mikro2nd

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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Oh, sometimes I do recommend it very strongly . On one memorable occasion I installed Linux for a friend who couldn't afford a Windows-capable machine. Installed the browser she'd need, an email client (this was the days before
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Run some other accounting package?
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
So, as a Linux user these past 20 years or more, it's not that I'm unwilling to help my Windows-using family and friends, it's that I am no longer competent to do so. The last time I tried (perhaps 8 or 10 years ago) the
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
In similar vein: I have come to loath the word "passion" as it relates to almost anything, but especially work. Claiming to be passionate about some aspect of life has become a red flag for me: Passion is hot-blooded and short-l
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Huh? I'm on 91.0.2 and the coloured border is still there. If there's a newer version (nightly?) where it's gone, I'd have to agree that's an egregious UI FU.
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
How long do their batteries hold out? (I'm assuming batteries because "dropped from the air".) If they're "much" more powerful (than the quoted 3-4W) then I'd have some serious doubts that they're use
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
I do think the flowchart needs one more diamond (if-statement): Between "Would any user benefit from this?" and "Build it" there's another state. "Would other users be harmed/disadvantaged by this?"
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Interested to know what those "other things" might be.
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Doubt all you like - that's how it is.
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That's odd. I've never given Twitter a phone no. (Granted my account predates their phone no. fetish.) Still use Twitter daily without any issue. Perhaps it's because I'm still logged in and not trying to re-login?
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
mstdn.social
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The dividing line between "buy" and "rent" can be as clear-cut as you like, or as much a grey-zone continuum as you like as long as it is spelled out clearly up front to the buyer . The problem is not that there are gra
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
My brother had that (quite legitimate, really) concern. So he delayed vaccination. Now he has Covid. Doctors talking of amputating his toes because of blood clots. Death is not the worst thing to be feared in this.
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Already happening here in South Africa. https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/discovery-warned-higher... Note that they're NOT mandating/requiring vaccination (which may turn out to violate constitutional righ
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Absent a trusted third-party? Please show us.
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
I believe you're underestimating just how poor the "average user"s understanding is of what's going on in "their" computers... they literally have no concept of "where" their photos/email/et
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Platforms want to be utilities, self-govern like empires(eff.org)
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Turing's paper, "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis": http://www.dna.caltech.edu/courses/cs191/paperscs191/turing....
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
There's no problem in principle to monetising RSS data by sticking ads into the stream. The real problem for Google is (I suspect) that it is a standard protocol, so enables anybody to play, and that means escape from Google's wa
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Also (I'm told) colloquially referred to as, "Engines Turn Or Passengers Swim"
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Given that the case was initiated by the website owner (CBS) who claimed that the documents were in a private, password-protected directory, I'd say the falsely-accused campaigner (Mr Hutchinson) has good grounds for a civil suit again
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
"Cookie Autodelete" plugin might be what you want, then. Sadly I don't know what "like chrome" means, so don't know if the plugin's functionality is more-or-less equivalent, since I never use Chrome.
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
The resistance tends to last only a few generations before the pest population evolves past it. In areas where BT-Maize gets planted, Corn Ear Worm has been observed to evolve resistances in as few as 5 or 6 generations. You might think you
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
"The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and a
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"If you're a hiring manager, throw the resumes of anyone that worked at Apple in the trash." Well,... NO . Those are the very people trying to depart Apple, so surely the very ones we should try to support? I'm not sa
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
This is true. However, email is explicitly not a reliable/guaranteed delivery system, so, despite the fact that is is really quite reliable, we keep that in mind when designing systems that make use of that channel of communication
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Another one: Mobile phones always received SMS texts. This may be untrue because of reception issues (phones out of coverage areas or on their fringes) or because the phone number is associated with a non-phone device (e.g. LTE modem) that
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No worries - didn't take it that way ;)
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Agree. It's the Guardian's headline, only very slightly changed by me to meet HN wordcount limit.
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I'm pretty sure the lessons learned from this incident will be incorporated into future builds (and conceivably even some retrofits to this Victoria build.) Since the stock fire-fighting response to this is (according to the article) &

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