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by oldcynic 8y ago
Going on this [0] comment, desktop Office is remaining in C & C++, and on this [1] Code is Typescript and has no plans to move from Electron. So I'm really not sure what to make of this random viral tweet. [0] https://ne
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You don't blame the Tesla? If I did that the police and my insurance would blame me. Regardless of if I were braking hard. I'd almost certainly end up with points on my licence if I survived.
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I don't think they have given a helpful broader context though. How common were those more tolerant views in that era? If just a few extreme outliers or a significant minority would be relevant. This is citizen of the Weimar Republic w
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Yet millions do. Now what?
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by oldcynic 8y ago
Apparently it is the week I really live up to my current HN username. I'm sorry I do not want a subscription for everything. There are a few things that make a lot of sense on a subscription. Phone service, Netflix, cloud services et
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Yup. They're solving entirely different problems. Sugru would be great but for the really short expiry as it's just the sort of thing I'd keep by indefinitely for an unplanned repair along with glue, tape and epoxy putty.
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Bloody hell Wired. Blu Tack was invented in Leicester, and Bostik still make it there. It's reusable and doesn't set or cure, though it deteriorates a bit after a decade in a drawer. Can repair pretty much nothing, but handy for s
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Perhaps. I just skimmed for coverage of the events without a care for their social and political stance. The Independent itself is pretty consistently centrist in outlook.
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I agree. I'm coming around to some of his view, and no longer see him as quite so extreme. Still think he weakens his message with the alternative language, like "used" instead of user etc. Always have. The difficulty of cour
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I actually used to use the Firefox one. IIRC when they changed the extensions system the dev announced he couldn't support it in the new system. Time to give the chrome one a look, thanks.
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Ireland tried cashless in the 70s with a 6 month bank strike. When cash ran out they survived by using undated cheques (often re-signed multiple times as they were passed around like notes), and when cheques ran out IOUs and local trust. h
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Roughly what Neil Postman thought around 30 years ago then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death
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Nicely echoes a comment I made yesterday that the trouble with all this guilt by association is we don't get to choose friends and neighbours via criminal and national security background checks. That you live near or socialise with po
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It gets more sinister is when it is inferred from name or where you live.
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Recompiling the kernel used to be something you just did for some things. If you can drive the command line and a makefile you should be able to tinker, and render it unable to boot. :)
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After the constant succession of revelations of the sorry state of privacy, along with myriad data breaches, all I want a browser to do is lie and obfuscate. So I'll gladly take the sledgehammer boolean of resistFingerprinting for now.
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For a small dev I think it's difficult now the big app stores have conditioned so many to believe free, £1.99 and £3.99 are appropriate price points for software. That only works for the tiny few that get a viral lottery win. I see the
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Not saying it's done with malice aforethought, but it's a known and common pattern. I've done it myself with Amazon Prime and other things where I took a few months longer than I should have to actually go cancel it. Some wil
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Then having bought the home do they redecorate? No, they rip out the perfect, almost new kitchen to replace for a slightly different effect on the doors and new appliances. For tens of thousands.
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I try not to buy subscriptions because you usually lose all functionality at the end. The subscription is usually significantly more expensive than the simple cost of buying a licence for the current version. (eg 1Password). Between those t
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Some points: Requiring an ID online in a country that requires no national ID? That's highly novel. If there are no anonymous spaces how can people explore and discuss their mental health, sexuality, abuse and other issues they aren&#x
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Digital IDs needed to end 'mob rule' online, says UK security minister(independent.co.uk)
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Trouble with all this guilt by association is we don't choose friends and neighbours via criminal and national security background checks. Friends come from mutual situations such as work, or events, and chance via already existing fri
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by oldcynic 8y ago
Thanks again. Perfect example of a UX pattern that's simply asking for trouble, or being clever rather than helpful. :) You can undo if you notice quickly enough, if your dog, child, doorbell or 1,001 other things didn't distract
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That's something entirely different, and very well known. I can't find any reference to providing a delay before you truly perform an action, but allowing undo for that time. Relevant to delete / undo they talk of the prefe
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Interesting. I dropped Android a year or so back but can't remember bumping into an app doing it like that. Definitely encountered a few "are you sure?" style dialogues though.
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At least Github doesn't need JS to show a readme.
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I've never come across that recommendation before. I can't immediately think of a case where I'd want that or it would be anything but annoying. > 99.9% of people know what they're doing You have very different users
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Seems like this is even less thought out than SOPA and ACTA. It's only a pity there is not a comparable banner and outage campaign for this as there was for those. Made them impossible to miss and just about everyone knew of them. Ensu
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The earth will be fine. Life will be fine, though it may not include humanity or many of the species we recognise or use for food and comfort. > Human beings have been releasing CO2 for a lot longer than the Otto cycle has been around Wh

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