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by nness 3y ago
This is short on info -- but are we talking about a verification process that is separate to the "passport check" which Ryanair requires for all non-UK/EU passport holders? Unlike many other UK/EU budget airlines, Ryanai
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by nness 3y ago
Netlify, funnily enough, does nearly all my heavy-lifting for me. It's wild how much of the final stages of deployment are just handled so smoothly (even if the pricing is kinda ridiculous now.) Github Actions for test running — repla
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by nness 3y ago
My first and immediate thought was "there is a lot of blue pigment in these clothes." When you search for early century Guatemalan fabrics and materials, it is difficult to find examples of blue fabrics, as I imagine, because the
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by nness 3y ago
The cynic in me wants to say that you could be very concise with the language you choose to use when communicating with law enforcement. You are not obligated to hand-over the footage, but I can understand your willingness to assist. My con
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by nness 3y ago
Dissent was a pre mass-layoff phenomenon.
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by nness 3y ago
Things get worse once someone realises how it can be monetised...
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by nness 3y ago
"?" is a very useful if your search is being treated as a URL instead of a search query, i.e. if you need to search for something which ends in ".io"
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by nness 3y ago
> Even though you’re increasingly being annoyed by recruiters LinkedIn does little to stop it. ... I joined LinkedIn to connect with recruiters. Why would anyone want a professional social network if you aren't specifically job sear
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by nness 3y ago
Seems reasonable to me. The judge acknowledges that, without context, an emoji can be construed to mean many things and it should be interpretted with caution. It sounds reasonable for the courts to interpret the emoji as acceptance given t
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by nness 3y ago
Naomi Wu has been somewhat outspoken (by China standards) about being gay and her sexuality; the government's handling of to COVID and the lock-downs; and homophobic attacks in Hong Kong, amongst a myriad of other topics. All in a way
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by nness 3y ago
The author has missed a critical insight from their evaluation — the fact that they could develop a tool in vanilla JS more simply than React is only because they first developed it in React. Developing with a framework gives you the advant
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by nness 3y ago
In this instance, it would be more than "look and feel" and more "would a person assume this project is done by the original Factorio developers" — are they misleading the audience. They copied much of the UI from the Fa
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by nness 3y ago
It's like "Carcinisation" for tech companies.
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by nness 3y ago
It's almost like the growth plan of every tech company in the last decade or so... Grow big by burning capital ("to hell with cost of acquisition our CLV will be so high once they're locked in"); build an ad network; rea
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by nness 3y ago
Until a competitor devices a revenue stream that is just as profitable as advertising and data capture (obviously it won't be a subscription model) then we're stuck in the perpetual cycle of "enshittification" as compani
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by nness 3y ago
No, people transition to align their gender with their physical or sexual characteristics. (I am trying really hard to be polite because this is HN and people show that curtousey, but what you have written is not only incorrect but offensiv
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by nness 3y ago
I think historically it was customers — it wouldn't bring new customers. It might make the existing customers happy, but I can't think of a segment of customers who are on the fence about a Mac because there aren't gaming opt
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by nness 3y ago
From a brand perspective, being a B Corp is certainly a positive for both the socially conscientious end-consumer and any sustainable organisations which want a B2B relationship. That overhead is the extrinsic price you pay for B Corp statu
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by nness 3y ago
Wax sealed cardboard is certainly viable. And regular cardboard is fine for fruit and vegetables.
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by nness 3y ago
It is remarkable at how much this reads like the rants of an incel — "it's everyone else's responsibility but my own... society is at fault because of women... maybe treat me nicer and I won't be a misogynist..." Th
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by nness 3y ago
Not OP but increasingly cardboard with minimal plastic for lids or seals. Unfortunately few biodegradable products.
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by nness 3y ago
I believe the same technique was used with early "live webcams" too — utilising a quirk (or maybe it was an intentional feature) of the GIF format allowed the server to just "send more frames." I seem to recall GIF even
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by nness 3y ago
Similar experience, IBS + anxiety combo knowing me out on the daily. CBT was also the only thing I've tried which I would say had a positive long-term and measurable improvement. (In the UK, CBT is a common treatment for IBS and free w
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by nness 3y ago
I do love this argument against GDPR (or any data protection) because it often comes down to "Screw the US consumer, I'm profitable because they have no protections, so no one should have any." ... which is kinda the US busin
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by nness 3y ago
Funnily enough, I work in technology in Europe and have consulted on GDPR compliance. Organisations either care a lot of about their data obligations and have dedicated teams and reviews, or simply don't care, and don't want that
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by nness 3y ago
The article title is "Is Google reCAPTCHA GDPR Compliant?" And its a good point — broad data collection has always attracted the mire of European regulators, and in the decision they state that they find that reCaptcha serves as b
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by nness 3y ago
Late-stage capitalism is getting pretty wild.
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by nness 3y ago
I would argue the best indicator is that, after all this time, productivity has not dropped, businesses are not failing, unemployment has not sharply risen, etc. Everyone is making record profits. (but it would be a hard case to prove, at m
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by nness 3y ago
Metastability is a nice abstraction for exactly this topic.
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by nness 3y ago
I can't recall a WFH article that didn't just boil down to a CEO or adjacent just "vibing" things weren't working.

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