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by mikestew 4mo ago
I hit that one a few weeks ago, having apparently not been that way in quite a while. I’m down with some roundabouts, but that intersection definitely kept me in my toes.
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by mikestew 4mo ago
I’ve had one of these remotes almost since they came out: https://function101.com/products/button-remote-for-apple-tv?... The newer Apple Remote has directional buttons, and you can then turn off the touch pad.
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by mikestew 4mo ago
some folks in Europe live in houses older than that! TBF, so do some folks in the U. S.; though in most cases, just barely.
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by mikestew 4mo ago
That only took eleven minutes to the Monty Python sketch we all knew was coming, well done.
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by mikestew 4mo ago
What drives me nuts about this whole water consumption discourse, is no one ever asks what happens to the water when it's used... Just because everyone else came to a much different conclusion than you did doesn't mean no one as
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by mikestew 4mo ago
Is it really that difficult? It’s not, 12 year olds can do it. Ruining an axe handle is not a requirement. I’m not saying humans are born knowing how to swing an axe, but c’mon.
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by mikestew 4mo ago
Man, don’t ever play Goat Simulator, then. You’ll be all day typing a wall of text about that.
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by mikestew 4mo ago
No signs of it coming to the U. S., though. :-(
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by mikestew 4mo ago
An Xbox has sat in my living room since the first one came out way back when I worked at Microsoft. Many enjoyable hours of Halo, Rainbow Six and what have you. The most current hardware (Xbox X) I mainly use to play remasters of old games
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by mikestew 4mo ago
One of which probably needs to go away.
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by mikestew 4mo ago
I can remember two passwords: the one that gets me into my laptop, and the one that gets me into my password manager. And this feature requires one to use Apple's default password manager, ergo... And I shouldn't remember the firs
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by mikestew 5mo ago
Like the linked article says, every time I set up a new Mac, I’m annoyed that this isn’t the default.
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by mikestew 5mo ago
First, the sign in with Google prompt. Go away. Enter my prompt, then hit with another sign in. Can’t use email, because that gets clipped on mobile. But in the spirit of community, I soldiered on to help a fellow HN user. So, I used Google
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by mikestew 5mo ago
I think the article for the most part makes solid points worth considering, save this nostalgic nugget: “Still, an old-fashioned part of me feels that even if alcohol is worse for you than strong pot, the old-fashioned drink culture of soc
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by mikestew 5mo ago
The NYT, as well as just about every other newspaper, has always had ads in the print edition whether you subscribed or not. Subscriptions have rarely paid the full cost of producing a newspaper. In the case of magazines, I would argue that
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by mikestew 5mo ago
That isn't a fact. Plenty of folks under the OG comment that don't live in CA have said they cancelled online, myself included.
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by mikestew 5mo ago
No, it doesn't. I live in WA, with no such consumer protections, and it was a few clicks.
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by mikestew 5mo ago
Any place that allows easy instantaneous subscription by a simple web form, but makes you call and talk to a person during limited business hours That hasn't been true for, what, almost ten years? When I cancelled three months ago, i
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by mikestew 5mo ago
You could have just asked for a URL.
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by mikestew 5mo ago
This has been brought up since the first banner ad went up 30 years ago, and rehashed to death on a variety of forums. The fact that no one has implemented a successful product tells me all I need to know. If that isn't convincing enou
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by mikestew 5mo ago
Is it really a dupe if the last time it was posted was nine months ago? More like “repost” or “previous discussion“.
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by mikestew 5mo ago
Thanks for the detailed clarification. As to the DWR, my experience says that the best GoreTex jacket is one without a nylon outer layer, and therefore no need for DWR. The GoreTex Shakedry jackets finally delivered on the promise GoreTex h
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by mikestew 5mo ago
People are moving away from Gore-Tex, especially as the new jackets simply work worse… Eh? Typo? Why move away from GoreTex if the new jackets are worse? As a big user of GoreTex, I’m hoping you meant to say the new jackets are better.
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by mikestew 5mo ago
TFA says it pauses when it detects nudity on your end, not the other end. You probably know what you look like nude.
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by mikestew 5mo ago
Because capitalism and customer brand awareness don’t work like your Econ class told you. There is a lot more nuance, starting with the inertia of customer’s awareness of brand reputation. But don’t listen to my ramblings, this comment in t
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by mikestew 5mo ago
Louisiana isn’t poor by almost any objective measure. Uh, by the objective measure of my own two eyes? You can trot out all the fancy numbers you want, I’m not blind. The resource extraction that goes on in Louisiana does not necessarily
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by mikestew 5mo ago
Hard to tell from a short comment, and maybe you already know, but a lot of obj-c is derived from smalltalk.
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by mikestew 5mo ago
Go through the Garmin Express desktop app for firmware updates. I’m probably missing something, but I can’t think of anything you lose if you don’t use the phone app.
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by mikestew 5mo ago
“Current”? That’s from four years ago, and has nothing to do with the topic other than “Meta” and “Texas”.
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by mikestew 5mo ago
You’re not even going to try to argue in good faith, are you? No one suggested anything close to what you’re saying.

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