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by notatoad 2y ago
the baggage is the selling point. there's so many other ways to build a website that aren't wordpress and replicate the core functionality, the reason it sticks around is the huge legacy of plugins written in php that can't
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by notatoad 2y ago
>Why did it take years for the chickens to come home to roost? because the problem with sonos is that they're actually really really good. dollar for dollar, it's some of the best sound quality you can find for home audio, and
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by notatoad 2y ago
Yeah, the wiim mini is very reasonable. The other option for multi-room sync is AirPlay, on any device where that is possible (including wiim), so it’s pretty easy to solve multi-room audio these days. Chromecast Audio lost the ability to d
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by notatoad 2y ago
no, oracle exists to make c-levels feel important. very different. there's much more money in that than making salespeople feel important.
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by notatoad 2y ago
that changes if people have voted on it or replied to it.
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by notatoad 2y ago
probably just oversold.
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by notatoad 2y ago
They have more money. Doesn’t mean they want to spend it on uninsurable houses - or at least, not unless the price of the house drops enough to make it worth their while.
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by notatoad 2y ago
and this is the real reason why house prices are inflated in these areas - once the insurers and the banks catch up, prices on millions of homes are going to plummet as the only people able to buy them will be the people who are able to sel
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by notatoad 2y ago
>There's a lot of money to be made in repackaging Britain to be sold to Americans as "high fantasy", btw. or at least, there is if you're as good at it as Terry Pratchett was.
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by notatoad 2y ago
FIRMS is very cool, but take it with a grain of salt - we were all looking at it obsessively while Jasper AB burned this summer, and apparently it has issues with differentiating between fire on the ground and fire in the smoke clouds, so i
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by notatoad 2y ago
salesforce will be around forever. their purpose is to extract money. salespeople like to know that money is being spent on them because that's how they measure value, and will continue to demand salesforce for as long as it is expens
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by notatoad 2y ago
>feel less comfortable for my parents/non tech-savvy friends, who already may not follow best-practices for email hygiene making people feel less comfortable is probably a good thing. i've managed to convince my dad to start ta
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by notatoad 2y ago
so... what does it do? i tried one of the example search prompts it gave me "let's discover academic papers" because i figured those prompts would be chosen to display whatever makes this search engine interesting. and i jus
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by notatoad 2y ago
>Unlike welding or diving, there is no inherent physical risk to life and limb to running a server. good news! there is no inherent risk to life or limb because you left your server exposed. As OP discovered, you might come back to fi
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by notatoad 2y ago
i can't speak for why the author chose it, but if you're operating behind AWS cloudfront then http requests have a maximum timeout of 60s - if you don't close the request within 60s, cloudfront will close it for you. i suspec
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by notatoad 2y ago
yeah, i'm assuming this is up to 220Mb/s for the whole plane , not for each passenger. airplane wifi is still going to suck.
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by notatoad 2y ago
i would love to know more about the internal decision making that led to this release. it all just seems so weird . i can see the appeal of AI actors on social media - you get to make everybody feel more popular than they are because the
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by notatoad 2y ago
the most recent profile they added was an update to the cycling shifter profile. before that, the most recent actual new device type they added was radars in 2016. ant+ is not a protocol that has or needs to have frequent updates. opening
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by notatoad 2y ago
> They are discontinuing membership programs/fees > They are discontinuing certification programs > They are however continuing to ensure ANT+ is available on silicon > All documentation to be made fully available online fu
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by notatoad 2y ago
pseudonymous - the people who i want to be able to find me online know to look for this name.
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by notatoad 2y ago
They probably do still need to pretend they care, customer opinion isn't irrelevant. but they certainly don't need to convince the US government that they care anymore.
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by notatoad 2y ago
Building a browser is hard. Building a proof of concept of the current tech fad is easy and fun. Sometimes developers need to do easy and fun things to keep themselves motivated and happy. You could build an AI Assistant, or you could spe
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by notatoad 2y ago
if the solution is introducing a whole new third-party authentication provider to my existing app, i'd say that definitely counts as hard.
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by notatoad 2y ago
i spent a few minutes looking into it again, and remembered what i really found frustrating - it's all a weird mix of JSON, and byte arrays. some functions want json, and some functions want json encoded as a byte array. and some of
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by notatoad 2y ago
i think you're overestimating how good people are about maintaing their passwords. if you tell people "you'll lose your passkey and have to reset it" they'll freak out. but most people lose their passwords and get
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by notatoad 2y ago
on the client side, it seems like it should be simple. in the time i allowed myself, i was not able to figure out how to integrate it server-side in my python app. you're not implementing your own crypto, but you are having to intera
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by notatoad 2y ago
regular people strongly disagree. from what i can tell, people who aren't HN commentators or tech bloggers love passkeys. you click "sign in" and you are signed in. that's the dream. my non-technical family and frie
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by notatoad 2y ago
the most important thing here seems to be that the fraudulent claims were retracted by the person who sent them, and the statement from nintendo that the claims were not legitimate. but it's not true that youtube won't do anything
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by notatoad 2y ago
wait, what? you applied for a job you had just gotten fired from?
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by notatoad 2y ago
Even the employees, I think, would probably be fine with being told “we just want to make shitloads of money”. I usually feel like these statements are more about the board members and C-suite trying to fool themselves.

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