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by pwg 3y ago
One of the reasons: Massive advertising by Google to convince people to "try chrome". It is only relatively recently that visiting a google property was not met with: "Google X is best used in Chrome -- install Chrome now.&q
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by pwg 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36758907
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by pwg 3y ago
Provided you are willing to build the alias [1] mapping list, mutt can use aliases on the CLI to send emails. So if you had aliased "user@example.com" to "bob", you could do: mutt -s "Test Subject" bob &l
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by pwg 3y ago
Ken, before you do, you have a typo in the 5th paragraph of this post: The 80_68_'s microcode ROM
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by pwg 3y ago
> Where can one learn more about microcode, Provided you can find a copy, the book "Computer Organization", 2nd ed, by V. Car Hamacher, Zvonko G. Vranesic and Safwat G. Zary, published by McGraw Hill, contains a very understand
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by pwg 3y ago
> I would have done without the email popup. With uBlockOrigin blocking all Javascript by default, there is no "email popup".
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by pwg 3y ago
> So, it's not at all a robot but rather a radio-controlled, track-mounted, car mover. Technically it is still a "robot". What it is not is an autonomous robot.
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by pwg 3y ago
How do you propose for "it" to determine "important to do so"?
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by pwg 3y ago
Slackware ( http://www.slackware.com/ ) also still provides a 32-bit version as well.
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by pwg 3y ago
> I disbelieve that this is the case, for copyrighted material; The blog post provides this link to section 107 of the US Copyright code: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107 And, in the text of
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by pwg 3y ago
The Dvorak keyboard layout also includes two sub-layouts for one-hand typing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_keyboard_layout#One-han...
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by pwg 3y ago
If by "checkout" screen you mean the "Review items and shipping" where the yellow "Place your order" button exists to actually "order" the items, then "delete" is hiding behind the "Qty
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by pwg 3y ago
Sadly, this has always been how Amazon's search has behaved. It has never been any good at all, unless you already knew a specific model number, in which case that might cause the first entry to be the actual thing you are looking f
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by pwg 3y ago
I don't disagree. I picked "free shipping" -- if they want to queue mine after everyone who explicitly paid for shipping and those who pays for prime, that is fine. My point is that the "de-prioritization delay" se
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by pwg 3y ago
I canceled my SiriusXM sub a couple months after the merger. I was an XM subscriber that was "merged in" and when the merger finished, one of the big reasons why I was an XM subscriber (no talking DJ's on the channels I list
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by pwg 3y ago
This is the "trick you into signing up" page that is inserted if you are not currently a prime member. I've been clicking the "no-thanks" link for years -- as I've never signed up for, nor ever wanted to sign u
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by pwg 3y ago
I have also never paid for, nor trialed, prime. I also have always had free-shipping (despite not having "prime") from Amazon. How? Patience. I add things I plan to order to my cart, and once the collection goes above the &quot
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by pwg 3y ago
> Could be a function, an integer, a map, or an array. It is an array. 'incr' is a built in function that "increments" a variable by one. Variable names followed by parenthesis () are Tcl arrays. So count(...) is &q
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by pwg 3y ago
The author should have done: puts [join $argv] to avoid that little issue. Doing "puts $argv" triggers Tcl's output of "lists" in a special format that allows the list to be parsed from the text again at
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by pwg 3y ago
> Why didn't you show instead how to output arguments joined by a comma or some other separator instead of space. The Tcl variant to output "comma" as separator (note -- this is not "CSV"). puts [join $arg
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by pwg 3y ago
Linux: Mutt ( http://www.mutt.org/ ) Android: K-9 Mail ( https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.fsck.k9/ )
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by pwg 3y ago
IP permissions, i.e., copyrights, are not natural rights, they are instead government "grants" of protection. And protection granted by government decree can also be taken away by government decree. So no "permission" t
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by pwg 3y ago
In case the author is reading: > first i tried to "dd" the whole disk to a file, but every time an input /output error occured, dd would of course stop. This is exactly the purpose of the "noerror" option to dd -
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by pwg 3y ago
I don't use word, I use LibreOffice, so I save as odt.
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by pwg 3y ago
> There is a point where bandwidth is so huge that with a bit of medium and a pair of repeaters, it becomes memory. You are referring to the old "delay line memories" from yesteryear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by pwg 3y ago
You did not provide a link to the post, so I can only guess that you may mean this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36195191 In which case the reason is the "[dead]"at the start of the title. It has been
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by pwg 3y ago
> Our examples show large JPEGs being loaded in MicroPython no problem. For example this one from our examples is 100kB: A 100kB JPEG is hardly a "large" JPEG in 2023. From the linked sales page ( https://shop.pimoro
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by pwg 3y ago
I think @al2o3cr has given the likely correct answer. Liability avoidance. If they "shred immediately" (as in pick up, transport, shred) their liability exposure is much less vs. offering a 'delayed shred' service.
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by pwg 3y ago
Why should they, when you can implement this yourself with a set of "shred boxes" each dated with either "today" or "today plus 30 days". Shred the oldest box today, make it today's new box, put papers to
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by pwg 3y ago
USENET still exists, and some groups are still active, just not at their peak from yesteryear -- so why not go join and see if anything is happening in your old haunts. Free access to text only groups: http://www.eternal-septembe

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