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by nix0n 6y ago
> Actually, Yelp doesn't remove legitimate reviews. They say that, but they decide which reviews are legitimate, and they're more likely to decide that positive reviews are legitimate, if a business is paying them. On the othe
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by nix0n 6y ago
For uBlock Origin in medium mode (on Firefox), you need to allow all for harpers.org and netdna-ssl.com.
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by nix0n 6y ago
This is a cool project. But my first thought was: Input: "meow" Output: "miau"
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by nix0n 6y ago
Is it possible to buy stocks via a debit card transaction instead of waiting for ACH?
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In my opinion, it's not worth the telemetry.
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by nix0n 6y ago
I've implemented quite a few lying progress bars. It's impossible to estimate total completion percentage when one part of the operation is CPU-bound, and another part is disk-bound. (I haven't had to deal with network-bound
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by nix0n 6y ago
Kamacite might be one of the classics: "Kamacite is an alloy of iron and nickel, which is found on Earth only in meteorites."[0] As a bonus, it's shiny grey, which means it could even be what this monolith is made of. [0] htt
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by nix0n 6y ago
I can confirm Cygwin works with 10. Its default package manager includes most of the standard POSIX tools. I've used it a lot for on-Windows/for-Windows development, but always as a complement to native Windows tools.
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by nix0n 6y ago
Not even for Netflix?
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by nix0n 6y ago
Probably still worthwhile because it means HP losing the $X million
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by nix0n 6y ago
> All car manufacturers sell products that can kill people. Yes, that's exactly why most of them have much better QA than Tesla.
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by nix0n 6y ago
> So we should tax the crap out of everyone's estates Just the wealthy. Estate taxes have (in the USA) applied only to large estates. > on the premise that they probably wronged society Some wealth is inherited now, but large ga
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by nix0n 6y ago
I've been able to solve that on a few sites by turning off the "enhanced tracking protection" next to the address bar (haven't tried OVH specifically).
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by nix0n 6y ago
Firefox gets bogged down in Gmail by some sort of tracking pixel or something, and it's noticeably improved by content blocking.
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by nix0n 6y ago
> 90% of it doesn't work Sure, but 50% of what a smartphone does are anti-features anyhow. Maybe having to drop to CLI a few times a day is better than being spied on, for some people.
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by nix0n 6y ago
For anyone who has been inspired to try vi/vim: To exit vi or vim, press Esc then type ":q" (without quotes) and hit enter. If it warns you about not saving, try ":wq" to save and quit or ":q!" to quit wit
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by nix0n 6y ago
You could create different whole accounts and put them on a family plan together.
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by nix0n 6y ago
The references to skin color are usually implicit (especially after his presidential term started), but they are always there. I can understand how a non-American might miss Trump's racist phrases, but he's pandering to a white su
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by nix0n 6y ago
> On StackOverflow, anyone can edit any question. Anyone can edit any answer. Neither of these things are true. In fact, to a user with zero reputation, StackOverflow is much more locked down than Wikipedia. But the real issue with obso
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by nix0n 6y ago
I looked up "ponyfill"[0] and I still agree with hyperbovine's criticisms. Polyfills and single-function libraries are just two different problems with the NPM ecosystem. https://github.com/sindresorhus/p
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by nix0n 6y ago
For me that just redirects to https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/
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by nix0n 7y ago
> it should be smart enough to slowly charge all night I have a Sony which does this (XZ1c, stock firmware)
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by nix0n 7y ago
That's part of it, but it's also because E2E is a specific security guarantee which most cloud meeting providers (including in most cases Zoom) don't provide. Contrast with Gotomeeting's claims[0] that data transmitted b
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by nix0n 7y ago
Paging @dang
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by nix0n 7y ago
I had a similar experience a few years ago with an "n series" Dell, and the solution was to only use the install disk that came with the machine, and not try to do a full OS install.
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by nix0n 7y ago
Do you mean "feature phones" or landlines?
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by nix0n 7y ago
There's already FCC rules for that sort of thing, it's illegal whether you buy, lease, "license", or even build the transceiver.
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by nix0n 7y ago
Music can be good for mode switching. I prefer electronic music with no vocals. Also, get dressed.
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by nix0n 7y ago
They're deprecating the "User Agent String", but they are still considered "User Agents".
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by nix0n 7y ago
Yes, at least for the specific code discussed in this example.

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