny 3y ago
Thank you. I didn’t realize this point. For others: > Exceptions to this policy > A Google Account is considered active even if it has not been used within a 2-year period if one or more of these applies: […] > Your Google Account
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by mcny 3y ago
> Yeah, disagree. College sports generate a significant amount of revenue for the university, which funds scholarships for a huge number of students that otherwise couldn't afford to go there. This is objectively false for the small
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by mcny 3y ago
> Besides, the GP is talking total nonsense in general. I know what I am saying. The whole point is spiraling costs and tragedy of the commons. Colleges and universities must keep spending on spectator sports because otherwise you can
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by mcny 3y ago
My personal opinion, the first thing we should do is a complete ban on all “professional” and/or spectator sport in any and all educational institution. You can still have classes teaching sports but no spectators and definitely no “co
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by mcny 3y ago
Not that I know LLM from LLC but just curious, does your employer allow you to publicly disclose target salary / salary range?
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by mcny 3y ago
Level1Techs "link show" (because we can't call it news anymore) kind of touched this topic. I would like to read what you guys make of this: > Supreme Court rejects Genius lawsuit claiming Google stole song lyrics SCOTUS w
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by mcny 3y ago
> Suppliers can assume all possible customers have a bank account that can do this in contrast to the crazy world of sending paper checks by mail. I wish I, and anyone else, could get a bank account directly with the federal reserve bank
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by mcny 3y ago
> The moon landings were successful and also a waste of money As long as we have colleges and universities pour money into sports, taxpayer subsidized NFL stadiums (not having to pay taxes is also a subsidy, we don't have to hand
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by mcny 3y ago
My complaints are not even big ones. It costs Microsoft ZERO dollars to remove the asinine keyboard shortcut control + shift + c to start a call. Who does that? Why is this right next to the ctrl + shift + v (for unformatted paste) What i

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