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by pwg 3y ago
> isn't there some endgame to this? When the computer solvers (the 'bots') become better than humans. Then only the bots will be able to get past them.
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by pwg 3y ago
Interesting. Turn off the "overflow: hidden;" on the <body> element and the "overflow-y: scrol;" on the <div class="insides"> element and the whole page will now scroll with your mouse anywhere. Of
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by pwg 3y ago
> What specifically are teh workflow issues people have with teams? The "channels" and accompanying wiki/file store is simply sharepoint with a different web-ui -- and it inherits all the problems of original sharepoint, i
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by pwg 3y ago
Ctrl+[ - jump to matching paren./brace/bracket Ctrl+w - scroll up one line Ctrl+z - scroll down one line These are the mappings I have set in Joe on my system, the Ctrl+w/z is originally from Wordstar, although I first encoun
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by pwg 3y ago
In most instances you could fill out the story/ticket with successive paragraphs from War and Peace and not one person would ever notice. Mgmt. wants their "required fields" to be non-empty, but not one manager ever checks t
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by pwg 3y ago
> Why is there lot of news in HN that is nothing to do hacker, entrepreneur, technical Do you submit links to HN? The "news" on the front page only arrives there because someone originally submitted the link via the "subm
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by pwg 3y ago
> Better Idea: A Lemon Law for commercial equipment. Even better idea: Amend the DMCA to permanently add an exemption for bypassing DRM for repair purposes. Of course it likely won't happen because those most impacted by the adjustm
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by pwg 3y ago
> why don't you add an extra tax on ... yachts They tried that, back in November 1991. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxury_tax#United_States It covered more than just yachts, but the biggest loser was the yach
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by pwg 3y ago
While it is not a "hardware player" the "Voice Audiobook Player" on F-droid (for Android phones) does have an adjustable playback speed: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.ph1b.audiobook/
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by pwg 3y ago
> Is it more egregious if price rises from 90 cents for a 100g ketchup bottle to 90 cents per 90g bottle, instead of 1 dollar per 100g bottle? No. The issue is that consumers tend to remember the price they last paid for a product, but
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by pwg 3y ago
> It boggles my mind just how car makers thought it was safer/easier to have touch in a car while one is driving. It is likely that neither safety nor ease of use were part of the automaker's "thought process". It is
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by pwg 3y ago
> For last few months chrome devs surely been pushing some disgusting updates to UI. In order to maintain their employment, UI designers have to make changes and push out those changes. If they stopped making and pushing any changes, ev
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by pwg 3y ago
> Is there a technical reason? No. > I personally don't see why there would ever be a reason to reload or refresh a page or app screen until the user requested it. It adds to the magical 'engagement' metrics they believ
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by pwg 3y ago
> Not sure what the trick is The 'trick' is, more often than not, simply a slightly higher syrup to water ratio. Or, alternately, the proper ratio while everyone else is running a slightly lower than proper ratio to further in
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by pwg 3y ago
> The whole article reads like sponsored content. It reads like a blogvertisment [1] for McDonald's. [1] a blog where the blog content is just an advertisement for some product, but written so as not to look like an 'ad' a
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by pwg 3y ago
Agreed, the bank /should/ have tried harder to point out the possibility for a 'scam' occurring here (and of course this would eventually evolve into a discussion of "how much is sufficient"). But the article
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by pwg 3y ago
> The article makes no mention of the bank warning or asking any questions. The article, about half way in, indeed does say the bank teller which counted out the $50k warned her of scams. It is in this paragraph: > When I reached th
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by pwg 3y ago
The web page the podcast is embedded in likely contains a significant set of "ads" (of various types) that either directly produce revenue, or "increase engagement" (supposedly) to then further cause more ads to be seen.
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by pwg 3y ago
No. I quite hate it too.
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by pwg 3y ago
> Why do some podcast sites makes it so difficult to simply download? Advertising.
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by pwg 3y ago
> Patents are property and we need taxes/fee on it. $500/year per patent Those 'taxes' already exist (at least in the US system). They are called "maintenance fees". See https://www.fr.com/i
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by pwg 3y ago
> Patent troll companies file patents and then sit on the patent until they can sue another party for infringement Many of the patents asserted by trolls were not actually filed by the trolls. Most often the troll company simply purchas
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by pwg 3y ago
All of the 'routers' are using heuristics to select what they see as "best route". And one of the heuristics is likely "prefer main roads". If you run /any/ of them while driving an area you know we
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by pwg 3y ago
The "poor political campaigns" already exempted themselves from needing to adhere to the "do not call" list. So were they to make robocall's illegal, the politicians would likely again exempt themselves from the &q
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by pwg 3y ago
It looks very much like a blogvertisment. That is a blog post written only for the purpose of actually being an advertisement for some product (in this case, for VPN providers).
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by pwg 3y ago
Yes, but for /whatever/ reason, they programmed their signup form to disallow signups from certain tld's, so a "me@somewhere.uk" (example pulled from hat) triggers their "don't allow from *.uk" error
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by pwg 3y ago
Given that they will likely not quote/point to a specific 'regulation' that says they must do this, you won't know if it is actually 'regulations' or just them. In the meantime, you might take a look at Open Ta
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by pwg 3y ago
> (there's no way to torrent on a phone or smart TV AFAIK), I have no idea for "smart tv", but at least for Android phones, F-Droid has plural torrent clients listed: https://search.f-droid.org/?q=torrent&a
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by pwg 3y ago
> if they can’t definitively prove who sent it, They already can. There's an internal "billing" code for every call so carrier knows who to bill for having carried that call. They don't want to "prove who sent
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by pwg 3y ago
I was using the RSS feeds, but some time after I added my comment, this appeared: > Tell HN: YouTube RSS feeds are gone > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39179446 So besides the occasional forwarded link posted b

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